Moreover, the effect size for acupuncture becomes relatively similar for the different pain conditions: 0.23, 0.16, and 0.15 against sham, and 0.55, 0.57, and 0.42 against no-acupuncture control for back and neck pain, osteoarthritis, and chronic headache, respectively (fixed effects; results ...
As a result, the formation of tightly-knit medical alliance of various levels and categories should continue to be promoted, with a division of labor, led by tertiary hospitals or hospitals with greater operational capacity, depending on local conditions. Ensuring the service qualifications of ...
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Finally, treatment narratives that celebrate HIV's long-awaited arrival as a chronic condition mask the persistence of the local and global structural conditions that produced vulnerability and infection in the past and continued suffering and poor therapeutic adherence in the present. In the end, ...
Furthermore, 22% of the participants had two or more medical conditions. Hypertension was the most common disease among the participants (35.7%), followed by diabetes (32.2%). The number of patients with polypharmacy (defined as taking two or more medications per day [19]) was 363 (74.86%...
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CMS’ publicly available data sets6can provide insight into the current state of chronic conditions7in Medicare: beneficiaries with two or more chronic conditions represent 94 percent of Medicare expenditures, despite only being 68 percent of member...
In a randomized clinical trial with 1-year follow-up, we compared PRT with both open-label placebo and usual care control conditions. We tested hypothesized mechanisms of PRT with mediation analyses and longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during spontaneously occurring and evoked ...
This test was performed under standard light conditions (~82 lux), and an increase in the percentage of open-arm entries (open/total) and the percentage of open-arm time (open/open + closed) indicates a decrease in anxiety-like behavior. Social approach-avoidance (SAA) test: This test ...
Fatigue is barrier of physical activity participation in adults with chronic conditions. However, physical activity alleviates fatigue symptoms. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to (1) synthesise evidence from randomised controlled trials (