Sentences with phrase «charlson comorbidity»

For patients younger than 60, with a comparably high number of comorbidities, female patients have less diagnoses but take more drugs than males.

If you can keep CP and other like neurological conditions in mind your future analyses (especially given their high comorbidity with epilepsy), that would be welcome.

Age, education, living alone, smoking status, BMI, height, physical activity, cortisone use, Charlson's comorbidity index, calcium and vitamin D supplementation, healthy dietary pattern, alcohol and total energy intake

Effects of a high protein diet on body weight and comorbidities associated with obesity.

Over a time frame of > 30 y, downward trends in the availability of sugars and sweeteners, reported intake of energy in the form of added sugars and SSBs, and industry data on sugar contributions to SSBs have been paralleled by a sustained rise in the prevalence of obesity and its comorbidities (42).

Covariates were age, total energy intake, body mass index, height, educational level, living alone, calcium supplementation, vitamin D supplementation, ever use of cortisone, healthy dietary pattern, physical activity, smoking status, and Charlson's comorbidity index.

Though depression is less common among adolescents than adults, 11 percent of adolescents are diagnosed with a depressive disorder by age 18, according to the adolescent supplement of the National Comorbidity Survey, which collected data on teens in two sample groups between 2001 and 2004.

Prevalence, Correlates, Disability, and Comorbidity of DSM - IV Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

However, scientific evidence that does exist demonstrates the role prenatal vitamins have on a healthier pregnancy with better birth outcomes and less comorbidities.

Psoriasis is associated with numerous other serious, chronic and / or life - threatening comorbidities.

The workshop starts with providing a framework for understanding the etiology of SM, highlighting the role of nature, nurture, temperament, and developmental differences in the onset and maintenance of SM, social anxiety, and other common comorbidities.

Lifetime comorbidity of DSM - IV mood and anxiety disorders and specific drug use disorders: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions

Although most studies of parental depression have focused on mothers, the impact of depression in fathers has received increasing attention.2, 3 Using data from the 2002 National Comorbidity Replication Survey, the Institute of Medicine report also estimated that 4.3 % of men with a child under 18 years old had a major depressive disorder within the previous 12 months.1 In addition, a recent meta - analysis4 suggested that the prevalence of paternal depression within the first year of a child's life was 10.4 %.

This could help treat childhood absence epilepsy patients who experience comorbidities despite successful treatment of seizures.

• Counsel patients about routes of administration and potential benefits and risks, based on scientific evidence and individual symptoms, conditions and comorbidities

Researchers found that levels of severity, functional impairment, and patterns of comorbidity among the additional 3.46 % of children who met all of the ADHD criteria except age of onset under 7 were comparable with those of other mental and behavioral disorders.

One can not forget the patient's age, performance status, comorbidities and preferences during the discussion.»

«For the anesthesiologist, a number of factors come into play, including patient comorbidities and preferences as well as other practice specific factors, such as the choice for anticoagulation, but regional anesthesia should, at the very least, be considered in every patient.»

Patients undergoing elective THR surgery (n = 371,191) were younger, more commonly men, and had less medical comorbidity compared with patients undergoing hip fracture surgery.

«Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more comorbidities than patients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authors write.

Researchers performed a meta - analysis of literature examining patients with NASH, and then tested their hypothesis using an animal model, which enabled them to eliminate possible confounders of the clinical data, such as antibiotic exposure and medical comorbidities.

After adjusting for a number of factors — including age, gender, surgery type, baseline cognition, presence of a vascular comorbidity and the presence of a genetic variant that has been associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease — the authors used a three - stage approach to examine the association between inflammatory cytokines and delirium.

The association was quantified after adjusting for the Charlson comorbidity index and bronchiectasis.

«The next step in understanding sleep apnea in the future will be to dissect different subtypes of sleep apnea, likely defined by distinct pathophysiological mechanisms which may underlie different outcomes and predisposition to comorbidities,» Cavadas says, «As human life expectancy increases, delaying the onset of age - related diseases becomes critical to our society.»

In patients with chronic cerebrovascular disease and comorbidities, a shortened telomere G - tail length was associated with age and Framingham risk score, which is an algorithm used to estimate the 10 - year cardiovascular risk of an individual.

«Our study is the first to investigate the association between psychosocial comorbidities and elevated risk of atherosclerosis in RA patients.»

Results were adjusted for potential confounding factors such as depressive symptoms, comorbidities and medication use.

One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.

This is hugely relevant as Alzheimer's is in the vast majority of cases not inherited, and lifestyle factors and comorbidities must therefore be to blame.

The study also revealed that obese individuals who had comorbidities such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol incurred more costs than obese workers without these conditions, says Karen Van Nuys, Ph.D., lead coauthor and economist at Precision Health Economics in Los Angeles.

«However, patients with more medical comorbidities in our cohort were less likely to receive physician follow - up postdischarge.»

They tend to have a much higher comorbidity burden, and they tend to be sicker and heavier.

Previous studies have shown that bariatric surgery in patients who are morbidly obese can reduce weight and comorbidities, but clinicians have not known whether the surgery is helpful or harmful to morbidly obese patients undergoing a joint replacement.

Statistical analyses showed that bariatric surgery lowered the comorbidity burden of patients prior to total joint replacement (P < 0.0001 for TKA and P < 0.005 for THA).

Performing a multivariate analysis adjusting for patient demographics and comorbidities, the UCSF researchers determined AFL catheter ablation reduced the risk for overall hospital - based health care by 6 percent, inpatient hospitalization by 12 percent and emergency department visits by 40 percent.

Comorbidities included hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, heart failure, remote history of cardiothoracic surgery, valvular heart disease, pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, neurologic disease and AF.

The propensity score was defined as the conditional probability of a patient undergoing bariatric surgery, given his or her baseline characteristics, including: age, year in which a total hip or total knee replacement was performed, laterality (unilateral versus bilateral surgery), sex, health care payer, region (rural versus urban), and Elixhauser comorbidities.

«It's higher than most diseases that immediately jump to mind, and while the likelihood of chronic kidney disease progressing to complete kidney failure is much lower, CKD itself has been linked to a number of comorbidities and adverse health outcomes.»

Specifically, long term follow up of a randomized clinical trial that compared ADT and radiation therapy (RT) to RT alone finds that men with significant comorbidity; most commonly prior heart attack, who received ADT died earlier, due to a fatal heart attack, compared to men who did not receive ADT.

TMD and migraine are comorbidities.

They also categorized the men into subgroups based on extent of prior comorbidity, including prior heart attack.

«While there is a growing body of evidence to support active surveillance for men with low risk prostate cancer, men who have unfavorable - risk cancer and significant comorbidity, notably heart disease, may be best served by considering RT alone or possibly active surveillance.

When analyzing the subgroups of men by differing extent of comorbidity, researchers found that among men whose comorbidity included prior heart attack, treatment with RT and ADT shortened survival due to higher rates of fatal heart attacks, while prolonging survival in men with no or minimal comorbidity.

Some studies have linked ADT use to depression, although it is not clear whether such effects are a direct consequence of ADT itself or perhaps associated with age, comorbidities, hot flashes, fatigue, and insomnia.

«Our hypothesis was that there is increased prevalence of cerebral microbleeds in MS because progression of that disease is associated with increased likelihood of cardiovascular comorbidities, including hypertension, altered lipid metabolism, overweight / obesity, smoking and diabetes and migraine, all risk factors for cerebral microbleeds,» he said.

Patient clinical characteristics, including age, sex, ethnicity, college and work status, body mass index (BMI), smoking, comorbidities, level of back and leg pain, self - assessment of general health and treatment preference, were reviewed at baseline.

«Based on the results of this study, I think very elderly patients, particularly those with few or no comorbidities, should strongly consider the benefits of these procedures,» said lead study author Hiroyuki Yoshihara, MD, PhD, an orthopaedic surgeon at State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center and Nassau University Medical Center.

In the JBJS study, researchers reviewed the BMI, comorbidities, complications, outcomes and cost of care of 8,129 patients who had undergone 6,475 primary TKRs and 1,654 revision TKRs at a major medical center between Jan. 1, 2000 and Sept. 30, 2008.

An association between heart failure and cancer remained after adjusting for age, sex, comorbidities, smoking, BMI and diabetes.

However, research has been inconclusive as to whether the higher related medical costs in obese TKR patients are directly due to a higher BMI or related comorbidities.