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Showing 1 to 20 of 221 for “"Morbidities"”.
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Obesity: etiology and co-morbidities
obesity is excess of body fat with a BMI greater than 30kilograms per meter square. it is due to multiple factors including unhealthy diet, reduced physical activity genetics, family history and so on. it is associated with many adverse health effects like diabetes type 2, cardiovascular diseases …
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Cardiac Co-morbidities in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
BACKGROUND: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a frequent co-morbidity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in COPD. Therefore, this study was performed to identify the prognostic factors associated with the CAD in COPD and …
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Testosterone might be influenced by co-morbidities, not by aging
BACKGROUND: Total testosterone in men decreasing with age is well-established. However, observations on aging-related decrease in total testosterone (TT) are not consistent. The aim of this study is to seek the relationship between testosterone and health status and investigate the influence of the …
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Chronic morbidities in perinatally HIV-acquired adolescents on antiretroviral therapy
… accompanied by the development of chronic comorbidities. However, there is limited knowledge on the spectrum of comorbidities, determinants, and risk factors among youth living with perinatally acquired HIV (YLPHIV) especially in sub-Saharan Africa, with most data from high-income countries. …
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Training lay people as first responders to reduce road traffic mortalities and morbidities in Ethiopia: Challenges, barriers and feasible solutions.
Road traffic accidents (RTAs) have become global public safety and development hindrances, especially in the low and middle income countries, where the rate is significantly higher compared to the industrialized nations. The WHO warns, unless action is taken to improve road safety systems, the …
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Long term outcomes of methadone substitution therapy (OST-M) for opiate dependency: the effect of patient characteristics and co-morbidities
Aims and objectives<br/>Substance misuse is a chronic relapsing condition associated with high morbidity and mortality. Treatment attempts to reduce harms associated with drug use and to promote recovery and has developed considerably in the last 30 years. Opioid substitution therapy using …
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A prospective cohort study on ambient air pollution, airborne pollen (and fungal spores) and respiratory morbidities including childhood asthma in adolescents from the Western Cape Province
Background: The epidemiological studies investigating environmental risk factors associated with asthma among children living in informal settlements are scant as are studies on the independent and co-pollutant effect of short- and long-term exposures to ambient air pollutants as well as fungal …
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'We’re All Getting Older You See, and Things Do Change, Don’t They?’ An Ethnographic Study of Disruption and Continuity in the Daily Lives of Couples Living with Dementia and Co-morbidities
… Many people living with dementia also have co-morbidities. The aim of this study was to provide a better understanding of the influence of co-morbidities on the lived experience of couples and to provide knowledge to improve services. This had not been researched before. Drawing on the …
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A descriptive correlational survey of the infant feeding and the occurrence of diarrhoea and/or respiratory morbidities within the first fourteen weeks in the Amathole District of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
The study proposed to conduct a descriptive study related to the correlation of infant feeding (EFF or EBF) and occurrence of morbidity diarrhoea and/or respiratory infections, in infants by 14 weeks of age. The study adopted a quantitative epistemological approach in seeking to describe the …
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Risks and outcomes for enteral nutrition among adults with dysphagia at a tertiary level hospital in South Africa
… medical conditions and the presence of comorbidities place patients, who require enteral nutrition, at risk for mortality. High rates of mortality are reported in international literature, in patients following the placement of long term enteral nutrition via percutaneous endoscopic …
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Dietary Intake among Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
… (ALL) are at elevated risk for nutrition-related morbidities both during and after therapy. The degree to which dietary intake fluctuates during cancer therapy and possibly contributes to the development of nutrition-related morbidities is unknown. This study presents the results of the first …
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Barriers to physical health care in persons with severe mental illness: a facility based mixed method study in Ethiopia
… was to examine barriers to care for physical co-morbidities among SMI patients. It achieves this by: i) estimating the prevalence of physical co-morbidities in SMI in-patients in a psychiatric referral hospital over a two month period; ii) describing potential associations of various …
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Self-Assessment of Medical-Surgical Nurses’ Behavioral Healthcare Competency
… suffer from a high rate of medical co-morbidities. Because of this, patients hospitalized on medical-surgical units for medical reasons often are living with psychiatric/substance abuse co-morbidities, which are not addressed during their medical hospital admission. These patients can …
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Examining the Hispanic Paradox in Post-Operative Complication Rates
… were reviewed for patient demographics, co-morbidities, operative variables, and the occurrence of selected post-operative complications. Variables found to be significantly associated with the development of a POC on univariate analysis were entered into a multivariate logistic regression …
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Short-term mortality and morbidity of very-low birth weight infants over 9 years at Groote Schuur Hospital
… there are little up to date data on short term morbidities for VLBW infants in low and middle-income countries. Objectives: The primary objective was to describe the neonatal mortality rate in infants 401g-1500g admitted to Groote Schuur neonatal nursery over 9 years and within weight …
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Short-term mortality and morbidity of very-low birth weight infants over 9 years at Groote Schuur Hospital
… there are little up to date data on short term morbidities for VLBW infants in low and middle-income countries. Objectives: The primary objective was to describe the neonatal mortality rate in infants 401g-1500g admitted to Groote Schuur neonatal nursery over 9 years and within weight …
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Efficacy of beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) supplementation in hemodialysis patients
… (MHD) therapy suffer from a number of co-morbidities including skeletal muscle loss, reduced physical function, a significantly increased fall risk, and reduced quality of life (QOL). Therefore, interventions to combat these co-morbidities are needed. Beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) …
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Etiological Characterization of Emergency Department Acute Poisoning
… with psychological and physiological co-morbidities that can be assessed in order to improve patients' management and reduce cost. The primary objective of this study is to conduct a review of emergency department (ED) poisonings to characterize its demographics and assess associated …
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Factors associated with variation in secondary prevention medication use after stroke
… evidence linked three cardiovascular co-morbidities (dyslipidaemia, hypertension and diabetes), alongside male sex, higher income, pre-stroke use of medications, stroke unit care and living with others with medication-taking. Anxiety and disability were linked with lower levels of …
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Association Of Kidney Stones With Chronic Disease Among Adults In The United States: Considerations By Race-Ethnicity
… this study was to compare the prevalence of co-morbidities and to investigate whether there was a statistically significant association between kidney stone formers and increased odds of cardiovascular disease and stroke in race-ethnicity groups. Methods: data from the 2007-2012 cycles of the …
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