Conclusion: AF is not only associated with increased risk of stroke, but also with markedly greater disability in stroke patients.
Although staying at home might prevent you from falling, the authors of the study said it can also lead to social isolation and greater disability.
It was predicted that those persons with chronic pain who report higher AS will also report higher emotional distress and greater disability caused by chronic pain.
PTSD often co-occurs with chronic pain and other medical conditions (such as HIV) and is associated with intensified pain, greater disability, and worse medical outcomes.
For patients, the system of benefits also favors the trend toward surgery: they generally receive greater disability payments if they undergo back surgery, and higher benefits are paid for fusion operations than for discectomies.
Lower numbers indicate greater disability.
As expected, CM results in substantially greater disability than EM.
Compared to previously reported population norms, participants had more psychological difficulties, greater disability, and lower quality of life.
For each outcomes measure, scores range from 0 to 100, with a lower score indicating greater disability.
Compared to episodic migraine, chronic migraine (CM) is associated with greater disability, worse quality of life, and higher costs related to healthcare resource use (HRU).
Nonetheless, the greater disability among people with MOH was, perhaps, reflected in their lower incomes despite that they were predominantly urban-dwellers.
