Our primary aim is to investigate the natural course of smoking behavior in a long term follow-up study with alcohol-dependent patients who completed an inpatient treatment program. A sample of 139 out of originally 190 patients was successfully followed up 7 years after index alcohol treatment...
Long-term adherence to antiosteoporosis medication (AOM) in the setting of a fracture liaison service (FLS) are not well known. Patients ≥ 50 with hip fracture seen in an FLS and recommended for treatment to prevent new fractures were analyzed. Baseline data included demographics, identifica...
sex differences among FEP patients through several outcome measures (clinical, functioning, cognition, and treatment); and to confirm/disconfirm if the positive effects achieved through treatment in an EIS may similarly last long-term for males and females once they are transferred to regular care. ...
We defined overdose or withdrawal events as emergency department visits or inpatient hospital admissions for any drug overdose, alcohol intoxication, or drug withdrawal. These events were identified by diagnosis codes included in the all-drug overdose definition specified in CDC drug overdose surveillance...
In addition, this is the first study to explore the long-term effect of patient adherence (1-year), and finds that the patient adherence during concentrated exposure treatment predicts long-term OCD symptom outcomes. These findings suggest that patient adherence is an important factor with lasting...
Type 2 diabetes has traditionally been a risk factor for worse prognosis after myocardial infarction (MI), but major advances have been made in its treatment, and the use of secondary preventive measures has intensified. We evaluated the short- and long-term mortality rates of patients with type...
The long-term effects of ADHD medications were never studied long-term before approval of medications was granted. But over time, studies have revealed much on the subject. Some of the most common problems are listed below. There can be many other problems connected with the long-term use of...
Long duration of episode before entry into the study, inpatient hospitalization status at entry, intact marriage, low family income, admitting research center, and a history of nonaffective psychiatric disorders (including alcoholism) predicted a chronic course. The implications of these findings for ...
diabetes were identified in inpatient and outpatient data using the Elixhauser Comorbidity Index and were coded into 15 dummy variables,26 excluding those comorbidities that overlapped with our outcome variable (eg, nephropathy) or a main comparison by MH or SU disorders (eg, alcohol use disorder)....
In NAFLD, long-term lifestyle interventions exert an anti-obesity effect and attenuate liver dysfunction and steatosis. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a term encompassing a spectrum of clinical liver abnormalities rang- ing from simple hepatic steatosis without biochemical liver dysfunction...