EBCT [electron beam CT] scanning for coronary calcium for either the presence of severe [coronary artery stenosis] or the prediction of [coronary heart disease] events in adults at increased risk for coronary heart disease.” The USPSTF reaffirmed their position in 2009, stating that the evidence...
Policy to screen young athletes The AHA and ESC both advocate PPS of young athletes on ethical, medical and legal grounds. However, they differ in that the AHA recommends taking a thorough medical and family history along with a physical examination, whereas the ESC recommends routine addition of...
To test therapeutic benefits of rTMS on PD, the patient performed an emotional Stroop task (Williams et al., 1996), in which 12 panic-related and 12 neutral words were displayed on a screen in one of three colours (red, blue, green). The patient had to indicate the color of the word...
Secondary end points included cardiovascular mortality or cardiac transplantation; an arrhythmic composite of SCD or aborted SCD (appropriate ICD shock, non-fatal ventricular fibrillation, or sustained ventricular tachycardia); and a composite of heart failure (HF) death, HF hospitalization, or cardiac ...
The patients were divided into two groups based on presence or absence of CKD as secondary diagnosis using ICD-10 codes. The primary outcome was inpatient mortality. Multivariate logistic and linear regression analysis was used accordingly to adjust for confounders (A univariate screen was done to ...
A survival benefit from ICD therapy has not been proven; however, among ATTR-CA patients with an ICD, appropriate shocks/therapies have been reported. There is limited utility of ICDs for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death. Features limiting potential benefit in primary prevention include: ...
In a cost-effectiveness model, screening was associated with a reduction in ICD implantation by 21%, resulting in a number needed to screen to prevent 1 ICD implantation of 5. Consequently, costs per patient were reduced by US$5500 and US$13,431 over 2 and 10 years, respectively, in ...
In a cost-effectiveness model, cardiac 123I-mIBG screening in CHF patients was associated with a reduction in ICD implantation by 21%, resulting in a number needed to screen to prevent 1 ICD implantation of 5. Consequently, compared to no cardiac 123I-mIBG screening costs per patient were ...
Cardiovascular event data will be collected based on data linkage using ICD-10 [65] based hospital separation coding for CVD. This will included a diagnosis code range I20–I25 and procedure code blocks 669–679, reflecting the methodology of McDermott et al. [16]. All cause and cardiovascular...
By using ML to screen variables and establish prediction models, adverse factors for patients with CA can be identified at the early stage of admission to the ICU, and corrected as soon as possible to improve the prognosis of patients. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a...