Malnutrition is a major problem in hospitalised older people. Many nutrition screening tools are available for malnutrition identification, however little is known about their prognostic ability. This prospective, observational study investigated the prognostic value of three nutritional screening tools in a Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit: the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), ...

BACKGROUND Young patients with poor health and a high risk of mortality from comorbid diseases have less chance of deriving a survival benefit from colorectal cancer screening. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between colorectal cancer screening, self-reported health status, and comorbidity in a cohort of young patients, defined as patients between the ages of 50 and 64 yea...

OBJECTIVE To validate the BREAS SC20 (Breas Medical AB, Mölnlyke, Sweden) polygraphic screening device, comparing it with conventional polysomnography (PSG), in the diagnosis of sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome. A validity study of the diagnostic test was carried out at the sleep clinic of a tertiary hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventy patients clinically suspected of sleep apnea-hypopnea syn...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to develop a new index as an objective reference for evaluating current and newly developed indices used for osteoporosis screening based on dental images. Its name; IDIOS, stands for Index of Dental-imaging Indices of Osteoporosis Screening. MATERIALS AND METHODS A comprehensive PubMed search was conducted to retrieve studies on dental imaging-based indices...

OBJECTIVE To examine fetal growth and perinatal outcomes in pregnancies with isolated oligohydramnios. DESIGN A cohort study. SETTING Multiple clinics and hospitals. POPULATION Low risk pregnant women. METHODS We used data from the multicentre clinical trial of Routine Antenatal Diagnostic Imaging with UltraSound (RADIUS), in which 15,151 low risk pregnant women were randomly assigned t...

INTRODUCTION Overweight and obese individuals are at increased risk for developing and dying from colorectal cancer. Studies suggest that overweight and obese women are more likely to avoid or delay cancer screening. Our objective was to determine whether overweight or obese adults aged 50 years and older living in Maryland in 2002 were less likely to be up-to-date with colorectal cancer screen...

BACKGROUND Beyond lung cancer, screening CT contains additional information on other smoking related diseases (e.g. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD). Since pulmonary function testing is not regularly incorporated in lung cancer screening, imaging biomarkers for COPD are likely to provide important surrogate measures for disease evaluation. Therefore, this study aims to determine the...

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a heterogeneous disease that can involve a variety of distinct anatomical sites including a patient's peripheral and axial joints, entheses, skin and nails. Appropriate management of PsA requires early diagnosis, monitoring of disease activity, and utilization of cutting edge therapies. To accomplish the former there are a variety of PsA-specific tools available to ...

728 Contribution of Screening and Survival Differences to Racial Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Rates Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar, Karen M. Kuntz, AmyB. Knudsen,Marjolein van Ballegooijen, Ann G. Zauber, and Ahmedin Jemal See Editorial on p. 707 737 Body Mass Index and Colon Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Nisa M. Maruthur, Shari Bolen, Kimberly Gudzune, Frederick L. Branca...

background natural disasters, both expected and unexpected, usually cause widespread injuries and destruction with a large number of survivors, including children. several studies have shown that children may develop posttraumatic stress disorder after exposure to disasters such as an earthquake. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the screening abilities of the university of california at ...