Children who had previously had tympanostomy tube surgery, who were having a concomitant procedure, or who had "at risk conditions" were more likely to be discordant.
†Such as history of previous tubes, other surgery/procedure at time of tube insertion and "at risk conditions"; the expert panel considered only the nature and magnitude of ear disease in the decision to insert tubes and not consider these extenuating circumstances.
Further, dementia is a major problem among older people living in nursing homes; Alzheimer's is also the most common at-risk condition, as it is the cause of a loss of the conscious part of mastication and nonreflex swallowing.
At-risk and high-risk were mutually exclusive categories and thus, for example, persons considered immunosuppressed due to cancer treatment were included in the high-risk category only, even if they also had an at-risk condition.
In these two age groups, 71%and79%79 %, respectively, had none of the selected chronic or immunocompromising conditions, 26 % and 19 % had ≥1 at-risk condition (and no high-risk conditions), and 3 % and 2 % had a high-risk condition.
The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth -- Ch. 29.
Finally, the mathematical dynamic systems model can be used as a screening tool, identifying persons with at risk conditions, intended here as a set of initial and parameter values that produce highly instable or decreasing trends most of the time (given a large number of simulations).
Demographic data including age, residence and at-risk conditions came from the health registries.
Diagnosis, procedure, and drug codes for algorithms identifying at-risk conditions.
Rates among adults with two at-risk conditions were generally similar to rates among adults with high-risk conditions, and rates in adults with three or more at-risk conditions were higher than those among adults with high-risk conditions.
Rates of disease and corresponding rate ratios (vs. healthy counterparts) also were calculated for at-risk persons by the number of at-risk conditions.
