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Hemorrhoid Stapling Has More Long-Term Risks Than Surgical Removal

...irness,” Katz added, “the increased risk, although statistically significant, is still clinically acceptable, 23 of 269 [stapled] patients versus four of 268 patients with conventional hemorrhoidectomy. Physicians and patients will therefore choose between a procedure carrying increased morbidity and disability wi...

Ethnic Variations in Hormone Levels May Cause Differences in Breast Cancer Risk

...ated had slightly lower levels, but which were not statistically significant, the researchers found. However, Latinas’ risk of breast cancer is the lowest of the groups studied. One of the most interesting findings was that African-American women have a slightly lower post-menopausal breast cancer risk than whit...

Arimidex-Herceptin Combo Therapy For Breast Cancer-Clinical Trial Findings

...age of 28.5 months. However this is not considered statistically significant since patients on Arimidex alone have their survival prolonged to 23.9 months. Additional data showed that introducing anastrozole instead of Tamoxifen in early hormone sensitive breast cancer among postmenopausal women increased their ...

Thermal Imaging Shatters Arousal Gender Gap Myth

...roughly ten minutes), the women in 743 seconds – a statistically negligible difference. “In any experiment on sexual arousal done in a laboratory, there is some distraction,” said Binik. “But compared to previous techniques involving invasive measures or electrodes, this is minimally invasive and the same measur...

Bypass Surgery, a Better Option than Angioplasty for Severe Heart Patients

...months longer than those treated by angioplasty, a statistically significant difference. "These findings should change practice," Smith said. "We've clearly needed the long-term survival data, and this study provides it. Patients receiving bypass surgery get a durable fix for their disease. Patients undergoing a...

Abortion Notification, Consent Laws Reduce Risky Teen Sex

...fication laws were in effect. The results were not statistically significant for black girls. The study will be published in an upcoming edition of The Journal of Law Economics and Organization. “Incentives matter,” Klick said. “They matter even in activities as primal as sex, and they matter even among teenager...

Laws That Make Parental Consent Mandatory Reduce Risky Sexual Behavior

...fication laws were in effect. The results were not statistically significant for black girls. The study will be published in an upcoming edition of The Journal of Law Economics and Organization. "Incentives matter," Klick said. "They matter even in activities as primal as sex, and they matter even among teenagers...

Transfusion-Free Surgical Program Helpful for Liver Transplantation Patients

... MELD [model of end-stage liver disease] score was statistically significantly higher, whereas the mean number of i...atelet transfusions between the two groups was not statistically different." "The development of a transfusion-free surgical program for Jehovah's Witness patient...

Fatty Fish consumption may reduce Kidney Cancer risk

... one or more servings of fatty fish per week had a statistically significant 44 percent decreased risk of RCC (rena...of fatty fish at baseline and 10 years later had a statistically significant 74 percent lower risk," the authors wrote in a prepared statement. "Our results suppor...

Palatal Implant Procedure Proven Effective in Eliminating Snoring

... experimental and 26 control). AHI improvement was statistically significant for the experimental group. Objective cure was defined as 50 percent reduction in AHI and AHI Conclusions: This study presents randomized, placebo-controlled evidence on the effectiveness of palatal implant for improvement of AHI, QOL...

ACTOS Linked to Several Cardiovascular Benefits

... placebo, patients treated with ACTOS demonstrated statistically significant risk reductions of heart attacks (23 percent, P=0.046), the combined risk of cardiovascular death, nonfatal heart attack or nonfatal stroke (18 percent, P=0.020) and the combined risk of all-cause mortality, nonfatal heart attack, nonfata...

Ear Infections Treated with “Let’s Wait and Se’

...roup ended up doing so. Besides this there were no statistically significant differences in the rates of fever, ear pain, and additional medical visits between the two groups. Parents in the wait-and-see group who did end up filling the prescriptions cited mainly reasons of fever and ear pain. Spiro suggested,...

Cured Meat may be Harmful to Lungs

...those who ate none, the team found. The result was statistically significant. While the average person might not notice a three percent decrease in lung strength, those who have lung disease may do so. Preliminary analysis should not stop people from eating cured meats, Barr says, although more research needs ...

Patient’s Individual Cardiologist Best Judge For Deciding Appropriate Treatment In Chronic Coronary Artery Diseas

...d to a different course of treatment experienced a statistically significant increase in negative events (p = 0.02). The most common – and only statistically significant – issue affecting this second group was the need for additional procedures to treat bloc...

Salmeterol - to be used in combination & only when required

...England. The U.S. study showed a very small, but statistically significant, increased risk of asthma-related deaths -- 13 among 13,000 individuals who received salmeterol but only three among another 13,000 individuals who received a placebo during a 28-week treatment period. Other studies have suggested that so...

Certification of UK Doctors Would Improve Quality of Care

... and 1999 found that over half showed positive and statistically significant associations between certification and superior outcomes. Since 1999, four well conducted studies have concluded that certification is associated with provision of higher quality care across a range of specialties. Recent studies have a...

Naturopathic Care Proves Beneficial for TMD Pain

...ures favored naturopathic medicine. § There were statistically significant improvements in Worst Facial Pain for those receiving naturopathic care vs. specialty dental care. Similarly, Average Headache Pain showed near-significant improvement (p=.06). § Of the eight secondary measures only the impact of Facial...

Promising Care Model For Bipolar Disorder

...9 for usual care – although the difference was not statistically significant. “The bottom line is that we saw improvements in patients’ symptoms, function and quality of life with no change in net costs,” Bauer said. The results mirror those from a simultaneous trial testing a similar team-based approach for b...

High Blood Sugar Increases Dementia Risk

... were excluded from the results, there was still a statistically significant association between elevated glycosylated hemoglobin and the risk of MCI or dementia. The authors conclude, “This finding supports the hypothesis that abnormal glycemic control is linked to an increased risk of developing cognitive impa...

Risk Of Heart Attack Increased By Gout

...ndividuals developed gouty arthritis. There was no statistically significant difference between the groups with reg...ely to have used diuretics and alcohol. Modest yet statistically significant elevations of blood pressure, age, blood glucose and body mass index were observed in th...

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