Third, since COPD was defined by the ICD-10 code and drug usage, there is a possibility that some patients might have been misdiagnosed with COPD. We relied on our operational definition for COPD due to the absence of lung function data in the HIRA database. Nevertheless, this definition ...
while adjusting for other effects, COPD patients with high-dose ICS use had 1.085 fold-risk for osteoporosis (p-value < 0.0001), compared to no ICS use. It was showed that ICS significantly increasing chance of osteoporosis until over high-dose ICS use. Second,...
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Information on preoperative use of analgesics was retrospectively collected from electronic patient files and included acetaminophen, non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), opioids and antidepressants. Opioids included intravenous and subcutaneous administered morphine, oxycodone hydrochloride controlled-...
These individuals were randomly frequency matched with the cases by age and sex at a ratio of 1:10. Their index dates were ran- domly assigned to months and days within the same year of the index date of the patients in the CRS cohort. We excluded subjects with pre-existing ED (ICD-...
19 The matched cohort was evaluated for differences for each of the potential confounding factors, and conditional logistic regression was used to assess the association between choice of steroid use and treatment failure, while adjusting for any remaining differences between groups (P < .05). To ...
, because patients with COPD often do not die as a result of acute exacerbations of COPD or respiratory failure. More often they die as a result of cardiovascular causes, cancer, pneumonia and other related conditions. It can be challenging and difficult to decide which ICD code to use in ...
Therapy Altogether, seropositive CIDP patients typically have a poor response to IVIg and/or steroid treatments which are beneficial in other CIDP subtypes. However, seropositive CIDP patients tend to have a positive result when treated with rituximab [110, 111]. Rituximab is an antibody that ...
For this reason, we found no relationship between SDI and YLDs from asthma, counter to the expectation that increased access to treatment, particularly steroid inhalers, would impact asthma severity and hence disability. Researchers are encouraged, in future surveys, to collect information on the ...
nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs renal replacement therapy Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), used since a very long time to relieve fever, inflammation, and pain, are being investigated to determine the nature and extent of their anticancer properties. Overexpression of the inducible cyc...