Patient-centered approach can backfire
...ng questions and collaboration, discussing how the condition affects the patient emotionally, and involving pat..." style, someone who spends less time explaining a condition and seeks little patient input when it comes to treatment decisions. The study showed that when thos...Smoking may strongly increase long-term risk of eye disease
... conclude. This supports speculation that AMD is a condition with multiple etiologic factors, and such joint effects contributing to the pathogenesis (origin and development) of AMD could mirror the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease....Fluctuating eye pressure associated with visual field deterioration in glaucoma patients
...lar or molecular cause satisfactorily explains the condition in all patients, Dr. Caprioli writes. Long-term variability may disrupt homeostatic mechanisms. Irregular and large IOP fluctuations may cause a loading and unloading of stresses, and as opposed to conditions of static stress, the tissue is unable to...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...leanliness inside of the building and the physical condition of the buildings interior and exterior, as well as the condition of the furnishings in the building. Neighborhoods were rated based on noise, air quality and the co...Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
...lems. Snoring, a symptom of OSA, is a very common condition affecting nearly 40 percent of adults, and is more...and older. Periodic limb movement disorder, a condition that causes people to jerk and kick their legs every 20-40 seconds during sleep, is evident in almos...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...leanliness inside of the building and the physical condition of the building's interior and exterior, as well as the condition of the furnishings in the building. Neighborhoods and houses then were classified as fair, poor, goo...1 of 2 pediatric kidney disease research centers in world established
...of susceptibility to develop glomerular disease, a condition associated with hypertension and diabetes, which accounts for 80 percent of the patients with chronic kidney failure on dialysis. These two conditions account for medical costs of more than $19 billion per year in the U.S. alone. This information co...Drug for cluster headaches may cause heart problems
...than normal heart rates while on the drug, but the condition was severe enough to warrant stopping the use of the drug in only four cases. Goadsby noted that 217 people taking the drug were initially supposed to take part in the study, but 42 percent of them did not have the EKGs done to monitor their heart...Investigators uncover intriguing clues to why persistent acid reflux sometimes turns into cancer
... of the type found in the stomach and intestine, a condition called Barretts esophagus, explained Dr. Stuart Spechler, professor of internal medicine and senior author of the paper. Unfortunately, those acid-resistant cells are also more prone to cancer, Dr. Spechler said. Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, t...Reductive stress linked to heart disease
...s improperly into aggregrates, the hallmark of the condition in different organs, including the heart. When tha...t it harms the heart, Benjamin said. The resulting condition is called reductive stress. In a study of laboratory mice with failing hearts caused by mutant alp...Researchers find vitamin B1 deficiency key to vascular problems for diabetic patients
...st significant health problems associated with the condition are vascular complications: microvascular complications, such as damage to the kidney, retina and nerves in arms and legs; and macrovascular complications, such as heart disease and stroke. The University of Warwick researchers, led by Professor Pa...Geriatric health conditions have major effect on half of all seniors
...ny situations, they may be able to help manage the condition before it leads to disability. In the medical world, experts have debated how to categorize conditions such as the ones in this study. Some are called geriatric syndromes, while others fall outside of categories typically used by physicians. The...Novel candidate biomarker for heart failure also strongly predicts risk of death
... the infection that would be revolutionary. A condition in which the heart muscle is damaged and cannot pump blood efficiently, heart failure is a major cause of cardiac death. Diagnosis has been a challenge, since the symptoms of heart failure are similar to those of many other conditions. In recent ye...Maternal obesity prior to pregnancy associated with birth defects
...infants without birth defects: Spina bifida, a condition that occurs when part of the spinal cord is uncovered, causing incontinence and problems with mobility Heart defects Anorectal atresia, malformation of the anal opening Hypospadias, which occurs when the urethra opens on the underside instead ...ACC/AHA release revised UA/NSTEMI guidelines
...gement of patients with UA and the closely related condition of NSTEMI. The 2002 guidelines recommended an early invasive strategy diagnostic angiography and revascularization as the way to treat UA/NSTEMI patients. The revised guidelines differentiate more extensively between high- and low-risk UA/NSTEM...Inhaled nitric oxide safe for tiny preemie lungs, UCSF study finds
...s and weighing less than 2 pounds develop BPD. The condition is life-threatening, and those who survive can suffer long-term disabilities including asthma, mental retardation and cerebral palsy. The controlled, randomized clinical trial of nitric oxide was headed by Roberta Ballard, MD, UCSF professor emeri...Many heart attack patients still not getting emergency clot-busting treatment
... includes detailed information about each patients condition that can be used to determine if they would meet the criteria to receive emergency angioplasty or treatment with fibrinolytic (clot-busting) medications. But its those details that reveal the troubling gap between the number of patients who could ...Study shows radiofrequency ablation highly effective in treating kidney tumors
...ications from surgery and those with an hereditary condition that makes it likely they will require repeated treatments because of continual development of RCCs....USC law professor battles schizophrenia
...p until now, only Saks closest friends knew of her condition which she controls with daily therapy and medication. I wanted to write this book to give hope to people who suffer from schizophrenia and understanding to people who dont, said Saks, an expert in the field of mental health law who also holds f...Brief motivational interviews work best long term for college students sent to alcohol counseling
...s, we decided to use the written personal feedback condition (WF) as the comparison group for this study." White and her colleagues tracked 348 mandated students (209 males, 139 females), randomly assigned to either in-person personal feedback intervention within the context of a BMI (n=180) or WF only (n=16...