Sentences with phrase «jama the»

In a comparison of mechanical prosthetic vs bioprosthetic mitral valves among patients 50 to 69 years of age undergoing mitral valve replacement, there was no significant difference in survival at 15 years, although there were differences in risk of reoperation, bleeding and stroke, according to a study in the April 14 issue of JAMA.

«To most people, especially ophthalmologists, common sense would suggest that there is little harm in simply measuring the vision at a distance during a patient's routine visit to their primary care physician,» Sommer, who wrote an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine, said by email.

Patients with multiple myeloma (MM) appear to have better survival if they are found to have monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) first, the state that precedes MM and which is typically diagnosed as part of a medical workup for another reason, according to a study published online by JAMA Oncology.

A study of nearly 130 girls and young women suggests concussion was associated with increased risk of having two or more abnormal menstrual bleeding patterns, according to an article published by JAMA Pediatrics.

Among patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer without a mutation of a certain gene (EGFR), conventional chemotherapy, compared with treatment using epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors, was associated with improvement in survival without progression of the cancer, but not with overall survival, according to a study in the April 9 issue of JAMA.

Obesity and a bigger waist size in older women are associated with a higher risk of death, major chronic disease and mobility disability before the age of 85, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

The research was published in JAMA Psychiatry on June 10.

A new study suggests men who engaged in frequent sauna use had reduced risks of fatal cardiovascular events and all - cause mortality, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

Among women diagnosed with early - stage breast cancer in California, the percentage undergoing a double mastectomy increased substantially between 1998 and 2011, although this procedure was not associated with a lower risk of death than breast - conserving surgery plus radiation, according to a study in the September 3 issue of JAMA.

The study, «Associations Between Serum Cholesterol Levels and Cerebral Amyloidosis,» is published online in JAMA Neurology.

Mark Olfson, M.D., M.P.H., of the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons and Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City, and colleagues Marissa King, Ph.D., Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, and Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D., NIMH, report their findings on July 1 in JAMA Psychiatry.

Despite this and other caveats, the report, which was published in JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association, adds to the growing evidence that carrying a little bit of extra weight — especially after midlife — might not be as bad for your health as was once thought.

Writing in JAMA Internal Medicine February 29, Jaspers and her colleagues say HSDD affects 10 to 40 % of women.

A study that synthesized more than 50 years of research into suicide rates for patients after discharge from psychiatric facilities suggests the immediate period after discharge was a time of marked risk and that the risk remained high years after discharge, according to a new article published by JAMA Psychiatry.

In a related Editor's Note, Rita F. Redberg, M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, and editor - in - chief of JAMA Internal Medicine, writes: «Although we do not know why the men who took saunas more frequently had greater longevity (whether it is the time spent in the hot room, the relaxation time, the leisure of a life that allows for more relaxation time or the camaraderie of the sauna), clearly time spent in the sauna is time well spent.»

JAMA Pediatrics.

Published in JAMA Psychiatry, these findings have important implications for our understanding of ADHD, as ADHD that onsets in adulthood could have different causes to childhood ADHD.

AMSTERDAM — Is experimenting with e-cigarettes among young people associated with a higher risk of smoking tobacco, as an influential study published 2 years ago in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found?

The UPenn team's report on the diplomats» health appears in today's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

However, a study of 5,527 teenage males from across the U.S., published Nov. 4 in JAMA Pediatrics, challenges this belief.

The findings were published in the online edition of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Teens who recalled seeing or liking e-cigarette ads were 1.6 times as likely to be open to trying e-cigs or to actually try them the next year as kids who didn't remember the ads, researchers report online March 26 in JAMA Pediatrics.

Steven Hicks, an assistant professor of pediatrics, said the findings — published in JAMA Pediatrics — could result in a more fact - based way to diagnose and treat concussion patients.

Many medical students are using electronic health records (EHRs) to track former patients but the practice, which students report as being educational, raises some ethical questions, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

Better measures of school - based cognitive function were associated with late - term infants born at 41 weeks but those children performed worse on a measure of physical functioning compared with infants born full term at 39 or 40 weeks, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

In a pilot study that included children at high risk for type 1 diabetes, daily high - dose oral insulin, compared with placebo, resulted in an immune response to insulin without hypoglycemia, findings that support the need for a phase 3 trial to determine whether oral insulin can prevent islet autoimmunity and diabetes in high - risk children, according to a study in the April 21 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on child health.

Among the grantees is Evert de Jonge of Leiden University Medical Center, who will redo a randomized controlled trial published in JAMA 2016 that showed that keeping oxygen pressure low in the veins of intensive care patients reduced mortality.

In a report in the current online edition of JAMA Pediatrics, researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health show that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk in children of attention - deficity / hyperactivity disorder and hyperkinetic disorder.

Published in JAMA Psychiatry, this new study examined whether diabetes risk is already present in people at the onset of schizophrenia, before antipsychotics have been prescribed and before a prolonged period of illness that may be associated with poor lifestyle habits (such as poor diet and sedentary behaviour).

Findings from this UK cohort are confirmed by evidence for adult - onset ADHD world - wide: a study from Brazil will be published by JAMA Psychiatry alongside this research, which also identified a large proportion of adults with ADHD as not having the disorder in childhood.

Treating brain hemorrhage (symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage, sICH) after clot - busting thrombolysis for stroke was not associated with a reduced likelihood of in - hospital death or expansion of the hematoma but shortening time to diagnosis and treatment may be key to improving outcomes, according to an article published online by JAMA Neurology.

Discussing the perils of skydiving, JAMA sagely observes: «Difficulties occurring during descent can be responsible for serious injuries, but these do not occur until the parachutist hits the ground.»

A new study published online by JAMA Oncology examines the assessment of minimal residual disease in patients newly treated for multiple myeloma as a factor in survival outcomes.

The JAMA paper is not included in the draft assessment, and some panel members were skeptical of its findings.

Such complaints are now likely to gain credence, thanks to a survey on researchers» conduct published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Among patients with acute, low back pain presenting to an emergency department, neither the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) naproxen combined with oxycodone / acetaminophen or the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine provided better pain relief or improvement in functional outcomes than naproxen combined with placebo, according to a study in the October 20 issue of JAMA.

In a commentary piece published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Carnegie Mellon University's Alex John London and the University of Pittsburgh's Yael Schenker question the impact of health information that is available online, specifically hospital advertisements.

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A lower percentage of children are eating fast food on any given day and calories consumed by children from burger, pizza and chicken fast food restaurants also has dropped, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

Related sites Press release about the WISDOM steering committee's recommendation to continue the study The Medical Research Council More information about the WHI study and the reasons it was stopped JAMA paper describing the results from WISDOM

It is particularly hard to untangle factors such as childhood poverty, abuse and neglect, which also make their mark on brain anatomy and which correlate with more substance abuse, notes Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and lead author of a superb 2016 review of cannabis research in JAMA Psychiatry.

The study and its results were published in the JAMA Psychiatry journal.

In a review published online today in JAMA Oncology, the Penn team says finding a way to use these techniques more widely in clinical settings should be a top priority.

High - dose vitamin D supplementation in postmenopausal women was not associated with beneficial effects on bone mineral density, muscle function, muscle mass or falls, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

«It would be helpful to be sure we don't do harm,» Howard Bauchner, editor - in - chief of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), said after Krumholz had finished his talk.

By increasing the pH of the stomach, PPIs also boost the risk of infection: studies published in JAMA in 2004 and 2005 reported that subjects on acid - suppressing drugs are nearly twice as likely to develop pneumonia, and nearly three times as likely to acquire a potentially deadly infection from the bacterium Clostridium difficile, as unmedicated subjects (although the overall risk is low).

Drummond Rennie, editor of JAMAevidence and former editor of JAMA, and the organizer of the meeting, says he's «not nearly as worried.»

Eric Campbell and David Blumenthal, two authors of the JAMA article on data sharing mentioned above, discuss their landmark study and analyze the implications of withholding data, including the consequences for the next generation of scientists.

In a related Editor's Note, Deborah Grady, M.D., M.P.H., a deputy editor of JAMA Internal Medicine, writes: «It is possible that treatment beyond one year would result in better outcomes, but these data provide no support for use of higher - dose cholecalciferol replacement therapy or indeed any dose of cholecalciferol compared with placebo.»

Their joint study — published on July 25, 2017 in JAMA — tested a mobile health intervention with the potential to positively impact attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived control — those TPB variables that affect caregivers» adherence to safe sleep practices, as shown by Colson's research.