Comorbidity - Trends
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

[Radiation therapy in elderly patients]

31 Aug 2009 Cancer is a disease that predominantly occurs in older patients who represent a quarter of the population in western countries. Numerous types of cancer are observed in elderly people. Radiotherapy is one of the most powerful treatment against ... Read more...

Trends in the age adjusted mortality from acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction in the United States (1988-2004) based on race, gender, infarct location and comorbidities.

26 Aug 2009 Treatment of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has dramatically changed over the past 2 decades. The goal of this study was to determine trends in the mortality of patients with acute STEMIs in the United States over a 16-year ... Read more...

[Ethic reflexion in the care of elderly people with cancer]

13 Aug 2009 Medical ethics is concerned with practices of care, their purposes, their feasibility. It raises questions about taking care of elderly patients with cancer. The decision criteria of exploration in search of cancer or treatment of confirmed cancer ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Comorbidity - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Radiation therapy in elderly patients] 31 Aug 2009
• Safeguarding the future of HIV/AIDS initiatives. 30 Aug 2009
• Trends in the age adjusted mortality from acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction in the United States (1988-2004) based on race, gender, infarct location and comorbidities. 26 Aug 2009
• [Ethic reflexion in the care of elderly people with cancer] 13 Aug 2009
• The German MultiCare-study: Patterns of multimorbidity in primary health care - protocol of a prospective cohort study. 9 Aug 2009
• Comorbidity of cardiovascular diseases with mood and anxiety disorder: a population based 4-year study. 30 May 2009
• Design and field procedures in the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A). 30 May 2009
• Comorbidity and its impact in adult patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a primary care perspective. 29 Apr 2009
• Stroke: the Elixhauser Index for comorbidity adjustment of in-hospital case fatality. 29 Mar 2009
• Patterns of chronic multimorbidity in the elderly population. 30 Jan 2009
• Trends in percutaneous coronary interventions in new South Wales, Australia. 10 Jan 2009
• [Comorbidity of anxiety and depression (a review of foreign literature)] 30 Dec 2008
• [Usefulness of comorbidity indices in operative gastric cancer cases] 30 Dec 2008
• Gambling, alcohol, and other substance use among youth in the United States. 30 Dec 2008
• Effect of degree of obesity on renal transplant outcome. 29 Nov 2008
• Prevalence of diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus in the French general population: the INSTANT study. 26 Nov 2008
• Guidelines for the management of chronic kidney disease. 16 Nov 2008
• The natural history and predictive features of hemorrhage from brain arteriovenous malformations. 11 Nov 2008
• The effects of study participation in the Familial Intracranial Aneurysm Study on cigarette smoking. 30 Oct 2008
• Clinical characteristics of subarachnoid hemorrhage with or without headache. 30 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Comorbidity'

Definition: The presence of co-existing or additional diseases with reference to an initial diagnosis or with reference to the index condition that is the subject of study. Comorbidity may affect the ability of affected individuals to function and also their survival; it may be used as a prognostic indicator for length of hospital stay, cost factors, and outcome or survival.

Descriptor UI: D015897

Alternative terms: Comorbidity; Comorbidities;

Allowable Qualifiers: trends;

Tree Number: N05.715.350.225; N06.850.490.687;

History Note: 90

Technical Notes: "presence of co-existing or additional diseases" in epidemiol studies: do not confuse with /compl; IM GEN only; coord NIM with both diseases /epidemiol (IM), not /compl; specify geog if pertinent