INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................69 I. VISIONS OF THE FUTURE ..............................................................71 A. The Openists...........................................................................71 B. The Deregulationists...............................................................75 II. SHARED ECONOMIC FAIT...

Patients: 80 patients >75 years of age (mean age 80 y, 76% women) who were at risk of malnutrition (total Mini Nutritional Assessment [MNA] score between 17 and 23.5). Exclusion criteria: medical conditions preventing oral feeding, patients at end of life, severe dementia (Mini Mental Score ,10), clinical signs of dehydration or heart failure, and diseases requiring special dietary treatment (k...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Risk assessment before anticoagulation is important for effective stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (AF). METHODS A study was undertaken in patients with AF to investigate the contribution of clinical and echocardiography (ECHO) criteria to treatment decisions on anticoagulation. Patients were stratified by age and stroke risk; contraindications to anticoagulatio...

  Background Cough variant asthma (CVA) is a chronic or recurrent cough without wheezing accompanied by bronchial hyper-responsiveness and eosinophilic inflammation of the airways. This study aimed to evaluate the validity of spirometry in the diagnosis of CVA, as well as determining the specificity and sensitivity of spirometry parameters in CVA. Materials and Methods This descriptive observat...

This study’s aim was to report 30-day and 1-year postoperative survival, 5-year disease-specific survival (DSS) in elderly (>75 years) colorectal cancer patients. population-based registry study received patient data from the Finnish Cancer Registry. All new cases years 2006-2015 were included followed death or end of year 2016. Information on surgery national Care Register for Health (THL). Su...