The material at hand allowed analyses that accounted for co-morbidity, stage at diagnosis and treatment factors.
This finding may be a result of the study design in which we varied the presence or absence of a single co-morbidity (stage III CHF).
Thus, reporting of the caries status according to CAST allows for the presentation of a pre-morbidity stage that calls for preventive actions.
Particular focus on possible social variations in lung cancer survival and assess if any such gradients can be attributed to social differences in co-morbidity, stage at diagnosis or treatment.
15 16 The present study was based on patients diagnosed as having lung cancer identified in the Thames Cancer Registry between 2006 and 2008 and aimed to examine possible social gradients in lung cancer survival and assess if any such variation can be attributed to social differences in co-morbidity, stage at diagnosis and treatment.
When variables from all five groupings were modelled together, sex, number of self-reported co-morbidities, stage at diagnosis, role and social functioning, fatigue, dyspnoea, appetite loss, HADS depression and IPQ-R consequences were all significantly predictive of QoL score (Table 3).
A lot is known about the risk factors of CIN, yet it remains a major cause of morbidity, end stage renal disease, prolonged hospital stay, and increased costs as well as a high mortality.
In summary, the baseline characteristics of the MERENA cohort provide information regarding a high level of cardiovascular morbidity in stages 3 and 4 CKD patients with a gradual increase noted when stage 3 is subdivided into stages 3a and 3b.
In spite of severe injury pattern and morbidity of staged surgery the ultimate functional outcome (FIM score) was better in staged decompression group.
Needs for care were also related to co-morbidity, later stage or undifferentiated tumour and menopausal or depressive symptoms.
