National Study Suggests Heart Attack Severity May Be Declining
...ospital and out-of-hospital coronary heart disease mortality decreased between 1987 and 1994, paralleling nati...g of all heart attacks and coronary heart disease mortality in each ARIC community. Goff studied records of patients between ages 35 and 74 in the ARIC commun......h team has found that HbA1 (hemoglobinA1) predicts mortality or death from coronary artery disease (CAD) in women withType 1 diabetes but not in men with this disease. HbA1 is a known indicator ofprolonged high blood sugar. These results are being presented at the 39thannual conference on Cardiovascular Dise...Hardening Of The Aorta Increases The Risk Of Stroke
... "Other factors increase the risk of stroke and mortality too,"Davila-Roman says. "The age of the patient is closely related, as are highcholesterol levels, diabetes, smoking and blockages in the carotid arteries thatcarry blood to the brain. But our study clearly shows that atherosclerosis inthe ascending ...Tip Sheet: Think About Your Health In April
... who infrequentlyexercise have a 40 percent higher mortality risk than those who exercise more. Also, those who had little contact with friends and relatives and did not belongto a church, had an approximately 30 percent increased risk of death. Thechapter in the book is titled, "Behavioral, Social and Socioe...Cervical Screening Has Reduced Incidence And Mortality From Cervical Cancer
(Effect of screening on incidence of and mortality from cancer of cervix in England: evaluation based...tality, say the authors. From 1950 to 1987, total mortality from cervical cancer fell steadily by just over 1.5 per cent each year (from 2,500 deaths in 1950 to...Stress And Surgery May Increase Development Of Cancerous Tumors
...lung tumor incidence andsignificantly increasedthe mortality in the animals inoculated with cancer cells. "Our results show that, under specific circumstances, resistance to tumordevelopment iscompromised by physical stress and surgical intervention," says Page. "Becausesurgicalprocedures are life-savin...New Study Finds Blacks Face 38 Percent Higher Stroke Risk
... Knowing that much of the difference in stroke mortality between theraces is due to incidence and not case ... and Georgia experience the highest ratesof stroke mortality in the nation, he said. Researchers did not study obesity directly because they belie...WIC, Medicaid Have Reduced Infant Deaths
... and Medicaid have helped poor women reduce infant mortality on twolevels," says Dr. Karen P. Carver, assistant... both deaths relatedto pregnancy and delivery, and mortality resulting from subsequent disease oraccident," Carver says. The researchers' findings also ......ere is a threshold weight belowwhich morbidity and mortality are significantly greater or whether thatthreshold varies at different developmental stages," Bloom said. "We suspectthat the tenth percentile is too high a threshold because too many babiesnormally destined to have lower birth weights are included i......r waiting times, we expect there to be substantial mortality on the waitinglist. If geographic disparities in waiting times were minimized, theseguidelines might be more reasonable for medical practice," said Dr. Keenan,associate professor of surgery in the division of cardiothoracic surgery. More than 25 per...Intensive Care Before A Major Op May Improve Survival
...ad received treatment before their operation had a mortality rate of three per cent as opposed to 17 per cent in those patients who did not. Wilson et al conclude that even though a formal cost benefit analysis was not performed, the cost of pre-operative investment in high dependency care facilities could be...International Meeting To Reduce Neonatal Mortaltiy
...to Reduce Neonatal Mortality | May 1999 Neonatal mortality - or death with the first 28 days - represents 2/3 of allinfant mortality in the United States, and remains a significant problem in thedeveloping world, even as overall rate...Further Evidence On The Effect Of The UK Cervical Screening Programme
(Effect of screening on cervical cancer mortality in England and Wales: analysis of trends with an a... screening appears to have reduced cervical cancer mortality by over 60 per cent in those aged under 55 years (up until 1997). They estimate that 1300 lives wer......cy or childbirth. In some parts ofAfrica, maternal mortality claims 1 out of 12 women, compared to 1 out of 4000women for Northern Europe. This is the largest discrepancy between developed and developingcountries for any of the common public health problems. What makes thissituation truly tragic is th...Research Shows Religion Plays A Major Role In Health, Longevity
...etweenreligion, health outcomes and lower risks of mortality but this research brokenew ground by testing those...en infrequent or no religious attendance andhigher mortality risk. Researchers also found distinct and related patterns when looking at causes ofdeath. For exam......ater chance of experiencing disease recurrence and mortality comparedto those whose cancer has not advanced to ...en positive SLN biopsies and diseaserecurrence and mortality rates," Leong says. "In future clinical trials, we aimto determine if SLN biopsies will also enhance...UI Study Yields Encouraging Results For New Breast Cancer Treatment
...tient setting. It is associated with an 11percent mortality rate, but the payoff may be a higher proportion of womensurviving without cancer." The UI strategy involved treating the women with a combination of the drugscisplatin, etoposide, thiotepa and cyclophosphamide followed by blood or marrowstem cell tra...Ratio of doctors to patients is good predictor of hospital death rates in England
...are should be exercised when interpreting hospital mortality data, but based on their findings they calculate t...kely to be associated with a reduction in hospital mortality rates. They therefore conclude that the higher the doctor to patient ratio the lower the number of ...Early stroke treatment with t-PA has long-lasting benefit, according to NEJM report
...enous t-PAor streptokinase and high rates of early mortality and intracerebralhemorrhage," the group says. "Reasons for the disparity between the results of these studiesand ours may include differences in the time from the onset of symptoms to theinitiation of treatment (0 to 3 hours in our study as compared...PSA testing alone cannot fully explain drop in deaths from prostate cancer
... street should not read too much intothe declining mortality numbers. What we're seeing is probably not all due...tlyelevated. Until quite recently, prostate-cancer mortality had long been on the rise.Between 1973 and 1991, for example, the age-adjusted death rate increased ...