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Predictors of persistent detrusor overactivity after transvaginal sling procedures. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2008 Oct 7; Authors: Gamble TL, Botros SM, Beaumont JL, Goldberg RP, Miller JJ, Adeyanju O, Sand PK OBJECTIVE: Determine Predictors of persistent postoperative detrusor overactivity and urge urinary incontinence after sling procedures for stress urinary incontinence STUDY DESIGN: Three hundred five women with mixed urinary incontinence underwent sling procedures for stress urinary incontinence. Risk factors for persistent detrusor overactivity and urge urinary incontinence were examined using logistic regression models. RESULTS: Women (31.5%) who had postoperative resolution of detrusor overactivity. Transobturator slings had the lowest rate of persistent detrusor overactivity (53%), followed by retropubic (SPARC = 66%; TVT = 64%) and bladder neck slings (86%). Predictors for persistent detrusor overactivity included age (odds ratio = 1.38, P = .001), prior hysterectomy (OR = 1.95, P = .012), paravaginal repair (odds ratio = 0.46, P = .015), nocturia (odds ratio = 1.91, P = .013), maximum cystometric capacity (odds ratio = 0.79, P < .001), detrusor overactivity volume (odds ratio = 0.83, P = .006), urethral closure pressure (odds ratio = 0.83, P < .001), and maximum urinary flow rate (odds ratio = 0.77, P = .014). Persistent urge urinary incontinence was predicted by sling type (P < .001). CONCLUSION: When treating women with mixe ...

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Related Articles Subjective Quality-of-Life Predictors for Older Adults with Physical Disabilities. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2008 Oct;87(10):830-41 Authors: Levasseur M, Desrosiers J, St-Cyr Tribble D OBJECTIVES: To study changes in quality of life (QOL) and to explore Predictors of QOL of community-dwelling older adults with physical disabilities. DESIGN: A 2-yr longitudinal study involved a convenience sample of 49 people with physical disabilities aged 60-94 yrs. QOL was estimated twice at a 2-yr interval with the Quality of Life Index, which includes four domains: health and functioning, socioeconomic, psychological/spiritual, and family. The potential Predictors evaluated at baseline were health condition, activity, participation (level and satisfaction), personal factors, and environmental factors (obstacles and facilitators). RESULTS: No change over time in QOL mean score was observed (mean: -0.41; SD: 2.5; 95% confidence interval: -1.1 to 0.30; P = 0.25). However, about half the participants had a clinically significant change (either increase or decrease). Greater satisfaction with participation in social roles and fewer obstacles in the physical environment were identified as the best Predictors (R2 = 0.27; P = 0.001) of better QOL. Greater participation in daily activities, fewer obstacles in the physical environment, and greater satisfaction with participation in social roles were found to be the best Predictors (R2 = 0.49; P ...

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Related Articles Predictors of outcome after abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture. World J Surg. 2008 Jun;32(6):1232; author reply 1233 Authors: Dalainas I PMID: 18080161 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] ...

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Related Articles Predictors of fatigue over 1 year among people with rheumatoid arthritis. Psychol Health Med. 2008 Aug;13(4):494-504 Authors: Treharne GJ, Lyons AC, Hale ED, Goodchild CE, Booth DA, Kitas GD Fatigue is a systemic feeling of exhaustion that is a common symptom of many chronic illnesses, including the autoimmune inflammatory disease rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We examined Predictors of levels of fatigue among people with RA using Leventhal's Common-Sense Model (CSM), which states that cognitive representations of an illness spur (or halt) people's efforts to cope and thereby influence outcomes of the illness. Our use of the CSM was designed in the light of evidence in the literature specific to fatigue in RA. Current fatigue was reported on a 100 mm visual analogue scale (with anchors "No fatigue" and "Unbearable fatigue") by 114 people (73.7% women) with RA at baseline and 1 year later. Baseline employment status, pain, impact of disability, sleep disruption frequency, depressed mood, perceptions of consequences, arthritis self-efficacy and attempts to cope by praying/hoping were also self-reported. Duration of RA and a haematological measure of systemic inflammation (erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR) were obtained from hospital records. Unexpectedly, RA duration did not predict fatigue after 1 year, although lower baseline inflammation did (controlling for baseline fatigue and other disease impact variables). This m ...

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Related Articles Clinical Predictors of developmental outcome in patients with cephaloceles. J Neurosurg Pediatrics. 2008 Oct;2(4):254-257 Authors: Lo BW, Kulkarni AV, Rutka JT, Jea A, Drake JM, Lamberti-Pasculli M, Dirks PB, Thabane L Object Cephaloceles represent primary axial mesodermal defects, occurring in 0.8-4 per 10,000 live births. Prior studies have reported posterior location, hydrocephalus, microcephaly, seizure, and presence of brain tissue as poor prognostic markers for neurological outcome. However, these studies were small and the results were analyzed using univariate tests. The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential risk factors for the occurrence of developmental delay in patients with cephaloceles, using both univariate and multivariable regression techniques. Methods This is a retrospective cohort study of cephalocele cases treated at the Hospital for Sick Children between 1990 and 2006. Two independent investigators collected the data from the Hospital for Sick Children Encephalocele Database and hospital charts. Developmental assessments were made by general pediatricians and neuropsychologists. Both univariate analysis (alpha = 0.10) and multivariable logistic regression analysis (alpha = 0.05) were performed. Results Eighty-five cases of cephaloceles were identified. The patient group consisted of 48 boys and 37 girls. Sixty-eight lesions were encephaloceles and 17 were meningoceles. The distrib ...

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Related Articles The frequency, trajectories and Predictors of adolescent recurrent pain: a population-based approach. Pain. 2008 Aug 15;138(1):11-21 Authors: Stanford EA, Chambers CT, Biesanz JC, Chen E Recurrent pains are a complex set of conditions that cause great discomfort and impairment in children and adults. The objectives of this study were to (a) describe the frequency of headache, stomachache, and backache in a representative Canadian adolescent sample and (b) determine whether a set of psychosocial factors, including background factors (i.e., sex, pubertal status, parent chronic pain), external events (i.e., injury, illness/hospitalization, stressful-life events), and emotional factors (i.e., anxiety/depression, self-esteem) were predictive of these types of recurrent pain. Statistics Canada's National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth was used to assess a cohort of 2488 10- to 11-year-old adolescents up to five times, every 2 years. Results showed that, across 12-19 years of age, weekly or more frequent rates ranged from 26.1%-31.8% for headache, 13.5-22.2% for stomachache, and 17.6-25.8% for backache. Chi-square tests indicated that girls had higher rates of pain than boys for all types of pain, at all time points. Structural equation modeling using latent growth curves showed that sex and anxiety/depression at age 10-11 years was predictive of the start- and end-point intercepts (i.e., trajectories that indicate ...

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Related Articles Quality of life measures and Predictors for adults with unilateral vocal cord paralysis. Laryngoscope. 2008 Oct;118(10):1837-41 Authors: Fang TJ, Li HY, Gliklich RE, Chen YH, Wang PC, Chuang HF OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS: To investigate the quality of life (QoLF) status of Taiwanese adults with unilateral vocal cord paralysis (UVCP). STUDY DESIGN: A prospective, QoLF survey in a tertiary referral voice center. METHODS: Fifty-five consecutive UVCP patients were evaluated with Medical Outcome Study Short Form-36 (SF-36) Health Survey and the voice outcome survey at entry. RESULTS: UVCP patients have significantly lower scores in all eight SF-36 subscales (P < .05) than do normative Taiwan adult population, particularly in role functioning-physical problems, social functioning, and role functioning-emotional problems. Shimmer parameter is a robust and consistent predictor for bodily pain (beta = -20.8), role functioning-emotional problems (beta = -27.9), and social functioning (beta = -20) general health dimensions. Shimmer is also predictive of UVCP-related total voice outcome survey score (beta = -8.6, P < .05). CONCLUSIONS: UVCP can seriously compromise phonation, swallowing, and social functions; thus significantly impacting a patient's general health status. Voice physiological function is also a QoLF outcome indicator. PMID: 18806475 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] ...

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Related Articles Trauma-related Predictors of deontic reasoning: a pilot study in a community sample of children. Child Abuse Negl. 2008 Jul;32(7):732-7 Authors: DePrince AP, Chu AT, Combs MD OBJECTIVE: Deontic reasoning (i.e., reasoning about duties and obligations) is essential to navigating interpersonal relationships. Though previous research demonstrates links between deontic reasoning abilities and trauma-related factors (i.e., dissociation, exposure to multiple victimizations) in adults, studies have yet to examine deontic reasoning abilities in children exposed to trauma. Given that social and safety rules (exemplars of deontic reasoning rules) may appear arbitrary for children in the face of trauma exposure, particularly interpersonal violence perpetrated by adults (i.e., caregivers, close relatives), we predicted that the ability to detect violations of these rules would vary as a function of trauma exposure type (no, non-interpersonal, and interpersonal). Additionally, given previous research linking dissociation and deontic reasoning in adults, we predicted that higher levels of dissociation would be associated with more errors in deontic problems. METHODS: Children exposed to interpersonal violence (e.g., sexual abuse by an adult family member, witnessing domestic violence, or physical abuse in the home) were compared to children exposed to non-interpersonal trauma (e.g., motor vehicle accident, natural disaster) or no tra ...

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Related Articles Cognitive Predictors of treatment response to bupropion and cognitive effects of bupropion in patients with major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Res. 2008 Jul 15;160(1):72-82 Authors: Herrera-Guzmán I, Gudayol-Ferré E, Lira-Mandujano J, Herrera-Abarca J, Herrera-Guzmán D, Montoya-Pérez K, Guardia-Olmos J Cognitive effects of antidepressants and cognitive Predictors of antidepressant treatment response are recent focuses of interest in the neuropsychology of depression. We studied the cognitive Predictors of treatment response to bupropion and its neuropsychological effects in patients with major depressive disorder. Twenty subjects meeting the DSM-IV criteria for major depressive disorder were assessed with the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and a neuropsychological battery. Subjects were medicated with 150 mg/day of bupropion sustained release for 8 weeks. At the end of the trial, 12 subjects were classified as responders to treatment and 8 were non-responders. Our findings suggest that low pretreatment measures of visual memory and low levels of mental processing speed are predictive of good response to bupropion. The cognitive effects of bupropion after the treatment showed that patients improved in visual memory measures and in mental processing speed. Our results suggest that cognitive Predictors of treatment response to bupropion and cognitive effects of bupropion in patients with major depressive disorder co ...

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Related Articles Symptoms versus neurocognition as Predictors of change in life skills in schizophrenia after outpatient rehabilitation. Schizophr Res. 2008 Jul;102(1-3):303-11 Authors: Kurtz MM, Wexler BE, Fujimoto M, Shagan DS, Seltzer JC A growing body of literature has shown that neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia account for 20-60% of the variance in measures of outcome, and in many studies are more closely related to outcome than symptoms [Green, M.F., Kern, R.S., Braff, D.L., Mintz, J., 2000. Neurocognitive deficits and functional outcome in schizophrenia: are we measuring the "right stuff"? Schizophr. Bull. 26(1), 119-136; Green, M.F., Kern, R.S., Heaton, R.K., 2004. Longitudinal studies of cognition and functional outcome in schizophrenia: implications for MATRICS. Schizophr. Res. 72(1), 41-51]. Most of these studies have been cross-sectional, few longitudinal studies have investigated the degree to which neurocognition and symptoms predict ability to benefit from outpatient rehabilitation, and no longitudinal studies use measures of everyday life skills that are performance-based. In the current study we investigated the relationship between five measures of neurocognitive function, crystallized verbal ability, visual sustained vigilance, verbal learning, problem-solving, and processing speed, and two measures of symptoms, total positive and negative symptoms, and change on a performance-based measure of everyday life s ...

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Related Articles [Predictors of major mental disorders] Versicherungsmedizin. 2008 Jun 1;60(2):59-62 Authors: Fritze J Predictors of several major mental disorders include strong genetic linkage that is modified by biological, psychological and social factors. Insight into the biological mechanisms underlying these interactions is growing. Several candidate genes have been identified but their predictive value is still limited for predictions in the single individual. Comorbidities are common, including combinations of different mental disorders and/or combinations of mental and physical disorders. The combination of a mental and physical disorder often indicates a worse outcome for the physical disorder. PMID: 18595639 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] ...

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CME Outfitters announces an upcoming neuroscienceCME activity titled "Adherence and Early Predictors of Response: Tools for Individualizing Treatment in Schizophrenia." Offered as an on-demand webcast accompanied by three live question and answer sessions, the activity will provide mental healthcare practitioners with the most recent data and clinical implications related to optimizing maintenance therapy in schizophrenia. The on-demand webcast and first live Q&A session will premiere on Monday, October 6, 2008. (PRWeb Oct 2, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1409354.htm ...

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"Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Older Urban African- Americans: Individual and Neighborhood Associations" (.pdf), Journal of the National Medical Association: The study, led by researchers from the University of Maryland ...

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Celiac disease is more common in first-degree relatives than previously reported in the United States, finds a study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. ...

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Page: 261 DOI: 10.1097/MEJ.0b013e3282fce63d Authors: Choquet, Christophe a; Depret-Vassal, Jaqueline b; Doumenc, Benoit a; Sarnel, Sophie b; Casalino, Enrique a ...