Sentences with phrase «higher diagnosis rates»

The higher diagnosis rates of HIV are also reported at a younger age.

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The rates of having experienced post-traumatic stress symptoms, but not a fully screened diagnosis of PTSD are as high as 18 % (Beck, et al. 2011).

A doula can remind you of the high false positive rate for EFM and remind you to ask your caregiver about options for verifying the diagnosis (such as using an internal monitor or stimulating the baby's scalp).

The county also has the third - highest rate of newborn drug - related diagnoses in New York state, with about 300 diagnoses per 10,000 newborn discharges in 2014, according to the county.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

Co-author Professor Fabio Levi (MD), Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), said: «Besides enforcing tobacco control — essentially by increasing taxation — national governments and EU policy makers must ensure that all EU citizens have access to the best screening, diagnosis and treatment, including those from central and eastern Europe where major delays are still observed and where cancer mortality rates tend to be higher as a result.»

«It's concerning that we saw a higher rate of diagnosis of schizophrenia and seemingly an undertreatment in terms of pharmacotherapy for that group,» said Ashli A. Owen - Smith, co-author of the study and assistant professor of health management and policy in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.

The 11.5 % rate of anxiety disorders — such phobia, panic or generalized anxiety disorder — was slightly higher than in the general population (9 %), while the prevalence of other mental health diagnoses was similar to rates in the general population.

But Li points out that women with more frequent visits would probably have more mammograms, which is associated with higher rates of breast cancer diagnosis.

The five year disease - free and overall survival rates for patients with high - risk malignant germ cell tumours remains less than 50 %, and so accurate diagnosis and monitoring is crucial to improving outcomes for patients.

Among non-injury diagnoses, gastrointestinal system diseases, nervous system disorders, and symptoms of abdominal pain were among the diagnoses with the highest growth in the rate of ED visits, the study found.

Published Nov. 20 in the British Medical Journal, the researchers found that top - performing hospitals — those with the lowest 30 - day readmission rates — had fewer readmissions from all diagnoses and time periods after discharge than lower performing hospitals with higher readmissions.

«As we look at lessons learned from this outbreak, the high false - positive screening rate and other delays in diagnosis may have resulted in unprotected exposure of frontline staff.

The death rate was more than four times higher after a diagnosis of Alzheimer's in people age 75 to 84 and nearly three times higher in people age 85 and older.

The high mortality rate is mainly due to late diagnosis of the disease, when it is already in an advanced stage.

Exome sequencing in mostly consanguineous Arab families with neurologic disease provides a high potential molecular diagnosis rate.

Pain is still a neglected clinical issue in elderly people with dementia and / or communicative disorders, with an unacceptable higher rate of under diagnosis and under treatment.

Early and accurate diagnosis of these disorders has been greatly facilitated by the widespread clinical application of high - throughput genomic sequencing, leading to increased diagnostic rates in these rare conditions.

The remission rate is extremely high, and only about 25 % of people with the diagnosis manage to remain employed full - time, according to Dr. Gunderson's review.

The suicide rate among the men who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer was 40 % higher in the year following their diagnosis, and 90 % higher in the first three months than it was among men the same age who weren't diagnosed with cancer, according to the study.

The cardiovascular death rate, meanwhile, was more than twice as high among the men in the first month after diagnosis than it was among cancer - free men, although it was just 9 % higher over the course of the whole year.

Diagnosis rates differed by as much or more than 400 percent among cities, from a high of 6.8 percent in Topeka, Kan., to lows of 1.5 percent in Laredo, Texas, and 2 percent in McAllen / Edinburg / Mission, Texas.

When the study began, all individuals were healthy, reported no clinical diagnosis of high blood pressure, and had an exercise test score of a minimum of 85 % of their age - predicted maximal heart rate.

Research validates this stress - thyroid connection — two studies found that autoimmune thyroid patients had a higher rate of stressful life events before their diagnosis when compared to control groups.

The most common lab tests have a very high false negative rate, making diagnoses even more difficult.

However, not only did Kuczynski observe that these nomadic pastoralists suffered from high rates of obesity and gout similar to the Mongols of the 13th century, Kuczynski's observations further extended to the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease and other dietary related disorders.

But clinical diagnoses have extraordinarily high error rates.

Is High - Stakes Testing Increasing the Rate of «Attention Deficit Disorder» Diagnoses?

Males tend to have a higher rate of diagnosis than females, with German Shepards and Golden Retrievers more affected than other breeds.

At San Diego Pet Hospital, we believe in this same high standard of care for our animal patients.Early detection and diagnosis of many diseases can result in higher cure rates.

Snap tests have high rates of error, especially in regard to false positives, and are not intended for final diagnoses (see The Merck Veterinary Manual (2012)-RRB-.

According to a 2016 report from Blue Cross Blue Shield, concussions diagnoses have been rising across the country due to increased awareness — and Massachusetts had the highest youth concussion rate in the country in 2015.

Weiss et al. (1996) confirmed that children of mothers with BPD, compared to children with mothers without BPD, had a significantly higher number of psychiatric diagnoses and scored higher on a global rating of impairment.

This has been identified to be a problem that disproportionately affects Indigenous young people who have very high levels of mobility, including across state borders, often due to cultural reasons.6 Of the 917 children who were completely excluded from the analysis, based on an attendance rate of less than 30 %, 81 % were Indigenous and 45 % had a mother with a maternal alcohol use diagnosis.

• a later diagnosis compared to non-Indigenous people • a slower uptake of anti-retroviral treatments • less access to experienced physisicans • higher morbidity • shorter survival times • a mortality rate three times higher than non-Indigenous people.

Menzies says a number of factors may be behind the higher death rates, including later diagnosis, reduced uptake of or access to treatment, greater comorbidities, and higher rates of more aggressive cancers.

The patterns then «went into reverse» for certain other conditions, such as renal failure, liver disease, and alcohol abuse, where diagnoses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients showed higher rates of specificity (see table).

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is 1 of only 2 DSM - IV diagnoses for which suicidal behavior is a criterion.1 Borderline personality disorder is a severe and persistent mental disorder experience of severe emotional distress and behavioral dyscontrol.1 - 3 Among patients with BPD, 69 % to 80 % engage in suicidal behavior,4 - 9 with a suicide rate of up to 9 %.10 Forty percent of the highest users of inpatient psychiatric services receive a diagnosis of BPD.11, 12 Patients with BPD use more services than those with major depression13 and other personality disorders.14 Among patients with BPD seen for treatment, 72 % have had at least 1 psychiatric hospitalization and 97 % have received outpatient treatment from a mean of 6.1 previous therapists.15, 16 Despite this high - use pattern, patients with BPD have high rates of treatment failure.17, 18

Victims of previous abuse or neglect are far more often identified as «problem children» than are their peers and show higher rates of diagnosis with attention problems and violent and oppositional behaviors.27 Caregivers and teachers often respond to these behaviors in the traditional fashion: warnings become more brusque (and often louder) and discipline more strict (and often more punitive).

Coming with step - by - step instructions (see the Our Lungs Our Mob resource), they aim to provide culturally relevant and appropriate tools and resources to combat lower screening and later diagnosis rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that have been limiting their options for treatment and contributing to higher mortality rates.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.

As a consequence, late diagnosis of cancer is far more common among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander than other Australians, with this leading to poor cancer outcomes, including higher rates of mortality.

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

Main Outcome Measures Child diagnoses based on the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia; child symptoms based on the Child Behavior Checklist; child functioning based on the Child Global Assessment Scale in mothers whose depression with treatment remitted with a score of 7 or lower or whose depression did not remit with a score higher than 7 on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression.

Young women between the ages of 16 and 24 experience the highest rate of intimate partner violence - almost triple the national average - and teen girls experiencing intimate partner violence are more likely to become pregnant and more likely to report an STD diagnosis.

Even as high as it is, the documented rate of diagnosis most likely understates the actual rate of HIV among Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

According to the Task Force, «These types of lists are so nonspecific that high rates of false - positive diagnoses are virtually certain.

There was a very high diagnostic overlap with ODD; however, the use of a proxy DMDD diagnosis containing items from the ODD module of the DISC - IV may have artificially inflated the comorbidity rates.

The gap in survival rates can be explained by factors such as advanced cancer at diagnosis, reduced access to and uptake of treatment, higher rates of comorbidities, and language barriers.