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Showing 1 to 20 of 139 for “"co-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
… 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 chronic disease to testosterone level. METHODS: A total of 4,284 aged ≥ 40 year old men were included between …
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Long term outcomes of methadone substitution therapy (OST-M) for opiate dependency: the effect of patient characteristics and co-morbidities
… 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 methadone (OST-M) is …
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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
Most people with dementia live in the community with a family member, commonly a spouse. Together they engage in identity redefinition to maintain continuity. Many people living with dementia also have co-morbidities. The aim of this study was to provide a better understanding of the influence of …
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Barriers to physical health care in persons with severe mental illness: a facility based mixed method study in Ethiopia
… severe mental illnesses (SMI) face barriers that contribute to poor physical health outcomes. However, these barriers have not been systematically investigated in Ethiopia. Aim: The aim of this study was to examine barriers to care for physical co-morbidities among SMI patients. It achieves this …
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Self-Assessment of Medical-Surgical Nurses’ Behavioral Healthcare Competency
… individuals 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 …
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Examining the Hispanic Paradox in Post-Operative Complication Rates
… exist in both healthcare access and outcomes. Despite high poverty rates, less education, and worse access to healthcare, the Hispanic population as a whole experiences equal, if not better outcomes compared to their non- Hispanic White counterparts. We sought to determine if race was …
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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 …
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Etiological Characterization of Emergency Department Acute Poisoning
… associated 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
… lower blood pressure, and anti-platelets or anticoagulants to reduce the risk of clotting, yet many patients do not take them. In this thesis, I investigated which stroke and TIA survivors are missing out on stroke prevention medications. First, a systematic review and meta-ethnography combining …
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Flow characteristics and wall shear stresses in bifurcated peripheral arteries
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is further complicated by co-morbidities like diabetes, hypertension and anemia. Previous studies on coronary and carotid arteries indicate that bifurcation at the arteries has an effect in the blood flow. When plaque develops at the bifurcation, it affects the …
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Coagulation in the HIV-positive pregnant patient: A thromboelastographic study
… thrombocytopaenia. Pregnancy induces a hypercoagulable state. There are limited data on the coagulation status of women with term pregnancy and HIV receiving anti-retroviral medication. Regional anaesthesia is the technique of choice for caesarean section, and is contraindicated in a …
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A retrospective investigation of sudden unexpected death in the young investigated at Salt River Mortuary, Cape Town
… 833 (7.2 %) were SUDY cases, wherein males comprised the majority (64.3 %). Individuals were a median age of 31 ± 10.3 years at death, and the main location of death was ‘residential' (43.5 %). There were also significantly more males than females in the age category of 31 - 40 years who …
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The effectiveness and acceptability of a computerised cognitive behavioural therapy programme and the psychometric properties of its service user generated outcome measure
… the supply of psychological treatments for common mental health problems. This is mainly due to the lack of trained therapists in the UK. Effective and less herapist-intensive interventions are required. The efficacy of computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT) has been demonstrated …
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The Relationship Between Gastrointestinal Disease and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in United States Military Veterans
… and PTSD were hypothesized to be positively correlated in Veterans. The specific aims of the study were to determine the frequency with which: 1) GI Disease and PTSD are diagnosed co-morbidities; 2) a diagnosis of GI Disease accompanies a diagnosis of PTSD; and, 3) a diagnosis of PTSD …
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A profile of a paediatric population with feeding and swallowing difficulties at a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape
… and child mortality in South Africa. Preventable conditions such as lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) and under-nutrition may be caused by FSD. FSD are frequently reported in paediatric populations and may occur with various medical co-morbidities. The nature of FSD is however under …
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Correlation between phenotypes or genotypes of Clostridium difficile and clinical outcome from Clostridium difficile infections at Health Sciences North
… producing bacillus is the leading cause of nosocomial diarrhea in health-care facilities. Its effect on patients can be detrimental to their recovery, sometimes leading to death; the catalyst to Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is treatment by antibiotics. Focusing research on some of C. …
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Integration of Homeostatic and Hedonic Brain Centers in the Regulation of Feeding Behaviors
… in daily function, and life-threatening co-morbidities. Both diseases are driven by maladaptive feeding behaviors, namely pathological overconsumption of high-fat food. Pathological overconsumption of high-fat food is potentiated by aberrant homeostatic feeding behavior (i.e. titration of …
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Vascular and Neuro-Inflammatory Modulation Following Resistance Training in Young African American and White Men
… higher incidence of hypertension and associated co-morbidities. Altered vascular and autonomic function has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases in this population. We sought to examine the effect of resistance exercise training on vascular and autonomic function in …
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