Students with symptoms of mental illness often don't seek help
...berg said. The study found that one of the biggest predictors of whether a student sought help was socioeconomic background---students who reported growing up in poor families were almost twice as likely not to seek help. Poor students were also much more prone to symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders. ...Extended duration work shifts risky to the safety, well-being of medical interns, patients
...ion shifts worked in a month were both significant predictors of stress. Compared to months in which no extended duration shifts were worked, interns working five or more extended duration shifts had seven times greater odds of reporting at least one fatigue-related significant medical error that resulted in a...Antidepressant does not improve symptoms in advanced cancer patients without major depression
...mood, fatigue, and quality of life are significant predictors of survival in patients with advanced cancer. Although the simple explanation for this is that people close to death get very depressed, two previous small randomised trials showed substantial survival benefits with psychological treatments aimed to ...Protein may be linked to melanoma recurrence
...term. The goal of our study was to identify better predictors of who will benefit most from treatment with interferon and who is most at risk of their cancer returning. The study also found that patients who survived longer showed increased evidence of an autoimmune response to treatment with interferon. Aut...Predicting the quality of life for older adults
... in Nursing & Health, has uncovered that there are predictors of quality of life for older adults. A replication study of 432 older adults was undertaken to validate a model of quality of life generated in an earlier study on a random sample of older adults. The replicated study indicated that financial resou...New insights into chronic inflammation and atherosclerosis
...atory rheumatic disease and smoking as independent predictors of vessel wall inflammation. The vascular inflammation might be a factor that promotes atherosclerosis and the formation of aneurysms. Aortic samples were obtained during CABG surgery, performed at two cardiac centers in Norway, from 66 patie...ICU nurse working conditions linked to increase in patient infections
... Magnet status and wages also were not significant predictors for poor patient outcomes. ...NHLBI Asthma Clinical Research Networks and ALA ACRC Network to present at ATS 2007
...he study, with more in-depth information about the predictors of response to inhaled steroids and long-term changes in the physiology of the lung. Wayne Morgan, M.D., of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson, who will be presenting new data at the ATS meeting, comments, The question was, ...New doctors' test kit to help prevent debilitating osteoporosis
...orotic fractures and that bone and weight loss are predictors of poor health outcomes," said Professor Eisman. "We have also debunked the myth that osteoporosis is an elderly womens disease. Both men and women lose bone as they get older and 25-30 per cent of men will have an osteoporotic fracture in their li...New research supports early testing for prostate cancer
...hological stage and surgical margins are important predictors of prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy. Cancers detected in a PSA-screening population from Tyrol, Austria, had a statistically significant lower rate of extracapsular extension and positive surgical margins than those found in ...Psychosocial support for cancer survivors needs strengthening
...those with lung and skin cancers. Interestingly, predictors of use were similar across various cancer sites and included female gender, Caucasian race, higher education level, and symptoms of depression or anxiety. Younger age and urban residence did not predict support group use. While physical functional st...Curb the pocket money, curb the problem drinking
... older siblings and adults outside shops were also predictors of risky drinking, according to the study published today in Online Open Access journal Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. Teenagers who were members of youth groups or who had alcohol bought for them by parents were more likely to dr...Other highlights in the May 2 JNCI
...ing lung cancer risk with a minimal number of risk predictors that is realistic to use in clinical practice and to validate the model in an independent sample from the same population. In our experience, patients are agreeable to completing health questionnaires, either self-administered or administered by pers...Pistachios lower cholesterol, provide antioxidants
....2 percent. Non-HDL levels are considered reliable predictors of cardiovascular disease risk. The three-ounce pistachio diet also decreased the ratios of total cholesterol to HDL, LDL to HDL and non-HDL to HDL and apolipoprotein B, which are all measures of cardiovascular disease risk. "We were pleased to see...Chance of hysterectomy predicted by multi-year study
... Learman said. The study found three independent predictors of a patient's chance of having a hysterectomy: a ...a combination of symptoms as well as the two other predictors a lack of symptom resolution and previous use of GNRH agonist led to a 95 percent chance. Subgro...Racial disparities seen in male breast cancer survival
...ers at Columbia University analyzed race and other predictors of treatment and survival among 510 men over 65 diagnosed with stage I-III breast cancer between 1991 and 2002. The researchers found five-year survival rates of approximately 90% among 456 white men and 66% among 34 African-American men. "Racia...Benchmark fetal surgery study finds timeliness to be critical factor in success of treatment
... Crombleholme and his colleagues did find were two predictors of success. One was the stage of severity of TTTS. The other was the echocardiographic findings of heart failure. Fetal echocardiography, which is not done routinely in TTTS in most centers, should be done whenever a patient is diagnosed, accordin...Psychological effects of heart surgery examined
... field. The results raise the question as to which predictors influence the psychological status of patients with operated congenital heart defects. ...Risk for stroke, death not higher for sickle cell children with early complications
...ndings are an important step in trying to identify predictors that reveal how the mysterious disease will progress as children age, said Dr. Charles Quinn, assistant professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern and the study's lead author. "Everybody who has sickle cell disease is affected differently by the di...... socially that may impact how they drink, and the predictors and consequences of their drinking behavior." "These findings provide critical clarification of the relationship between alcohol consumption and depression that will be essential for future research intended on identifying causal directions and mech...