BACKGROUND Sudden emotions may interfere with mechanisms for keeping balance among the elderly. The aim of this study is to analyse if emotional stress and specifically feelings of anger, sadness, worries, anxiety or stress, can trigger falls leading to hip or pelvic fracture among autonomous older people. METHODS The study applied the case-crossover design and was based on data gathered by f...

This paper reports on Task 2 of the 2016 CLEF eHealth evaluation lab which extended the previous information extraction tasks of ShARe/CLEF eHealth evaluation labs. The task continued with named entity recognition and normalization in French narratives, as offered in CLEF eHealth 2015. Named entity recognition involved ten types of entities including disorders that were defined according to Sem...

BY LAUREN DEWITT AND BRAD BALDWIN W ith little more than a year before the mandated shift from the International Classification of Diseases, 9 Revision, (ICD-9) to the International Classification of Diseases, 10 Revision, Clinical Modification and Procedure Coding System, (ICD10-CM and ICD-10-PCS, respectively), on October 1, 2014, all entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and A...

Health data and knowledge had been structured through medical classifications and taxonomies long before ontologies had acquired their pivot status of the Semantic Web. Although there is no consensus on a common definition of an ontology, it is necessary to understand their main features to be able to use them in a pertinent and efficient manner for data mining purposes. This chapter introduces...

PURPOSE In Bulgaria, there are over 3700 cases diagnosed with breast cancer annually and over 3300 with gynecological cancers. The purpose of this study was to estimate the burden of breast and gynecological cancers in Bulgaria, analyzing trends of incidence, mortality and survival for the past two decades. METHODS Data from the Bulgarian National Cancer Registry for women diagnosed with canc...

PARTICIPANTS, METHODS, AND RESULTS In a cohort of 14 193 men and women born in Uppsala in 1915–1929, we studied the associations of fetal growth rate and length of gestation with the risk of death from ischaemic heart disease (ICD 7: 420–422; 8 and 9: 410–414; 10: I20–25) and cerebrovascular disease (ICD 7: 330–334; 8 and 9: 430– 438, 10: I60–69). Occlusive strokes include ICD7: 332–334, ICD8: ...

OBJECTIVE There is evidence that multiple sclerosis (MS) is not only characterized by immune mediated inflammatory reactions but also by neurodegenerative processes. Neutralization of oxidative stress and excitotoxicity, might represent a therapeutic approach to provide neuroprotection in MS. The purpose of this study was to compare changes in total antioxidative status and activities of chosen...

AIM To assess the change in admission rates for all Lower Respiratory Infection (LRI) including pneumonia for children resident in Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) with the introduction of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine 7 valent (PCV7) in June 2008. METHOD National Minimum dataset ICD10 coded LRI admissions to any NZ hospital August 2001-July 2011 for children <2 year reside...

Two outpatient clinic samples of patients were selected randomly during the period from January 1994 till the end of March 1994. Both of them were chosen from private hospital one is Cairo, Egypt. The second in A1 Khobar, Eastern province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The first sample consisted of 45 Egyptian patients and the second sample consisted of 83 Saudi patient. Their inclusion criter...

The long-term clinical outcomes of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) recipients across New Zealand are unknown. This study provides a detailed analysis ICD in over the past decade. All patients with an implant between 2010 and 2019 were identified using National Minimum Dataset, which collects all public hospital admissions International Statistical Classification Diseases Related He...