Sentences with phrase «age of diagnosis increased»

In 1995, celiac disease in Sweden plummeted back to pre-epidemic levels, and the median age of diagnosis increased to 4 years of age.

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Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

For each 5 year increase in duration of diabetes, the risks of macrovascular events and all - cause death were increased by 13 % and 15 %, respectively, when accounting for age, or increased by 49 % and 78 %, respectively, when accounting for age at diagnosis.

For each 5 year increase in age (or age at diagnosis), the multiple adjusted risks of macrovascular events and all - cause death were increased by 33 % and 56 %, respectively.

A new study found a six-fold increase in the age - adjusted prevalence of any sleep disorder diagnosis over an 11 - year period among U.S. veterans.

This is the result of increases in cancer diagnoses driven by the aging and growth of the population, as well as the fact that people are living longer with cancer because of earlier cancer detection and more effective treatments.

This may imply that increasing age and maturity lessens the impact of birth month on ADHD diagnoses.

Evidence shows that relative age, which may be a proxy of neurocognitive ability, may increase the likelihood of ADHD diagnosis and medication.

The findings of this study have important implications for public health, as it shows that sunbed use increases the burden of melanoma in societies by both increasing the number of patients and decreasing the age at diagnosis.

The new edition of the diagnostic manual, DSM - 5 (due out in May), is expected to specify a lower proportion of total symptoms for an ADHD diagnosis than its predecessor and to increase the age of onset to 12 years.

Sunbed use increases the burden of melanoma in societies by both increasing the number of patients and decreasing the age at diagnosis.

Per standard deviation increases in BPA concentration were associated with positive responses to questions about physician diagnoses of myocardial infarction in age, sex and ethnicity adjusted models in 2005/06 (OR = 1.31, 95 % CI: 1.02 to 1.68, p = 0.036), with OR estimates for reported angina and «coronary heart disease» being similar to 2003/04 but narrowly missing conventional two sided statistical significance (Table 2).

Author Mu - Hong Chen and colleagues wrote that this «may imply that increasing age and maturity lessens the impact of birth month on ADHD diagnoses.»

Some of the factors associated with an increased likelihood of a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation include breast cancer diagnosis before age 50; both breast and ovarian cancers; multiple breast cancers; cases of male breast cancer and Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity.

[9,34] The incidence of anorectal melanoma increases with age, and the average age at diagnosis is 68 to 72 years.

Worldwide, lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer.1 In the United Kingdom, its annual incidence is second only to that of breast cancer, accounting for around 39000 new cancer diagnoses annually.2 In countries that have seen a high prevalence of smoking, around 90 % of diagnoses of lung cancer are attributable to cigarette smoking.3 The increased incidence from smoking is proportional to the length and intensity of smoking history.4 On average, a lifetime smoker has a 20-fold increase in the risk of developing lung cancer compared with a lifetime non - smoker.1 Lung cancer is more common in men than in women, closely following past patterns of smoking prevalence, and 80 % of cases are diagnosed in people aged over 60.2

Second, in components of the medullary 5 - HT system that contain 5 - HT cell bodies (ie, PGCL, gigantocellularis, and intermediate reticular zone), there was a significant age × diagnosis interaction with decreased receptor binding with increasing age in SIDS cases but no change in controls (Figure 2A).

Preschoolers» incidence of both diagnosis of ADHD and prescribed medicines remained stable between 1994 and 2007, while that of school age kids increased almost two times, suggesting that school environment plays a part in the increased usage of medications.

Such clinical signs can vary with patient age, with mean ages at diagnosis averaging between 2 and 5 years for dogs6 - 8 and 37 and 40 months for cats.2, 3 Signs can worsen if body weight is increased, articular cartilage damage is present, and if there is concurrent cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) rupture.9 Affected cats have shown signs of intermittent locking of the stifle after extension and can have a shuffling or crouching gait.

Since the accuracy of radiological diagnosis of hip dysplasia using the OFA technique increases after 24 months of age, the OFA requires that the dog be at least two years of age at the time the radiographs are taken.

* The age of person at diagnosis, how long since diagnosis, and location of inflammation * Frequency of episodes, duration of each episode, and the severity of the inflammation * Response to treatment * Lifestyle habits that can reduce or increase the frequency of episodes * Other health conditions that can make episodes more severe

Similarly, Chronis - Tuscano et al. 15 reported four-fold increased odds of a lifetime diagnosis of social anxiety disorder among adolescents with consistently high levels of behavioural inhibition from ages 1 to 7.

Mothers with an infant aged up to 12 months were recruited at eight mental health centers in The Netherlands, if they met the following inclusion criteria: (a) having a diagnosis of a major depressive episode or dysthymia according to the DSM - IV criteria [52](95 %) and / or scoring above 14 on the Beck Depression Inventory [53] indicating increased levels of depressive symptoms (5 %); (b) having adequate fluency in Dutch; and (c) receiving professional outpatient treatment for their depression.