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Cardiovascular issues up mortality rates in patients with advanced fibrosis

New research reveals that advanced fibrosis is a significant predictor of mortality in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), largely brought about by cardiovascular causes. NAFLD alone was not associated ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Association between genetic mutation and risk of death for patients with thyroid cancer

Presence of the genetic mutation BRAF V600E was significantly associated with increased cancer-related death among patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC); however, because overall mortality in PTC is low and the association ...

Cancer created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mortality rates have increased at hospitals in rural communities for certain conditions

In an analysis that included data on more than 10 million Medicare beneficiaries admitted to acute care hospitals with a heart attack, congestive heart failure, or pneumonia between 2002 and 2010, 30-day mortality rates for ...

Health created Apr 02, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prematurity, low birth weight significantly impact mortality rates

(Medical Xpress)—A study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers published April 1, 2013, in the journal Pediatrics showed that increasing numbers of premature and other low birth weight ...

Pediatrics created Apr 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Missed opportunities to help smokers with mental illness

Although smoking prevalence has declined in the United Kingdom over recent decades, it has changed little among people with mental health disorders, remaining substantially higher than the national average. Yet a study published ...

Addiction created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Health gap in Europe wider than ever

Life expectancy in Russia has marked time since the collapse of the Soviet Union but risen in its former eastern-bloc allies, The Lancet reported on Wednesday.

Health created Mar 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adults who experience stroke before age 50 have higher risk of death over long-term

In an examination of long-term mortality after stroke, adults 50 years of age and younger who experienced a stroke had a significantly higher risk of death in the following 20 years compared with the general population, according ...

Cardiology created Mar 19, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

No sons linked to lower contraception use in Nepal

While poverty and under-education continue to dampen contraception use in Nepal, exacerbating the country's efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality rates, researchers say another, more surprising factor may be more ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Mar 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study links US mortality rates under age 50 to life expectancy lagging other high-income countries

(Medical Xpress)—Higher mortality rates among Americans younger than 50 are responsible for much of why life expectancy is lower in the United States than most of the world's most developed nations.

Health created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New clinical tool assesses health risks for older adults

A UC San Francisco team has developed a tool that can help determine – and perhaps influence – senior citizens' 10-year survivability rates.

Health created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study reveals UK's declining health performance compared to other high income countries over past 20 years

Six decades of universal free health care, the introduction of widespread public health initiatives (e.g., tobacco control, cancer screening, and immunization), and substantial increases in health expenditure have failed ...

Health created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows declining life span for some US women

A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can't explain.

Health created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Frequency of surveillance scans for small aneurysms can be reduced for most patients

In contrast to the commonly adopted surveillance intervals in current abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening programs, surveillance intervals of several years may be clinically acceptable for the majority of patients with ...

Cardiology created Feb 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lung cancer set to overtake breast cancer as the main cause of cancer deaths among European women

Lung cancer is likely to overtake breast cancer as the main cause of cancer death among European women by the middle of this decade, according to new research published in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology. In the UK ...

Cancer created Feb 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study examines hospital readmission and mortality rates for Medicare patients

In a study that included data on nearly 3 million hospital admissions for Medicare beneficiaries with heart attack, pneumonia or heart failure, researchers failed to find evidence that a hospital's performance on the measure ...

Health created Feb 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0