Young women at greater risk of death than men after bypass surgery
...ciation. The younger the patients, the greater the mortality difference between women and men, says lead author...s relatively small, the difference in both overall mortality and the death rate for patients under age 60 was significant between the two sexes, says Vaccarino, ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February (second issue)
...00,000. The figures for incidence were higher and mortality rates lower than six out of seven studies publishe...estigators believe that the high incidence and low mortality rates are representative of Australian practice. However, they noted that multicenterinternational ...Pregnancy and childbirth a major cause of death among Afghan refugee women
...d 134,406 Afghan refugees and 1197 deaths; a crude mortality rate of 5.5 per thousand population. Among the 66 deaths in women of reproductive age, there were 27 deaths (41%) due to maternal causesa greater proportion than any other cause. 16 liveborn and nine stillborn infants were born to women who died of m...Younger age explains why smokers more likely to survive heart attacks
...n how much these differences account for the lower mortality from heart attacks among smokers. The current st...accounts for almost all the observed difference in mortality rates. Thus, smokers primarily have their relative youth to thank for their improved short-term chan...Evidence of PSA screening efficacy lacking
...ng has contributed to a decline in prostate cancer mortality rates since 1995, a new study has determined. The ...n 1989 and 1993, and the change in prostate cancer mortality between 1995 and 1999. They then assessed the correlation between the changes in cancer incidence an...Racial and ethnic minorities may receive less appropriate cancer treatment
...rrences, shorter disease-free survival, and higher mortality rates, report Vickie L. Shavers, Ph.D., and Martin...ities; however, differences in cancer survival and mortality between minorities and whites still exist. "This observation suggests that factors other than the st...Suicide the leading cause of death among young adults in China
...cide rates are reported for China because official mortality data are based on an unrepresentative sample and b... by sex, 5-year age-group, and region (reported in mortality data for 1995-99 by the Chinese Ministry of Health) were adjusted according to an estimated rate of ...Clot-busting drugs linked to increased mortality in elderly
.... Thrombolytic therapy was associated with reduced mortality among eligible patients younger than 80 years, but with increased mortality in older patients. Among eligible patients 80 to 90 years old, those who got the drugs had an estima...In heart failure, beta-blockers boost survival advantage for women
...fect of beta-blockers on the combined endpoints of mortality and hospitalization. Women who took the beta-blocker metoprolol CR/XL lived longer and were hospitalized less often than women who were not on the drugs. Pooled data from the three largest heart failure studies of beta-blockers found increased survi...Lethal heart condition traced to cocaine use
...d diagnosis. For untreated aortic dissection, the mortality rate can be as high as 35 percent within the first 24 hours. After 48 hours the death rate rises to about 50 percent. Researchers reviewed hospital charts from 1981-2001 looking for cases of aortic dissection. They recorded demographic information ...Yale study of hospital website ratings finds mixed results
...e than expected quality (one star), based on their mortality using an unpublished mathematical model. The Yale ...ere was no statistically significant difference in mortality rates." Krumholz said the hospital ratings are only slightly better than no information at all, but...New index developed by Yale researcher to assess the risk of mortality in an elderly population
...patients," she said. "The index is recommended for mortality prediction in patient groups or populations." She said some examples of clinical usefulness might include identification of high risk groups who would benefit from early intervention or case management services; comparisons of treatment effectiveness...Obesity, stress among factors predicting high health care costs
...cant role in the ongoing battle against morbidity, mortality and health care costs, say researchers Larry A. Tucker, Ph.D, and Alan G. Clegg, MS, of Brigham Young University in the March/April issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion. Clearly, differences in medical utilization and expenses cannot be ...Study finds that physicians working outside their specialty may provide lower-quality care
...practicing within their specialty. Using adjusted mortality rates and adjusted length of hospital stay as inde.... In addition, such patients have slightly higher mortality rates than those cared for by subspecialists practicing within their subspecialty....Swedish trials suggest modest benefit for screening mammography
...ng in a significant 21% reduction in breast cancer mortality for women given screening mammography. The reducti.... The benefit in terms of cumulative breast cancer mortality started to emerge at about 4 years after randomisation and continued to increase to about 10 years. ...Ovarian carcinoma, ethnicity, and survival
... African-Americans with ovarian cancer have higher mortality rates than Caucasians with ovarian cancer. While ethnicity is a risk factor, little is known about the differences in prognostic factors between Caucasians and African-Americans with ovarian cancer that could effect survival. In a retrospective stu...Poor patients twice as likely to die from heart disease
...household income of less than $10,000 had a 30-day mortality rate 2.6 times higher than those more well off, and a six-month mortality rate 2.1 times higher. In a clinical trial, patients are supposed to receive similar care, but a...Women may have poorer quality of life than men after bypass surgery
...s after their hospital discharge. " We found the mortality rate after six month was almost the same in men and women, about two percent," says Dr. Vaccarino. "However, although symptoms and QOL improved from baseline in both sexes, we found that women had less improvement in several areas including depressi...3D ultrasound telehealth system first commercial test at Indian reservations
...g on South Dakota Indian reservations where infant mortality rates are more than twice the national average wil...t of this study would be reduced fetal and newborn mortality through better treatment for women earlier in the pregnancy, said Deb Soholt, director of womens hea...