[PDF] Top 20 Cardiovascular events in patients with atherothrombotic disease: a population-based longitudinal study in Taiwan.

... This study population consisted of all patients with more than two-time outpatient or inpatient claims with a diagnosis of CVD, CAD, or PAD between July 1, 2001 and December 31, ... See full document

... kidney disease (CKD) in patients with RA and despite evi- dence that Asians have higher prevalence of CKD than Caucasians, such research focusing on Asian subjects is lacking ...This ... See full document

... mostly based on studies among children and adolescents [28,33], rather than adult ...among patients older than 45 years ...females in the general population in the literature, there is ... See full document

... limitations in the CKD patients ...a population-based cohort in which the majority did not have ...FRS in patients with CKD deserves careful evaluation and ... See full document

... This population-based cohort study of persons with hip and knee OA followed for over a decade found a significant association between greater OA-related disability and both all-cause mortality ... See full document

... avoidable in observational epidemiological studies, another limitation of our study was the possibility of participant self-selection due to voluntary study ...participation. In addition, our ... See full document

... difference in SIR of cancer incidence noted in this ...both cardiovascular disease (CVD) and renal disease are major causes of death in patients with ...of ... See full document

... heart disease (CHD) is a gross structural anomaly of the heart or intrathoracic great vessels that is present at birth and manifests with actual or potential functional signifi- cance ...anomalies, ... See full document

... profile in a group of patients with high vascular risk and no cardiovascular events, established its correlation with other cardiovascular risk factors and inferred the ... See full document

... this study was to determine the relationship between platelet volume indices (PVI) with atherosclerosis risk factors and the Framingham risk score ...enrolled in the Brazilian Longitudinal ... See full document

... mutations in patients with premature atherosclerotic disease from the ...Dutch population were similar to those obtained in the present study insofar as they did not ... See full document

... This study has some limitations. First, this is a retrospective analysis based on data from a health insurance claims ...were based on the ICD-9-CM codes, not patients’ medical charts or ... See full document

... mainly in response to increased cardiac wall stress due to increased intracardiac volume and ...BNP in patients with AF to compare with subjects with normal sinus rhythm ... See full document

... the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance Database ...the Taiwan NHI program in 1995. The Taiwan National Health Research Institute and some researchers demonstrated the ... See full document

... of patients with pSS and control subjects From the catastrophic illness file, patients with pSS were identified as cases in this ...id based on the criteria of the American- ... See full document

... This study was based on data from the NHIRD released by the National Health Research Insti- tute ...(NHRI). Taiwan began the NHI program in 1995, to provide comprehensive health care for all ... See full document

... measures with CVEs in PAD populations (Table 3) [2], [5], [6], [17], [18], [26–28] however no previous studies specifically assessed abdominal visceral adipose ...WC with CVEs than body mass index ... See full document

... cohort study estimated the risks of lung cancer in pa- tients with gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) in ...this population-based study using data from the ... See full document

... this study it was concluded that: (1) notwithstanding the therapeutic arsenal available to these patients, only a few have achieved remission or a state of mild disease activity; on the other hand, ... See full document

... present study included a small population with PAD from a single Brazilian ...cerebrovascular events or myocardial hypertrophy and ...documented in the ...high-risk population ... See full document