Finally, sensitivity analyses were performed by excluding individuals who might have made dietary adjustments and / or lifestyle changes because of chronic
disease at baseline (i.e., hypertension, hyperlipidemia, myocardial infarction, and / or stroke) and by excluding misreports of energy according to Goldberg criterion categories, defined as «under - reporters» with a ratio of energy intake to basal metabolic rate < 1.14 and «over-reporters» with a ratio of > 2.1 (29).
A pooled analysis of nine prospective studies that included 293,172 subjects free of coronary heart
disease at baseline found that people who took ≥ 700 mg / day of supplemental vitamin C had a 25 % lower risk of coronary heart disease incidence than those who took no supplemental vitamin C [61].
CDC speculates that the observed association between low sodium intake and increased CVD risk may have been due to a higher proportion of participants in the low sodium group, compared to groups with higher intake levels, who had diabetes, hypertension, and pre-existing cardiovascular
disease at baseline and therefore may have consumed less sodium, leading to a noncausal association between sodium intake and increased cardiovascular events.
Participants with coronary heart
disease at baseline were excluded, as were participants with cancer, stroke and coronary artery surgery.
Not exact matches
Eligible participants were men 55 to 80 years of age and women 60 to 80 years of age without clinical PAD or
baseline cardiovascular
disease but with type 2 diabetes mellitus or
at least 3 cardiovascular risk factors.
The participants were aged between 25 and 42 years
at baseline and free from cardiovascular
disease and, of them, 17,531 (just over 15 %) reported a physician's diagnosis of migraine.
«This study looked
at more than 2.3 million ED visits among children with asthma, and we identified some interesting trends that give a
baseline to find better ways to help children with asthma control this very treatable
disease,» said Aparna Roy, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and resident
at UH Rainbow and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Black women who were overweight or who had a WC greater than 88 cm
at baseline, and Hispanic women who were obese
at baseline had higher risks of incident
disease compared to white women who were overweight or who had a WC greater than 88 cm, according to the study.
At baseline, patients age 80 and older had a higher prevalence of hypertension, heart
disease, osteoporosis and joint problems, but a lower BMI, and a lower prevalence of depression and smoking.
Understanding how this immune system is regulated
at the appropriate level of activity gives the researchers more ideas of points in the immune signaling pathway that could targeted to increase the plant's
baseline ability to resist
disease.
Clinical response to the therapies was defined as a drop in DAS28 - ESR (
disease activity score) of 1.2 units between the
baseline and
at three months.
Asaf Vivante, M.D., of IDF Medical Corps, Tel - Hashomer, Israel, and colleagues conducted a study that included male military personnel in Israel, who had a
baseline evaluation conducted prior to recruitment
at age 17 years, during which the diagnosis of resolved childhood glomerular
disease was determined.
The dietary habits of 2,332 men aged between 42 and 60 years were assessed
at the
baseline of the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart
Disease Risk Factor Study, KIHD,
at the University of Eastern Finland in 1984 - 1989.
We thought that if we looked
at vitamin D levels when the
disease was inactive and then followed patients moving forward, the impact of
baseline vitamin D levels on future events may be clearer.»
Of those, 27 percent were diagnosed within a year of their heart event, 24 percent between one and three years after, nearly 15 percent between three and five years after, and nearly 37 percent
at least five years after a
baseline heart
disease event.
The study included only people who
at baseline were free of heart
disease, diabetes, and other severe chronic
disease.
Furthermore, in a study of men age 60 years whose serum was stored and later assayed for PSA, there was a 0.5 % risk of developing metastatic
disease and a 0.2 % risk of prostate cancer death
at 25 years after a
baseline PSA level of 1.0 ng / ml.99
Cardiovascular
Disease A small subset of women (n = 400; average follow - up, 57.4 months) in WHI reported conditions
at baseline that would have made them eligible for HERS, ie, prior MI or revascularization procedures.
Results Of the 40 449 patients included in the study, 16201 (40.0 %) were women; mean (SD) age of the cohort was 72.5 (10.1) years, and the mean CHA2DS2 - VASc (cardiac failure or dysfunction, hypertension, age ≥ 75 years [doubled], diabetes mellitus, stroke [doubled]-- vascular
disease, age 65 - 74 years, and sex category [female]-RRB- score was 3.3
at baseline.
Looking
at 235 women with established heart
disease, they measured
baseline angiograms and repeated them in an average of 3.1 years.
A higher dietary GI
at baseline was associated with greater 13 - y inflammatory
disease — related mortality in women (Table 4).
Women who died of inflammatory
diseases were older
at baseline, had higher WBC counts and fibrinogen concentrations, were more likely to be nondrinkers (ie, no alcohol) and less likely to ever have taken hormone replacements, but were more likely to take any medication or to suffer from CVD
at baseline than women who were still alive
at follow - up (Table 2).
The 2735 participants included in the present analysis were significantly younger than the 757 participants who had not provided a complete or plausible FFQ
at baseline (median age: 65 y compared with 70 y), less likely to be current smokers (13.6 % compared with 17.4 %), and less likely to have diabetes (7.5 % compared with 9.7 %) or CVD (18.2 % compared with 24.9 %)
at baseline; they were also less likely to die during the 13 - y follow - up of all causes (31 % compared with 52 %) and of inflammatory
diseases (6 % compared with 10 %)(all P < 0.05).
Men who died of inflammation - related
diseases had a higher dietary GI and lower
baseline intakes of total fiber, fruit fiber, and fruit than men still alive
at 13 - y follow - up.
Methods In a Norwegian population - based cohort study, we prospectively studied the association between thyrotropin levels and fatal CHD in 17 311 women and 8002 men without known thyroid or cardiovascular
disease or diabetes mellitus
at baseline.
To investigate further, the team conducted a longitudinal cohort study of 557 subjects with a mean age of almost 60 years
at baseline who had an increased cardiovascular
disease risk.
In a sample of 1,092 men and women without dementia followed for an average of 10 years, those with higher plasma homocysteine levels
at baseline had a significantly higher risk of developing Alzheimer's
disease and other types of dementia.
Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC) data show good performance in risk factor monitoring and the management of hypertension and chronic
disease.15 Box 2 shows improving performance in completion of health assessments — a first step in prevention activity — over the past 4 years.22 The Torpedo study, a randomised controlled trial of the use of an electronic decision - support system measuring absolute cardiovascular risk, shows ACCHSs outperforming general practices in managing risk.21 Data collected in late 2011 show that the ACCHSs sites had significantly more patients
at high risk being prescribed best - practice medications than the general practice sites
at baseline, and this gap was sustained through the intervention period (Box 3).23
Demographic and
disease - related variables measured
at baseline are referred to as level 2 variables because they reflect individual difference variables associated with the person.