Sentences with phrase «cause of hospitalization»

As it is the leading cause of hospitalization [2] and one of the main causes of death in infants [1,3], there is a strong need to identify factors that can reduce the likelihood of infant infections [1].

Motor vehicle accidents are the second most common cause of hospitalization, and account for a large proportion of deaths in Alaska.

Dehydration is a major cause of hospitalization in older adults.

After illness, accidental falls are the leading cause of hospitalization for people over the age of 65.

It is a leading cause of hospitalization and the leading chronic disease responsible for kids missing school.

It is a leading cause of hospitalization and the top chronic disease responsible for kids missing school.

Accidental firearm injuries were the most common cause of hospitalization across all age groups in urban or rural locations, except for 15 - to 19 - year - olds living in urban areas (for which firearm assaults were highest).

Fifty to 90 percent of bronchiolitis cases are caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which is the most common cause of hospitalization in the first two years of life.

Principal investigator for the study and a professor at UNICAMP's Medical School (FCM - UNICAMP), José Dirceu Ribeiro recalls that bronchiolitis is the most common disease during the first year of life, and also the leading cause of hospitalization during this period of infancy worldwide.

Researchers at UNC School of Medicine have pinpointed a viral protein that plays a major role in making respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) the most common cause of hospitalization in children under one year of age.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say a new candidate vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) made with a weakened version of the virus shows great promise at fighting the disease, the leading cause of hospitalization for children under the age of one in the U.S.

Viral infections that occur in a patient's lungs are a significant cause of hospitalization and death among children and the elderly.

Additionally, mood disorders such as depression are the third most common cause of hospitalization ion the U.S. for adults age 18 - 44.

It has been known for many years that breastfeeding is protective against diarrhea and pneumonia, two of the leading causes of hospitalization and death in children under five years of age.

Asthma results in 250,000 deaths annually and is the leading cause of hospitalizations in children younger than 15 in the United States.

Patients with this disease suffer from anemia and infection due to the failure of healthy blood production, all of which are leading causes of hospitalization and death from the disease.

(CORBIS) The No. 1 cause of hospitalizations in people with type 2 diabetes is a foot injury, which can rapidly escalate into an amputation (there are approximately 86,000 diabetes - related lower - limb amputations each year in the United States).

In particular, the bacteria / viruses known as Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria are frequently - cited causes of hospitalization.

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Hot tap water actually accounts for about a quarter of all scald burns, but causes more deaths and hospitalizations than any other hot liquid.

Research also clearly shows that exposure to smoke can cause ear infections and related hearing problems, increased incidence of hospitalization related to bronchitis or pneumonia, and increased risk for SIDS.

Among women, depression is the leading cause of non-obstetric hospitalization.

Results: We found a large body of evidence for the protective effects of breastfeeding against diarrhea incidence, prevalence, hospitalizations, diarrhea mortality, and all - cause mortality.

«In January, we had already had more hospitalizations due to influenza in New York State compared to all of 2009 when we had H1N1, so this has been causing a lot of serious infection,» Burstein said.

According to emergency responders, as a result of the local ban on synthetic drugs and bath salts, (voted into law by the Saugerties Town Board on March 29, 2012), hospitalizations resulting from overdoses caused by the use of these substances have been significantly reduced.

At least five deaths and dozens of hospitalizations, for instance, are believed to have been caused by a compound called Bromo - Dragonfly that was first developed in Nichols's Purdue lab and is now produced for Westerners in China.

Next, the researchers estimated the cost of prescription and over-the-counter medications, time off work, visits to doctor offices and emergency departments and hospitalizations associated with the number of mild, moderate and severe cases of illness they determined were caused by recreation on natural bodies of water.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes about 60,000 hospitalizations of children aged 0 to four, and nearly 200,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths among adults 65 and older.

Influenza is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity, resulting in more than 200,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. each year, on average.

Between 1990 and 1999, seasonal influenza caused an average of 36,000 deaths and 226,000 hospitalizations per year in the U.S. Adults over 65 years old are particularly vulnerable to influenza complications, accounting for most seasonal influenza - related hospitalizations and deaths.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers found only 34 (0.31 %) healthy volunteers with serious adverse events, which are defined by the FDA as those that result in death; are life - threatening; require or prolong in - patient hospitalization; or cause a disability, congenital anomaly or birth defect.

Lupus nephritis, which causes inflammation of the kidneys and impairs their ability to effectively rid the body of waste products and other toxins, is the leading cause of lupus - related deaths and results in tens of thousands of hospitalizations per year.

The key to reducing readmissions may be focusing on the whole patient, rather than the specific conditions that caused their hospitalizations, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers.

In humans, Salmonella Dublin has higher hospitalization and fatality rates than other Salmonella types; it causes systemic infection of body tissues, similar to typhoid.

Findings from the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, have revealed that adding the medication known as spironolactone (Aldactone) to existing therapy did not significantly reduce the composite time to either death from cardiovascular causes, surviving a cardiac arrest, or hospitalization to manage heart failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Although the scientists can't assume hospitalization is directly causing suicide, they say their work backs up a hot theory that inflammation — one of the body's main defenses against infection — influences depression by generating a chemical that interferes with brain signaling.

«Fecal microbiota transplants improve cognitive impairment caused by severe liver disease: Fecal microbiome transfer significantly reduced the number of hospitalizations compared to standard of care treatment.»

A new analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of severe disease caused by the novel H1N1 virus again emphasizes that people under 65 suffer the bulk of hospitalizations and deaths from the virus.

The study focused on search trends and hospitalization data related to coronary heart disease, the most common type of heart disease and the leading cause of death in the U.S. Caused by the buildup of plaque in the arteries that supply blood to the heart, coronary heart disease can lead to chronic chest pain, heart attacks and other heart problems.

A large randomized controlled trial of ischemic postconditioning in patients who had experienced the deadliest form of heart attack — ST - segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)-- failed to show that this procedure significantly reduces death from any cause or hospitalization for heart failure, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

Liver cirrhosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, with complications such as HE resulting in recurrent emergency hospitalizations, irreversible brain injury, and a poor prognosis.2 - 5 There is some evidence that HE patients have a reduced relative abundance of certain beneficial gut microbiota (e.g. Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae) and an enrichment of potentially pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae ¬ - a microbial profile that has been linked to cognitive impairment and systemic inflammation in cirrhotic patients with HE.1 Faecal microbiota transplants have been used successfully to correct dysbiotic conditions such as recurrent Clostridium difficile and ulcerative colitis,6 - 8 and a preliminary report suggested that FMT may be promising in the management of HE.9

The primary endpoint was a composite of death from any cause and hospitalization for heart failure.

This leads to bones that fracture easily in everyday activities, causing a cycle of repeated fractures and hospitalizations.

After an average follow - up time of 43 months, 105 patients or 17 percent in the DEFER group and 109 or 18 percent in the standard treatment group met the primary endpoint, a composite of death from any cause, hospitalization for heart failure, a second heart attack, and unplanned repeat angioplasty, a nonsignificant difference.

A total of 21,843 hospitalizations from 2006, 2009, and 2012 were compared based on demographics, rural versus urban location, and the cause of the injury (assault, suicide attempt, accidental, or undetermined).

Reasoning that severe side effects would eventually cause military personnel to end up in a hospital bed, Paul Sato of the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego and his colleagues studied hospitalization rates among almost 150,000 people who had received at least one shot, and some 1.4 million who hadn't yet rolled up their sleeves.

Delayed or deferred stent implantation in patients experiencing the deadliest form of heart attack — ST - segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)-- failed to reduce death from any cause, hospitalization for heart failure, subsequent heart attacks or the need for a repeat procedure to restore blood flow to the heart, researchers reported at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

While the study does not prove that hydraulic fracturing actually causes these health problems, the authors say, the hospitalization increases observed over the relatively short time span of observation suggests that healthcare costs of hydraulic fracturing must be factored into the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil drilling.

A new analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of severe disease caused by the novel H1N1 virus again emphasizes that people under age 65 suffer the bulk of hospitalizations and deaths from the virus.

These highly - infectious viruses are the leading cause of upper and lower respiratory tract disease in young children, including Croup, responsible for thousands of hospitalizations in the developed world, and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year in developing countries.

RSV is the number one cause of pneumonia deaths in children worldwide and one of the top causes of infant hospitalization in the United States.