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Simple ultrasound exam may predict osteoporosis risk
... (23.7 percent) were considered lower risk and 4,710 (76.3 percent) ... further testing can be avoided. "Heel QUS in conjunction with clinical risk factors can be used to identify a population at a very ...NYU study finds new risk factor for melanoma in younger women
... of the journal. "If this number turns out to be reproducible, it is higher than a lot of the other clinical risk factors that we know, such as blistering sunburns, freckling, and family history," ...Universal screening lowers risk of severe jaundice in infants
... of developing severe jaundice with a bilirubin level before discharge home and/or an assessment of clinical risk factors. With universal screening, researchers noted a 62 percent decrease in the ...Intensive care units' prevention of pneumonia in critically-ill patients generally strong
... Conference in Toronto. The data showed that the Mayo Clinic risk rate for VAP in intensive care ... additional disease burden to patients. Understanding the risk of VAP in all ICU settings is a step toward ...Air pollution can hinder heart's electrical functioning
... ," Gold said. "We think that our findings, which are definitely subclinical, may represent a process that increases clinical risk for people with symptomatic coronary artery disease," she said.JAMA editorial: To reduce costs of medical care, pay for procedures that are known to work
... Diagnosis Related Groups). The COURAGE trial shows that these changes would place the patient at no additional clinical risk, and the data … suggest a substantial economic savings," the authors say.Age, race are among factors that influence carotid-surgery success
... study identified 11 readily available, clinical risk factors that can help referring physicians, ... death or stroke. The NYCAS study found that the overall risk of death or stroke in the first 30 days ...Minority children waiting for heart transplants have higher death rates
... for transplant have a higher death rate than white children, even after controlling for clinical risk factors, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions ...WHO tool helps target bone treatment
... suffering a fracture, rather than relying solely on BMD, or BMD with one or more recognized clinical risk factors, it is an important milestone towards helping health professionals worldwide to ...Availability of diagnostic tests drive success in hospitalist-run short-stay units
... stays for medical conditions like low risk chest pain, but little is known about what ... what services patients will need is more important than further refining their clinical risk," added Lucas.New lab test helps predict kidney damage
... kidney 10 years ago and its translation into a clinical entity in such a short time is quite a story. ... NGAL was no more effective in predicting AKI than clinical risk factors. Ikizler notes the study ...
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