Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performedto characterize differences in in-hospital mortality, length of stay(LOS), and charges for OLT between patients with and without morbid obesity after adjusting for significant confounders. Additionally, propensity matching was performed to further ...
(The term “morbid obesity” is now considered archaic and overly stigmatizing. Translation: Don’t use it to describe yourself or others.) Contrary to popular thought, people don’t choose to develop obesity; most people don’t wake up one morning and think, “Hey, today is a good day...
Obesity, an epidemic in children in the United States and abroad, is associated with risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Less is known about the consequences of morbid obesity in children. In the rural Appalachian population, obesity rates have reached such high proportions that it is...
Similarly, the fourth pattern {327.23,278.01} contains the diagnosis codes of “obstructive sleep apnea (adult) (pediatric)” and “morbid obesity”, which are correlated, since obstructive sleep apnea is a common comorbidity in obese patients. These results suggest that using allConfidence is an ...
To determine the sensitivity and specificity of standard electrocardiographic criteria for left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) hypertrophy in morbid obesity, resting electrocardiograms and M-mode echocardiograms were obtaine... A Nath,MA Alpert,BE Terry,... - 《American Journal of Cardi...
This is particularly problematic in COPD, which can easily be misdiagnosed in patients with heart failure, asthma, bronchitis, vocal cord dysfunction, sleep apnea, and morbid obesity [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]. The burden of COPD related care in emergency departments (ED) and hospitals ...
Obesity represents a major health burden to both developed and developing countries. Furthermore, the incidence of obesity is increasing in children. Obesi
Early diagnosis and intervention of Prader-Willi syndrome Prader-Willi syndrome(PWS)is a genomic imprinting defective disorder associated with chromosome15 q11-q3 region.Morbid obesity and its complications,as wel... XP Luo,SJ Jin,DO Pediatrics,... 被引量: 0发表: 2018年 Diagnosis in Prader-Will...
Morbid obesityis a condition wherein people are overweight by 45 kilos to what is normal for their age and sex. The prevalence of obesity has increased sharply since the mid seventies especially in the developed countries. In fact, obesity has become so rampant that more children and teenagers...
(flattened affect,avolition,alogia, asociality), and premorbid social functioning. Also discussed is the development of structured psychiatric interviews that emerged from the clinical/research context that gave rise to explicit (i.e. operational) diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. The general ...