For women, but not men, there was a significant decrease in utility scores with increasing BMI, when adjusted for age and longstanding illness.
In addition to low health literacy, sex, age, limiting longstanding illness, limited activities of daily living, cancer, smoking, physical activity, and the cognitive measures of fluency and time orientation were significant predictors of mortality (see table in appendix 3).
Kenneth I. Appel, who helped usher the venerable mathematical proof into the computer age, solving a longstanding problem concerning colors on a map with the help of an I.B.M. computer making billions of decisions, died on April 19 in Dover, N.H.
Her bone mineral density was at the upper limit of normal for her age despite probable longstanding glucocorticoid excess.
The patient had multiple risk factors for vascular disease including age, diabetes mellitus, longstanding essential hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity.
It seems plausible that mild pre-eclampsia in late pregnancy would have little potential for fetal brain injury, whereas pre-eclampsia accompanied by small for gestational age reflects a longstanding ischaemic intrauterine environment, which well could result in brain injury and subsequently cerebral palsy in the child.
A longstanding, age-related national policy in Greece regarding hospital admission criteria is shown to be a detrimental influence on ward admission for stroke patients.
This could start with the introduction of the simple validated GP Physical Activity Questionnaire GPPAQQ) for patients aged 16 74 years without longstanding illness or disability.
While advanced maternal age has been a longstanding topic of research (van Katwijk and Peeters, 1998), advanced paternal age has only recently captured the interest of researchers (ESHRE Capri Workshop Group, 2005).
In RA patients, risk factors include active longstanding disease, age, country of origin, history of exposure to a person with tuberculosis, concomitant use of immunomodulators, and disease activity [ 23].
