Support for colorectal cancer screening
... around age 60 years could lower the incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer. Around 16,000 people die from colorectal cancer in the UK every year, with annual health-care costs for treatment of the disease estimated at 300 million. Survival rates exceed 90% if the disease is detected at an early stage; ...Medieval black death not bubonic plague
...bubonic plague. An analysis of the priests monthly mortality rates during the epidemic shows a 45-fold greater ...risk of death than during normal times, a level of mortality far higher than usually associated with bubonic plague. Modern bubonic plague typically needs to re...Beth Israel Deaconess study documents outstanding surgical outcomes for diabetes patients
...srael Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has shown a mortality rate of only 1 percent among diabetes patients und...s as patients without diabetes. These results show mortality rates that are dramatically lower than the national average in patients both with and without diabet...Simple intervention improves quality of dialysis treatment
...te annual federal expenditures of $18 billion, the mortality rate among American hemodialysis patients is the h... year. European and Japanese hemodialysis patient mortality rates are much lower at 10 to15 percent per year. The high mortality rate among American patients i...Beyond obesity: waist-to-hip ratio may be better predictor of stroke risk
...n shown to be an important risk factor for overall mortality as well as coronary heart disease. Less clear is the relationship of obesity to stroke risk. Researchers have recently identified that waist-to-hip ratio, independent of body mass index (BMI), may be a better predictor of stroke risk, according to ...Newly published data show at-home dialysis therapy may benefit more patients
...n measure of toxin removal and kidney function on mortality outcomes in patients with ESRD. Until now, many kidney specialists prescribing PD have believed that increasing small solute clearances would result in better survival. However, ADEMEX researchers found that increases in small solute clearances to...Long-term benefits found in two drugs for Parkinson's
...chers. The long-term benefits may include reduced mortality and a reduced risk of nursing home placement. The...tients. "We compared the antipsychotic efficacy, mortality and risk of nursing home placement to published historical data (Goetz & Stebbins, Neurology 1996) i...Development of dementia in Parkinsons patients
... tremor, stiffness, slowness and gait impairment), mortality may be two to three times higher among Parkinsons ...ed with an increased risk of death. The risk of mortality associated with incident dementia was between two and three-fold. This risk was unchanged after adj...Mild kidney disease doubles risk of death after angioplasty or bypass
... with CKD, 30 of whom also had diabetes. All-cause mortality for those with both mild CKD and diabetes was 70 percent, she adds.The presence of both conditions is worse than the sum of their parts. I dont know why they are synergistic, she says. Perhaps it is that while renal dysfunction is a strike against ...New study explores pulmonary rehabilitation in women with emphysema and chronic bronchitis
... and the only leading cause of death for which the mortality rates are rising. Although mortality rates are stabilizing among men, they continue to rise among women. Up until recently, it has been ...Racial disparity in cancer survival: Are other factors at work?
...in treatment, stage ofdisease at presentation, and mortality from other diseases -not biologic or genetic differences - seem to explain mostof the disparity." said Colin Begg, Ph.D., chairman of theDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at MemorialSloan-Kettering and senior author of the study. "These ar...Women suffering from anorexia are 50 times more likely to commit suicide
... by suicide, resulting in an elevated standardized mortality ratio of 56.9 for the anorexia nervosa subgroup. A total of 58 of the 246 subjects reported at least one suicide attempt during the course of the study, and of these, 32 made multiple attempts. Suicide attempts occurred in 21% of the ANR subjects, ...Mexican Americans more likely to die of heart disease than Caucasians
...have been few studies of heart disease and cardiac mortality rates in which Hispanics born in Mexico and in the...r these factors, hazard ratios remained higher for mortality from all causes when comparing Mexico- and U.S.-born Hispanics to non-Hispanics. Hispanics face the ...Beta-blockers improve outcomes of bypass surgery
...lly, patients receiving beta-blockers had a 30-day mortality rate of 2.8 percent, compared to 3.4 percent for those patients who did not. Furthermore, the researchers found no negative side effects from the drug, except for those patients whose heart pumps at 30 percent of its ability or less. For that reason,...Successful measles vaccination feasible in low-income countries
...WHO investigator) comments: A reduction in measles mortality and morbidity can be achieved in very low-income countries, in countries that split their vaccination campaigns by geographical area or by age-group of the target population, and where initial routine measles vaccination coverage among infants was le...Stroke survivors have brittler bones, more likely to fracture
...e patients who break their hips also have a higher mortality and morbidity rate than age-matched individuals who have not had a stroke. Moreover, more than half of all strokes occur in people over age 70, says Poole. "They are already at risk for osteoporosis because of their age they can ill afford to lose...Heart attack patients may benefit from drinking tea
...he heaviest tea drinkers had a significantly lower mortality rate than non tea-drinkers. As is the case with any observational study, he notes, these findings could be accounted for by differences in lifestyle other tea drinking. One of the biggest potential criticisms of this study is that people who drink te...Steeped in research: Tea linked to survival after heart attack
...l says. Caffeine consumption per se did not affect mortality risk after myocardial infarction, he says. The researchers evaluated caffeine intake from sources other than tea and found no association with the risk of dying during follow up. Several possible mechanisms could explain an association between tea c...Human papilloma virus test increases cancer detection rate, study finds
...on of these cancers would decrease cervical cancer mortality by 59%. HPV is a sexually transmitted virus and one of the leading causes of cervical cancer. Current clinical guidelines recommend that women receive the Pap test alone every one to three years. Guidelines recently published by the American Society ...USAID-supported research leads to new formula of ORS that will save millions of lives
...in 1978 as its primary tool to fight diarrhea, the mortality rate for children suffering from acute diarrhea has fallen from 5 million to 1.3 million deaths annually. The latest study was conducted in five developing countries among children from one month to two years old with acute diarrhea and dehydration. ...