March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...d whites, Chen and colleagues find that nearly one quarter of blacks and one third of Latinos prefer that their personal physician is of their same race or ethnicity. In turn, those patients who have racial preferences for their physicians are more likely to rate their physician highly if they are in a race-...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...'s balance score averaged around 1.7 over the last quarter century, Baird found Cuba's indicator to be a less-balanced 2.08. In both countries, teams' ability to draw talent stems from their home base. Cuban players are required to stay on their provincial team, so clubs in areas with a larger population dr...Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
... States and New Zealand," is featured in the first quarter issue of the Journal of Nursing Scholarship (volume 37 issue 1) published in late March 2005. Almost two decades of research indicates that organizational traits such as professional autonomy, collaborative relationships with physicians, and access ...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...ple die from coronary artery disease every year, a quarter of them before or soon after arriving at the hospital," says Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD, director of cardiovascular clinical research in the MGH Cardiology Division and lead author of the current study. "The ability to identify dangerous plaques before ...Diagnostic test for range of blood disorders on the horizon
...test. Professor Green concludes: "For more than a quarter of a century, the myeloproliferative disorders have been known to be clonal haematological malignancies, but the identity of underlying target genes has remained elusive. We have shown that a single acquired point mutation in JAK2 is present in virtu...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
...ercent practiced in a setting in which less than a quarter of the patients were racial or ethnic minorities. Results indicated that physicians who were female, or black, or who treated a large number of minority patients in their practices were more likely than other cardiologists to report that disparities ...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
... breast cancer has steadily declined over the last quarter century, according to a new study published in the March 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. This study offers scientific evidence to what was long thought to be true but never proven: that improvements in radiation techniques a...Will your kids grow up to be fat?
...f of the male subjects (48.3 percent) and nearly a quarter of the female subjects (23.5 percent) became overweight or obese between their first childhood visit and the young adult follow-up. Compared with children with a BMI less than the 50th percentile, girls and boys between the 50th and 74th percentile w...Serum sodium level is a major predictor of a poor prognosis for heart failure patients
...ound that hyponatremia, which is found in almost a quarter of patients with severe heart failure, doubled death rates within 60 days of hospital discharge. Serum sodium levels are easily measured through routine blood tests. "Even a minor decrease in a person's serum sodium level levels that are now dismis...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
... study and sales fell to $266 million in the first quarter of 2004. Drug companies work to identify and promote drugs that offer the most promise to patients, but also must consider benefits to their stockholders. Naughton said the HT controversy, as well as recent controversy surrounding Vioxx and other pai...Changing trends in herbal supplement use
...cular degeneration and cancer." "Approximately one quarter of adults in the United States use multivitamins, and this prevalence may increase following the recent recommendation that all adults take a multivitamin daily," the authors write. "Although the deliberate use of herbal products may have reached a p...Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...0 heart programs in the Midwest to number two last quarter in the number of valve products used, according to Edwards Lifesciences. In May of 2004, Northwestern Memorial became the first hospital in the Midwest and the third in the nation to install the Siemens Medical Solutions' MAGNETOM Avanto - a revol...High levels of airborne mouse allergen in inner-city homes could trigger asthma attacks
...llergy and Clinical Immunology , found more than a quarter of inner-city homes sampled had airborne allergen levels already known to aggravate asthma symptoms in animal research lab workers with mouse allergy. "Children living in inner-city homes are continuously exposed to the allergy-causing substance fou...Milk, fruits and vegetables may help reduce disability risk
...tional limitations, such as being unable to walk a quarter of a mile or climb 10 steps, that often precede di...tivities of daily living; and being able to walk a quarter of mile and walk up 10 steps without resting, to measure functional limitations. The study adjusted ...HIV-infected parents report limiting physical contact with their children
...nge of saliva, it is concerning that more than one quarter of parents restricted interactions 'a lot' because of fears of contagion." (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005; 159: 173 179. Available post-embargo at www.archpediatrics.com ) Editor's Note: This work was supported by a grant from the National Insti...Methamphtetamine's ruinous effects on children documented in Midwest study
...ports of child maltreatment per month, and about a quarter involve parent methamphetamine abuse. An article on their study, "In These Bleak Days: Parent Methamphetamine Abuse and Child Welfare in the Rural Midwest," will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Children and Youth Services Review. (...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
....7 percent) and continued to improve by the fourth quarter (97 percent). Others, such as treatment with tPA, had low baseline compliance (32.3 percent) and improved substantially (61.1 percent). "Our data suggest a broad range of baseline rates of compliance on these measures, and there are abundant opport...Phobic anxiety increases heart disease death risk among women
...disease in general compared to those in the lowest quarter of the population," she said.A higher score on the CCI was associated with an increased risk for sudden cardiac death and fatal heart disease, but not non-fatal heart attack. Specifically, the women with a CCI greater than four had a 59 percent incr...Preschoolers not getting enough fiber
...ar olds, whose fiber intake placed them in the top quarter of the sample, met the new National Academy of Sciences Dietary Reference Intake level. These guidelines propose that Americans of all ages consume 14 g total fiber per every 1,000 calories based on evidence for reduced cardiovascular disease risk a......threatening condition that affects approximately a quarter million Americans each year. In an article published online in the January issue of the American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology , researchers report a study that tested the effects of nicotine on hearts with healed myocardi...