Sentences with phrase «by age of patient»

«We believe that there is a threshold effect whereby the levels of Klotho, dictated mostly by the age of the patients, are crucial in determining whether they will benefit from this treatment or not,» said Reeti Behera, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Weeraratna lab and first author of the study.

Not exact matches

Researchers analyzed data from 235,000 patient visits by men ages 20 - 49 at 173 urology practices across the athenahealth network from March 14, 2016 to March 18, 2016 — the first week of last year's tournament.

Let us have done with the stupidity which makes a stumbling - block of the endless eras of expectancy imposed on us by the Messiah; the fearful, anonymous labours of primitive man, the beauty fashioned through its age - long history by ancient Egypt, the anxious expectancies of Israel, the patient distilling of the attar of oriental mysticism, the endless refining of wisdom by the Greeks: all these were needed before the Flower could blossom on the rod of Jesse and of all humanity.

At a recent conference on the ethics of withdrawing nourishment and fluids from mentally incompetent patients, I was approached by an acquaintance who is close to retirement age.

The Catholic (or Christian) psychiatrist is easily caught in a bind if he or she tries to adhere to the moral teachings of his or her religion and to apply these teachings when treating patients, for any psychiatrist is also expected to keep abreast of medical knowledge, which now teaches that homosexuality is a deeply ingrained pattern of behavior that is probably established by the age of five years.

I wanted to recommend being tolerant of it, as it's the info - over-saturated age we live in as opposed to purposeful obnoxiousness on the part of the patients, but it appears that this suggestion has been made and heard and heeded by some and not by others.

«In theory, we could model progression of the disease by reprogramming skin cells from patients at a range of ages, including before symptoms begin.

Through the analysis of 11 years of hospital data, researchers were able to determine differences in length of stay, episode cost and 30 - day readmission rates for Medicare patients aged 65 and older by comparing cases where oral nutritional supplements were prescribed to patients with the same conditions to those who weren't prescribed oral nutritional supplements.

Patients with age - related macular degeneration who received seven or more eye injections of the drug bevacizumab annually had a higher risk of having glaucoma surgery, according to a study published online by JAMA Ophthalmology.

A new study entitled «Oral Nutrition Supplements» Impact on Hospital Outcomes in the Context of Affordable Care Act and New Medicare Reimbursement Policies» and conducted by leading researchers at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, The Harris School at The University of Chicago and Precision Health Economics, and supported by Abbott, found that the use of oral nutritional supplements decreased the probability of 30 - day hospital readmission, length of stay and costs among hospitalized Medicare patients aged 65 and over.

According to natural history of the disease, patients require nutritional and respiratory support by 12 months of age, and are not able to swallow or speak effectively.

Patients with diabetes mostly fall into one of two categories, type 1 diabetics, triggered by autoimmunity at a young age, and type 2 diabetics, caused by metabolic dysfunction of the liver.

Short and squarely built with tight, curly hair and the stooped shoulders of an aged wrestler, Schwartz ambles through the parking lot until he spots one of his patients and calls out to him, warmly, by name.

Then, to determine if this change was caused just by weight loss, Laferrère paired a control group of patients with gastric bypass patients, matching for age, duration of diabetes, and ethnicity.

They determined the number of patients under age 21 treated and released by emergency departments between 2006 and 2012 rose modestly.

In a related study also published today in PNAS, immunologists led by Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy and Hartmut Wekerle of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany, examined the gut microbiomes of 34 sets of identical twins, aged 21 to 63, in which only one twin had MS.. They found that Akkermansia was slightly but significantly more abundant in MS patients than in their healthy twins.

«We know that sleep is a critical factor for overall health as we age, and this new research highlights sleep problems as both a significant health issue for older adults and an underacknowledged one both by patients and their providers,» says Alison Bryant, Ph.D., senior vice president of research for AARP.

«We believe that by treating or stopping obstructive sleep apnea progression, we will not only improve patients» quality of life, but also delay health issues related to aging.»

This large study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging has been following 566 noncardiac surgical patients over the age of 70 for the past five years with the goal of finding new approaches to prevent delirium and its long - term consequences in older adults.

Patients aged 65 years and older are living longer after lung cancer surgery, and with older people representing a rapidly growing proportion of patients diagnosed with lung cancer, this improved survival is especially significant, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic SPatients aged 65 years and older are living longer after lung cancer surgery, and with older people representing a rapidly growing proportion of patients diagnosed with lung cancer, this improved survival is especially significant, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic Spatients diagnosed with lung cancer, this improved survival is especially significant, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic Surgery..

Most recently, they have taken mice in late middle age and lengthened the remainder of their lives by an average of 30 to 40 percent with a drug called rapamycin, an antifungal agent also used to suppress immune responses in transplant patients.

By taking the age of patients» blood cells into account, the researchers» model, when tested in more than 200 diabetic patients, reduced the error rate from one in three patients with the standard blood test to an error rate of one in 10.

By providing a woman's family history of these cancers, including the ages they were diagnosed, the programs calculate a probability that the patient carries a harmful mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (genes involved in controlling malignant cell growth).

The study was conducted at Parkland, the public health system for Dallas County, the ninth largest county by population and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S.. From Parkland's system of 10 neighborhood - based pediatric clinics, researchers identified four clinics with the largest volume of patients aged 11 to 18.

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.

New research from a University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) study found that children ages 1 to 3 years accounted for one - fifth of all emergency department (ED) visits caused by complications from asthma, representing the highest proportion of visits among asthma patients under age 21.

The cancer patients and the controls — between the ages of 18 and 80 — were carefully matched by age, sex, race, years of education and occupation.

According to the nationally representative study, patients who will gain Medicaid under expansion programs supported by the ACA will be younger (average age of 36 versus 38), with a larger proportion being male (49 percent versus 33 percent) and white (60 percent versus 50 percent) compared to the current Medicaid population.

Led by Brenda Penninx, PhD, of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the study found that patients with an early age at onset and higher symptom severity have an increased genetic risk for MDD, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

«Children should always be controlled by the pediatric endocrinologist, besides being measured and weighed at different frequencies according to their age, for early detection if the patient has a problem of stunting,» said Maria Dolores Rodriguez Arnao specialist in pediatric endocrinology at Madrid's University General Hospital.

«Understanding how patients vary in their inclusion of family members in decisions — by ethnicity, language spoken, marital status, sex, age, insurance status, and veteran status — may help physicians to better assess their patients» preferences for engaging family members in decisions,» said Dr. Hobbs.

Fragile skin that blisters easily: 90 percent of the patients that suffer from the skin condition recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) develop rapidly progressing cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas, a type of skin cancer, by the age of 55.

By comparison, another 96 Alzheimer's patients who were at a similar age and stage of the disease rose by up to six pointBy comparison, another 96 Alzheimer's patients who were at a similar age and stage of the disease rose by up to six pointby up to six points.

As MBAN technology matures, it might also be used to address the needs of the world's aging population and problems with healthcare costs by allowing patients to be monitored remotely (yet unobtrusively) while at home.

A companion report was also released, titled «In an age of constant activity, the solution to improving the nation's health may lie in helping it sleep better,» which summarizes the results of an online survey completed by patients currently being treated for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

The researchers, at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri, and led by pediatric researcher and St. Jude's CEO James Downing, hunted for dangerous genes in 1120 cancer patients under the age of 20.

For their study, researchers led by Anthony Robbins, M.D., Ph.D., American Cancer Society director of health services research, analyzed data from nearly 260,000 cancer patients ages 15 to 39 in the National Cancer Database.

There is a lot of work still to do, and many potential pitfalls before it could be applied to human patients, but in principle almost any illness caused by damaged or ageing tissue — heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and dozens of others — could be fixed this way.

«Impaired fertility brought about by cancer treatment leads to long - term psychological distress and lowered quality of life for cancer patients of a reproductive age.

The incidence of TKR increased by 120 percent from 2000 to 2009: 188 percent for patients ages 45 to 64, and 89 percent for patients ages 65 to 84.

Screening for colorectal cancer based on age alone may contribute to both underuse and overuse of the tests among older patients, according to a study by investigators at the University of Michigan and the Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research.

By contrast, patient age, severity of illness, ICU or hospital length of stay, and duration of sedation were not associated with depressive symptoms.

«Given the aging of the population, emergency physicians need to be prepared to balance their obligations to the patient by documenting findings, reporting suspicions and referring patients to appropriate agencies,» said Marguerite DeLiema, Ph.D, of the Stanford University Center on Longevity in Stanford, Calif., the lead study author of «The Forensic Lens: Bringing Elder Neglect into Focus in the Emergency Department.»

In the analysis of 23 relevant studies, investigators found that many clinicians are broadly informed about the risk to their patients» fertility brought about by cancer treatment, but many factors hinder the appropriate discussions and referrals needed to provide adequate fertility support to patients of reproductive age.

Progeria affects one in every four million to eight million births; there are about 50 cases currently recognized worldwide with 10 to 12 in the U.S. Common symptoms include fragile bones, hair loss, limited growth, stiff joints and wrinkling of the skin by as young as age two; about 90 percent of progeria patients die by age 13 from fatal heart attacks or strokes, according to the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

Their study published online ahead of print in PNAS Early Edition suggests a new therapeutic strategy for patients with Duchene muscular dystrophy, a progressive neuromuscular condition, caused by a lack of dystrophin, that usually leaves patients unable to walk on their own by age 10 - 15.

During the same time period the average age of hospitalized patients increased from 38 to 46 years, with the percentage of HAV - related hospitalizations covered by Medicare also increasing from 12 % to 23 %.

They then tested the model on 894 patients in the Wake Forest institutional trauma registry over a four - year period and found the model showed excellent discrimination in both independence at discharge and death rates, both of which decreased by decade of age: 80 percent and 6.5 percent, respectively, at age 50 - 59; 82 percent and 7 percent at 60 - 69; 76 percent and 8.9 percent at 70 - 79; and 67 percent and 13.4 percent at 80 - 89.

In the trial, which took place in Denmark, 1,234 patients (average age 61; 75 percent male) with acute STEMI symptoms of less than 12 hours» duration were randomly assigned to receive standard angioplasty with immediate stent implantation or angioplasty followed by stent implantation after a re-examination 24 to 48 hours later.

«Their increased risk for age - related diseases in general led us to analyze how these patients are impacted by one of the most common age - related eye diseases, macular degeneration.»