Sentences with phrase «white patients with»

Are depressive symptoms more common among British South Asian patients compared with British White patients with cancer?

White patients with CTD had a much smaller increase.

The researchers analyzed data on more than 69,000 black and white patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) treated at 253 hospitals in three states during 2006 - 07.

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In a mid-stage trial, 16 of 37 lung cancer patients given a placebo ahead of standard chemo wound up hospitalized with severely low white blood cell counts.

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.

The Journal News spoke with the first medical marijuana patients in White Plains as the new program gets off the ground this month.

In particular, the study, published Jan. 6 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, revealed differences in the white matter of patients» brains and in the cerebellum, an area of the brain not previously linked with the disorder.

Almost all of the patients with melanoma were white and they were more likely to be taking the common immunosuppressants cyclosporine or sirolimus than those without melanoma.

Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.

The results of the empirical study show a clear distinction between the damage to the white blood cells from patients with cancer, with pre-cancerous conditions and from healthy patients.

Using data from the Pediatric Health Information System database, a large, regionally diverse system, the researchers examined racial disparities in the treatment and outcomes of hospitalized white and black pediatric patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease.

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.

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized in most patients by red, raised patches of skin, or plaques, covered with silvery - white scales.

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 disease once disproportionately affected white patients, and those with higher socioeconomic status.

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 MIT team estimated that if there were a way to detect when patients» white cell counts went below the threshold level, so they could be treated with prophylactic antibiotics and drugs that promote white blood cell growth, about half of the 110,000 infections that occur in chemotherapy patients in the United States every year could be prevented.

According to the nationally representative study, patients who will gain Medicaid under expansion programs supported by the ACA will be younger (average age of 36 versus 38), with a larger proportion being male (49 percent versus 33 percent) and white (60 percent versus 50 percent) compared to the current Medicaid population.

«In the U.S., one in six chemotherapy patients ends up hospitalized with one of these infections while their white cells are particularly low,» Castro - Gonzalez says.

The study involved 23 patients with relapsed or treatment - resistant HL, a cancer of white blood cells called lymphocytes.

Initially a test cohort of 10 patients with MS and 10 patients with non-MS white brain matter lesions were scanned.

Nonwhite patients reported more perceived barriers, such as transportation issues and more concern over side effects, compared with white patients, but their expectations concerning the therapies» benefits were similar.

To make the vaccine, cancer cells are harvested from a tumor after surgery and stripped of their proteins; then those proteins are cultured with dendritic cells, a subclass of white blood cells, drawn from the patient's blood.

«We've taken white cells from his body, put them in a culture with malignant cells, and they gobble them up,» says Michael O'Rourke, who is treating the patient.

He did, however, publish a paper last year documenting a study in which he infused three cancer patients with white blood cells from young donors who had been injected with G - CSF.

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.

«We found that Asian and black patients have a substantially higher risk of severe cutaneous adverse reactions to urate - lowering drugs than do white or Hispanic patients, which correlates with the frequency of the HLA - B * 5801 gene in their U.S. populations,» says Hyon K. Choi, MD, DrPH, of the MGH Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, senior author of the report that has been published online in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

Moreover, the research shows, trauma patients of all races are 40 percent less likely to die — regardless of the severity of their injuries — if they are treated at hospitals with lower - than - expected mortality rates, the vast majority of which serve predominantly white patients.

«All patients of all races do better at the trauma centers treating white majority populations, so this research tells us we need to direct attention to hospitals with higher mortality rates to help them improve their outcomes, or we won't ever be able to turn this around.»

Analyzing white blood cells from 934 patients and 1,698 healthy controls, they found BRCA1 methylation among 6.4 % of patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer, contrasting 4.2 % among controls.

White and colleagues will work with other collaborators at the Cancer Institute to develop early - phase patient clinical trials based on the findings from this study in the near future.

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).

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

Compared to controls, patients with depression had decreased fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of the structural integrity of white matter connections, around an area near the deep gray matter of the brain that is strongly associated with the brain's reward circuit.

The analysis of charges at more than 150 California hospitals looked at blood tests that are often required of patients, such as lipid panel, basic metabolic panel, and complete blood cell count with differential white cell count.

The primarily white female adolescent patients were fed three meals and three snacks each day and their vital signs were monitored closely, with their heart rates measured continuously and electrolytes checked twice a day.

Further searching turned up retroviral particles, which could kill white blood cells and which also reacted with antibodies from infected patients.

Women were more likely to wear sunscreen, as were white and Hispanic patients, which is consistent with other studies.

«The DTI findings pertaining to the most frequent headers in our study showed white - matter abnormalities similar to what we've seen in patients with concussion,» said Dr. Lipton.

Overall, inadequate medication adherence was seen in 60.2 percent of Spanish - speaking Latino patients with limited - English proficiency, 51.7 percent of English - speaking Latino patients and 37.5 percent of white patients, the results indicate.

Launched with a $ 215 million investment in the President's 2016 budget, the initiative aims to «give clinicians tools to better understand the complex mechanisms underlying a patient's health, disease, or condition, and to better predict which treatments will be most effective,» according to a statement issued by the White House.

In one study, Alicia Fernández, M.D., of San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco, and coauthors examined the association of patient race / ethnicity, preferred language and physician - patient language concordance with adherence to newly prescribed diabetes medications among Latino and white patients.

Elder «was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when he was eight years old, at a time when most cystic fibrosis patients were only expected to live to early adulthood,» according to a White House statement.

President Barack Obama this morning unveiled the Precision Medicine Initiative he'll include in his 2016 budget request to a White House East Room audience packed with federal science leaders, academic researchers, patient and research advocacy groups, congressional guests, and drug industry executives.

«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.

A 65 - year - old male patient with a history of chronic alcoholism complained of an odd, painless white growth over his tongue.

The article published by the Journal of Neurotrauma is titled «Measurement of Peripheral Vision Reaction Time Identifies White Matter Disruption in Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.»

President Barack Obama with liver cancer patient Elana Simon at precision medicine event at White House.

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.