Acutely admitted medical patients have increasing one-year mortality with increasing age

Acutely admitted medical patients have increasing one-year mortality with increasing age

Methods We followed a cohort of all consecutive acutely admitted adult (15+ years) medical patients for one year after admission. The patients were admitted from October 2008 through February 2009 and February through May 2010 to the medical admission unit at Sydvestjysk Sygehus, Esbjerg. Only patients who were not Danish residents were excluded. We extracted survival status from the Danish Civ...

Laboratory risk factors for hospital mortality in acutely admitted patients.

BACKGROUND Many factors affecting hospital mortality in acutely admitted patients are poorly understood. Although scoring systems exist for critically ill patients, usually in intensive care units (ICUs), there are no specific mortality prediction systems for general acute admissions. AIM To assess the relationship between simple admission laboratory variables on the risk of in-patient mortal...

Face Growth Modeling with Increasing Age in Child and Adolescents

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to present a cranifacial growth model using anthropometry based on changes observed in the human face. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional analytical study was conducted randomly on 45 pepole, with normal face patterns.Facial and cranial ratios were measured and compared. Data was analyzed by SPSS software. The regression line and the growth coeffic...

Is asthma mortality increasing?

Increasing age at presentation for patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

An analysis of the age at first presentation was undertaken in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and mechanical back pain seen at the London Hospital department of rheumatology between 1952 and 1983. There was a significant positive correlation with the calendar year of presentation in the patients with ankylosing spondylitis but a negative correlation in those with mechanical back pain. An ...