Drug-eluting stents adopted quickly, with early disparities
...und similar growth rates during the three quarters measured for the off-label and on-label usages. "Although the growth rates of the two indications were similar, the off-label accounted for less than one quarter of the cases in the registry," Rao said. "This suggests that overall, cardiologists were followin...University health study identifies undiagnosed diabetics
..., where the patient's blood sugar levels are first measured after they have fasted. The patient then has a glucose drink and a further blood sugar level test after two hours. Someone with a normal level of blood sugar after fasting, but whose levels rise at the 'two hour' test is also at increased risk of ...Health state values for patients with CAD vary according to the measure used to generate them
...valuation, cost-utility analysis, incorporates the measured preferences of individuals for health outcomes of ...asure, the SF-6D. This study reports on utilities measured in a double-blind, multinational phase III clinical trial in patients undergoing percutaneous corona...Cholesterol-lowering drug may slow Alzheimer's progression
...nt improvement in their symptoms of depression, as measured by GDS, while the placebo group showed a decline. Atorvastatin decreased low-density lipoprotein, known as "bad" cholesterol, by more than 50 percent from 124 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) to 57mg/dL. Total cholesterol dropped by more than 40 pe...Taking pills, even if placebo, predicts better survival in heart failure
...rage patient follow-up of 38 months. Adherence was measured as the proportion of time patients took at least 80 percent of the study medication. Two earlier heart studies the Coronary Drug Project in 1980 Beta-Blockers in Heart Attack in 1982 showed similar patterns as the new Duke analysis, and according t...Stem cell therapy effectively treats heart attacks in animals
...y short period of time, two months. Recovery was measured for the seven treated animals as full restoration of heart muscle contraction to levels existing prior to infarction. Indeed, dead scar tissue nearly disappeared after therapy, which produced mostly healthy, normal-looking heart tissue and left only...No increase in deaths for heart failure patients with pulmonary artery catheter
...d changes in the heart's structure and function as measured by echocardiograms. The study also sought to eval...e catheter is in place, pressures and flows can be measured from the right side of the heart and the lungs. A tiny balloon is inflated to allow measurement of p...Study pinpoints schizophrenia brain glitch
...vity-at the same frequency. Different frequencies, measured in hertz, or cycles per second, indicate different levels and types of activities. Delta waves, below 4 hertz, occur during sleep. Alpha waves, 8 to 13 hertz, occur at relaxed, quiet times. Beta waves are the next fastest, occurring when we are activ...New study to use electronic medical records to improve care of patients with diabetes
... and a number of measures need to be monitored and measured to better take care of patients," said Cebul. "The decision-support within the EMR will allow physicians to view all of the important measures in all of their diabetic patients and, with a click of a button, update and order referrals, tests and tre...Air pollution may cause and speed up artery disease
...d artery intima-media thickness or CIMT). CIMT is measured by ultrasound and used to determine the level of s...nhaled into the smallest airways. PM2.5 levels are measured in micrograms per meter cubed (ug/m3). In this study, readings ranged from 5.2 to 26.9 ug/m3. For e...Serum caspase activity and liver fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C
...selected patients with chronic HCV infection. They measured aminotransferase levels and found that twenty-seven percent of the patients were in the normal range. The researchers then examined the sera of the 59 patients, as well as that of seven healthy controls, to detect levels of a caspase-generated neopep...Study of cancer trials finds significant safety improvement
...r not the treatment caused the tumor to shrink, as measured by CT scanning. The most significant change during the study period was the more than 90 percent drop in the risk of drug-related deaths from a risk of about 1 percent in the first four years of the study to .06 percent in the last four years. Th...Jefferson neuroscientists studying new type of Alzheimer's drug to halt disease progression
...ife." The success of failure of the trial will be measured in periodic cognitive skills monitoring before, during and after the 70 weeks. The researchers will also examine brain volume by magnetic resonance imaging before and after the trial....Pediatricians can help immigrant mothers by explaining child development, NICHD study suggests
...ad comparable levels of education. The researchers measured the women's knowledge of child rearing by having them fill out a survey form known as the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory, or KIDI. The survey assesses knowledge of parental contributions to children's psychological and social development,...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for November 2004 (first issue)
...cial vehicles in their country. The investigators measured excessive sleepiness and sleep-disordered breathing and assessed accident risk factors in 2,342 respondents who were Australian commercial truck drivers. In addition, another 161 from a group of selected professional truck drivers underwent a polyso...Twenty-Year prospective study of pregnant women with inflammatory bowel disease finds healthy babies
...s with IBD and 100 healthy pregnant females. They measured pregnancy outcomes for the mothers including relapse of IBD symptoms, and fetal outcomes, which included mean birth weight and congenital abnormalities. They found pregnant patients with IBD had a lower relapse rate than case-matched non-pregna...Job-stressed women more vulnerable than men to 9/11 trauma
...iencing stress in the workplace showed none of the measured health effects following Sept. 11. Richman, who is continuing to study the psychological impacts of terrorist incidents and fear of terrorism, believes that her work will help officials allocate resources to handle crises. "To the extent that mental ...FOSRENOL (R) maintains bone health status of end-stage renal disease patients
...rance. Quantifiable amounts of lanthanum were not measured in the dialysate of treated ESRD patients. In Vitro- Drug Interactions: Gastric Fluid: The potential for a physico-chemical interaction (precipitation) between lanthanum and six commonly used medications (warfarin, digoxin, furosemide, phenytoin, ...Study finds potential new cause of mental decline in old age
...lich, of the University's Geriatric Medicine Unit, measured mental ability in100 healthy elderly male voluntee...om the Brain Imaging Research Centre for Scotland, measured the extent of the enlarged perivascular spaces in these men using a new and innovative method of ana...Scientists identify key mechanism in estrogen's role in preventing bone loss
... immune cells and on bone marrow in culture. They measured the level of TGFb in bone marrow macrophages (BMM) and discovered that the level of TGFb in the BMM of mice lacking ovaries was about half that of mice with ovaries. When they treated the mice with estrogen, levels of TGFb in the bone marrow increas...