Browsing by Subject "Comorbidity"
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Impact of poor mental health in adult spinal deformity patients with poor physical function: a retrospective analysis with a 2-year follow-up.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2017-01)OBJECTIVE Mental disease burden can have a significant impact on levels of disability and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures. Therefore, the authors investigated the significance of mental health status in adults ... -
Impact of preoperative depression on 2-year clinical outcomes following adult spinal deformity surgery: the importance of risk stratification based on type of psychological distress.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2016-10)OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to isolate whether the effect of a baseline clinical history of depression on outcome is independent of associated physical disability and to evaluate which mental health screening ... -
Index of suspicion. Case 1: Lymphadenopathy, prolonged hematuria, proteinuria, and weight loss in a teenage boy. Case 2: Red, Swollen, painful eye in a 12-year-old boy with methylmalonic acidemia. Case 3: Ptosis and diplopia after a respiratory infection in a 7-year-old girl.
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Influence of comorbid alcohol and psychiatric disorders on utilization of mental health services in the National Comorbidity Survey.
(The American journal of psychiatry, 1999-08)OBJECTIVE: This study sought to determine how comorbidity of psychiatric and substance abuse disorders affects the likelihood of using mental health services. METHOD: The analysis was based on data on adults aged 18-54 years ... -
Infrequent illicit methadone use among stimulant-using patients in methadone maintenance treatment programs: a national drug abuse treatment clinical trials network study.
(The American journal on addictions, 2008-07)We sought to determine the prevalence, patterns, and correlates of past-month illicit methadone use and history of regular illicit use among stimulant-using methadone maintenance treatment patients. We obtained self-reported ... -
Medical cost trajectories and onsets of cancer and noncancer diseases in US elderly population.
(Comput Math Methods Med, 2011)Time trajectories of medical costs-associated with onset of twelve aging-related cancer and chronic noncancer diseases were analyzed using the National Long-Term Care Survey data linked to Medicare Service Use files. A special ... -
Misuse of methamphetamine and prescription stimulants among youths and young adults in the community.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2007-07)Gender differences in the prevalence and characteristics of misuse of methamphetamine (meth) and prescription stimulants were examined in a representative US sample of youths and young adults aged 16-25 (N=24,409).Stimulant ... -
Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance and Multiple Myeloma in Older Adults.
(Clin Geriatr Med, 2016-02)Multiple myeloma (MM) and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) are plasma cell disorders of aging. The landscape of the diagnosis and management of MM and MGUS are rapidly changing. This article provides ... -
Morbidity risks among older adults with pre-existing age-related diseases.
(Exp Gerontol, 2013-12)Multi-morbidity is common among older adults; however, for many aging-related diseases there is no information for U.S. elderly population on how earlier-manifested disease affects the risk of another disease manifested ... -
Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials.
(Nature communications, 2021-04-15)Substantial COVID-19 research investment has been allocated to randomized clinical trials (RCTs) on hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine, which currently face recruitment challenges or early discontinuation. We aim to estimate ... -
Multicomorbidity of chronic diseases and substance use disorders and their association with hospitalization: Results from electronic health records data.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2018-11)BACKGROUND:Chronic diseases are prevalent and the leading causes of mortality. Comorbidity of substance use disorders (SUDs) and chronic diseases is understudied to inform behavioral healthcare integration. OBJECTIVES:This ... -
One-year and three-year mortality prediction in adult major blunt trauma survivors: a National Retrospective Cohort Analysis.
(Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine, 2018-04-18)Survivors of trauma are at increased risk of dying after discharge. Studies have found that age, head injury, injury severity, falls and co-morbidities predict long-term mortality. The objective of our study was to build ... -
Panic attacks and suicide attempts in mid-adolescence.
(The American journal of psychiatry, 1999-10)OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the association of panic attacks and suicide attempts in a community-based sample of 13-14-year-old adolescents. METHOD: The data are from a survey of 1,580 students in ... -
Patients with spinal deformity over the age of 75: a retrospective analysis of operative versus non-operative management.
(European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society, 2016-08)<h4>Purpose</h4>The goal of the present study was to compare the outcomes of operative and non-operative patients with adult spinal deformity (ASD) over 75 years of age.<h4>Methods</h4>A retrospective review of a multicenter ... -
Patterns in blood pressure medication use in US incident dialysis patients over the first 6 months.
(BMC Nephrol, 2013-11-12)BACKGROUND: Several observational studies have evaluated the effect of a single exposure window with blood pressure (BP) medications on outcomes in incident dialysis patients, but whether BP medication prescription patterns ... -
Phobic anxiety and increased risk of mortality in coronary heart disease.
(Psychosom Med, 2010-09)OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether phobic anxiety is associated with increased risk of cardiac mortality in individuals with established coronary heart disease (CHD) and to examine the role of reduced heart rate variability ... -
Physical Activity, Central Adiposity, and Functional Limitations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
(J Geriatr Phys Ther, 2016-04)BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Obesity and physical inactivity are independently associated with physical and functional limitations in older adults. The current study examines the impact of physical activity on odds of physical ... -
Preoperative predictors of extended hospital length of stay following total knee arthroplasty.
(J Arthroplasty, 2015-03)The purpose of this study was to identify the preoperative predictors of hospital length of stay after primary total knee arthroplasty in a patient population reflecting current trends toward shorter hospitalization and ... -
Prescription pain reliever abuse and dependence among adolescents: a nationally representative study.
(Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2008-09)We examined the prevalence, patterns, and correlates of adolescents' abuse, subthreshold dependence ("diagnostic orphans"), and dependence on prescription pain relievers (PPRs) such as opioids in a representative national ... -
Prevalence and correlates of treatment utilization among adults with cannabis use disorder in the United States.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2017-08)The increase in cannabis potency may have treatment implications for cannabis use disorder (CUD). Given the reported increase in prevalence of cannabis use among adults, there is a need to understand substance use treatment ...
