Further evidence linking suicide risk to family history (p 1126)
...d suicide aged 945 years during 198197, and 80,238 matched controls. Individuals with a history of family suicide were two and a half times more likely to commit suicide than people without a family history of suicide; correspondingly, a family history of psychiatric illness (requiring hospital admission) in...Medications aren't affecting brain size in children with ADHD
...s with ADHD and 139 children without the disorder, matched for sex and age. Most of the children with ADHD were medicated, but 49 of the children had never been treated. The brains of the unmedicated group did not differ significantly from the medicated group, except for the white matter, which makes up abou...JAMA study looks at role of pharmacist in health care
...lusters of 12 stores. Stores in each cluster were matched for socioeconomic characteristics. The first, or pharmaceutical care group of patients, filled its prescriptions 12 CVS stores in Central Indiana where the pharmacists were provided patient-specific clinical data including peak air flow rates, eme...New data may alter frequency and surgical procedure
...Center on Aging, Galveston, TX. The Galveston team matched treatment with outcomes in two databases for 31,618 women who had BCS, also called lumpectomy, for early-stage breast cancer. Over 27% of these women, or 9,006, had BCS without nodal biopsy, and 74% of these women were at least 65 years old. Of the...Operating on a beating heart shows benefit in elderly
...and 62 off-pump. The two groups were very closely matched in preoperative health characteristics, heart pumping strength, number of artery or vein grafts, and age and gender. The operative mortality death occurring within 30 days of surgery was 15.9 percent in the on-pump group and 4.8 percent in the off...Sense of control eases physical toll of stressful situation
...students' perceptions of how much control they had matched what the researchers told them -- even after they played the game. Although the findings may provide valuable insight into the relationship between control and cardiovascular response, Weinstein cautions that "they do not directly address the relatio...Gastrointestinal symptoms not linked to later autism
...arch Database between 1988 and 1999. Each case was matched with up to five children without autism. They also considered the time relation between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and the onset of gastrointestinal symptoms among the cases. They found no increase in a history of gastrointestinal disord...Researchers pinpoint pain responses in newborns
...eir mothers. The infants in the control group were matched to those of diabetic mothers on birth characteristics such as weight, gestational age, gender and type of delivery. After 24 hours of life, a blood sample was taken from the hands of all infants (venipuncture) as part of the routine newborn screenin...Mutation in 'elastic' gene linked to early coronary heart disease
...ry blocked 70 percent or more. These patients were matched with 1,057 Dutch people without heart disease. Both groups participated in a project that screened people in three Dutch cities for cardiovascular risk factors from 1987-91. All of them agreed to allow their frozen blood samples to be used in futur...Brain can reorganize after traumatic injury
... made a strong recovery, and 11 healthy adults who matched the TBI group in age and education. The two groups performed a memory test that involved seeing related word pairs flash on a computer screen (for example, penguin - tuxedo) every few seconds. The subjects were then shown the first word of each pair ...Physicians' sun protection lapses match those of patients
... to be responsible, as the two groups were closely matched in both respects. One possibility, he notes, is that physicians may regard skin cancer as a primarily cosmetic disorder, as the bulk of cases are not malignant. In addition, he explains, the role of sun exposure in the development of potentially life...Panel advises easing selection criteria to boost supply of donor hearts
... coronary artery disease and if the heart is being matched to a recipient with a relatively urgent need for transplantation. Another recommendation suggests pairing donor hearts that show evidence of infection with or exposure to hepatitis C (HCV) or hepatitis B (HBV) to similarly infected recipients. Curre......p of adults and a child, scanned in the faces, and matched the child to his parents. "We hope to be able to predict the attributes of a child of two given parents, to match identical twins, and perform other 'facial recognition' functions," he said. The capability of the system will be useful in security ...Recognising mental illness in young people could prevent suicides
...ing 1981-97 in young people aged 10-21 years. They matched each case to a random sample of 50 people of the same age and sex, to act as controls. They found that suicide is more likely among young people if a parent commits suicide or there is a history of mental illness in the individual and their parents a...Teenage boys exposed to environmental pollutants
...lower chance of having a baby boy than individuals matched for age and location who were not exposed to the pollutants. The male to female ratio for men exposed after 20 years of age was only 10% lower than in the control population; there was no significant difference in the male to female birth ratio among...Although gender response to HIV therapy is similar, women experience more side effects
...udy were selected randomly from clinic records and matched with men (1:2) by age, race, baseline CD4 count and hepatitis C (HCV) status. Eighty-four percent of patients were African-American and 27% had advanced AIDS (defined as a CD4 count <50 cells/L). Patients were determined to have successfully r...Understanding genetic cancer risk might not help smokers kick the habit
...ancer are more likely to be missing the GSTM1 than matched controls, and it has been estimated that 35 percent of African Americans may be missing the GSTM1. GSTM1 is responsible for creating an enzyme involved in detoxifying a number of environmental carcinogens, including those found in cigarette smoke. T...Geriatric day care great for patients, but what about caregivers?
... day care patients were compared with an untreated matched group of 40 individuals. Matching criteria were age, gender, physical and mental health status, and socioeconomic status. The mean age for both groups was 79.5 years. In addition to the positive effects of day care on patients' well-being and dementi...New gene therapy protocol: First successful treatment for 'bubble babies'
... normal products, especially when patients have no matched donor available for safe bone marrow transplantation," Slavin said. Conventionally, such patients are usually treated with ADA replacement therapy in an attempt to rescue the immune system. This replacement therapy, however, is not a long-term solut...UC researcher utilizes historical control group for new osteoporatic fracture analysis
...tistical methodology, Dr. Watts and his colleagues matched placebo patients from previous Actonel clinical studies with patients from the once-a-week study, based on key baseline characteristics that contribute to fracture risk. Dr. Watts is an advocate for historical controls, because they eliminate some o...