In this context, the term ‘essential’ reflects the original view that the condition was thought to be constitutional-‘of the essence’. Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005 Huchard, Henri, French physician, 1844-1910. Huchard disease - hypertension that occurs...
37 million people in the United States are living with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The term “chronic kidney disease” means lasting damage to the kidneys that can get worse over time.If the damage is very bad, your kidneys may stop working. This is called kidney failure, or end-stage ...
Although in the literature the term Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is used interchangeably with EHR, they refer to different information models. More specifically, EMR is a record created in the hospital information system or ambulatory environment, which can be included into the EHR [66,67]. ...
Dialysis is just one facet of a comprehensive treatment approach for ESRD. Although dialysis treatment is very effective in removing toxins and fluids from the body, there are several functions of the kidney it cannot mimic, such as regulating high blood pressure and red blood cell production. Pa...
BACKGROUND:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing global health concern. Chronic pain, as a common symptom of CKD, particularly among patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), is influenced by complications, dialysis procedures, and comorbidities.
Caffeine can bring on the jitters, but there is no evidence that it can cause long-term hypertension. However, a caffeinated beverage might bring on a temporary rise in blood pressure. It is possible that caffeine could block a hormone that helps keep arteries widened, which causes blood press...
We modeled heritability under additive genetic model with phenotype adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and common environment (approximated by a term that used the mother ID as the household ID). We used SOLARStrap, a repeated subsampling procedure in which each subsampled set of families ...
IVP Intravenous pyelogram IVPB Intravenous Piggyback (i.v. short term infusion) IVU Intravenous urogram IVUS Intravascular ultrasoundJAbbrev.Meaning JCV John Cunningham virus JEV Japanese encephalitis virus JIA Juvenile idiopathic arthritis JMS Junior medical student, aka MS-3 JODM Juvenile-onset diabetes...
Short-term health insurance plans often rely on post-claims underwriting, which means that the process of combing through medical records happens after a person is enrolled in the coverage and has a claim, as opposed to happening before the policy is issued. If the post-claims underwriting proce...
Many of these devices remain investigational and large-scale studies are underway to collect sufficient long-term data to validate these various applications as viable alternatives to surgery in the initial treatment of selected patients. The FDA is requiring that both Nitinol Medical Technologies, Inc...