Sinusitis, pneumonia, other serious respiratory illnesses, active and intense allergies and ear infections are all good reasons not to fly, as cavities filled with fluid expand and put pressure on the brain, according Dr. Russell B. Rayman, executive director of the Aerospace Medical Association in Alexandria, Va.
The exclusion criteria were: open fractures; pathologic fractures; significant pre-existing degenerative joint disease; severe systemic illness (active cancer, chemotherapy, renal failure or other comorbidities that contraindicate surgery) or a neurological condition that would interfere with rehabilitation.
Vulnerable groups – e.g. significant cognitive impairment, severe enduring mental illness, active malignancy or other terminal illness.
In families with parental mental illness, active coping strategies (i.e., confrontation and seeking social support) were not related to internalizing and externalizing problems at time 1.
Exclusion criteria included patients with severe mental illness, active drug abuse, verbal IQ estimated from clinical records to be below 85, no valid ADHD diagnosis or not prescribed/taking ADHD medication.
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Children with any of these conditions, with acute respiratory illnesses, or active smokers were excluded from the pulmonary exams.
Participants with various illnesses, including active heart disease and poorly controlled diabetes (i.e., HbA1c >9%%), were excluded from participation; therefore, caution must be exercised regarding generalizability of these data to the overall population.
By definition, endophenotypes are features associated with a multifactorial condition, with the following properties: they are inheritable, primarily state-independent (they manifest in an individual whether or not illness is active), they cosegregate with the illness within families, and they are found in nonaffected family members at a higher rate than in the general population [ 3].
With America growing older and more people with serious illness remaining active, I suspect the "doctor in the house" call will be more frequent.
Patients were also excluded if they were elderly (over 70 years), had a history of cerebrovascular disease and ischemic heart disease, were treated with beta-blockers, had chronic obstructive lung disease, psychiatric illness, and/or active liver disease (the latter defined as serum glutamine oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT) or glutamine pyruvate transaminase (GPT) levels above 50 U/dL).
