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    One-Year Mortality Remains High In Patients With Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis, No Si

    Prosthetic valve endocarditis (inflammation and infection involving the heart valves and lining of the heart chambers) remains associated with a high one-year mortality rate and early valve replacement does not appear to be associated with lower mortality compared with medical therapy according...
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    Mortality Among US White Women: Study Helps Explain Growing Education Gap

    Less-educated white women were increasingly more likely to die than their better-educated peers from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s, according to a new study, which found that growing disparities in economic circumstances and health behaviors - particularly employment status and smoking...
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    Mortality Risk Among Heart Failure Patients Increased By Mild Hypothyroidism

    Patients with underlying heart failure are more likely to experience adverse outcomes from mild hypothyroidism, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Hypothyroidism occurs when an underactive thyroid...
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    Hospital Mortality In Septic Shock Patients In The ICU Affected By Source Of Infectio

    In ICU patients who have septic shock, the anatomic source of infection has a strong effect on the chances of survival, according to a new study from researchers in Canada. "Understanding the local infection source in patients with septic shock may influence treatment strategies and clinical...
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    Infant Mortality Rates Decline, USA

    After a 5-year plateau, the infant mortality rate in the USA dropped 12% from 2005 to the end of 2011, says a new "NCHS Data Brief" issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Reductions for post-neonatal and neonatal mortality were similar. Infant mortality is a major...
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    Alzheimer's - Galantamine Reduces Mortality

    A recent study finds that galantamine has a much lower mortality rate among patients with mild to moderately severe Alzheimer's disease compared to placebo. The findings were presented at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 51st Annual Meeting in Hollywood, and come from a study...
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    Treatment Delay For Advanced Breast Cancer Increases Mortality Risk

    Results from a new study conducted by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC-James) show women who wait more than 60 days to begin treatment for advanced breast cancer face...
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    Bladder Cancer Mortality Increased By Depression And Shortened Telomeres

    The combination of shortened telomeres, a biological marker of aging associated with cancer development, and elevated depression significantly impacted bladder cancer mortality, according to data presented at the 11th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention...
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    Heart Attack Mortality Risk Greater For People With Schizophrenia

    The risk of death resulting from heart attack is higher in people with schizophrenia than in the general public, according to scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). On average, people with schizophrenia have a...
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    Drug, Alcohol Problems Associated With Mortality In Younger Veterans With PTSD, Inclu

    Veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who are also battling drug or alcohol problems face a higher risk of death, according to new research from the University of Michigan Health System and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. The new study is the first to examine the association...
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    Improved Treatment Reduces Mortality After AMI

    The analysis of four French registries from 1995 to 2010 was presented by Professor Nicolas Danchin from the Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou. Cardiologists recognize two types of myocardial infarction... More...
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    Hypothermia In Trauma Victims Increases Mortality Risk

    Hypothermia in trauma victims is a serious complication and is associated with an increased risk of dying. A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care has found that the key risk factor was severity of injury. However, environmental conditions and medical care...
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    Maternal Mortality From Malaria Dramatically Reduced By Frequent Antenatal Screening

    Frequent antenatal screening has allowed doctors to detect and treat malaria in its early stages on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, dramatically reducing the number of deaths amongst pregnant women. In an analysis of 25 years' worth of data, in 50,981 women, from antenatal clinics at the...
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    Measuring Liver Stiffness Can Predict Liver Failure, Cancer And Mortality In Cirrhoti

    Researchers from Spain established that liver stiffness, measured by transient elastography (TE), is an independent predictor of liver failure, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and mortality in cirrhotic patients coinfected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immune deficiency...
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    Association Between Sleep Disordered Breathing And Increased Risk Of Cancer Mortality

    Sleep disordered breathing (SDB), which is associated with an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events and psychopathological outcomes, is also associated with an increased risk of cancer mortality, according to a new study. "Recent in vitro and animal studies have shown that repeated...
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    People With High Blood Pressure Can Reduce Their Mortality Risk By Exercising

    In the study, all-cause and CVD mortality risks were found to be significantly higher among study participants that didn't exercise compared with active participants at all blood pressure levels. Moreover, the excess mortality risks of physical inactivity, when converted into a "blood pressure...
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    Heart Failure Patients On Hypertensive Drugs Have No Higher Mortality Risk

    A new study of 6,500 patients, published in the April 11 issue of JAMA, shows that losartan, a primary drug for hypertension, is not linked to a higher all-cause death or cardiovascular death, in comparison with ARB candesartan. Observational studies had indicated that losartan was likely to be...
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    Lower Mortality Rates For Emergency Patients In Higher-Spending Hospitals

    Higher-spending hospitals do have better outcomes for their emergency patients, including fewer deaths, according to a Vanderbilt study released as a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research. Vanderbilt's John Graves, Ph.D., assistant professor of Preventive Medicine, along...
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    Statins May Lower Flu Mortality Rates

    A report published online by The Journal of Infectious Diseases reveals that statins, commonly known as cholesterol-lowering medications, might lower the number of deaths among individuals who are hospitalized with influenza. Vanderbilt's William Schaffner, M.D., professor and chair of...
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    Mortality Risk In Patients With Chest Pains Increased By Prior Hospitalization For Me

    New research from Scotland has shown that the rate of death in men and women hospitalised for chest pain unrelated to heart disease is higher in those with a history of psychiatric illness than without... More...
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