Sentences with phrase «risk patients in this study»

High risk patients in this study were those with previously diagnosed heart disease or diabetes.

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FITBIT DATA AIDS RESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioral MedicinIN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicinin the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

REDUCE - IT is the first multinational cardiovascular outcomes study evaluating the effect of prescription pure EPA therapy, or any triglyceride - lowering therapy, as an add - on to statins in patients with high cardiovascular risk who, despite stable statin therapy, have elevated triglyceride levels (150 - 499 mg / dL).

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Unfortunately, multiple studies have shown that delaying ACL surgery in these young patients can lead to an increased risk of meniscus tears and articular cartilage damage since even day to day activity without an ACL can subject the knee to repeated instability and damage.

If properly trained midwives exclude higher risk patients in advance, then why is their death rate acceptable only in a study that has much stricter criteria for inclusion than real life?

«While the small - scale study suggests that beta - blockers may reduce the risk of breast cancer returning, more research is needed in this area to determine the effectiveness and safety of the treatment before it can be routinely offered to breast cancer patients.

A new study shows that the drug fenofibrate might reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes who have high levels of triglycerides and low levels of «good» cholesterol, despite being treated with statins.

Metformin, a commonly used drug for treating type 2 diabetes, is linked to an increased risk of low thyroid - stimulating hormone (TSH) levels in patients with underactive thyroids (hypothyroidism), according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

A new study published by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests that the drug oseltamivir — commonly known as Tamiflu — does not cause an increased risk of suicide in pediatric patients.

«In the meantime, this study does a good job of alerting clinicians to the growing interest in CAM alternatives and of the critical role of health providers in helping educate patients on the potential risks and benefits of all options.&raquIn the meantime, this study does a good job of alerting clinicians to the growing interest in CAM alternatives and of the critical role of health providers in helping educate patients on the potential risks and benefits of all options.&raquin CAM alternatives and of the critical role of health providers in helping educate patients on the potential risks and benefits of all options.&raquin helping educate patients on the potential risks and benefits of all options.»

The authors write that their study «provides reassurance that the individual risk of long - term opioid use in opioid - naive surgical patients is low.

In a study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing), a new, simplified Braden QD Scale now describes combined immobility - related and MDPI risk in a broader, more diverse sample of pediatric patients typically cared for in acute care environmentIn a study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing), a new, simplified Braden QD Scale now describes combined immobility - related and MDPI risk in a broader, more diverse sample of pediatric patients typically cared for in acute care environmentin a broader, more diverse sample of pediatric patients typically cared for in acute care environmentin acute care environments.

In the new study, patients receiving angioplasty with the new stents had a 47 percent higher risk of one of the outcomes identified as a primary endpoint in the study: death, heart attack and subsequent procedure to clear blocked arteries, as compared to patients who received bypasIn the new study, patients receiving angioplasty with the new stents had a 47 percent higher risk of one of the outcomes identified as a primary endpoint in the study: death, heart attack and subsequent procedure to clear blocked arteries, as compared to patients who received bypasin the study: death, heart attack and subsequent procedure to clear blocked arteries, as compared to patients who received bypass.

«This study shows that a high - risk score for obstructive sleep apnea is common in non-dialysis CKD patients with diabetic nephropathy and is associated with more rapid loss of renal function,» the investigators concluded.

One of the studies, published in 2008, suggested that patients whose antiretroviral treatment was deferred until their CD4 cell counts were below 250 were at greater risk of opportunistic infection than those that received antiretroviral treatment when CD4 cell counts were higher than 350.

«The type of inflammation seen in psoriasis is known to promote insulin resistance, and psoriasis and diabetes share similar genetic mutations suggesting a biological basis for the connection between the two conditions we found in our study,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn. «We know psoriasis is linked to higher rates of diabetes, but this is the first study to specifically examine how the severity of the disease affects a patient's risk.»

For patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement, smoking is associated with an increased risk of infectious (septic) complications requiring repeat surgery, reports a study in the February 15 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

«Our study demonstrates that there is a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer in patients with acute pancreatitis than commonly believed,» Agarwal said.

«We found that nearly one in four patients with small tumours are at risk of distant metastases and do benefit from chemotherapy,» said Dr Fatima Cardoso, senior author of the study, Co-Principal Investigator of MINDACT and Director of the Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal.

The authors are especially concerned about the risks of posting data from small studies or series of patients from a few hospitals — a type of data commonly used for research in anesthesiology and surgery.

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue of JAMA.

«Our study suggests that in patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation is an effective alternative treatment that can help patients avoid or discontinue this drug to reduce the risk of these long - term side effects.»

Still, the authors conclude that the number and uniformity of the patient population in this study make it possible to comment on the risk of undiagnosed cancer in apparently noncancerous colorectal polyps and the consequences of not making that diagnosis preoperatively.

In addition to this limitation, the study involved patients at a single hospital and could not control for all possible influences on heart attack risk since data relied on medical records of past heart attacks.

The study published in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin reports preliminary results showing that a blood test, when used in psychiatric patients experiencing symptoms that are considered to be indicators of a high risk for psychosis, identifies those who later went on to develop psychosis.

In order to assess whether an improved diet could reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in African - American women, Qin analyzed the diets of 415 women with ovarian cancer and 629 control patients, using data from the African - American Cancer Epidemiology Study, a population - based case - control study of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United StateIn order to assess whether an improved diet could reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in African - American women, Qin analyzed the diets of 415 women with ovarian cancer and 629 control patients, using data from the African - American Cancer Epidemiology Study, a population - based case - control study of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United Statein African - American women, Qin analyzed the diets of 415 women with ovarian cancer and 629 control patients, using data from the African - American Cancer Epidemiology Study, a population - based case - control study of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United StStudy, a population - based case - control study of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United Ststudy of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United Statein African - American women in 11 sites in the United Statein 11 sites in the United Statein the United States.

For the study, researchers measured the level of calcium in the coronary arteries during stress testing using two common diagnostic tests — positron emission tomography, or PET, and computed tomography, or CT — to determine a patient's risk of heart disease.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

In fact, the study finds, over 5,700 additional patients ended up having such procedures — called coronary angiography — during the shortage, exposed them to more risk and radiation.

However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.

The National Cancer Institute - funded study, involving 2000 people, was testing whether Celebrex could prevent colon polyps, a precursor of colon cancer, in at - risk patients.

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

To ensure that patients can receive all recommended care, we need to recognize the financial burden of cancer and identify patients at risk for financial concerns,» says lead study author Christine M. Veenstra, M.D., M.S.H.P., clinical lecturer in hematology / oncology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

But if future studies find that by increasing compliance patients with the chip also decrease their risk of breaking a bone, then it could also help decrease medical care costs in the long run.

Nonetheless, the overall success rate in the high - risk population is over 88 percent, which the study authors consider high, although complications such as implant explantation and flap problems occur more frequently in the high - risk group than in lower - risk patients.

«Over the course of time in this study, implants in high - risk patients increased approximately 14 percent, and the use of one's own abdominal tissue increased 10 percent.»

Instead of gathering and testing patients in person, as in traditional studies, 23andMe researchers turned to online Parkinson's support groups to subscribe 3,426 patients, free of charge, to their service, which uses a mailed - in spit sample to identify genetic traits and disease risk factors.

This large study contributes to the understanding of longer - term stroke risks in cardiac surgery patients.

«Our study is the first to investigate the association between psychosocial comorbidities and elevated risk of atherosclerosis in RA patients.»

According to the study results higher anxiety and anger scores, depression and caregiver stress were associated with increased risk of CAC greater than 100 units (moderate to severe disease) in patients with RA.

Among patients with hypertension at high risk of cardiovascular disease, a program that consisted of patients measuring their blood pressure and adjusting their antihypertensive medication accordingly resulted in lower systolic blood pressure at 12 months compared to patients who received usual care, according to a study in the August 27 issue of JAMA.

Supplementing diets for three months with daily two - gram doses of fish oil, a source of omega 3 fatty acids, was shown in a forthcoming study by University of Melbourne researcher Paul Amminger to reduce conversion to psychosis among 81 high - risk patients.

But patients with the antibodies in their blood are at high risk of dying while waiting for a perfect match, said Brian Feingold, M.D., M.S., study lead author and medical director of Pediatric Heart and Heart - Lung Transplantation at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and associate professor of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania.

One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.

In this study, published in the October 31 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sudhir Yadav PhD, a neuroimmunology post-doctoral fellow in the laboratories of Drs. Kouichi Ito, associate professor of neurology, and Suhayl Dhib - Jalbut, professor and chair of neurology, tested mice that were engineered to have a pre-disposition for MS. Because mice would not normally develop MS, researchers used MS - associated risk genes from real patients to genetically engineer mice for this studIn this study, published in the October 31 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sudhir Yadav PhD, a neuroimmunology post-doctoral fellow in the laboratories of Drs. Kouichi Ito, associate professor of neurology, and Suhayl Dhib - Jalbut, professor and chair of neurology, tested mice that were engineered to have a pre-disposition for MS. Because mice would not normally develop MS, researchers used MS - associated risk genes from real patients to genetically engineer mice for this studin the October 31 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sudhir Yadav PhD, a neuroimmunology post-doctoral fellow in the laboratories of Drs. Kouichi Ito, associate professor of neurology, and Suhayl Dhib - Jalbut, professor and chair of neurology, tested mice that were engineered to have a pre-disposition for MS. Because mice would not normally develop MS, researchers used MS - associated risk genes from real patients to genetically engineer mice for this studin the laboratories of Drs. Kouichi Ito, associate professor of neurology, and Suhayl Dhib - Jalbut, professor and chair of neurology, tested mice that were engineered to have a pre-disposition for MS. Because mice would not normally develop MS, researchers used MS - associated risk genes from real patients to genetically engineer mice for this study.

A large study of 108,711 patients who had cardiac surgery in Ontario, Canada, sought to identify risk factors for long - term stroke after surgery to improve outcomes for patients.

The average 90 - day spending on patients in the study is almost $ 27,500; for every additional increase in spending of roughly $ 8,500, the researchers found a reduction in mortality risk of about 2 percentage points.

Patients with multiple health issues and who are at higher risk of adverse events are less likely to receive follow - up care from a physician after visiting an emergency department for chest pain, reports a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

Two classes of blood pressure medications, angiotensin - converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), are associated with a 16 % lower risk of strokes, heart attacks and death in patients with end - stage renal disease who are undergoing peritoneal dialysis, a new study in the journal, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, reports.