Housden MM, Bell G, Heycock CR, Hamilton J, Saravanan V, Kelly CA. How to reduce morbidity and mortality from chest infections in rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Med (Lond) 2010; 10: 326-329.How to reduce morbidity and mortality from chest infections in rheumatoid arthritis. Housden MM,Bell G...
Morbidity and mortality from pneumonia is increased in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Factors contributing to this have been recently identified and a number of recommendations have been implemented in an attempt to reverse this trend. The present paper shows that these measures have combined to ...
People often confuse morbidity (rates) with mortality (rates). Although they sound the same, they are different. While morbidity rates refer to the frequency of disease and illness in a certain area, themortalityrate is used to describe the frequency of death in a population. Mortality is the...
Advantages of MRI as compared to CT or catheter angiography include: noninvasive and radiation-free imaging modality, anatomic assessment of the aortic valve for identifying congenital valvular abnormalities, performing planimetry to calculate aortic valve area, visualization of cardiac structures, character...
Research shows that triglyceride levels helppredictcardiovascular disease, a principal cause of morbidity and mortality in Western society. People with high triglycerides may be at significant risk for cardiovascular disease even if their LDL cholesterol levels are at goal. ...
Morbidity | Definition, Rate & Calculation from Chapter 6 / Lesson 23 64K Learn what morbidity is and how the morbidity rate is calculated. Understand what morbidity vs mortality is and how morbidity is measured using incidence and prevalence. Related...
HIV remains a major cause of preventable morbidity and mortality with 100000 new infections and an estimated 62000 deaths in 2011. At the same time unhealthy alcohol consumption is an important risk factor for HIV acquisition and progression. Kenya has one of the highest rates of unhealthy alcohol...
associate professor of radiology At Weill Cornell Medicine, told Katie Couric Media in 2022. But the good news is that “the best thing we have found to decrease mortality, as well as morbidity, is undergoing annual screening mammograms starting at age 40 for average-risk women and doing it ...
Physical activity is recognized as a factor that leads to lower morbidity and mortality from various causes, as well as weight control [5]. Physical activity improves several health indicators such as blood pressure, resting heart rate, waist circumference, visceral fat, insulin sensitivity, leptin ...
is generating an increase in morbidity and mortality due to cancer and other pathologies occurring in the last years of life [2]. The social reaction to this phenomenon is aggravated by the new family dynamics where the availability of informal caregivers is limited, attributable to changes in so...