Concerns have been raised by Johns Hopkins researchers over physicians' pessimistic attitude towards obese patients.Their study showed that doctors have less respect for their obese patients than they do for patients of normal weight.In the study involving 238 patients, the researchers found that as patients had higher body mass index (BMI), physicians reported lower respect for them.It showed that...
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Hopkins researchers have raised concerns over physicians' pessimistic attitude towards obese patients.Their study showed that doctors have less respect for their obese patients than they do for patients of normal weight.In the study involving 238 patients, the researchers found that as patients had higher body mass index (BMI), physicians reported lower respect for them.It showed that each 10-unit...
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Johns Hopkins researchers have raised concerns over physicians' pessimistic attitude towards obese patients.Their study showed that doctors have less respect for their obese patients than they do for patients of normal weight.In the study involving 238 patients, the researchers found that as patients had higher body mass index (BMI), physicians reported lower respect for them.It showed that each 10-unit...
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Johns Hopkins researchers have raised concerns over physicians' pessimistic attitude towards obese patients.Their study showed that doctors have less respect for their obese patients than they do for patients of normal weight.In the study involving 238 patients, the researchers found that as patients had higher body mass index (BMI), physicians reported lower respect for them.It showed that each 10-unit...
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Recent study has revealed that physicians seem to have less respect for overweight and obese patients. This attitude could be having negative effect on the health of the patients.Research team led by Dr. Mary Margaret Huizinga, an assistant professor of general internal medicine at Hopkins studied connection between physician respect and patient obesity.Research team studied data collected from 238...
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One of every three people who died in 2007 in the United States were in the hospital for treatment at the time of their deaths, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The cost of their hospital stays was about $20 billion.The federal agency's analysis of 765,651 hospital patient deaths in 2007 found that the average cost of hospital stays in which...
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with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis may have a high incidence of osteopenia and. Researchers from Scott & White Hospital and Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine in Texas reviewed the records of 113 patients admitted to the hospital with acute exacerbation of bronchiectasis. The mean age of the patients was 63 years, 76 percent were Caucasian, and 70 percent were women. Of the patients,...
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increasing number of patients in the ICU are being discharged home instead of being admitted to a step-down unit. Researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, analyzed data collected from ICU patients discharged home over a 4-year period. During the study, 33 patients, or 1.4 percent of all discharged patients, were discharged home with increasing frequency from year 2 to...
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22-year-old patient, whowas home quarantined on Saturday as a suspected H1N1 patient, tested positive onMonday night. Following this, the patient was admitted to SSG Hospital (SSG).The patient is a resident of Sama and is believed to have come incontact with a swine flu patient. She visited the screening ward on Saturday andwas asked to be home quarantined with her swabs sent for testing. She wasadmitted...
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Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a common therapy for sleep apnea, is associated with a slight but temporary weight gain in patients. Researchers from the University of Toledo Medical College in Ohio followed 152 patients who underwent CPAP therapy for 1 month. Of the patients, 119 (78 percent) gained an average of 3 lbs. Weight gain occurred in 81 percent of men and 73 percent of women....
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