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Severity of cardiovascular disease and health-related quality of life in men with prostate cancer: a longitudinal analysis from CaPSURE. [PDF]

, 2008
ObjectiveTo evaluate the influence of comorbid cardiovascular disease severity on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in men treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) or radiotherapy (RT) for early stage prostate cancer.MethodsSubjects (n=830) with non ...
Kwan, Lorna, Litwin, Mark S, Sadetsky, Natalia, van de Poll-Franse, Lonneke V   +3 more
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Disease Severity and Activity in Bronchiectasis: A Paradigm Shift in Bronchiectasis Management [PDF]

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
Bronchiectasis has an increasing prevalence and substantial clinical and economic burden. Therefore, physicians should identify patients with bronchiectasis at high risk of disease progression to ensure optimal management in advance. The heterogeneity of
Yunjoo Im, James D. Chalmers, Hayoung Choi   +2 more
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What are the determinants of quality of life in people with cervical dystonia? [PDF]

, 2002
Background: Little is known about the quality of life in patients with cervical dystonia, although pain and depression are relatively common. Objective: To test the hypothesis that an individual’s ability to cope with the disease will modify the ...
Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Camfield, Laura, Warner, Tom   +2 more
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Validation of the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index for risk stratification after acute pulmonary embolism in a cohort of patients in Brazil

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2019
Objective: To validate the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI), which was developed for risk stratification after acute pulmonary embolism (PE), for use in Brazil. Methods: This was a single-center retrospective study involving patients admitted to
Leonardo de Araujo Soriano, Talita Tavares Castro, Kelvin Vilalva, Marcos de Carvalho Borges, Antonio Pazin-Filho, Carlos Henrique Miranda   +5 more
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Delta neutrophil index as an early marker of disease severity in critically ill patients with sepsis [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2011
Abstract Background The immature granulocyte count has been reported to be a marker of infection and sepsis. The difference in leukocyte subfractions (delta neutrophil index, DNI) in ADVIA 2120 reflects the fraction of circulating immature granulocytes in the blood.
Young Ae Kang, Se Kyu Kim, Sang Kook Lee, Ji Ye Jung, Byung Hoon Park, Su Hwan Lee, Song Yee Kim, Joon Chang, Won Jai Jung, Young Sam Kim, Moo Suk Park   +10 more
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Criticality: A New Concept of Severity of Illness for Hospitalized Children.

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2020
OBJECTIVES To validate the conceptual framework of "criticality," a new pediatric inpatient severity measure based on physiology, therapy, and therapeutic intensity calibrated to care intensity, operationalized as ICU care.
E. A. T. Rivera, Anita K. Patel, J. Chamberlain, T. Workman, J. Heneghan, Douglas F. Redd, H. Morizono, Dongkyu Kim, James E. Bost, M. Pollack   +9 more
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Concealed index for concealed penis in prepubertal children [PDF]

Investigative and Clinical Urology, 2021
Purpose: The concealed penis (CP) is a congenital or acquired genital anomaly that requires surgical correction. To construct an objective CP severity index, we compared the penile parameters of a CP with a normal penis (NP) and postoperative outcomes of
Kobiljon Ergashev , Jae Min Chung , Sang Don Lee   +2 more
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Incorporation of Biomarkers with the Renal Angina Index for Prediction of Severe AKI in Critically Ill Children [PDF]

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2014
Novel AKI biomarkers carry variable performance for prediction of AKI in patients with heterogeneous illness. Until utility is demonstrated in critically ill patients outside of the cardiopulmonary bypass population, AKI biomarkers are unlikely to gain widespread implementation. Operationalization of an AKI risk stratification methodology, termed renal
Yu Wang, Derek S. Wheeler, Hector R. Wong, Rajit K. Basu, Lakhmir S. Chawla, Stuart L. Goldstein, Stuart L. Goldstein   +6 more
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Maternal anthropometric determinants as risk markers of suicidality and severity of illness in women with postnatal depression

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, 2020
Context: Studies have shown nutrition to play a role in etiology of postnatal depression, but few risk markers have been developed for the same. Anthropometric determinants have not been sufficiently researched in relation to suicidality and severity of ...
A. Nayak, HB Nachane
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The mediating roles of disgust sensitivity and danger expectancy in relation to hand washing behaviour [PDF]

, 2010
Copyright © 2010 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive PsychotherapiesBackground: Recent interest in the role of vulnerability factors in obsessional washing has suggested that disgust sensitivity, danger expectancy and health anxiety may be ...
Beck, Julie Barnett, Kate Nottingham, Katy Friend, Nunnally, Rachman, Susan J. Thorpe   +6 more
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