Depressed people more likely to develop Parkinson's
...archers identified all of the people from a health registry in the southern Netherlands who were diagnosed wit... 1,358 people were then matched with people in the registry born in the same year but never diagnosed with depression, which amounted to 67,570 people. Both gro...Early revascularisation could substantialy reduce death within one year of heart attack
...ment. Ulf Stenestrand comments: This is a Swedish registry study, but even when statistical compensation has been taken into account, there still remains a 50% reduction in the risk of dying within one year after a heart attack if early revascularisation is performed. There are two possible explanations for ...Statin drugs may increase risk of peripheral neuropathy
...lation-based study, the researchers used a patient registry to identify all of the first-time cases of peripheral neuropathy with no known cause (such as diabetes) in Funen County, Denmark, over a five-year period. Each case was matched to 25 people of the same age and sex with no neuropathy as a control grou...Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy (TM) more effective in epilepsy patients when used earlier
...ified retrospectively from the VNS patient outcome registry and was composed of VNS Therapy patients who were implanted more than five years after diagnosis. Preliminary results showed that after three months of treatment with VNS Therapy, fifteen percent of the study participants reported no seizures, a thr...Emory researchers study low testosterone and Parkinson's disease in men
... levels in 68 PD patients enrolled in a Parkinsons registry at Emory. Researchers discovered 35 percent of male PD patients in the registry had low testosterone levels. The risk of testosterone deficiency was found to increase 2.8 fold per...Beth Israel Deaconess study documents outstanding surgical outcomes for diabetes patients
...ent amputation. Using a comprehensive computerized registry created by LoGerfo and BIDMC vascular surgeons and... period between January 1990 and May 31, 2000. The registry database, which remains in existence, thoroughly documents the surgical outcomes of every patient un...Low socioeconomic status may influence quality of breast cancer treatment
...t, Bradley and her coworkers linked Detroit cancer registry data with Medicaid enrollment files and found 5,719 women with breast cancer. Of those, 593 were insured by Medicaid and had income levels below the federal poverty line. The rest of the women had other forms of insurance or were uninsured. The aut...Medical experts unite to raise awareness of risk, threat of blood clots
..., the largest and most comprehensive observational registry of patients suffering from DVT ever undertaken in the United States. The screening will be conducted as an epidemiological survey of approximately 7,500 patients at more than 200 hospitals throughout the country. Health care professionals at partic...International study highlights underuse of reperfusion therapy for heart-attack patients
...al Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE). This registry includes data for patients with acute coronary syndromes from 94 hospitals in 14 countries. The investigators assessed data of the first 9251 patients enrolled in GRACE; of these, 1763 presented within 12 hours of symptom onset with ST-segment-elevat...Stanford study investigates treatment cost effectiveness after heart attack
...and Intervention patient registry, a Seattle-based registry of heart attack patients. They split up 3,000 patients into three groups according to ejection fraction - a measure of the left ventricle's function that is a powerful predictor of sudden cardiac death - and looked at the cardiac-related mortality ra...Methadone may cause potentially fatal arrhythmia, Georgetown researchers find
...as came from anecdotal reports to an international registry that Woosley and his colleagues established to col...ing administration of specific medication(s). The registry website, www.QTdrugs.org , is funded by the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) and the Center ...Breast cancer risk lower than women think; statistics by age, ethnicity give more realistic picture
...partment of Health Services compiled data from the registry on 109,165 women in the state diagnosed with breast cancer between 1993 and 1997. The study will be published in the April issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. They found that, on average, a 50-year-old woman has a 1-in-86 risk ...Annals of Internal Medicine, Tip Sheet, October 17, 2000
...access to information about clinical trials in new registry on web A new national registry of about 5,000 ongoing clinical trials is now available on the Web at http://clinicaltrials.gov (A...Hospital records may be distorting cancer statistics
...cancer incidence and survival: reconciliation of a registry with a clinical database Variations in the way breast cancer is registered in hospitals is leading to missed cases and, as a result, may be distorting national cancer statistics - currently a principal means of identifying cancer "black spots" arou...Family history of high cholesterol often not detected until middle age
...rcholesterolaemia in routine practice: prospective registry study Families with a history of high cholesterol are being denied early treatment to reduce the risk of coronary events because they often remain undetected until middle age, according to a study in this week's BMJ. Using specialist registers and ...San Francisco study shows antiretroviral treatment continues to improve AIDS survival
... of death after AIDS. The DPH AIDS surveillance registry includes detailed follow-up information on treatment and treatment outcomes, said Schwarcz. Working with this registry, researchers have access to information on the dates and types of AIDS-defining opportunistic illnesses, CD4 test results, and the ...Recommendations for the establishment of primary stroke centers
...- Primary Stroke Centers should have a database or registry for tracking the number and type of stroke patients seen, their treatments, timeline for treatments and some measurement of patient outcome. Educational Programs -- The professional staff of a Primary Stroke Center should receive at least eight hour......ffort to gain good statistical control of a cancer registry wasan early goal. However, because one in eight Ge...nyone other than Jewsseverely disrupted the cancer registry and similar restrictions in universitiesstrongly affected research. The Penn State historia......protocol, and datais being collected in a national registry to help assess the efficacy of theapproach. "This information will help us increase our knowledge and, hopefully,feel comfortable recommending this procedure routinely in the future," added Dr.Makkar.......plasia Registry atCedars-Sinai Medical Center. The registry is the world's largest referral centerfor the diag... 10,000 people. "Information gathered through the registry is allowing us to determine thecauses of the condition and to develop methods of prevention and trea...