Sentences with phrase «arthritis patients of all ages»

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For many patients it's not their age but the presence of arthritis that makes the surgery ineffective.

They also argue that as long as patients with dementia are excluded from clinical trials of therapies for common age - related diseases, such as osteoporosis or arthritis, physicians will have insufficient data to make evidence - based recommendations for this rapidly growing group.

The success of surgery depends on a numbers of factors: the age of dysplasia development, the rate of progression, the age of the patient when symptoms are diagnosed and the degree of arthritis already present at the time of surgery.

The prevalence of depression in chronic medical conditions is as follows: asthma (27 %), 9 atopic dermatitis (5 %), 10 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (24.6 %), 11 gouty arthritis (20 %), 12 rheumatoid arthritis (15 %), 13 systemic lupus erythematosus (22 %) 12 and stroke (30 %).14 Ismail et al conducted a meta - analysis of 57 studies and showed that the overall pooled prevalence of depression in patients with mild cognitive impairment was 32 %.4 Estimates of the prevalence of depression and depressive symptoms vary substantially between published studies, particularly with respect to specialty, patient age and residence.