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2009 SEP 28 ... hazards models. A total of 121 patients met the inclusion criteria (mean [SD] age, 52 [15] years; 85 were women [70%]). Seventy-six percent had primary dermatomyositis, ... dermatomyositis (DM) according to the criteria of Bohan and Peter seen during a 13-year period. Cumulative incidence rates of herpesvirus infections using the Kaplan-Meier method and ... and severity of herpesvirus infections." "Retrospective inception cohort study. Two departments in tertiary teaching hospitals. All patients diagnosed as having ...
2009 NOV 26 ... immediately, while teachers who leave earlier often must defer their pension until age 60 or later, collecting fewer payments over their retirement.In the six ... Vermont, and Rhode Island expect enrollment declines of 10 percent or more over the same period. Heavily populated states such as Michigan and New York anticipate declines of between 5 ... all public school teachers redistributes about half the pension wealth of an entering cohort of teachers to those who subsequently retire in their mid-50s from those who leave the ... that successfully operate schools in more than one state. When they replicate school models, it is often beneficial to be able to move staff from one location to another in much ...
2009 OCT 12 ... glue was used in the dural repair in 278 patients (50.8%). Logistic models evaluating age, sex, redo surgery, and the use of fibrin glue revealed that prior lumbar spinal surgery ... 4,835 surgical procedures of the lumbar spine from a single institution over a 10-year period was performed to determine the rate of ID. The 90-day clinical course of these patients ... examined unintended durotomies during lumbar spine surgery in a large surgical patient cohort and the impact of fibrin glue usage as part of the ID repair on the incidence of ...
2009 NOV 16 ... the main outcome measures between patient groups. The models were adjusted for patient age, severity of injury, and pathological features seen on head CT scan at admission. On ... to a Level I trauma center with a diagnosis of severe traumatic brain injury over a period of 3 years." "Hospital mortality rate, neurological outcome, and resource ... (PbO2) monitoring and how these changes affected outcomes and resource utilization. The cohort study comprised 629 patients admitted to a Level I trauma center with a diagnosis of ...
2009 NOV 2 ... SBP in linear regression models. A decline of 1 MVPA session per week with each year of age was associated with 0.29-mm Hg and 0.19-mm Hg higher SBPs in girls and boys, ... MVPA sessions >or=5 minutes in duration were collected every 3 months over the 5-year period. Estimates of initial level and rate of decline in number of MVPA sessions per week from ... SBP and anthropometric factors were assessed biannually (1999/2000, 2002, and 2004) in a cohort of 1,293 Canadian adolescents aged 12-13 years in 1999," investigators in Montreal, ...
2009 SEP 28 ... from DM donors over the study period. Older and female recipients, increased donor age, longer cold ischemia time, and transplants after 2000 were associated with a greater ... donors were compared in the total study population and in a 1:1 propensity score-matched cohort. A total of 2302 KTR received kidneys from DM donors over the study period. Older and ... odds of receiving a DM donor. After propensity score matching, Cox proportional hazards models revealed hazard ratios of 1.11 (95% CI: 1.02-1.22), 1.17 (95% CI: 1.04-1.33), and 1.06 ...
2009 NOV 2 ... predictors in the preoperative isolated coronary bypass AusSCORE model were as follows: age, New York Heart Association class, ejection fraction estimate, urgency of procedure, ... test, and prediction mean square error obtained from n-fold validation. Over the 4-year period, 11,823 patients underwent cardiac surgery, of whom 65.9% (7709) had isolated coronary ... it was shown that the widely used EuroSCORE model validated poorly for an Australian cohort. Hence, a valid model is required to appropriately guide surgeons and patients in ... associated with cardiac surgery can be ascertained through a variety of risk prediction models, none of which is specific to the Australian population," scientists writing in the ...
2009 NOV 2 ... men from these analyses because of prior history of depression or missing data. The mean age of our 12,066 participants was 72 +/- 4 years at the time of recruitment, and they were ... association between various measures of obesity and incident depression over a 10-year period in a large cohort of community-based older men." "The authors recruited ... incidence of depression was 5 per 1,000 person-years. Adjusted Cox proportional hazard models showed that men with body mass index (BMI) >= 30 had a 31% (95% confidence interval ...
2009 SEP 21 ... observed with respect to all cancer or breast cancer. All the above HRs are adjusted for age, calendar time prior cancer and type of diabetes, as appropriate, and are stratified ... "Among these we defined a fixed cohort based on exposure during a 4 month period in 2003 (n = 36,254, in whom 715 cases of cancer occurred) and a cohort of new insulin ... linked to cancer registry data up to the end of 2005. We used Cox proportional hazards models for survival analyses. Those receiving any insulin glargine (n = 3,959) had the same ...
2009 NOV 1 ... The association between SSRI use and decreased mortality persisted after adjusting for age, gender, etiology of PH, and obesity (HR, 0.35; 95% CI, 0.14 to 0.88; p = 0.026). SSRIs ... (13%) were receiving SSRIs at the time of referral. During a mean (+/- SD) follow-up period of 4.0 +/- 3.1 years, 12% of patients receiving SSRIs vs 23% of patients not receiving ... be receiving SSRIs when compared to those with confirmed PH (n = 1,180). In a separate cohort study of adults with documented PH in the referral-based Pulmonary Hypertension ... (SSRIs) prevent the development of and reverse pulmonary hypertension (PH) in animal models. We sought to determine whether SSRIs are associated with a decreased incidence of PH in ...
2009 OCT 19 ... and cardiovascular (1.25 [1.16-1.34], P< 0.001) mortality. After adjustment for age, sex, BMI, smoking, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes duration, A1C, medication use ... "The cohort included 2,726 type 2 diabetic outpatients, who were followed for a mean period of 4.7 years. The independent association of serum uric acid levels with all-cause and ... with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality was assessed by Cox proportional hazards models and adjusted for conventional risk factors and several potential confounders. During ...
2009 SEP 28 ... grade can be distinguished by morphology and molecular or immunohistochemical profiles, age-specific risks relevant to their separate carcinogenic pathways and clinical features ... through 2005. Descriptive epidemiology for n = 19,899 cases was supplemented with age-period-cohortmodels fitted by grade. SOC age-adjusted incidence rate ratios (IRR) of high to ...
2009 NOV 1 ... associated with incident Type 2 diabetes in men but not in women. After adjustment for age, survey, parental history of diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, physical ... Type 2 diabetes among men and 271 among women were registered during the mean follow-up period of 10.9 years. Living alone was significantly associated with incident Type 2 diabetes ... Mellitus in Men but Not Women From the General Population: The MONICA/KORA Augsburg Cohort Study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 2009;71(7):784-788). For more information, ... "Sex-specific hazard ratios (HRs) were estimated from Cox proportional hazard models. A total of 402 cases of incident Type 2 diabetes among men and 271 among women were ...
2009 SEP 21 ... "These observations support the role of nutritional guidelines in prevention of age-related weight increase and development of obesity." Kesse-Guyot and ... obesity (odds ratio=0.89, 95% confidence interval: 0.80, 0.99) after a 6-year follow-up period," wrote E. Kesse-Guyot and colleagues, Human Nutrition Research Center. ... guideline-based score and 6-year anthropometric changes in a French middle-aged adult cohort.' According to recent research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, "In ... baseline and 6 years later. Data were analyzed by using multivariate linear regression models for the association with anthropometric changes and multiple logistic regression to ...
2009 OCT 5 ... regression models were used to calculate hazard ratios for mortality after adjusting for age, sex, race, smoking status, body mass index, and prevalent medical conditions. The ... smoking status, body mass index, and prevalent medical conditions. The average follow-up period for the cohort was 8.2 y during which 1,047 participants (587 men and 460 women) died. ...
