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.
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].
We hypothesize that in longstanding RA, AGEs are increased due to prolonged exposure to oxidative stress and that AGE accumulation is related to endothelial activation, small artery elasticity and IMT, and to markers of disease damage.
Although Ian Rankin is clearly struggling to find ways of re‑employing the retired John Rebus, the 21st in the series, Rather Be the Devil (Orion), thoughtfully explores the strange co-dependent relationship between the cop and his longstanding rival, aging gangster "Big Ger" Cafferty.
To evaluate the Visual Function Index (VF-14) questionnaire for its effectiveness in assessing visual function in patients with longstanding exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Although most of the children whose mothers were disabled did not have a limiting longstanding health condition aged 7 years, nevertheless, there was a strong positive association between maternal and child LLI.
Conversely, higher A1C targets are recommended for patients with longstanding diabetes, advanced age, limited life expectancy, a history of macrovascular or advanced microvascular complications, extensive comorbidities, or a high risk for severe hypoglycemia (1– 5).
In the current study we found that low BMD was associated with older age, longstanding disease, syndesmophyte formation, impaired back mobility, history of coxitis, use of glucocorticoids and laboratory signs of inflammation.
Gender, marital status, home ownership, occupational grade, longstanding illness and age were all measured at the baseline measurement phase 1 (1985–1988) except for educational level - where a better measure of this was used at phase 5, and social participation - where data had only been collected at phase 5 (1997–1999).
A longstanding explanation for aging pins the blame on built-up genetic mutations activated once fertility begins to taper off.
After publication of the Mayo Clinic team's paper in Nature this month, they were approached by the Glenn Foundation, set up by the commodities trader Paul F. Glenn, who has a longstanding interest in aging research.
