Sentences with phrase «for white patients»

The cumulative incidence among black patients undergoing ALND was 18 %, compared with 12.2 % for white patients undergoing that procedure.

Among those undergoing SLN biopsy, the rates were 8.8 % for black patients and 6.8 % for white patients.

Readmission rates were 83.5 per thousand for black patients, 78.9 for Hispanic patients and 53.3 for white patients.

Not exact matches

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And these patients are impatient: prodding white - coats for faster, better answers — or, sometimes, seeking them on their own.

Vice President Mike Pence's physician privately raised alarms within the White House last fall that President Donald Trump's doctor may have violated federal privacy protections for a key patient — Pence's wife, Karen — and intimidated the vice president's doctor during angry confrontations over the episode.

While the medications are only given over a few days in the induction phase, patients such as Pagano are advised to stay in the hospital for weeks thereafter due to the risk of life - threatening infections that can arise while the white blood cell counts slowly recover.

In addition to seeing patients in his Mount Kisco, NY office and at Norwalk Hospital, Dr. Kass is also available for in - patient hospital consultations at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, NY, White Plains Hospital in White Plains, NY and at Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, NY.

Patients with either a United Health card with an anchor in the upper right hand corner, a white Rhode Island medical card with an anchor in the center, or a Neighborhood Health Plan card, or a state welfare card are eligible for free parking.

They also typically scrutinize patients» cerebrospinal fluid for two main signs: buildup of protein and the absence of inflammatory white blood cells, he says.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Results suggest that while isotretinoin was associated with a change in the average value of some laboratory tests (white blood cell count and hepatic and lipid panels), the average change across a patient group did not meet the criteria for high - risk and the proportion of patients with laboratory abnormalities was low, the authors report.

The approach proved 95 percent accurate for determining whether a patient's white cell levels were above or below the threshold.

Authors examined the association between SVD and AD pathology by looking at magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)- based microbleeds (MB), white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and lacunes (which are measures for SVD) along with certain protein levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) which reflect AD pathophysiology in patients with AD, VaD and healthy control patients.

The study also found that racial minority patients with a strong desire for testing were less likely than white patients to discuss it with a professional, even though studies show that minority patients are not at lower risk for these mutations.

After adjusting for certain factors including age of patient at time of treatment, cause of female or male infertility, and type of treatment (ICSI vs IVF), the study found that White Irish, South Asian Indian, South Asian Bangladeshi, South Asian Pakistani, Black African, and Other Asian women had a significantly lower odds of a live birth than White British women.

Thus in this study, the authors compared RYGB to an intensive lifestyle and medical intervention (ILMI) for type 2 diabetes, including among only mildly obese patients with a BMI < 35 kg / m2 (above 30 kg / m2 is considered obese, so 30 - 35 BMI is the least severe obesity category among white people).

«Trauma centers serving mostly white patients have lower death rates for patients of all races.»

The analysis compared patient consultation rates with cancer specialists as well as treatment with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy for white and black patients.

When antibodies against the donor's white blood cells decrease to very low levels and the crossmatch becomes negative, the patient is ready for transplant.

Over the past decade, death rates for black patients were approximately 40 % higher than white patients.

«Although we do not know the reasons for the racial and ethnic differences we saw, one explanation could be that the black and Hispanic patients had surgery when they are much heavier and sicker than the non-Hispanic white patients,» said study lead author, Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Department of Research & Evaluation in Pasadena, Calif. «Our study highlights that surgery may be an important intervention tool for people earlier in their weight gain trajectory.

Black physicians as well as white recommend patients for drug trials, and they act on those results when writing prescriptions.

«Test methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Peng.

Nearby, a young technician in a white lab coat watches a computer screen for one particular patient's signs of mutation.

Commissioned by ASTRO's Board of Directors as part of the Target Safely campaign, the white paper evaluates the current safety and practice guidance for HDR brachytherapy, makes recommendations for guidance applications to the delivery of HDR brachytherapy, suggests topics where additional guidance is needed and examines the adequacy of general physics, quality assurance (QA) and clinical guidance currently available for the most common treatment sites with regard to patient safety.

As to the reason why certain racial and ethnic minorities have poorer rates of treatment for cardiovascular disease and generally have poorer cardiovascular health outcomes compared to white patients, Dr. Ladapo concludes that no one has really explored whether there could be disparities in cardiac stress testing, which is a mainstay of diagnosing patients with heart disease in this country.

Because both drugs are approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration, physicians have tested the combination with patients, resulting in anecdotal reports of significantly improved pain management, Dr. White said.

«People immediately think, «Oh, it's tolerance, the patient needs more of the drug for pain control,»» Dr. White said.

Their proposed «global alliance,» as they call it for now in a white paper, aims to develop standards — analogous to protocols for building Internet web pages — that will enable researchers around the world in fields from cancer to rare diseases to securely share and study patients» genome sequences and clinical information.

Black patients remained significantly more likely than white patients to be readmitted following surgery, after controlling for comorbidities.

Unmet nursing care did not influence the likelihood of readmission for older white patients.

«Some patients treated with medication for hyperthyroidism, such as thiamazole (methimazole), carbimazole or propylthiouracil, react with agranulocytosis which is a lack of white blood cells that suppresses the immune system.

When compared to the control group, type 2 patients showed decreased integrity in the white matter of two different areas in the brain — the cingulum bundle, which is a fiber tract that connects regions in the default - mode network, and the uncinate fasciculus, which connects regions important for executive function and memory.

March 17, 2016 Shared decision - making can improve health care outcomes for LGBTQ racial and ethnic minority patients Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) patients who are also racial and ethnic minorities suffer significant health disparities, while facing more complicated challenges than white LGBTQ or racial and ethnic minority patients alone.

October 17, 1994 Boost for bone marrow transplants By growing billions of infection - fighting white blood cells in the laboratory, University of Chicago researchers hope to reduce the 14 - day period when patients are at greatest risk to as little three days.

February 4, 2016 Connective tissue disease increases risk for cardiovascular problems A study based on medical records from more than a quarter million adult patients found that African - American patients with connective tissue diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis were twice as likely as white patients to suffer from narrowed or atherosclerotic blood vessels, which increase the risk of a heart attack, stroke or death.

It is also approved for treating other patients who have a very low white blood cell count.

The Maharaj Institute has an FDA IND clinical trial protocol (08001 - BMSCTI) for investigating a novel cancer therapy using transfusions of white blood cells from healthy donors to patient with advanced solid tumors.

In a report to the White House released today, an independent advisory group called for «urgent action» to address rapidly rising prices for cancer drugs and the burden cancer patients and their families can face because of the high cost of cancer care.

Mucosal melanomas account for 5 % to 13 % of melanomas in black patients, 23 % of melanomas in Chinese patients, and only 1 % to 2 % of melanomas in white patients.

Testing for the human leukocyte antigen HLA - B * 5801 allele before initiating allopurinol was found to be cost effective for black and Asian patients but not for white or Hispanic patients...

Testing for the human leukocyte antigen HLA - B * 5801 allele before initiating allopurinol was found to be cost effective for black and Asian patients but not for white or Hispanic patients, according to results of a cost - effectiveness analysis published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

For example, blood tests showed that the patients had very low levels of T - cells, the white blood cells that attack foreign invaders in the body.

These early weeks of chemotherapy often lead to a drop in white blood cells known as neutropenia that leaves patients at risk for life - threatening infections that can delay cancer treatment.

One drug for heart failure works very well in black patients but not in white patients.

Nia Terezakis, MD, a clinical professor of dermatology at Tulane University Medical Center and dermatologist in private practice in New Orleans, has seen patients come in with white doughnut shapes around their mouths after getting peels from inexperienced salon technicians who left the solution on for too long, permanently damaging the pigment there.

The report wasn't all bad news for minorities, however: Caregivers of black and Hispanic hospice patients reported similar or better experiences than white caregivers within a given hospice, according to RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

The patients were an average of 67 years old, white and 54 % women, and had overnight in - hospital tests for sleep apnea.

No significant difference in the distribution of the investigated HNMT alleles could be shown between patients with gastrointestinal diseases and control subjects (45, 47), but a functional relevant polymorphism of the HNMT gene (chromosome 2q22) has been described for white asthma patients (48).