the diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) can be confirmed if at least one of the following conditions exists: a mucosal break seen on endoscopy in a patient with typical symptoms, Barrett
The hospital stay, lung function, or BODE score (a multi-dimensional 10-point scale for evaluation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) was not reported, as these were not the foci of the study, and this was an observational study exploring many variables, there was a potential risk of ...
Association of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors With Risk of Incident Obstructive Airway Disease View LargeDownload Table 4. Subgroup Analysis (by Sex) for the Association of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors With Risk of Incident Obstructive Airway Disease View LargeDownload Table 5. ...
on record (OR 1.06), number of chronic conditions (OR 1.18), number of procedures (OR 1.07), public insurance status (OR 1.39), bottom quartile median household income in patient zip code (OR 1.29), teaching hospital status (OR 1.60), and chronic perinatal respiratory disease (OR 1.45). ...
Rates of mental illnesses and sleep disorders are presented according to the status of the four symptoms, adjusting for the demographic variables, and then again adjusting for the demographic variables and gastroesophageal reflux disease, asthma, allergies, chronic sinusitis, and hypertension. This is ...
Introduction Dementia is one of the main causes of disability later in life, ahead of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and stroke [1]. There are an estimated 5.3 million Americans over the age of 65 currently living with dementia and by 2050, this number could rise as high as 16 million [...
It consists of patient related risk factors (Mallampati score of 3 or 4, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), reduced cervical spine mobility, limited mouth opening), operator related risk factors (non-anesthesiologist intubating clinicians), and indicators of disease severity (coma, severe hypoxia) (...