Objectives Interpreting the results of the CREST trial suggest that carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting are somehow equivalent in postoperative morbidity with less stroke rate in carotid endarterectomy (CEA) arm and less myocardial infarction (MI) rate in carotid stenting arm. We hypothesized ...
What is meant by environmental epidemiology? Explain what is meant by distribution in epidemiology. What is meant by veterinary epidemiology? What causes renal calculi? Explain what is meant by morbidity and mortality in epidemiology. What is meant by oral/dental epidemiology? Explain what is meant...
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Morbidityor the frequency and the extent to which a disease occurs in a population Mortality or mortality rate, which measures the number of deaths in a population that result from a specific disease or event Fertility or fertility rate, which measures the number of children born For example, d...
By definition, chronic degeneration determines the progressive loss of function or deterioration of a tissue or organ in the absence of a single causing event (e.g., an acute trauma) and is responsible for premature disability, mortality, and morbidity. This picture highlights ...
What is the major complication of a thrombus in a leg vein? What is acidosis? What is an artery and what is its function? What is coagulation? What prevents coagulation during the hematocrit test? Which blood vessel disorder do you think causes morbidity or mortality most? Explain. Explain ...
Insurers view genetic information as simply "one additional factor" to be evaluated in the underwriting process.6 For insurers, the key ethical con- sideration is a principle that might be stated as "groups with equal morbidity and mortality risk should be treated equally." This principle ...
Sepsis is a perplexing infection-related syndrome documented for thousands of years. It remains a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. The concepts and understanding of sepsis have evolved in recent decades from a systemic inflammatory response syndrome to infection to, more recently, ...
Define life expectancy and infant mortality rate and explain how they affect the population size of a country. Why is education an important predictor of mortality and illness? Summarize how schistosomiasis causes such great morbidity world...
Randomised trial of glutamine-enriched enteral nutrition on infectious morbidity in patients with multiple trauma. Lancet. 1998;352(9130):772–6. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Perez-Barcena J et al. A randomized trial of intravenous glutamine supplementation in trauma ICU patients. Intensive ...