Sentences with phrase «common age of diagnosis»

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The condition is more common in men than women and in older people, with the average age of diagnosis at 68.

For the study, researchers examined how common several chronic conditions were in 23,382 people with MS at the time of their diagnosis and 116,638 people of the same age and sex without the disease.

The research brings us a step closer to early diagnosis of the more common type Alzheimer's that produces symptoms after age 60.

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

In this clinical setting without diagnosable disease, the diagnosis of a relative age - related adult - onset hypogonadism is gaining popularity and treatment with testosterone is becoming more common in the integrative medicine and urology fields.

Part of the diagnosis depends on the age and breed of the dog, as different diseases are more common in certain breeds and at different ages.

Diabetes is one of the most common endocrine diseases affecting middle - aged and senior dogs, with 70 percent of patients older than seven at the time of diagnosis.

Seeking position in a facility that diagnoses and manages both common and complex medical conditions in patients of all ages.

Specifically, we examined the extent to which four common teen drinking styles — frequent drinking, binge drinking, heavy binge drinking and loss of control over drinking — predict AUD diagnoses in young adulthood; and whether risks differ by gender and age of AUD diagnosis in young adulthood.

For a diagnosis to be made, the behaviours of concern should be far more common than are expected in children of the same age, occur in more than one situation, and cause difficulties in the child's ability to get on at home, at school or with friends.

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.