Characteristics Predicting Foot Ulceration Outcomes in the Diabetic
... evaluated from information supplied by the patient with regard to exercise-induced calf, thigh and/or buttock pain. Measurement of Ankle Brachial Pressure Index [ABPI] was performed using a portable hand held Doppler and blood pressure cuffs. Apart from ABPI assessment quantitative pedal waveform an ...
... evaluated from information supplied by the patient with regard to exercise-induced calf, thigh and/or buttock pain. Measurement of Ankle Brachial Pressure Index [ABPI] was performed using a portable hand held Doppler and blood pressure cuffs. Apart from ABPI assessment quantitative pedal waveform an ...
An unusual case of primary bilateral renal lymphoma
... clinicians to adopt a practical approach and treat according to histological grade. As it has been established that most cases of PRL are high-grade lymphoma mainly of B-cell phenotype, they are treated by CHOP or other chemotherapy regimen with or without radiotherapy.[3,7] At present, the CHOP reg ...
... clinicians to adopt a practical approach and treat according to histological grade. As it has been established that most cases of PRL are high-grade lymphoma mainly of B-cell phenotype, they are treated by CHOP or other chemotherapy regimen with or without radiotherapy.[3,7] At present, the CHOP reg ...
Epidemiology and Management of Common Skin Diseases in
... in developing areas. Public health strategies adapted to this context should be defined and validated. Given the relative severity of pyoderma and scabies and the high demand of many populations for effective management, especially at primary healthcare level where those disorders are in general poo ...
... in developing areas. Public health strategies adapted to this context should be defined and validated. Given the relative severity of pyoderma and scabies and the high demand of many populations for effective management, especially at primary healthcare level where those disorders are in general poo ...
CTV-PTV: Theory vs. practice
... ¾ For brain tumors, different volumes with CECT, T1w with gadolinium, T2-w or FLAIR images ¾ Probability of tumor infiltration along white matter tracts is uncertain ¾ LGG do not have a dose response relationship between 45-64.8Gy ¾ So, does irradiating these volumes influence patterns of failure? ¾ ...
... ¾ For brain tumors, different volumes with CECT, T1w with gadolinium, T2-w or FLAIR images ¾ Probability of tumor infiltration along white matter tracts is uncertain ¾ LGG do not have a dose response relationship between 45-64.8Gy ¾ So, does irradiating these volumes influence patterns of failure? ¾ ...
POPULATON-BASED REGISTER OF STROKE: MANUAL OF
... 3.1 Surveillance tools and types of registers Surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of health information to health professionals and policy makers. Surveillance, defined as a continuous, and not episodic or intermittent activity, differs from ...
... 3.1 Surveillance tools and types of registers Surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of health information to health professionals and policy makers. Surveillance, defined as a continuous, and not episodic or intermittent activity, differs from ...
Training Manual on wildlife diseases and surveillance
... wide range of wild and domestic mammals as well as people. It is transmitted from wild mammals to domestic mammals and to people by blood-feeding insects of the subfamily Triatominae. From 8-11 million people in Latin America suffer from Chagas disease. – Rabies virus is transmitted to people from i ...
... wide range of wild and domestic mammals as well as people. It is transmitted from wild mammals to domestic mammals and to people by blood-feeding insects of the subfamily Triatominae. From 8-11 million people in Latin America suffer from Chagas disease. – Rabies virus is transmitted to people from i ...
Tackling Cardiovascular Diseases: Priorities for the Outcomes Strategy
... diseases over the last decade. But we cannot be complacent. Cardiovascular diseases are still the biggest killer in England, and can have a devastating effect on people’s lives. The fact that we are living longer, and that our lifestyle choices are putting us at greater risk of developing these dise ...
... diseases over the last decade. But we cannot be complacent. Cardiovascular diseases are still the biggest killer in England, and can have a devastating effect on people’s lives. The fact that we are living longer, and that our lifestyle choices are putting us at greater risk of developing these dise ...
Basic Biosafety Principles - Environmental Health & Safety
... may be connected to bacteria he researched that causes the plague. The university said Saturday that its researcher studied the genetics of harmful bacteria including Yersinia pestis, which causes the illness. He died Sept. 13. His name and age haven't been released The medical center says the bacte ...
... may be connected to bacteria he researched that causes the plague. The university said Saturday that its researcher studied the genetics of harmful bacteria including Yersinia pestis, which causes the illness. He died Sept. 13. His name and age haven't been released The medical center says the bacte ...
Equine Movement for Cerebral Palsy: Impact on Gait, Balance
... parameters immediately after a hippotherapy session. However they did not know the long term effects or the carryover. Both of these studies were looking at gait parameters but carried out their study in a very different manner and found different results on their participants. Therefore there is a ...
... parameters immediately after a hippotherapy session. However they did not know the long term effects or the carryover. Both of these studies were looking at gait parameters but carried out their study in a very different manner and found different results on their participants. Therefore there is a ...
9. Microvascular Complications and Foot Care
... factors that increase the risk of, or are associated with, retinopathy include chronic hyperglycemia (28), nephropathy (29), hypertension (30), and dyslipidemia (31). Intensive diabetes management with the goal of achieving near-normoglycemia has been shown in large prospective randomized studies to ...
... factors that increase the risk of, or are associated with, retinopathy include chronic hyperglycemia (28), nephropathy (29), hypertension (30), and dyslipidemia (31). Intensive diabetes management with the goal of achieving near-normoglycemia has been shown in large prospective randomized studies to ...
Stroke Secondary prevention
... diabetes control, and other lifestyle issues such as diet and exercise.4 Increased public awareness and education of healthcare providers about the preventable nature of stroke, as well as recognition of warning symptoms of the disease and the need for rapid response are essential for stroke care. S ...
... diabetes control, and other lifestyle issues such as diet and exercise.4 Increased public awareness and education of healthcare providers about the preventable nature of stroke, as well as recognition of warning symptoms of the disease and the need for rapid response are essential for stroke care. S ...
epidemiological research: terms and concepts
... familiarity with these two concepts and terms in medicine, including awareness of the confusion about them that now prevails even in eminent, “authoritative” dictionaries of medicine [10, 11]. Illness, I propose, should be understood to be any ill-health, and the term thus to be the English-language ...
... familiarity with these two concepts and terms in medicine, including awareness of the confusion about them that now prevails even in eminent, “authoritative” dictionaries of medicine [10, 11]. Illness, I propose, should be understood to be any ill-health, and the term thus to be the English-language ...
Cancer Survivorship - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
... Tends to affect younger individuals, both male and female. It is an autoimmune disorder, in which the immune system attacks hair follicles. The condition resolves without treatment within a year, but hair loss is sometimes permanent. Treatments may be steroid injections and cream (such as cl ...
... Tends to affect younger individuals, both male and female. It is an autoimmune disorder, in which the immune system attacks hair follicles. The condition resolves without treatment within a year, but hair loss is sometimes permanent. Treatments may be steroid injections and cream (such as cl ...
- American Journal of Medicine, The
... CKD progression requires blood pressure <140/90 mm Hg, use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers for patients with albuminuria and hypertension, hemoglobin A1c 7% for patients with diabetes, and correction of CKD-associated metabolic acidosis. To reduce patien ...
... CKD progression requires blood pressure <140/90 mm Hg, use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers for patients with albuminuria and hypertension, hemoglobin A1c 7% for patients with diabetes, and correction of CKD-associated metabolic acidosis. To reduce patien ...
A summary of the health harms of drugs Technical document
... Study selection proceeded in two phases. In the first stage, titles and abstracts were screened by the research team to identify potentially relevant references. Full text copies of references identified as potentially relevant in phase one were examined further by the lead researcher to determine w ...
... Study selection proceeded in two phases. In the first stage, titles and abstracts were screened by the research team to identify potentially relevant references. Full text copies of references identified as potentially relevant in phase one were examined further by the lead researcher to determine w ...
AnnuAl RepoRt - Centre for Eye Research Australia
... improved treatments for sightthreatening eye diseases; better eye health education; early diagnosis and prevention strategies; and novel interventions like gene therapy to eliminate eye diseases. Helping individual patients is enormously rewarding for clinicians but it is through research that we ca ...
... improved treatments for sightthreatening eye diseases; better eye health education; early diagnosis and prevention strategies; and novel interventions like gene therapy to eliminate eye diseases. Helping individual patients is enormously rewarding for clinicians but it is through research that we ca ...
Pediatric Nerve Conduction Studies and EMG
... and lactate dehydrogenase) before requesting or performing an EMG or muscle biopsy. It is important to remember that muscle enzymes may be artifactually elevated immediately after needle EMG is performed. A significant elevation of one or more enzymes (the elevated enzymes should include either crea ...
... and lactate dehydrogenase) before requesting or performing an EMG or muscle biopsy. It is important to remember that muscle enzymes may be artifactually elevated immediately after needle EMG is performed. A significant elevation of one or more enzymes (the elevated enzymes should include either crea ...
Effects of glycaemic management on diabetic kidney
... also demonstrated that RAGE medicated mitochondrial dysfunction, most likely due to activation of NAD(P)H oxidase (NOX), an enzyme dedicated to the production of ROS, is an early manifestation of DKD and precedes the development of albuminuria and renal histological change[13]. Despite these promisi ...
... also demonstrated that RAGE medicated mitochondrial dysfunction, most likely due to activation of NAD(P)H oxidase (NOX), an enzyme dedicated to the production of ROS, is an early manifestation of DKD and precedes the development of albuminuria and renal histological change[13]. Despite these promisi ...
Environmental psychology - Key research guide
... • The research presented in this paper aimed to develop a better understanding of the impacts of aircraft noise on community health and wellbeing by seeking to answer two core questions: (i) Is health related quality of life worse in a community chronically exposed to aircraft noise than in a comm ...
... • The research presented in this paper aimed to develop a better understanding of the impacts of aircraft noise on community health and wellbeing by seeking to answer two core questions: (i) Is health related quality of life worse in a community chronically exposed to aircraft noise than in a comm ...
Osteoporosis and CKD - American University of Beirut
... Testing for excess urinary albumin (proteinuria) can be done with a spot urine (first morning is preferred) sample and urine dipstick (albumin/microalbumin). If positive, confirmation and follow up are indicated. The NKF and American Academy of Family Physicians recommend that, in general, patients ...
... Testing for excess urinary albumin (proteinuria) can be done with a spot urine (first morning is preferred) sample and urine dipstick (albumin/microalbumin). If positive, confirmation and follow up are indicated. The NKF and American Academy of Family Physicians recommend that, in general, patients ...
e-MomCare
... pregnancy-related disorders are unique for a number of reasons: (i) as their disorder is pregnancy related, the disorder will be ‘cured’ automatically after child birth; (ii) the patients are relative young in comparison to the majority of patients, who are older than 65 years; young patients have ...
... pregnancy-related disorders are unique for a number of reasons: (i) as their disorder is pregnancy related, the disorder will be ‘cured’ automatically after child birth; (ii) the patients are relative young in comparison to the majority of patients, who are older than 65 years; young patients have ...
study of risk factors in primary open angle glaucoma
... In the Baltimore eye study, IOP was 1.5 mmHg higher for patients with a systolic blood pressure over 160 mmHg when compared to systolic blood pressures lower than 110 mmHg.24 The same study, however, did not find a statistically significant association between hypertension and glaucoma. Likewise, no ...
... In the Baltimore eye study, IOP was 1.5 mmHg higher for patients with a systolic blood pressure over 160 mmHg when compared to systolic blood pressures lower than 110 mmHg.24 The same study, however, did not find a statistically significant association between hypertension and glaucoma. Likewise, no ...
A Review of Coronary Artery Disease Research in Malaysia
... prevalence in Asia. The authors found that less developed countries had lower levels of serum lipids and ultimately lower CAD prevalence. Serum total cholesterol and therefore CAD rates can be expected to increase as developing countries progress. Rafidah and colleagues studied the relationship betw ...
... prevalence in Asia. The authors found that less developed countries had lower levels of serum lipids and ultimately lower CAD prevalence. Serum total cholesterol and therefore CAD rates can be expected to increase as developing countries progress. Rafidah and colleagues studied the relationship betw ...
to determine the effects of bruxism on school success of 7-12
... known to affect school success. These factors can be social; study environment of children, economic conditions, family relations, irregular study schedule, environment, as well as problems related to child’s health [1,2]. Children can have some diseases caused by their own physiology. There are stu ...
... known to affect school success. These factors can be social; study environment of children, economic conditions, family relations, irregular study schedule, environment, as well as problems related to child’s health [1,2]. Children can have some diseases caused by their own physiology. There are stu ...
Late Breaking Clinical Trials The Lancet - ERA
... Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) study. Analysis of the results provides novel epidemiological and genetic evidence of Lp(a) being a risk factor for the development Winfried März, Germany of CAD, but also shows that Lp(a) loses its association with outcomes in patients with preval ...
... Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) study. Analysis of the results provides novel epidemiological and genetic evidence of Lp(a) being a risk factor for the development Winfried März, Germany of CAD, but also shows that Lp(a) loses its association with outcomes in patients with preval ...
Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations. It is the cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidence-based practice by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive healthcare. Epidemiologists help with study design, collection, and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review). Epidemiology has helped develop methodology used in clinical research, public health studies, and, to a lesser extent, basic research in the biological sciences.Major areas of epidemiological study include disease etiology, transmission, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance and screening, biomonitoring, and comparisons of treatment effects such as in clinical trials. Epidemiologists rely on other scientific disciplines like biology to better understand disease processes, statistics to make efficient use of the data and draw appropriate conclusions, social sciences to understand proximate and distal causes better, and engineering for exposure assessment.