Sentences with phrase «older patients with»

Correlations between age and ESs for behavior problems showed that only older patients with CHD showed more overall, internalizing, and externalizing problems as compared with a comparison group, r (16) =.67, p =.005; r (14) =.77, p =.001; and r (14) =.73, p =.003 respectively.

Managing the Needs of Older Patients with Multimorbidity — A Systematic Review of the Challenges Faced by the Healthcare Services

Older patients with heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) also have been found to have high risks of magnesium deficiency.

My younger patients had muscle cramps, anxiety, and weak immune systems, much like my older patients with mineral deficiencies and bone disease.

In future studies, Lozano said, his team will focus on testing DBS in older patients with early Alzheimer's.

This report expands the phenotype of older patients with BRPS; common emerging features include severe intellectual disability (11/12), poor / absent speech (12/12), autistic traits (9/12), distinct face (arched eyebrows, prominent forehead, high - arched palate, hypertelorism and downslanting palpebral fissures), (9/12), hypotonia (11/12) and significant feeding difficulties (9/12) when young.

Her recent research focus has been medication adherence in older patients with hypertension, adherence to physical activity recommendations in patients with diabetes and provider adherence to medication guidelines.

Older patients with dementia represent a clinical challenge.

A new grant, co-led by Dr. Richard W. Besdine, will promote adoption of a care model in which geriatricians and other physicians co-manage care for older patients with hip fractures.

The drug was originally approved in 2000 as a stand - alone treatment for older patients with CD33 - positive AML who had had a relapse, but was eventually withdrawn after subsequent trials failed to confirm a clinical benefit and raised safety concerns.

The researchers found that there is an increased risk of having dementia among older patients with rosacea and those diagnosed with the skin condition by hospital dermatologists.

«Medication deintensification in older patients with low HbA1c or blood pressure.»

The generic risperidone products will have the same safety warnings as Risperdal, including a boxed warning, cautioning that older patients with dementia - related psychosis treated with atypical anti-psychotic drugs are at increased risk of death, as compared with those taking placebo.

Among older patients with diabetes whose treatment has resulted in very low hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels or blood pressure values, only 27 percent or fewer underwent medication deintensification, a lost opportunity to reduce overtreatment, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

A large 2011 study found that omega - 3 supplements did not improve the brain health of older patients with preexisting heart disease.

«Avoiding radiotherapy is an option for some older patients with breast cancer.»

«At the same time, as our population ages, we are seeing a significant rise in older patients with falls or other trauma,» Hsia said.

Published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, the new study found that older patients with delirium had significantly elevated levels of the inflammatory marker interleukin - 6 (IL - 6) two days after surgery and also identified elevated levels of interleukin 2 (IL - 2) in delirious patients.

«This research effort is important because it will assist in recommending effective, optimal treatments tailored specifically to older patients with lung cancer,» he said.

In addition, the study showed that the 5 - year survival rate for selected older patients with advanced lung cancer who were treated with surgical therapy was 29.9 % for Stage III and 26.7 % for Stage IV.

«Older Patients with atrial fibrillation at greater risk for post-op tricuspid regurgitation after mitral valve repair: Cardiothoracic surgeons identify risk factors.»

They found that although newly developed TR after MV repair was rare, the risk could increase in older patients with atrial fibrillation and impaired heart function.

And he questions whether these drugs should ever be used in frail older patients with several underlying conditions

«We have a few older patients with cluster headaches we're looking after,» he says, «but it's clear right now that the central nervous system is where the action is.»

Weiss also said that knee arthroscopy for degenerative meniscal tears, which affect older patients with arthritis of the knee, has been shown to be no more effective than steroid shots.

Life expectancy after injury ranges from 1.5 years for a ventilator - dependent patient older than 60 to 52.6 years for a 20 - year - old patient with preserved motor function.

In another case, a 30 - year - old patient with severe head trauma was declared brain dead by two doctors.

One older patient with a tall, stooped frame arrived in a wheelchair.

A four - year old patient with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect (PA / VSD) after surgical repair with Contegra conduit (bovine jugular vein graft, Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN) at the age of 2 years underwent repeated CMR scan under general anesthesia for evaluation of aortic regurgitation and assessment of left ventricular volumes.

Two other vignettes consider other issues raised by a 78 - year - old patient with dementia and an abnormal heart rhythm, and the value of screening tests for high cholesterol or colon cancer in a 69 - year - old patient with dementia.

The two previous award recipients are Megan Schillerstrom, a ten - year - old cancer survivor, and Baylie Owen, a seven - year - old patient with Chiari malformation, a genetic condition that typically causes excruciating headaches.

Life table modelling on the basis of these data estimated 33 % five year survival in 65 year old patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer who continued to smoke compared with 70 % in those who quit smoking.

MassGenomics writes about researchers in Canada who decided to try to help an 80 - year - old patient with a rare type of tumor -LSB-...]

The researchers isolated two related but genetically diverse strains of H. pylori from a 90 - year - old patient with gastric ulcer disease.

In this article he specifically highlights the use of laser therapy for a a soccer player's high ankle sprain, a 68 - year - old patient with severe shingles, and a patient -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Sequencing in one 18 - year - old patient found several oncogenes, and her and her family will continue to work with Human Longevity to monitor the cells.

Gosnell is charged with killing seven late - term infants by «snipping» their spinal cords and giving a 41 - year - old immigrant patient a fatal overdose of the painkiller Demerol.

Using an app created by a company called Medical Realities, viewers from around the globe, each presumably with an iron constitution, witnessed a surgeon at the Royal London NHS Hospital delve into the bowels of a 70 - year - old cancer patient.

«The patient is a 38 - year - old woman with good past health.

While Yervoy brought in $ 960 million in sales in 2013 (an enormous figure for a two - year - old drug with a small patient population), the company currently has more than 35 ongoing clinical trials investigating another drug that disengages the immune system's brakes: the much - awaited nivolumab, which was also from the Medarex portfolio.

Belvin, who in 2004 was a 22 - year - old grad student in New Jersey, was diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma, a disease that then typically killed five out of six patients within five years.

Thoughts and prayers are the kind of thing you send to sick children, patients with cancer, friends who have lost a loved one to old age or illness.

The «Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation Prevention Program» (EIFFE Prevention Program) educates healthcare and legal professionals to recognize when their older patients and clients may be vulnerable to or victims of financial abuse, particularly those patients with mild cognitive impairment, and then to refer these at - risk patients to State Securities Regulators, local adult protective services professionals or for further screening and assistance as needed.

Programs include events for members of the military, programs for clinicians who work with older patients, online workplace education and many others.

Vida Health, a two - year - old, Palo Alto, Ca. - based subscription - based app that pairs patients with health coaches, has raised $ 18 million in Series B funding led by...

«Scientists say they have replaced a 65 - year - old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.»

Meanwhile, she was becoming less patient with those old problems.

Doctors do not complain that patients come back with the «same old diseases» week on week, year on year.

This should be done in multiple different ways since a patient's chronologic age many times does not correlate with their physiologic age (i.e. some 13 year old boys have reached their maximum height by age 12 whereas others keep growing until age 17).

«As I get older, I'm more patient with the kids and less patient with other things,» he says.