Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare | Volume 4 - Dove Press
Age and gender as predictors of allied health quality stroke care Luker JA, Bernhardt J, Grimmer-Somers KA ... Demographic and stroke-related factors as predictors of quality of acute stroke care provided by allied health professionals ...
An open-label, one-year, noncomparative study to evaluate the safety a | OPTH
Increased expression of angiogenic growth factors in age-related maculopathy. Br J Ophthalmol. 1997;81(2):154-162. ... Vascular endothelial growth factor in ocular fluid of patients with diabetic retinopathy and other retinal disorders. N Engl J ... Prevalence and risk factors for diabetic retinopathy: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. Ophthalmology. 2008;115(11):1869-1875. ... Funatsu H, Yamashita H, Noma H, Mimura T, Yamashita T, Hori S. Increased levels of vascular endothelial growth factor and ...
Patient Preference and Adherence | Volume 14 - Dove Press Open Access Publisher
Patient Preferences for Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Treatment for Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Japan: A ... Risk Factors and the Usual Source of Care on Non-Adherence to Antihypertensive Drugs in Immigrants with Hypertension Cho H, ... Factors Associated with Compliance with the Treatment Protocol and Mortality in Adults with Hemophilia Soares BMD, Simeoni LA, ... Factor Analysis and Psychometric Properties Adaption of Chinese Version of the Decisional Engagement Scale (DES-10) Wang F, ...
Role of apolipoprotein E in neurodegenerative diseases | NDT
Moreover, overall two-thirds of strokes occurred in individuals older than 65 years of age.125 IS shares several risk factors ... several studies focused on ε4 as a risk factor for age of onset and decrease in cognitive impairment associated with dementia ... a factor associated with IS.131 IS is a result of complex interactions between environmental and genetic factors. The influence ... However, ε2 was considered as a weak or inconsistent risk factor for PD.29,89-91 One meta-analysis indicated that the ε2 allele ...
Detection of colorectal cancer in symptomatic outpatients without visi | CLEP
Median patient age was 63 years. The positive predictive value, negative predictive value, sensitivity, and specificity of ... Symptomatic outpatients without known established colorectal cancer risk factors and without visible rectal bleeding.Methods: ... as the initial examination in symptomatic outpatients without known established colorectal cancer risk factors presenting ... a new diagnostic strategy in symptomatic outpatients without known established colorectal cancer risk factors aged 40 years or ...
Epidemiology and disease burden of Buruli ulcer: a review | RRTM
55 years of age than in those below 55 years of age.56 The high average age of BU patients from Victoria57 may at least be ... Risk factors connected with behavior. Various behavioral factors that may lead to an increased or decreased probability of ... In one of the few case-control studies that did not match participants by age, an increased risk of BU in children aged below ... Among children below 5 years of age, the lesions were distributed over all parts of the body, while with increasing age, ...
MTB and rifampicin resistance MTB using Xpert-MTB/RIF | IDR
In this study, participants of age groups between 15 and 29 years were more infected by MTB compared to other age groups (AOR ... Associated Risk Factors of RR-MTB. Among the total MTB confirmed patients, 107 (5.11%) of them were positive for RR-MTB. In ... age groups of ,75 years were less infected by RR-MTB compared to the other age groups. But, other studies24,54 reported less ... The age of the study participants ranged from 1 year to 95 years with a median age of 37 (interquartile range: 24.7-49.3 years ...
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy | Volume 7 - Dove Press
Incidence of and factors associated with perioperative cardiac arrest within 24 hours of anesthesia for emergency surgery ... Pyrethroid insecticide exposure in school-aged children living in rice and aquacultural farming regions of Thailand ... Prognostic factors for death and survival with or without complications in cardiac arrest patients receiving CPR within 24 ... The initial success rate of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors in patients with cardiac arrest within 24 ...
Acanthamoeba Keratitis in Egypt - OPTH | OPTH
The mean age of the participants was 31.6 ± 11.7 years (range from 18 to 65 years). Among the 42 cases included in the study, ... Corneal injury by organic material is the major risk factor for AK in rural areas.9-11 AK has also been reported after invasive ... Risk factors such as contact lens wear, corneal trauma especially by organic material, and/or previous ocular surgeries were ... Such a wide variety is attributed to the age and general condition of the patient, severity of infection, STD, and the ...
More Than Just "Stressful"? Testing the Mediating Role of | PRBM
... linked to the typical psychophysiological impairments of aging - its positive effect tends to decrease by the age of 55-60 ... it seemed more parsimonious to follow the JDC perspective for operationalizing driving-related factors, since the factor ... The mean age of the sample was M= 47 (SD= 8.2) years, being 24 years the minimum and 69 the maximum. ... 55. Duke J, Guest M, Boggess M. Age-related safety in professional heavy vehicle drivers: a literature review. Accid Anal Prev ...
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Dose Optimization and Its Asso | VHRM
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Dose Optimization and Its Associated Factors at Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized ... Factors Associated with Dose Optimization of ACEIs. In bivariate logistic regression analysis, it was shown that age, the total ... age ≥65) were more likely to receive a suboptimal dose of ACEIs compared to those of younger ages (age , 65) in this study. ... Those participants aged ≥65 years old AOR (5.01 95%, CI (2.89-10.95)) was more than five times sub-optimized than those aged , ...
New-Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus secondary to COVID19 | NDT
... many factors like age, medication, and in-hospital stay influence mortality.14,15 CAT scanning had no significant findings seen ... 10 Mean age in all patients was 61.6 (± 19.0) years, where the youngest age was 23, and the oldest was 81. Several articles ... The mean age of the study population was 61.6 ± 19.0-year olds, ranging from 23 to 81-year old. Comorbidity was reported in 7 ... Differences in the ages of discharged and deceased patients were accessed for any significant relationship using the Mann- ...
Development and evaluation of the Measure of Drug Self-Management | PPA
Factor analysis was used to inform item selection. Reliability was assessed via calculations of internal consistency. To assess ... Examination of the scree plot of eigenvalues and factor loadings for this 12-item solution indicated that one factor was ... The mean age of this sample was 61.1 (28-94) years. The majority were female (60.1%) and approximately half were African ... with high factor loadings for each potential component, and general interpretability of the factors. Subsequently, items were ...
Journal of Inflammation Research | Volume 1 - Dove Press Open Access Publisher
Progress and perspectives on the role of RPE cell inflammatory responses in the development of age-related macular degeneration ... Neuroinflammation and tumor necrosis factor signaling in the pathophysiology of Alzheimers disease Fiona E McAlpine, Malú G ...
DEX Implant for Macular Edema and Uveitis | OPTH
Across all age groups, the most common location of the uveitis was anterior. For the oldest patients (age 65 years and older), ... Risk factors for hemiretinal vein occlusion: comparison with risk factors for central and branch retinal vein occlusion: the ... Ozurdex in age-related macular degeneration as adjunct to ranibizumab (the OARA study). Can J Ophthalmol. 2016;51(4):302-305. ... Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration. A single injection of DEX implant as an adjunct to monthly ranibizumab was ...
Augmentation therapy in patients with AATD | COPD
For Pi*SZ individuals, the factors significantly associated with the decision to treat were younger age, more severely impaired ... For Pi*SZ patients only age, FEV1 (%) and emphysema on CT scan were significant, and finally for Pi*MZ age, DLCO (%), DLCO (%) ... for Pi*SZ variables were younger age, worse FEV1 (%) and worse emphysema (AUC = 0.7414); and for Pi*MZ younger age, worse DLCO ... The final version of the survey consisted of 11 items comprising age, AAT serum level, AAT genotype (PiZZ, PiMZ and PiSZ), ...
Steroids as an adjunct for reducing the incidence of proliferative vit | DDDT
The mean age of the participants was 52.3 years. All three studies included at least 6 months of follow-up. The outcomes were ... Interleukin and growth factor levels in subretinal fluid in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment: a case-control study. PLoS One. ... Second, many factors, such as surgeon skills, PVR levels, surgical methods, approach, or steroid doses used, could have ... A randomized clinical trial of a single dose of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide for neovascular age-related macular ...
Personalized therapeutics for levofloxacin: a focus on pharmacokinetic | TCRM
We included studies describing dosage adjustment and factors determining LVX pharmacokinetics, or pharmacokinetic– ... and cultural factors. Levofloxacin (LVX) is a broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone antibiotic. Awareness of personalized therapeutics ... Absence of age and gender effects on the pharmacokinetics of a single 500-milligram oral dose of levofloxacin in healthy ... It is worth noting that Bailey et al have demonstrated male sex to be a significant risk factor for resistance to LVX (P,0.05). ...
A Contrast Examination of Proinflammatory Effects on Kidney Function f | IJN
For patients, many factors were able to cause kidney damage, regardless the disease itself, ages, hypertension, diabetes, and ... Biochemical and Inflammation Factors Measurement. The renal function related biochemical parameters and inflammation factors ... Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) staining were also performed by ... The inflammation factors are commonly used to indicate the occurrence of acute inflammation. Here we examined IL-1β, IL-6, IL- ...
Understanding benefits and addressing misperceptions and barriers to i | PPA
This efficacy is not affected by age or parity. The safety of IUDs is well studied, and the risks of pelvic inflammatory ... The majority of PID infections occur in women under age 25, and women aged 15-24 comprise half of the 18.9 million new cases of ... Risk factors for unintended versus intended rapid repeat pregnancies among adolescents. J Adolesc Health. 2006;39(4):597.e1-597 ... Use of IUDs has increased among sexually experienced adolescents (age 15-19 years) and young women (age 20-24 years) from 2002 ...
Characterization of symptoms and edema distribution in premenstrual sy | IJWH
Sixty women with a mean age of 24.6±4.7 years were evaluated during their premenstrual (between days 21 and 28) and ... 9 Some factors may influence PMS, such as age, menstrual cycle characteristics, socioeconomic and educational levels, use of ... The population studied included 60 women of a gynecoid biotype, ie, with body-fat distribution in lower body,22 with a mean age ... In addition, other factors can influence PMS, such as physical activity, smoking, and alcohol and oral contraceptive use, which ...
Acute myeloid leukemia treatment | OTT
... or not a candidate for standard chemotherapy because of age, comorbidity, or other factors.50 Fifty-one patients received ... Median age was 47.9 years, 22.6% had a FLT3-TKD mutation, 77.4% a FLT3-ITD; 47.6% had a low FLT3-ITD allelic ratio (0.05-0.7) ... platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) receptor, and fibroblast growth factor receptor-1 (FGFR1).28 ... Median ages were 69 years and 51 years in the two cohorts. Seventy-one percent and 77% of the patients had FLT3-ITD in the two ...
A new coronary artery disease grading system correlates with numerous | VHRM
... mean age: 67.84±7.70 years) were recruited and underwent angiography, which determined stenosis grade, of 17 coronary ... Methods: In total, 189 male (mean age: 61.86±10.77 years) and 75 female CAD patients ( ... A limiting factor was that some routine laboratory parameters such as CRP and glucose are influenced by numerous factors and ... Methods: In total, 189 male (mean age: 61.86±10.77 years) and 75 female CAD patients (mean age: 67.84±7.70 years) were ...
Adipokines and Arterial Stiffness in the Elderly | VHRM
Age, MAP, triglycerides and the category with high leptin and low adiponectin resulted to be significant predictors of cfPWV ... In this way, a negative adipokine profile could be considered as a predisposing factor for arterial stiffness and consequently ... Eighty-five Caucasian subjects (50 women, 35 men) with mean age 69.54 ± 4.15 years and mean BMI 26.29 ± 3.84 kg/m2 took part in ... Previously, Windham et al, in 749 individual ages 26-96 years with mean BMI 26.6 kg/m2, showed that high leptin and low ...
Central corneal thickness and intraocular pressure in the Cameroonian | OPTH
On the basis of reference values ranging between 527 and 560 µm, an adjustment of IOP values by a correction factor is ... Linear regression analysis showed that corneal thickness was negatively correlated with age and IOP was positively related with ... age.Conclusion: CCT in the Cameroonian nonglaucomatous black population was found to be lower compared with CCT values in ... On the basis of reference values ranging between 527 and 560 µm, an adjustment of IOP values by a correction factor is required ...
Comparative Effects of Repetitive Odor Identification | NDT
... age of participants in their study is 73 (5) years, compared to 66 (5) years in our study. Other contributing factors could be ... showed significant age-dependency during middle age and early part of aging, while the primary olfactory cortices - essential ... did not show significant age-dependency in these age groups.32 This is further supported by evidence of selective atrophy of ... Early aging effect on the function of the human central olfactory system. J Gerontol a Biol Sci Med Sci. 2016;glw104. doi: ...
Predictors of duloxetine adherence and persistence in patients with fi | JPR
Factors associated with high adherence from MLR included older age, North Central and Northeast regions, prior venlafaxine, ... aged $46, or prior osteoarthritis had higher MPR (all P , 0.05), and patients aged $45 with a history of SSRI, venlafaxine, or ... retrospective study analyzed medical and pharmacy records over 1 year for patients in the US aged 18-64 years with FM who ... Factors associated with high adherence from MLR included older age, North Central and Northeast regions, prior venlafaxine, ...
Improving aqueous solubility and antitumor effects by nanosized gambog | IJN
... containing vascular endothelial growth factor and other growth factors. HUVECs at passages 2-4 were used for all experiments. ... Balb/c and C57BL/6J mice (age 6-8 weeks, weight 18-22 g) were used for the in vivo antitumor tests and toxicity studies. The ... detected using a microplate reader and the IC50 values for each compound were calculated from absorbance versus dilution factor ...
Exercise following spinal cord injury: physiology to therapy | JN
... which is generally associated with aging.28 While factors such as sex, race, diet, and physical activity impact BMD, muscle ... The effects of aging and electrical stimulation exercise on bone after spinal cord injury. Aging Dis. 2013;4(3):141-153. ... Prevalence of obesity within the SCI population is estimated to be as high as 66%.22-25 Obesity is a well-known risk factor for ... One key factor is that as many as four technicians or therapists must coordinate their activities with each other and the ...
Antibiotic prescription rationality | JMDH
Dosing of medicines with the IMCI strategy is also based on either a childs age or body weight.32 In addition, we also ... What are the factors driving antimicrobial resistance? Perspectives from a public event in London, England. BMC Infect Dis. ... For paediatric patients, estimates for dosing based on a childs age as guided by the UCG (where body weight measurements were ... The prescription features (such as; patients age, address, name, legibly written, date, etc.) as recommended in the UCG were ...