Less invasive surgery effective in treatment of reflux disease
...re evaluated post-operatively using a standardized questionnaire including questions on gastrointestinal symptoms and satisfaction with surgery. "In this study, the intraoperative and postoperative complication rates were 2.1 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively, with a subsequent operation rate of 4.4 percent at...Researchers disprove 'fat redistribution syndrome' among men taking HIV drugs
...tic resonance imaging. Grunfeld stressed that the questionnaire used in the study for both self-reporting and medical examination was open-ended: it asked whether there had been a change in fat in a particular area, and if so, whether there had been a gain or a loss. This format, he said, eliminated potential bia...Higher consumption of some soy products, grains and vegetables linked to reduced risk of lung cancer
...rapy in the previous six months. A food frequency questionnaire was used to collect dietary data on intake of 12 individual phytoestrogens. "Our main findings were that patients with lung cancer tended to consume lower amounts of phytoestrogens than controls, that there were sex-specific differences both in intak...High exposure to motor oil increases chances of developing arthritis
...sed with RA, the patients were asked to complete a questionnaire regarding occupational exposure to different types...oil, form oil, hydraulic oil and asphalt. The same questionnaire was sent to controls. In total, the study included 1419 cases and 1674 controls. Only men reported h...Women heart attack sufferers face longer hospital delays than men, says new study
...land, took part in the study, completing a 25-item questionnaire for each patient admitted during the one-year study. The questionnaire used was designed with input from a panel of experts and tested out during two pilot studies. Only...Number of students in US medical schools remains constant over 10 years
...Questionnaire between 2004-2005 and 1994-1995. The questionnaire was sent to the deans of all 125 LCME-accredited medical schools. The response rate was 100 percent in both years. The authors found that the number of medical students in 1994-1995 and in 2004-2005 remained constant, at about 67,000. The number of f...Knee pain often linked to pain elsewhere in the body
...th Staffordshire, UK. Each participant completed a questionnaire that included a body manikin on which they shaded any areas where they had experienced pain for one or more days during the last month. Pain was categorized into regions, which included: knee, neck, hand, lower back, hip, and foot and ankle. Based on...Hormone patch may provide some increase in sexual desire in menopausal women
... on the basis of a woman's reports on standardized questionnaire and sexual function activity log. The researchers ...ms per day) had greater increases from baseline in questionnaire scores for sexual desire (67 percent increase over baseline compared with 48 percent increase over b...National Institutes of Health accept clinical study of Zestra(TM) for women
...e other diary questions, a subject self assessment questionnaire (Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI)®), two gl...sessment questions (GAQ), a treatment satisfaction questionnaire (WITS©), the Beck Depression Inventory, the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS), a consumer testing s...Alcohol abuse: Early diagnosis is key to treatment success
...t's clinical signs, followed by a judicious use of questionnaire tools and blood tests whenever suspicion arises. "Current methods that consist mainly of self reporting and screening for severe liver damage do not detect most cases of alcohol abuse," said Harris, "and a sensitive and specific test is needed." - ...Decrease in exercise main reason for weight gain in US girls
... 9 or 10 to 18 or 19 years. The girls were given a questionnaire on physical activity and food intake at years 1, 3, 5 and 7-10 of the study. The researchers found that the girls had a pronounced decline in physical activity while their rate of overweight and obesity doubled without a concomitantly large increase ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July 2005 (first issue)
...nding municipalities in western Norway. The first questionnaire to be mailed out contained 40 questions about resp.... A follow-up mailing 11 years later extended the questionnaire to 58 questions, adding queries on education and passive smoking. A total of 2,819 subjects returne...Postnatal depression in fathers may affect children's behavioural development
...ter the birth of their baby using a well-validated questionnaire for postnatal depression. The fathers were assesse...nd behavioural development at age 3.5 years from a questionnaire filled out by the mothers. They found that paternal depression was linked to adverse emotional and b...Survey shows that physicians are more religious than expected
... from the East and West. The survey used a 12-page questionnaire mailed to a random sample of 2,000 U.S. practicing physicians; 63 percent responded to one of three mailings. The researchers did not find evidence that religious physicians were more likely to respond that those who are not religious. Results from t...Smoking and obesity accelerate human ageing
...smokers. The participants were asked to complete a questionnaire on smoking history. Their exposure to smoking was measured as pack-years (number of cigarette packs smoked per day x number of years smoking). The investigators measured the concentrations of a body fat regulator called leptin and telomere length in ...US specialists call for heart patients to be screened for psychological distress
...arction (MI) and congestive heart failure (CHF). A questionnaire called K6[2] assessed the presence and level of psychological distress to establish whether a higher proportion of the study group experienced distress compared with the estimated prevalence among the healthy population, and if so, whether having mor...TV confuses children about which foods are healthy, new study finds
...st through third grades were asked to respond to a questionnaire that measured their nutritional knowledge, nutritional reasoning and television viewing, once at the onset of the study and again six weeks later. On average, the children reported that they watched 28 hours of television a week; there was no correla...More research funding needed to improve cancer care, oncologists say
...he society's 2004 congress in Vienna to complete a questionnaire on several possible measures. Overall, 291 oncologists from 55 countries responded. In their analysis, the investigators found that the three topics receiving highest ranking by the respondents concerned research, and two of them clinical research. ...Increased Vitamin B consumption reduces women's risk of colorectal cancer
... 67,000 women, aged 40 to 75 years, responded to a questionnaire that solicited data on diet, family history of CRC and use of dietary supplements. Researchers observed that alcohol consumption in women with low vitamin B6 intake resulted in higher risk of developing colorectal cancer and that increasing intake r...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for June 2005 (first issue)
... symptom questionnaire, a symptom checklist, and a questionnaire designed to yield demographic data. The present study was based on a stratified sample, a subset of the larger study, and an overrepresentation of risk cases for psychiatric disorder. The initial screening took place at age 19 for participants, wit...