The first child of healthy, non-consanguineous parents was referred aged one year for investigation for insensitivity to pain.
All patients had been physician referred, aged between 18 and 80 years, were lifetime non-smokers, and had a normal chest radiograph and spirometry.
EDs may easily provide the three selected variables that are rapidly available from the patients referred: age over 70 years, body core temperature above 39°C and admission after an ED visit or death in the ED.
Data were collected in a longitudinal two-wave design from 161 non-referred and referred children aged three to five years at the onset of the study.
Our use of the term "age" refers to "age at diagnosis" when not otherwise specified.
Age referred to age at time of risk calculation and was analysed using three categories: ≤65 years (younger), 66 70 years (recently retired) and ≥71 years (older).
"It refers to aging, and the sagging of your body as it ages, but yet there's a sensuality and sexuality," she said.
Young children such as Tom are unusual, but not rare: last year alone, close to 100 of those referred were aged 10 or younger.
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The study group comprised 70 consecutively referred patients aged 50 75 seeking assessment due to memory complaints.
