Delineation of neonatal outcomes by delivery gestational age is needed to further clarify the continuum of mortality and morbidity frequencies among preterm neonates.
Menke et al. [ 14] reported a co-morbidity of 28.1% in patients older than 80 years, and Wolters et al. [ 8] incidences of 49% for hypertension, 18% for coronary heart disease, and 39% for pulmonary disease, equivalent to our total co-morbidity frequency of 80%, compared to 55% in the younger patient group (p = 0.0001).
We therefore focussed on these health areas of particular relevance to general practice when investigating the association between morbidity and frequency of patient visits to a GP.
Our hypotheses that age, gender, low income, co-morbidity, pain frequency and severity and memory loss would be associated with depressed mood in those experiencing pain were not confirmed.
Postpartum hemorrhage, a major cause of maternal death and severe maternal morbidity, increased in frequency in Canada between 1991 and 2004.
Peri-operative morbidity (experimental arm): Frequency and kind of peri-operative complications after resection of the primary tumour until post-operative day 30 (Visit 2a).
In Bonomo et al.'s [ 20] study of Australian 16 17-year-olds 16 17-year-olds 16 17-year-oldsking, psychiatric morbidity and high frequency of alcohol consexualon had strong independent associations.
As morbidity increases in frequency with age it would be very restrictive to include solely those studies which include only participants who are free from any disease, therefore studies will be included provided the subjects have been recruited in a way that did not pre-dispose to morbidity being more prevalent than in the general population (e.g. from a diabetes clinic).
MDS patients have a 20-30% probability of progression to AML and a 40-65% probability of death due to complications and co-morbidities, with the frequency depending on age and comorbidities [1].
Along with medical co-morbidities, an increased frequency of prenatal and perinatal complications has been reported in children with ASD [44].
The patients who experienced lower HRQL described co-morbidities, a higher frequency of stigma fears, self-reported adverse symptoms and were more likely to be on disability pensions.
