Smith, MD, MS, MPH JAMA Internal Medicine Key Points Question Is an incident dementia diagnosis associated with changes in use of long-term medications? Findings In this cohort study of 266 675 Medicare Part D beneficiaries with incident dementia and 266 675 matched control indivi...
This study investigated the short- and long-term use of medication for psychological distress after the diagnosis of cancer.Wang, Cheng-HsuHuang, Lynn ChuYang, Chen-ChangChen, Chi-LiangChou, Yiing-JenqChen, Yen-YuanYang, Wei-ChihChen, Likwang...
This applied across age, sex, and IBD subtypes, although it was the most pronounced for Crohn's disease (CD). Two years before diagnosis, the IBD population had a steep increase in medication use for several organ systems. When analyzing therapeutic subgroups of medication, the CD population ...
Any child with a Z code for BMI greater than the 95th percentile also had an ICD-9 or ICD-10 code for obesity.Patient demographic characteristics (sex, race and ethnicity, and age) as described in the pooled Medicaid data set were included in the analysis. Delaware Medicaid data include ...
(HbA1c), which is a measure of long-term glycemic status and more convenient to measure for patients than fasting glucose or the 2-h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)7,8,9,10. In contemporary guidelines, any one or the combination of fasting plasma glucose (FPG), OGTT and HbA1c may ...
Mesothelioma is hard to diagnose for three distinct reasons: Long latency period: Mesothelioma has a long latency period, which means that the time between asbestos exposure and the development of symptoms or diagnosis can be several decades (typically 10-50 years). This delay makes it difficult ...
Another reason for the slow uptake may have been concern for adverse events, given the lack of understanding of the long-term safety profiles of the agents. Several insights into the treatment journey of patients with MS were gained from this study. First, the type of MS was not documented ...
Until recently, only symptomatic therapies, in the form of acetylcholine esterase inhibitors and NMDA-receptor antagonists, have been available for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. However, advancements in our understanding of the amyloid cascade hypothesis have led to a development of disease-...
Introduction Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects a large number of children and has long-term effects on their health and learning.1-3 For example, ADHD is associated with poorer quality of life and higher medical costs.2,4 Based on data from national surveys, the prevalence...
A long-term health condition can take a toll on your mental health. Peoplewith diabetes are two to three times as likely to havedepressionand 20% more likely to have anxiety than those without the condition. Many don't get diagnosed or treated, even though therapy, medication, or a combina...