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Bandini LG, Curtin C, Phillips SM, Rogers GT, Eliasziw M, Perelli J, Jay L, Maslin M, Must A. Nutrient adequacy, dietary patterns and diet quality among children with and without intellectual disabilities. J Intellect Disabil Res 2021; 65:898-911. [PMID: 34342094 PMCID: PMC9229407 DOI: 10.1111/jir.12871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Revised: 05/13/2021] [Accepted: 07/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Children with intellectual disabilities (ID) frequently have feeding problems, but there has been limited research on nutrient intake, dietary patterns and diet quality in this population. METHOD Nutrient intakes, dietary patterns and the Healthy Eating Index were compared between 48 children with ID and 55 typically developing (TD) children aged 3-8 years who participated in the Children's Mealtime Study. Three-day food records that included two weekdays and one weekend day were used to assess dietary intake. Food intake was entered into the Nutrition Data System for Research for analysis of nutrient intake, dietary patterns and diet quality. Height and weight were measured to determine body mass index (BMI). The relation of dietary patterns to weight status was also assessed. RESULTS Typically developing children and children with ID met the Estimated Average Requirement/Adequate Intake (EAR/AI) for most nutrients. However, a substantial number of children in both groups did not meet the EAR for vitamins E and D and calcium and the AI for vitamin K. Only one TD child met the AI for potassium. A small percentage of children in both groups did not meet the EAR for vitamin A and vitamin C, and in the ID group, a small percentage did not meet the EAR for vitamin B12 . Children in the ID group consumed, on average, fewer servings of vegetables than TD children (0.5 vs. 1.2, P < 0.001), but there was no significant difference in servings of fruit (0.8 vs. 1.1, respectively), fruit juice (less than a half serving in both groups), sugar-sweetened beverages (less than a half serving in both groups) or snacks (1.1 vs. 1.4, respectively) after adjusting for BMI z-score, parental education and race. We found a significant correlation between snack intake and BMI z-score among children with ID but not among TD children (r = 0.48, P < 0.0001 vs. r = 0.19, P = 0.16, respectively). The Healthy Eating Index indicated, on average, poor overall diet quality in both groups (58.2 in the ID group and 59.1 in the TD group). CONCLUSIONS This study suggests that the diets of children with ID, as in TD children, need improvement. Targeting healthy eating in children with ID would improve diet quality and overall health.
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- L G Bandini
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
- Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Department of Nursing and Health Professions, Rivier University, Nashua, NH, USA
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- Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Nutrition, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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Background Tactile temporal thresholds are typically significantly higher (ie, prolonged) in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients when compared to controls and increase significantly during relapses, probably reflecting integrity of conduction across a portion of the corpus callosum. As part of an ongoing validation study of tactile temporal thresholds, the test-retest reliability of these thresholds was examined in patients with MS. Methods Tactile temporal thresholds were measured in 61 MS patients during two separate test sessions within three weeks. Test-retest reliability and the standard error of measurement were calculated. The threshold of change in tactile temporal thresholds in MS patients that would correspond to real change beyond measurement error with 95% certainty was also calculated. Results The test-retest reliability of this measure of tactile temporal thresholds was 0.93. The threshold indicating change beyond chance or measurement error with 95% certainty was 19 ms. Conclusions This measure of tactile temporal thresholds has excellent test - retest reliability and a change of greater than 19 ms is highly likely to represent real change. This measure is promising as a precise, reliable outcome measure in MS.
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- L N Brown
- Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Hau C, Reid KF, Wong KF, Chin RJ, Botto TJ, Eliasziw M, Bermudez OI, Fielding RA. Collaborative Evaluation of the Healthy Habits Program: An Effective Community Intervention to Improve Mobility and Cognition of Chinese Older Adults Living in the U.S. J Nutr Health Aging 2016; 20:391-7. [PMID: 26999238 DOI: 10.1007/s12603-015-0623-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVES There is a growing demand to reduce ethnic health disparities. The Healthy Habits Program (HHP) was implemented to provide a community-based physical activity and education intervention for Chinese older adults living in Boston, Massachusetts. This study evaluated the HHP by assessing outcomes that are critical for maintaining independence of older persons. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Quantitative evaluation was performed on 50 Chinese older adults enrolled in the HHP. The community members were trained in data collection and management. MEASUREMENTS Cognition (Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), Trail Making Test and Complex Walking Task), mobility (Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) and maximal gait speed), depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire-9), perceived disability (World Health Organization Disability Assessment 2.0), nutritional status (Mini Nutrition Assessment®), and strength (grip and leg strength) were assessed at baseline and at 6 months. All tests were translated into Chinese. RESULTS Of the 50 participants (mean age 68.4 years; 68% female), 78% achieved the goal of performing exercise ≥3 times/week. After 6 months, clinically meaningful improvements were observed in mobility (mean SPPB score changed from 10.3 to 11.1 points; p=0.01) and cognition (mean MMSE score changed from 26.0 to 27.8 points; p=0.001). There were also statistically significant improvements in executive function, depressive symptoms and perceived disability (p<0.05). CONCLUSION Culturally sensitive community interventions, such as the HHP, are effective for improving mobility and cognition of Chinese older adults. This reveals the potential of promoting successful aging in minority populations through community settings, and should be advocated to reduce ethnic health disparities in the U.S.
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- C Hau
- Roger A. Fielding, PhD, Nutrition, Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, 711 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA, Phone: +1-617-556-3016, Fax: +1-617-556-3083, E-mail:
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Hubbard K, Must A, Eliasziw M, Folta S, Goldberg J. What Elementary Schoolchildren Bring from Home to Eat at School. J Acad Nutr Diet 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2013.06.321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Kang H, Metz LM, Traboulsee AL, Eliasziw M, Zhao GJ, Cheng Y, Zhao Y, Li DKB, Traboulsee A, Li D, Riddehough A, Cheng Y, Lam K, Lee A, Zhao GJ, Vorobeychik G, Metz L, Yeung M, Yong VW, Hill M, Cerchiaro G, Ma C, Topor T, Blevins G, Marriott J, Kremenchutzky M, Freedman M, Lee L, Duquette P, Antel J, Grand’Maison F, Thibault M, Bhan V, Eliasziw M. Application and a proposed modification of the 2010 McDonald criteria for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in a Canadian cohort of patients with clinically isolated syndromes. Mult Scler 2013; 20:458-63. [DOI: 10.1177/1352458513501230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: The 2005 and 2010 McDonald criteria utilize magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to provide evidence of disease dissemination in space (DIS) and time (DIT) for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) in patients who have clinically isolated syndromes (CIS). Methods: Data from 109 CIS patients not satisfying the 2005 criteria at entry into a randomized controlled minocycline trial were analyzed to determine the proportion who would have been diagnosed with MS at screening based on 2010 criteria. The impact of including symptomatic, as well as asymptomatic, MRI lesions to confirm DIT was also explored. Results: Thirty percent (33/109) of patients, retrospectively, met the 2010 criteria for a diagnosis of MS at baseline. When both symptomatic and asymptomatic lesions were used to confirm DIT, three additional patients met the 2010 criteria. There was a significant 10.1% increase in the proportion of patients who met the 2010 DIS criteria, compared with the 2005 DIS criteria; however, two patients satisfied the 2005 DIS but not 2010 DIS criteria. Conclusion: Using 2010 McDonald criteria, 30% of the CIS patients could be diagnosed with MS using a single MRI scan. Inclusion of symptomatic lesions in the DIT criteria further increases this proportion to 33%.
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- Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Canada
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
- UBC MS/MRI Research Group, Canada
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- Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University, USA
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
- UBC MS/MRI Research Group, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
- UBC MS/MRI Research Group, Canada
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
- UBC MS/MRI Research Group, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
- UBC MS/MRI Research Group, Canada
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Burton J, Tung C, Trufyn J, Eliasziw M, Costello F. The Role of Vitamin D Status in Optic Neuritis Recovery (P05.102). Neurology 2012. [DOI: 10.1212/wnl.78.1_meetingabstracts.p05.102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Prithviraj GK, Sommers SR, Jump RL, Halmos B, Chambless LB, Parker SL, Hassam-Malani L, McGirt MJ, Thompson RC, Chambless LB, Parker SL, Hassam-Malani L, McGirt MJ, Thompson RC, Hunter K, Chamberlain MC, Le EM, Lee ELT, Chamberlain MC, Sadighi ZS, Pearlman ML, Slopis JM, Vats TS, Khatua S, DeVito NC, Yu M, Chen R, Pan E, Cloughesy T, Raizer J, Drappatz J, Gerena-Lewis M, Rogerio J, Yacoub S, Desjardin A, Groves MD, DeGroot J, Loghin M, Conrad CA, Hess K, Ni J, Ictech S, Hunter K, Yung WA, Porter AB, Dueck AC, Karlin NJ, Chamberlain MC, Olson J, Silber J, Reiner AS, Panageas KS, Iwamoto FM, Cloughesy TF, Aldape KD, Rivera AL, Eichler AF, Louis DN, Paleologos NA, Fisher BJ, Ashby LS, Cairncross JG, Roldan GB, Wen PY, Ligon KL, Shiff D, Robins HI, Rocque BG, Chamberlain MC, Mason WP, Weaver SA, Green RM, Kamar FG, Abrey LE, DeAngelis LM, Jhanwar SC, Rosenblum MK, Lassman AB, Cachia D, Alderson L, Moser R, Smith T, Yunus S, Saito K, Mukasa A, Narita Y, Tabei Y, Shinoura N, Shibui S, Saito N, Flechl B, Ackerl M, Sax C, Dieckmann K, Crevenna R, Widhalm G, Preusser M, Marosi C, Marosi C, Ay C, Preusser M, Dunkler D, Widhalm G, Pabinger I, Dieckmann K, Zielinski C, Belongia M, Jogal S, Schlingensiepen KH, Bogdahn U, Stockhammer G, Mahapatra AK, Venkataramana NK, Oliushine V, Parfenov V, Poverennova I, Hau P, Jachimczak P, Heinrichs H, Mammoser AG, Shonka NA, de Groot JF, Shibahara I, Sonoda Y, Kumabe T, Saito R, Kanamori M, Yamashita Y, Watanabe M, Ishioka C, Tominaga T, Silvani A, Gaviani P, Lamperti E, Botturi A, DiMeco F, Broggi G, Fariselli L, Solero CL, Salmaggi A, Green RM, Woyshner EA, Cloughesy TF, Shu F, Oh YS, Iganej S, Singh G, Vemuri SL, Theeler BJ, Ellezam B, Gilbert MR, Aoki T, Kobayashi H, Takano S, Nishikawa R, Shinoura N, Nagane M, Narita Y, Muragaki Y, Sugiyama K, Kuratsu J, Matsutani M, Sadighi ZS, Khatua S, Langford LA, Puduvalli VK, Shen D, Chen ZP, Zhang JP, Chen ZP, Bedekar D, Rand S, Connelly J, Malkin M, Paulson E, Mueller W, Schmainda K, Gallego O, Benavides M, Segura PP, Balana C, Gil M, Berrocal A, Reynes G, Garcia JL, Murata P, Bague S, Quintana MJ, Vasishta VG, Nagane M, Kobayashi K, Tanaka M, Tsuchiya K, Shiokawa Y, Bavle AA, Ayyanar K, Puduvalli VK, Prado MP, Hess KR, Hunter K, Ictech S, Groves MD, Gilbert MR, Liu V, Conrad CA, de Groot J, Loghin ME, Colman H, Levin VA, Alfred Yung WK, Hackney JR, Palmer CA, Markert JM, Cure J, Riley KO, Fathallah-Shaykh H, Nabors LB, Saria MG, Corle C, Hu J, Rudnick J, Phuphanich S, Mrugala MM, Lee LK, Fu BD, Bota DA, Kim RY, Brown T, Feely H, Hu A, Drappatz J, Wen PY, Lee JW, Carter B, Kesari S, Fu BD, Kong XT, Bota DA, Fu BD, Bota DA, Sparagana S, Belousova E, Jozwiak S, Korf B, Frost M, Kuperman R, Kohrman M, Witt O, Wu J, Flamini R, Jansen A, Curtalolo P, Thiele E, Whittemore V, De Vries P, Ford J, Shah G, Cauwel H, Edrich P, Sahmoud T, Franz D, Khasraw M, Brown C, Ashley DM, Rosenthal MA, Jiang X, Mou YG, Chen ZP, Oh M, kim E, Chang J, Juratli TA, Kirsch M, Schackert G, Krex D, Gilbert MR, Wang M, Aldape KD, Stupp R, Hegi M, Jaeckle KA, Armstrong TS, Wefel JS, Won M, Blumenthal DT, Mahajan A, Schultz CJ, Erridge SC, Brown PD, Chakravarti A, Curran WJ, Mehta MP, Hofland KF, Hansen S, Sorensen M, Schultz H, Muhic A, Engelholm S, Ask A, Kristiansen C, Thomsen C, Poulsen HS, Lassen UN, Zalatimo O, Weston C, Zoccoli C, Glantz M, Rahmanuddin S, Shiroishi MS, Cen SY, Jones J, Chen T, Pagnini P, Go J, Lerner A, Gomez J, Law M, Ram Z, Wong ET, Gutin PH, Bobola MS, Alnoor M, Silbergeld DL, Rostomily RC, Chamberlain MC, Silber JR, Martha N, Jacqueline S, Thaddaus G, Daniel P, Hans M, Armin M, Eugen T, Gunther S, Hutterer M, Tseng HM, Zoccoli CM, Glantz M, Zalatimo O, Patel A, Rizzo K, Sheehan JM, Sumrall AL, Vredenburgh JJ, Desjardins A, Reardon DA, Friiedman HS, Peters KB, Taylor LP, Stewart M, Blondin NA, Baehring JM, Foote T, Laack N, Call J, Hamilton MG, Walling S, Eliasziw M, Easaw J, Shirsat NV, Kundar R, Gokhale A, Goel A, Moiyadi AA, Wang J, Mutlu E, Oyan A, Yan T, Tsinkalovsky O, Jacobsen HK, Talasila KM, Sleire L, Pettersen K, Miletic H, Andersen S, Mitra S, Weissman I, Li X, Kalland KH, Enger PO, Sepulveda J, Belda C, Balana C, Segura PP, Reynes G, Gil M, Gallego O, Berrocal A, Blumenthal DT, Sitt R, Phishniak L, Bokstein F, Philippe M, Carole C, Andre MDP, Marylin B, Olivier C, L'Houcine O, Dominique FB, Philippe M, Isabelle NM, Olivier C, Frederic F, Stephane F, Henry D, Marylin B, L'Houcine O, Dominique FB, Errico MA, Kunschner LJ, Errico MA, Kunschner LJ, Soffietti R, Trevisan E, Ruda R, Bertero L, Bosa C, Fabrini MG, Lolli I, Jalali R, Julka PK, Anand AK, Bhavsar D, Singhal N, Naik R, John S, Mathew BS, Thaipisuttikul I, Graber J, DeAngelis LM, Shirinian M, Fontebasso AM, Jacob K, Gerges N, Montpetit A, Nantel A, Albrecht S, Jabado N, Mammoser AG, Shah K, Conrad CA, Di K, Linskey M, Bota DA, Thon N, Eigenbrod S, Kreth S, Lutz J, Tonn JC, Kretzschmar H, Peraud A, Kreth FW, Muggeri AD, Alderuccio JP, Diez BD, Jiang P, Chao Y, Gallagher M, Kim R, Pastorino S, Fogal V, Kesari S, Rudnick JD, Bresee C, Rogatko A, Sakowsky S, Franco M, Hu J, Lim S, Lopez A, Yu L, Ryback K, Tsang V, Lill M, Steinberg A, Sheth R, Grimm S, Helenowski I, Rademaker A, Raizer J, Nunes FP, Merker V, Jennings D, Caruso P, Muzikansky A, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Plotkin S, Spalding AC, Vitaz TW, Sun DA, Parsons S, Welch MR, Omuro A, DeAngelis LM, Omuro A, Beal K, Correa D, Chan T, DeAngelis L, Gavrilovic I, Nolan C, Hormigo A, Lassman AB, Kaley T, Mellinghoff I, Grommes C, Panageas K, Reiner A, Barradas R, Abrey L, Gutin P, Lee SY, Slagle-Webb B, Glantz MJ, Sheehan JM, Connor JR, Schlimper CA, Schlag H, Stoffels G, Weber F, Krueger DA, Care MM, Holland K, Agricola K, Tudor C, Byars A, Sahmoud T, Franz DN, Raizer J, Rice L, Rademaker A, Chandler J, Levy R, Muro K, Grimm S, Nayak L, Iwamoto FM, Rudnick JD, Norden AD, Omuro A, Kaley TJ, Thomas AA, Fadul CE, Meyer LP, Lallana EC, Colman H, Gilbert M, Alfred Yung WK, Aldape K, De Groot J, Conrad C, Levin V, Groves M, Loghin M, Chris P, Puduvalli V, Nagpal S, Feroze A, Recht L, Rangarajan HG, Kieran MW, Scott RM, Lew SM, Firat SY, Segura AD, Jogal SA, Kumthekar PU, Grimm SA, Avram M, Patel J, Kaklamani V, McCarthy K, Cianfrocca M, Gradishar W, Mulcahy M, Von Roenn J, Helenowski I, Rademaker A, Raizer J, Galanis E, Anderson SK, Lafky JM, Kaufmann TJ, Uhm JH, Giannini C, Kumar SK, Northfelt DW, Flynn PJ, Jaeckle KA, Buckner JC, Omar AI, Panageas KS, Iwamoto FM, Cloughesy TF, Aldape KD, Rivera AL, Eichler AF, Louis DN, Paleologos NA, Fisher BJ, Ashby LS, Cairncross JG, Roldan GB, Wen PY, Ligon KL, Schiff D, Robins HI, Rocque BG, Chamberlain MC, Mason WP, Weaver SA, Green RM, Kamar FG, Abrey LE, DeAngelis LM, Jhanwar SC, Rosenblum MK, Lassman AB, Delios A, Jakubowski A, DeAngelis L, Grommes C, Lassman AB, Theeler BJ, Melguizo-Gavilanes I, Shonka NA, Qiao W, Wang X, Mahajan A, Puduvalli V, Hashemi-Sadraei N, Bawa H, Rahmathulla G, Patel M, Elson P, Stevens G, Peereboom D, Vogelbaum M, Weil R, Barnett G, Ahluwalia MS, Alvord EC, Rockne RC, Rockhill JK, Mrugala MM, Rostomily R, Lai A, Cloughesy T, Wardlaw J, Spence AM, Swanson KR, Zadeh G, Alahmadi H, Wilson J, Gentili F, Lassman AB, Wang M, Gilbert MR, Aldape KD, Beumer JJ, Wright J, Takebe N, Puduvalli VK, Hormigo A, Gaur R, Werner-Wasik M, Mehta MP, Gupta AJ, Campos-Gines A, Le K, Arango C, Richards M, Landeros M, Juan H, Chang JH, Kim JS, Cho JH, Seo CO, Baldock AL, Rockne R, Canoll P, Born D, Yagle K, Swanson KR, Alexandru D, Bota D, Linskey ME, Nabeel S, Raval SN, Raizer J, Grimm S, Rice L, Rosenow J, Levy R, Bredel M, Chandler J, New PZ, Plotkin SR, Supko JG, Curry WT, Chi AS, Gerstner ER, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Batchelor TT, Ahluwalia MS, Hashemi N, Rahmathulla G, Patel M, Chao ST, Peereboom D, Weil RJ, Suh JH, Vogelbaum MA, Stevens GH, Barnett GH, Corwin D, Holdsworth C, Stewart R, Rockne R, Swanson K, Graber JJ, Kaley T, Rockne RC, Anderson AR, Swanson KR, Jeyapalan S, Goldman M, Boxerman J, Donahue J, Elinzano H, Evans D, O'Connor B, Puthawala MY, Oyelese A, Cielo D, Blitstein M, Dargush M, Santaniello A, Constantinou M, DiPetrillo T, Safran H, Plotkin SR, Halpin C, Merker V, Barker FG, Maher EA, Ganji S, DeBerardinis R, Hatanpaa K, Rakheja D, Yang XL, Mashimo T, Raisanen J, Madden C, Mickey B, Malloy C, Bachoo R, Choi C, Ranjan T, Yono N, Zalatimo O, Zoccoli C, Glantz M, Han SJ, Sun M, Berger MS, Aghi M, Gupta N, Parsa AT. MEDICAL AND NEURO-ONCOLOGY. Neuro Oncol 2011. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nor152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Eigl BJ, Trudeau MG, Winquist E, Chi KN, Eliasziw M, North S. A phase II study of sunitinib (SU) for maintenance therapy in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) after response to docetaxel (D). J Clin Oncol 2011. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2011.29.7_suppl.151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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151 Background: After treatment with D based chemotherapy, there is currently no standard therapy although new options are emerging. Due to its mechanism of action, acceptable toxicity profile and simple administration, SU has potential for therapeutic activity in the setting of maintenance therapy for patients with mCRPC who have responded to D based chemotherapy. Methods: Patients with mCRPC who had evidence of responding or stable disease at completion of D treatment were enrolled in this phase II multicentre trial. Patients received 50mg of SU daily on 4 week on/2 week off cycles. The primary endpoint was effect of SU maintenance on PFS. Because of potential effects of SU on PSA kinetics, clinical progression was defined independent of PSA. PSA response rate was a secondary endpoint. PSA-progression (PSA-P) was defined as a 25% PSA increase over baseline. Results: Thirteen patients have been enrolled and treated to date. Mean age was 63 years (47-76). ECOG scores of 0, 1, and 2 were reported for 4, 8 and 1 patients respectively. Mean number of prior cycles of D given was 9.5. A total of 28 cycles of SU were administered. A total of 291 adverse events (AEs) were recorded, of which 66%, 27%, and 7% were classified as Grades 1, 2, and 3, respectively. No Grade 4 AEs were seen. AEs were of a type and severity expected for SU. The most frequent grade 3 AEs were fatigue (n=3) and hand foot syndrome (n=3). No PSA responses have been documented. Most patients had immediate PSA increases without evidence of clinical progression. The mean PSAs increased by 159%, 396%, and 853% in Cycles 1, 2, and 3, respectively, corresponding to p-values of 0.18, 0.03, and 0.01 when compared to the PSA-P threshold of 25%. The trial will continue to complete its planned accrual of 26 evaluable patients and updated results, along with PFS, will be presented at the meeting. Conclusions: SU is well tolerated as maintenance therapy after D in men with mCRPC, with a predictable side-effect profile. PSA values after treatment with SU may not reflect progression in patients with mCRPCas significant increases were observed as early as Cycle 2 without clinical evidence of worsening disease. [Table: see text]
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- B. J. Eigl
- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada; Medicine Hat Cancer Centre, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada; London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada; British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada; Medicine Hat Cancer Centre, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada; London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada; British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada; Medicine Hat Cancer Centre, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada; London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada; British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada; Medicine Hat Cancer Centre, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada; London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada; British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada; Medicine Hat Cancer Centre, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada; London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada; British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada; Medicine Hat Cancer Centre, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada; London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada; British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Jones B, Syme R, Eliasziw M, Eigl BJ. Cost of care for prostate cancer patients: An observational cohort study comparing clinical trials to standard care. J Clin Oncol 2011. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2011.29.7_suppl.184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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184 Background: Monetary support of clinical trials is a fundamental necessity for improving treatment and prevention methods; however, current economic data pertaining to the per-patient costs of treating prostate cancer are limited. A concurrent lack of certainty regarding the cost requirements of standard care patients makes it difficult for healthcare professionals and policy makers to generate informed decisions regarding budgets and funding needs. Prostate cancer clinical trials are facing a national funding crisis due to the perception that patients enrolled in clinical trials consume more resources than patients receiving standard care. Methods: A retrospective observational cohort study was conducted to examine the costs incurred by prostate cancer patients at the Tom Baker Cancer Center over one year. Costs for 36 patients enrolled in one of nine cancer trials were compared with costs for 36 matched control subjects who received standard care. Resource utilization was tracked using medical charts and quantified by prices listed in the TBCC's 2009 Clinical Trials Budget template. Results: No evidence was found to support a difference in overall resource utilization between clinical trial patients and standard of care patients (Paired two-tailed t- test, N= 36, p =0.90). There was, however, variability in the types of resources used by each patient population, indicating that, while trial patients may take up significantly more clinic time (p =0.04), undergo more tests and procedures (p < 0.001) and require more diagnostic imaging (p = 0.01), standard care patients are more likely to receive costly interventions such as radiation therapy (p =0.06). Pharmaceutical costs have not yet been included in the analysis and could drastically alter the final results. Conclusions: This study revealed differences in the cost distribution of clinical trials patients versus standard of care patients, which could be used by administrators to improve budgeting and time allocation. The lack of difference in overall cost may be helpful to research advocates attempting to encourage centers to take on more trials. Further analysis is required before definitive conclusions can be drawn. No significant financial relationships to disclose.
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Magliocco A, Eliasziw M, Tambasco M. Abstract P3-10-17: The Fractal Analysis of Tumor Histology Is an Independent Prognostic Factor in Breast Cancer Patients. Cancer Res 2010. [DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.sabcs10-p3-10-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: Despite the usefulness of standard clinical prognosticators for breast cancer patients, recommendations for systemic adjuvant therapy are not entirely straightforward. Hence, there is a need for a more accurate independent prognosticator that provides additional information to improve risk assessment and associated therapeutic decisions. Methods: We used fractal dimension analysis to quantitatively assess the morphologic complexity of breast epithelium. To investigate the relationship between fractal dimension and patient survival we applied fractal analysis to pan-cytokeratin stained tissue microarray (TMA) cores derived from a series of 408 patients with over 10 years follow up, and analyzed three TMA cores for each patient. A data-oriented approach was used to stratify patients according to low (<1.56), intermediate (1.56-1.75), and high (>1.75) fractal dimension. Univariate statistical analyses were performed to show the relationship between outcome and fractal dimension, tumour size, tumour grade, lymph node status, estrogen receptor status, and HER-2/neu status. Multivariate analysis was performed to assess the relative effect of these prognosticators on disease-specific and overall survival.
Results: Patients with higher fractal score had significantly lower disease-specific 10-year survival (69.4%, 56.4%, and 25.0%, for low, intermediate, and high fractal dimension, respectively, P<0.001). Overall 10-year survival showed a similar association with fractal dimension. Cox regression analysis showed fractal dimension, lymph node status, and grade to be the only significant (P<0.05) independent predictors for both disease-specific and overall survival. Fractal dimension had the highest hazard ratio for overall survival 2.7(95% confidence interval (CI)=1.6-4.7); P<0.001), and the second highest for disease-specific survival 2.6(95% CI=1.4-4.8; P=0.002) versus 3.1(95% CI=1.9-5.1; P<0.001) for lymph node status. Discussion: Except for lymph node status, morphologic complexity of breast epithelium as measured by fractal dimension is more strongly and significantly associated with disease-specific and overall survival than standard clinical prognosticators. Furthermore, it is independent of standard prognosticators, and unlike tumour grade, it provides prognostic information that can be objectively assessed from TMA cores.
Citation Information: Cancer Res 2010;70(24 Suppl):Abstract nr P3-10-17.
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Brugniaux JV, Pialoux V, Foster GE, Duggan CTC, Eliasziw M, Hanly PJ, Poulin MJ. Effects of intermittent hypoxia on erythropoietin, soluble erythropoietin receptor and ventilation in humans. Eur Respir J 2010; 37:880-7. [PMID: 20947680 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00156009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Erythropoietin (EPO) and soluble EPO receptors (sEPOR) have been proposed to play a central role in the ventilatory acclimatisation to continuous hypoxia in mice. In this study, we demonstrated for the first time in humans (n = 9) that sEPOR is downregulated upon daytime exposure to 4 days of intermittent hypoxia (IH; 6 h·day⁻¹, cycles of 2 min of hypoxia followed by 2 min of reoxygenation; peak end-tidal oxygen tension (P(ET,O₂)) 88 Torr, nadir P(ET,O₂)) 45 Torr), thereby allowing EPO concentration to rise. We also determined the strength of the association between these haematological adaptations and alterations in the acute hypoxic ventilatory response (AHVR). We observed a nadir in sEPOR on day 2 (-70%), concomitant with the peak in EPO concentration (+50%). Following exposure to IH, tidal volume (V(T)) increased, respiratory frequency remained unchanged, and minute ventilation (V'(E)) was increased. There was a negative correlation between EPO and sEPOR (r = -0.261; p = 0.05), and between sEPOR and V(T) (r = -0.331; p = 0.02). EPO was positively correlated with V'(E) (r = 0.458; p = 0.001). In conclusion, the downregulation of sEPOR by IH modulates the subsequent EPO response. Furthermore, the alterations in AHVR and breathing pattern following IH appear to be mediated, at least in part, by the increase in EPO.
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- J V Brugniaux
- Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Magliocco A, Craighead P, Ghatage P, Eliasziw M, Bieda M, Lees-Miller S, Doll C. Gene Expression Profiling Identifies Biologic Processes Predictive of Radiation Response in Patients with Advanced Cervical Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.07.832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Doll C, Craighead P, Diaz R, Bieda M, Eliasziw M, Ghatage P, Lees-Miller S, Magliocco A. 58 GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING IDENTIFIES BIOLOGIC PROCESSES PREDICTIVE OF RADIATION RESPONSE IN PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED CERVICAL CANCER. Radiother Oncol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(12)72445-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Skarsgard D, Eliasziw M, Tai P, Zhu T, Alvi R, Tonita J. 98 DOES CURATIVE TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER AFFECT CAUSE-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL? UPDATE FROM THE SASKATCHEWAN PROSTATE CANCER DATABASE. Radiother Oncol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(12)72485-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Doll C, Craighead P, Diaz R, Box A, Shin B, Eliasziw M, Lees-Miller S, Magliocco A. High ERCC1 Expression is Associated with Worse Survival in Patients with Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer Treated with Radiotherapy (RT): an Evaluation of AQUA® Versus Conventional IHC Methods. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.06.807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Hao D, Lau HY, Eliasziw M, Box A, Diaz R, Shin B, Lees-Miller SP, Magliocco AM. A comprehensive evaluation of the prognostic value of ERCC1 protein expression, mRNA and genotype in locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (LA-SCCHN). J Clin Oncol 2008. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2008.26.15_suppl.6011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Doll C, Craighead P, Lees-Miller S, Demetrick D, Eliasziw M, Magliocco A. Expression of MDM2, p16, and HPV Status is Associated with Survival after Radiotherapy in Patients with Carcinoma of the Cervix. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Wright P, Eliasziw M, Gelfand G, Grondin S, McFadden S, Morris D, Balogh A. 6555 POSTER Treatment of thymomas and thymic carcinomas: a retrospective review of treatment outcomes at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre from 1982 to 2004. EJC Suppl 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(07)71383-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Sylaja PN, Coutts SB, Subramaniam S, Hill MD, Eliasziw M, Demchuk AM. Acute ischemic lesions of varying ages predict risk of ischemic events in stroke/TIA patients. Neurology 2007; 68:415-9. [PMID: 17283315 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000252938.76188.52] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Multiple ischemic lesions identified by diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) have been shown to predict high risk of future ischemic events. However, the importance of lesion age has not been factored into this risk. Our goal was to evaluate whether the presence of ischemic lesions of varying ages identified by DWI and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) suggests a higher risk of future ischemic events. METHODS Patients with acute stroke and TIA presenting within 12 hours of symptom onset who had a baseline and 1-month follow-up MRI were enrolled in the study. Acute ischemic lesions were divided into DWI positive with ADC low lesions and DWI positive with ADC normalized lesions. The baseline MRI and the presence of new lesions on the follow-up MRI were analyzed. RESULTS A total of 360 patients were prospectively enrolled, and all had appropriate imaging. Two hundred twenty-three were excluded as there were no DWI lesions, they received recombinant tissue plasminogen activator, or they did not have the 30-day follow-up MRI. One hundred seventeen patients had DWI lesions of one age (DWI positive with either ADC low lesions or ADC normalized lesions alone) and 20 had lesions of varying ages (DWI positive lesions with reduced and normalized ADC) on the baseline MRI. Patients with multiple DWI lesions of varying ages were at more risk of having new lesions on the 30-day MRI compared with those having lesions of the same age (relative risk = 3.6; 95% CI 1.9 to 6.8). Multiple DWI lesions of varying ages (odds ratio [OR] 6.6; 95% CI 2.3 to 19.1) and cardioembolic stroke subtype (OR 3.2; 95% CI 1.1 to 8.7) were independently associated with new lesion recurrence by multiple logistic regression analysis. CONCLUSION The presence of multiple diffusion-weighted imaging lesions of varying ages suggests very active early recurrence over time and portends a higher early risk of future ischemic events.
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- P N Sylaja
- Calgary Stroke Program, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 2T9
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Barber PA, Hill MD, Eliasziw M, Demchuk AM, Pexman JHW, Hudon ME, Tomanek A, Frayne R, Buchan AM. Imaging of the brain in acute ischaemic stroke: comparison of computed tomography and magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2005; 76:1528-33. [PMID: 16227545 PMCID: PMC1739399 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.059261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 253] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Controversy exists about the optimal imaging technique in acute stroke. It was hypothesised that CT is comparable with DWI, when both are read systematically using quantitative scoring. METHODS Ischaemic stroke patients who had CT within six hours and DWI within seven hours of onset were included. Five readers used a quantitative scoring system (ASPECTS) to read the baseline (b) and follow up CT and DWI. Use of MRI in acute stroke was also assessed in patients treated with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) by prospectively recording reasons for exclusion. Patients were followed clinically at three months. RESULTS bDWI and bCT were available for 100 consecutive patients (admission median NIHSS = 9). The mean bDWI and bCT ASPECTS were positively related (p<0.001). The level of interrater agreement ranged from good to excellent across all modalities and time periods. Bland-Altman plots showed more variability between bCT and bDWI than at 24 hours. The difference between bCT and bDWI was < or =2 ASPECTS points. Of bCT scans with ASPECTS 8-10, 81% had DWI ASPECTS 8-10. Patients with bCT ASPECTS of 8-10 were 1.9 times more likely to have a favourable outcome at 90 days than those with a score of 0-7 (95% CI 1.1 to 3.1, p = 0.002). The relative likelihood of favourable outcome with a bDWI ASPECTS 8-10 was 1.4 (95% CI 1.0 to 1.9, p = 0.10). Of patients receiving tPA 45% had contraindications to urgent MRI. CONCLUSION The differences between CT and DWI in visualising early infarction are small when using ASPECTS. CT is faster and more accessible than MRI, and therefore is the better neuroimaging modality for the treatment of acute stroke.
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- Seaman Family Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N 4N1, Canada.
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Alamowitch S, Eliasziw M, Barnett H. The risk and benefit of endarterectomy in women with symptomatic internal carotid artery disease. J Vasc Surg 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2005.03.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Rothwell PM, Eliasziw M, Gutnikov SA, Warlow CP, Barnett HJM. Sex Difference in the Effect of Time From Symptoms to Surgery on Benefit From Carotid Endarterectomy for Transient Ischemic Attack and Nondisabling Stroke. Stroke 2004; 35:2855-61. [PMID: 15514193 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.0000147040.20446.f6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Early studies showed that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) carried a high risk if performed within days after a large ischemic stroke. Therefore, many surgeons delay CEA for 4 to 6 weeks after any stroke. To determine the effect of delay to CEA on operative risk and benefit, we pooled data from the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial and the European Carotid Surgery Trial. METHODS Risk of ipsilateral ischemic stroke in the medical group, operative risk of stroke and death, and overall benefit from surgery were determined in relation to the time from the last symptomatic event to randomization. Operative risk of stroke and death was also determined in relation to the time to surgery. Analyses were stratified by sex and type of presenting event. RESULTS The 30-day perioperative risk of stroke and death was unrelated to the time since the last symptomatic event and was not increased in patients operated <2 weeks after nondisabling stroke. In contrast, the risk of ipsilateral ischemic stroke in the medical group fell rapidly with time since event (P<0.001), as did the absolute benefit from surgery (P=0.001). This decline in benefit with time was unrelated to the type of presenting event but was more pronounced in women than men (difference P<0.001). Benefit in women was confined to those randomized <2 weeks after their last event, irrespective of severity of stenosis. CONCLUSIONS CEA can be performed safely within 2 weeks of nondisabling ischemic stroke. Benefit from endarterectomy declines rapidly with increasing delay, particularly in women.
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- Stroke Prevention Research Unit, University Department of Clinical Neurology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Rd, Oxford, UK OX2 6HE.
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BACKGROUND Carotid endarterectomy reduces the risk of stroke in patients with recently symptomatic stenosis. Benefit depends on the degree of stenosis, and we aimed to see whether it might also depend on other clinical and angiographic characteristics, and on the timing of surgery. METHODS We analysed pooled data from the European Carotid Surgery Trial and North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial. The risk of ipsilateral ischaemic stroke for patients on medical treatment, the perioperative risk of stroke and death, and the overall benefit from surgery were determined in relation to seven predefined and seven post hoc subgroups. RESULTS 5893 patients with 33000 patient-years of follow-up were analysed. Sex (p=0.003), age (p=0.03), and time from the last symptomatic event to randomisation (p=0.009) modified the effectiveness of surgery. Benefit from surgery was greatest in men, patients aged 75 years or older, and those randomised within 2 weeks after their last ischaemic event, and fell rapidly with increasing delay. For patients with 50% or higher stenosis, the number of patients needed to undergo surgery (ie, number needed to treat) to prevent one ipsilateral stroke in 5 years was nine for men versus 36 for women, five for age 75 years or older versus 18 for younger than 65 years, and five for those randomised within 2 weeks after their last ischaemic event, versus 125 for patients randomised after more than 12 weeks. These results were consistent across the individual trials. INTERPRETATION Benefit from endarterectomy depends not only on the degree of carotid stenosis, but also on several other clinical characteristics such as delay to surgery after the presenting event. Ideally, the procedure should be done within 2 weeks of the patient's last symptoms.
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- P M Rothwell
- Stroke Prevention Research Unit, University Department of Clinical Neurology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE, UK.
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Barnett HJM, Meldrum H, Thomas DJ, Eliasziw M. Treatment of asymptomatic arteriosclerotic carotid artery disease. Adv Neurol 2003; 92:319-28. [PMID: 12760198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/02/2023]
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- H J M Barnett
- John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
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Rothwell PM, Eliasziw M, Gutnikov SA, Fox AJ, Taylor DW, Mayberg MR, Warlow CP, Barnett HJM. Analysis of pooled data from the randomised controlled trials of endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid stenosis. Lancet 2003; 361:107-16. [PMID: 12531577 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(03)12228-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 985] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Endarterectomy reduces risk of stroke in certain patients with recently symptomatic internal carotid stenosis. However, investigators have made different recommendations about the degree of stenosis above which surgery is effective, partly because of differences between trials in the methods of measurement of stenosis. To accurately assess the overall effect of surgery, and to increase power for secondary analyses, we pooled trial data and reassessed carotid angiograms. METHODS We pooled data from the European Carotid Surgery Trial (ECST), North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial, and Veterans Affairs trial 309 from the original electronic data files. Outcome events were re-defined, if necessary, to achieve comparability. Pre-randomisation carotid angiograms from ECST were re-measured by the method used in the other two trials. RESULTS Risks of main outcomes in both treatment groups and effects of surgery did not differ between trials. Data for 6092 patients, with 35000 patient-years of follow-up, were therefore pooled. Surgery increased the 5-year risk of ipsilateral ischaemic stroke in patients with less than 30% stenosis (n=1746, absolute risk reduction -2.2%, p=0.05), had no effect in patients with 30-49% stenosis (1429, 3.2%, p=0.6), was of marginal benefit in those with 50-69% stenosis (1549, 4.6%, p=0.04), and was highly beneficial in those with 70% stenosis or greater without near-occlusion (1095, 16.0%, p<0.001). There was a trend towards benefit from surgery in patients with near-occlusion at 2 years' follow-up (262, 5.6%, p=0.19), but no benefit at 5 years (-1.7%, p=0.9). INTERPRETATION Re-analysis of the trials with the same measurements and definitions yielded highly consistent results. Surgery is of some benefit for patients with 50-69% symptomatic stenosis, and highly beneficial for those with 70% symptomatic stenosis or greater but without near-occlusion. Benefit in patients with carotid near-occlusion is marginal in the short-term and uncertain in the long-term.
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- P M Rothwell
- Stroke Prevention Research Unit, University Department of Clinical Neurology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK.
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Barnett HJM, Meldrum H, Eliasziw M, Ferguson GG. Treatment of symptomatic arteriosclerotic carotid artery disease. Adv Neurol 2003; 92:307-17. [PMID: 12760197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/20/2023]
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- H J M Barnett
- John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
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Anderson DC, Kappelle LJ, Eliasziw M, Babikian VL, Pearce LA, Barnett HJM. Occurrence of hemispheric and retinal ischemia in atrial fibrillation compared with carotid stenosis. Stroke 2002; 33:1963-7. [PMID: 12154246 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.0000023445.20454.a8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The goal of this study was to examine the hypotheses that retinal ischemia is caused more often by carotid atherosclerosis than by atrial fibrillation and that the odds of retinal events compared with hemispheric events increase with worsening carotid stenosis. METHODS We used data from the Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation (SPAF) I through III trials and North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET), calculating hemispheric:retinal (H:R) odds for the territory of ischemic events during follow-up in patients with atrial fibrillation and medically treated 50% to 99% carotid stenosis or occlusion in the respective trials. RESULTS The H:R odds were 25:1 in the SPAF aspirin-assigned patients and 2:1 for NASCET vessels. In NASCET patients, the H:R odds of recurrent ischemic events were 1:4 for vessels randomized initially for retinal symptoms compared with 6:1 for those randomized for hemispheric events (significant difference; P<0.001). Moreover, the H:R odds of first events in the territory of the contralateral asymptomatic artery were 1:1 if the randomized vessel had retinal symptoms compared with 4:1 if the randomized vessel had hemispheric symptoms (significant difference; P<0.01). Increasing carotid stenosis in the 50% to 99% range had no effect on H:R odds (P=0.8). CONCLUSIONS These findings confirm that retinal symptoms are more typical of carotid stenosis. Hemodynamic effects do not appear to be more important in the pathogenesis of retinal events than hemispheric ones in carotid stenosis. The retinal versus hemispheric location of initial symptoms is strongly predictive of the location of subsequent events in patients with carotid stenosis, even when new symptoms are contralateral to the original ones.
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- D C Anderson
- Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55415, USA.
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BACKGROUND Health related quality of life (HRQOL) is increasingly recognised as an important outcome in epilepsy. However, interpretation of HRQOL data is difficult because there is no agreement on what constitutes a clinically important change in the scores of the various instruments. OBJECTIVES To determine the minimum clinically important change, and small, medium, and large changes, in broadly used epilepsy specific and generic HRQOL instruments. METHODS Patients with difficult to control focal epilepsy (n = 136) completed the QOLIE-89, QOLIE-31, SF-36, and HUI-III questionnaires twice, six months apart. Patient centred estimates of minimum important change, and of small, medium, and large change, were assessed on self administered 15 point global rating scales. Using regression analysis, the change in each HRQOL instrument that corresponded to the various categories of change determined by patients was obtained. The results were validated in a subgroup of patients tested at baseline and at nine months. RESULTS The minimum important change was 10.1 for QOLIE-89, 11.8 for QOLIE-31, 4.6 for SF-36 MCS, 3.0 for SF-36 physical composite score, and 0.15 for HUI-III. All instruments differentiated between no change and minimum important change with precision, and QOLIE-89 and QOLIE-31 also distinguished accurately between minimum important change and medium or large change. Baseline HRQOL scores and the type of treatment (surgical or medical) had no impact on any of the estimates, and the results were replicated in the validation sample. CONCLUSIONS These estimates of minimum important change, and small, medium, and large changes, in four HRQOL instruments in patients with epilepsy are robust and can distinguish accurately among different levels of change. The estimates allow for categorisation of patients into various levels of change in HRQOL, and will be of use in assessing the effect of interventions in individual patients.
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- S Wiebe
- Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
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Benavente O, Eliasziw M, Streifler J, Fox A, Barnett H, Meldrum H. Prognosis after transient monocular blindness associated with carotid-artery stenosis. Am J Ophthalmol 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9394(01)01390-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Transient monocular blindness associated with internal-carotid-artery stenosis is a risk factor for stroke. The effect of carotid endarterectomy in patients who present with transient monocular blindness has not been determined. METHODS We compared the risk of stroke among patients presenting with transient monocular blindness with the risk among patients presenting with hemispheric transient ischemic attack. The effect of endarterectomy was assessed in patients with transient monocular blindness. The analyses were based on data from the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial. RESULTS A total of 198 medically treated patients with transient monocular blindness had a three-year risk of ipsilateral stroke that was approximately half of that among 417 medically treated patients with hemispheric transient ischemic attack (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.53; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.30 to 0.94). Six factors were associated with a higher risk of stroke in patients with monocular blindness--an age of 75 years or more, male sex, a history of hemispheric transient ischemic attack or stroke, a history of intermittent claudication, stenosis of 80 to 94 percent of the luminal diameter, and the absence of collateral circulation. The three-year risk of stroke with medical treatment for patients with zero or one risk factor was 1.8 percent, with two risk factors 12.3 percent, and with three or more risk factors 24.2 percent (P=0.003). The three-year absolute reduction in the risk of stroke associated with endarterectomy was -2.2 percent (i.e., a 2.2 percent increase in risk) among patients with zero or one risk factor, 4.9 percent among those with two risk factors, and 14.3 percent among those with three or more risk factors (P=0.23 by a test for interaction). CONCLUSIONS Among patients with internal-carotidartery stenosis, the prognosis was better for those presenting with transient monocular blindness than for those presenting with hemispheric transient ischemic attack. Among patients with transient monocular blindness, carotid endarterectomy may be beneficial when other risk factors for stroke are also present.
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- O Benavente
- Division of Neurology, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.
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The kappa statistic is frequently used as a measure of agreement among two or more raters. Although considerable research on statistical inferences for this statistic has been published for the case of two raters and a binary outcome, relatively little work has appeared on inference problems for the case of multiple raters and/or polytomous nominal outcome categories. In this paper we propose a new procedure for constructing inferences for the kappa statistic that may be applied to this general case. The procedure is based on a chi-square goodness-of-fit test as applied to the Dirichlet multinomial model, and is a natural extension of previously proposed procedures that apply to more restricted cases. A simulation study shows that the new procedure provides confidence interval coverage levels and type I error rates close to nominal over a wide range of parameter combinations. We also present a sample size formula which may be used to determine the required number of subjects and raters for a given number of outcome categories.
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- Center for Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23510, USA.
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BACKGROUND Randomized trials of surgery for epilepsy have not been conducted, because of the difficulties involved in designing and implementing feasible studies. The lack of data supporting the therapeutic usefulness of surgery precludes making strong recommendations for patients with epilepsy. We conducted a randomized, controlled trial to assess the efficacy and safety of surgery for temporal-lobe epilepsy. METHODS Eighty patients with temporal-lobe epilepsy were randomly assigned to surgery (40 patients) or treatment with antiepileptic drugs for one year (40 patients). Optimal medical therapy and primary outcomes were assessed by epileptologists who were unaware of the patients' treatment assignments. The primary outcome was freedom from seizures that impair awareness of self and surroundings. Secondary outcomes were the frequency and severity of seizures, the quality of life, disability, and death. RESULTS At one year, the cumulative proportion of patients who were free of seizures impairing awareness was 58 percent in the surgical group and 8 percent in the medical group (P<0.001). The patients in the surgical group had fewer seizures impairing awareness and a significantly better quality of life (P<0.001 for both comparisons) than the patients in the medical group. Four patients (10 percent) had adverse effects of surgery. One patient in the medical group died. CONCLUSIONS In temporal-lobe epilepsy, surgery is superior to prolonged medical therapy. Randomized trials of surgery for epilepsy are feasible and appear to yield precise estimates of treatment effects.
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- S Wiebe
- Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, and London Health Sciences Centre, Canada.
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- Stroke Prevention and Atherosclerosis Research Centre, Robarts Research Institute, Ontario N6G 2V2, London, Canada.
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Alamowitch S, Eliasziw M, Algra A, Meldrum H, Barnett HJ. Risk, causes, and prevention of ischaemic stroke in elderly patients with symptomatic internal-carotid-artery stenosis. Lancet 2001; 357:1154-60. [PMID: 11323042 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(00)04332-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Carotid endarterectomy benefits patients with symptomatic stenosis of 70-99% in the internal carotid artery, with smaller benefit for 50-69% stenosis. The benefit of carotid endarterectomy in patients of 75 years and older remains unclear. METHODS Patients aged 75 years or older from the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial were compared with those aged 65-74 years and less than 65 years for baseline characteristics and risk of ipsilateral ischaemic stroke at 2 years by degree of stenosis and treatment group. FINDINGS Among patients with 70-99% stenosis, the absolute risk reduction of ipsilateral ischaemic stroke with carotid endarterectomy was 28.9% (95% CI 12.9-44.9) for patients aged 75 years or older (n=71), 15.1% (7.2-23.0) for those aged 65-74 years (n=285), and 9.7% (1.5-17.9) for the youngest group (n=303). Among patients with 50-69% stenosis, the absolute risk reduction was significant only in those of 75 years and older (n=145; 17.3% [6.6-28.0]). The perioperative risk of stroke and death at any degree of stenosis was 5.2% for the oldest group, 5.5% for 65-74 years, and 7.9% for less than 65 years. The number of patients aged 75 years or older needed to treat to prevent one ipsilateral stroke within 2 years was three with 70-99% stenosis and six with 50-69% stenosis. INTERPRETATION In the prevention of ipsilateral ischaemic stroke, elderly patients with 50-99% symptomatic carotid stenosis benefited more from carotid endarterectomy than younger patients did. To achieve this treatment benefit, surgeons must be skilled and patients with other life-threatening illnesses must be excluded.
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- S Alamowitch
- Department of Neurology, Tenon Hospital, Paris, France
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Levin MF, Papoff WJ, Doan L, Eliasziw M. Stereotaxic percutaneous core biopsy versus surgical biopsy of nonpalpable breast lesions using a standard mammographic table with an add-on device. Can Assoc Radiol J 2001; 52:29-32. [PMID: 11247262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of using a regular mammographic table with an add-on device for biopsy of nonpalpable breast lesions in women in a community hospital setting. PATIENTS AND METHODS During a 3-year period, 70 consenting women (39-80 years of age) with a nonpalpable mammographically suspicious lesion on routine screening mammography underwent 14-gauge automated percutaneous core biopsies, immediate needle localization and lumpectomy. The needle and surgical biopsy results were independently classified into 1 of 5 categories: cancer, fibroadenoma, fibrocystic change, normal or other. RESULTS The procedure was well tolerated, and all core specimens yielded adequate tissue for pathologic evaluation. There were 3 episodes of vasovagal reaction. There was complete agreement in histologic findings in 64 cases (91%), including 22 of 24 cancers (92%). The overall agreement for categorizing lesions was 91% (kappa = 0.88), and there was 97% agreement (kappa = 0.94) for the classification of cancer versus benign lesion. CONCLUSION The results are similar to those of studies performed with dedicated prone equipment. Stereotaxic core biopsies can be done safely and accurately in a community hospital setting with relatively inexpensive nondedicated mammographic equipment.
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- M F Levin
- St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, St. Thomas Ont.
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PURPOSE The study goal was to assess the magnitude of change in generic and epilepsy-specific health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) instruments needed to exclude chance or error at various levels of certainty in patients with medically refractory epilepsy. METHODS Forty patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and clearly defined criteria of clinical stability received HRQOL measurements twice, 3 months apart, using the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory-89 and -31 (QOLIE-89 and QOLIE-31), Liverpool Impact of Epilepsy, adverse drug events, seizure severity scales, and the Generic Health Utilities Index (HUI-III). Standard error of measurement and test-retest reliability were obtained for all scales and for QOLIE-89 subscales. Using the Reliable Change Index described by Jacobson and Truax, we assessed the magnitude of change required by HRQOL instruments to be 90 and 95% certain that real change has occurred, as opposed to change due to chance or measurement error. RESULTS Clinical features, point estimates and distribution of HRQOL measures, and test-retest reliability (all > 0.70) were similar to those previously reported. Score changes of +/-13 points in QOLIE-89, +/-15 in QOLIE-31, +/-6.3 in Liverpool seizure severity-ictal, +/-11 in Liverpool adverse drug events, +/-0.25 in HUI-III, and +/-9.5 in impact of epilepsy exclude chance or measurement error with 90% certainty. These correspond, respectively, to 13, 15, 17, 18, 25, and 32% of the potential range of change of each instrument. CONCLUSIONS Threshold values for real change varied considerably among HRQOL tools but were relatively small for QOLIE-89, QOLIE-31, Liverpool Seizure Severity, and adverse drug events. In some instruments, even relatively large changes cannot rule out chance or measurement error. The relation between the Reliable Change Index and other measures of change and its distinction from measures of minimum clinically important change are discussed.
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- S Wiebe
- Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada.
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Carotid ultrasonography is being increasingly performed as the sole investigation to assess internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis. A potential source of error in using ultrasound peak systolic velocity (PSV) measurements is that the redistribution of blood flow due to severe stenosis in a contralateral carotid artery may lead to artificially elevated values. METHODS Ultrasonography was performed before and after carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients who participated in the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET). The mean change in PSV in the unoperated artery was assessed across all degrees of angiographically defined stenosis. A simple theoretical resistance model of the cerebral circulation was also derived. RESULTS Complete bilateral ultrasound examinations were performed within 90 days of the initial scan in 386 patients. In the presence of a contralateral severe (70% to 99%) ICA stenosis, the PSV in the unoperated artery was artificially elevated by a mean of 84 cm/s (P:=0.03; 95% CI, 10 to 159 cm/s). The mean elevation was less pronounced for lesser degrees of stenosis (11 to 21 cm/s). Small elevations (3 to 12 cm/s) were observed when the contralateral artery had <70% stenosis. The patterns of observed results were congruent with those from the theoretical model. CONCLUSIONS The present study showed that a severely stenosed contralateral ICA can artificially elevate ultrasound PSV. Since the effect was greatest when bilaterally severe stenoses were present, caution must be exercised when assessing the degree of ICA stenosis on the basis of ultrasonography PSV measurements alone.
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- R D Henderson
- John P. Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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Paciaroni M, Eliasziw M, Sharpe BL, Kappelle LJ, Chaturvedi S, Meldrum H, Barnett HJ. Long-term clinical and angiographic outcomes in symptomatic patients with 70% to 99% carotid artery stenosis. Stroke 2000; 31:2037-42. [PMID: 10978026 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.31.9.2037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In 1991, the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) reported the benefit of carotid endarterectomy for 659 patients with 70% to 99% stenosis. Follow-up continued until 1997. METHODS The present study examined the risks and causes of ipsilateral stroke in the randomized groups and in those who had delayed endarterectomy or continued on medical therapy and also examined the evolution of carotid disease on follow-up imaging. RESULTS By on-treatment (efficacy) analysis, the risk of any ipsilateral stroke at 3 years was 28.3% for medically randomized and 8.9% for surgically randomized patients (19.4% absolute risk reduction, P:<0.001). For combined disabling or fatal ipsilateral stroke, the risks were 14.0% and 3.4%, respectively (10. 6% absolute risk reduction). In medical patients, >80% of the first strokes at 3 years were of large-artery origin. After February 1991, 116 suitable medical patients underwent endarterectomy within 6 months, and 115 continued on medical therapy. The 3-year risk of any ipsilateral stroke in the groups of 116 and 115 patients was 7.9% and 15.0%, respectively (7.1% absolute risk reduction). During follow-up, 81 patients had angiograms comparable to the baseline images. Progression by >/=10% occurred in 7 patients; regression, in 8; no change, in 39; and occlusion, in 27. By use of both angiography and ultrasound, 63 (25.5%) of the 247 medically treated patients progressed to occlusion, of whom 31.7% had an ipsilateral stroke before or on the day of occlusion. CONCLUSIONS Endarterectomy for patients with 70% to 99% stenosis and recent symptoms was efficacious in the long term. Compared with patients who continued on medical therapy, medical patients with delayed endarterectomy experienced a moderate benefit. Medically treated patients experienced a high risk of occlusion.
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- M Paciaroni
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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Kappelle LJ, Eliasziw M, Fox AJ, Barnett HJ. Small, unruptured intracranial aneurysms and management of symptomatic carotid artery stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Group. Neurology 2000; 55:307-9. [PMID: 10908914 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.55.2.307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Of the 2885 patients participating in the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial, 90 (3.1%) had unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIA), of which 96% had a diameter of less than 10 mm. During an average 5-year follow-up, only one patient had subarachnoid hemorrhage 6 days after carotid endarterectomy (CE). For patients with unrepaired UIA, the 5-year stroke risk was 10% after CE and 22.7% with best medical care. Both risks are similar to those of patients without UIA. The decision regarding CE probably should not be influenced by the presence of a small UIA.
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- L J Kappelle
- Department of Neurology and the Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience of the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Recent theory and methodology for inferences concerning the interclass correlation coefficient are reviewed, focusing on the case of a single individual in one class and a variable number of individuals in the other. Topics discussed include point and interval estimation, as well as significance-testing, with emphasis on application to data arising from family studies.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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Inzitari D, Eliasziw M, Gates P, Sharpe BL, Chan RK, Meldrum HE, Barnett HJ. The causes and risk of stroke in patients with asymptomatic internal-carotid-artery stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators. N Engl J Med 2000; 342:1693-700. [PMID: 10841871 DOI: 10.1056/nejm200006083422302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 422] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND The causes of stroke in patients with asymptomatic carotid-artery stenosis have not been carefully studied. Information about causes might influence decisions about the use of carotid endarterectomy in such patients. METHODS We studied patients with unilateral symptomatic carotid-artery stenosis and asymptomatic contralateral stenosis from 1988 to 1997. The causes, severity, risk, and predictors of stroke in the territory of the asymptomatic artery were examined and quantified. RESULTS The risk of stroke at five years after study entry in a total of 1820 patients increased with the severity of stenosis. Among 1604 patients with stenosis of less than 60 percent of the luminal diameter, the risk of a first stroke was 8.0 percent (1.6 percent annually), as compared with 16.2 percent (3.2 percent annually) among 216 patients with 60 to 99 percent stenosis. In the group with 60 to 99 percent stenosis, the five-year risk of stroke in the territory of a large artery was 9.9 percent, that of lacunar stroke was 6.0 percent, and that of cardioembolic stroke 2.1 percent. Some patients had more than one stroke of more than one cause. In the territory of an asymptomatic occluded artery (as was identified in 86 patients), the annualized risk of stroke was 1.9 percent. Strokes with different causes had different risk factors. The risk factors for large-artery stroke were silent brain infarction, a history of diabetes, and a higher degree of stenosis; for cardioembolic stroke, a history of myocardial infarction or angina and hypertension; for lacunar stroke, age of 75 years or older, hypertension, diabetes, and a higher degree of stenosis. CONCLUSIONS The risk of stroke among patients with asymptomatic carotid-artery stenosis is relatively low. Forty-five percent of strokes in patients with asymptomatic stenosis of 60 to 99 percent are attributable to lacunes or cardioembolism. These observations have implications for the use of endarterectomy in asymptomatic patients. Without analysis of the risk of stroke according to cause, the absolute benefit associated with endarterectomy may be overestimated.
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- Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Florence, Italy
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CONTEXT Therapeutic trials generally have not distinguished outcomes of stroke according to cause. OBJECTIVE To determine whether stroke and subsequent disability was of large-artery, lacunar, or cardioembolic origin in patients with different degrees of symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis. DESIGN Observational study of prospective data collected from the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial between 1987 and 1997. SETTING AND PATIENTS A total of 2885 patients from 106 sites in the United States and abroad (median age, 67 years; 70% male) who had symptomatic internal carotid artery stenosis. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Risk of stroke from each of the 3 causes at 5 years by territory and degree of stenosis. RESULTS During an average follow-up of 5 years, 749 patients had 1039 strokes, including 112 of cardioembolic, 211 of lacunar, 698 of large-artery, 17 of primary intracerebral hemorrhage, and 1 of subarachnoid hemorrhage origin. The 5-year risk of first stroke after entry into the trial in any territory was 2.6% of cardioembolic cause, 6.9% of lacunar cause, and 19.7% of large-artery cause. The proportion of cardioembolic strokes in the territory of the symptomatic artery was 12.0% and 6.9% in 60% to 69% and 70% to 99% arterial stenosis, respectively; large-artery strokes predominated (78.4%) at 70% to 99% arterial stenosis. With 70% to 99% arterial stenosis, the proportion of strokes of cardioembolic and lacunar origin was 43.5% and 21.6% in asymptomatic and symptomatic arteries, respectively. A total of 67.6% of cardioembolic, 16.7% of lacunar, and 33.0% of large-artery strokes in the territory of the asymptomatic artery were disabling or fatal. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that approximately 20% and 45% of strokes in the territory of symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid arteries with 70% to 99% stenosis, respectively, are unrelated to carotid stenosis. The cause of subsequent strokes in similar types of patients should be considered when making treatment decisions involving carotid endarterectomy for patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis, since lacunar and cardioembolic strokes cannot be prevented by endarterectomy.
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- H J Barnett
- The John P. Robarts Research Institute, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
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Del Sette M, Eliasziw M, Streifler JY, Hachinski VC, Fox AJ, Barnett HJ. Internal borderzone infarction: a marker for severe stenosis in patients with symptomatic internal carotid artery disease. For the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy (NASCET) Group. Stroke 2000; 31:631-6. [PMID: 10700496 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.31.3.631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Among subcortical infarctions, internal borderzone infarcts (IBI) are considered to be separate entities from perforating artery infarcts (PAI). The purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between the presence of IBI and the degree of angiographically defined internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis in symptomatic patients. METHODS A review of 1253 brain CTs from patients recruited by the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial was performed, using templates for the identification of subcortical and cortical vascular territories. RESULTS A total of 413 patients had visible ischemic lesions on the side ipsilateral to their symptomatic ICA. Of these, 138 had PAI, 108 had IBI, 122 had cortical infarcts, and 45 had a combination of different lesions. Mean (+/-SD) lesion diameter was larger for IBI (11.0+/-5.9 mm) than for PAI (7.1+/-4.7 mm) (P<0.001 for comparing 2 means). IBI was associated with higher degrees of ICA stenosis (P<0. 001). Sixty-three percent of the patients with IBI had severe (70% to 99%) ICA stenosis compared with 42% of patients with PAI; 18% of the IBI patients had stenosis of 90% or more compared with 8% of the patients with PAI. Multiple logistic regression did not identify any patient characteristics as confounders. CONCLUSIONS Among subcortical infarctions, IBI are associated with higher degrees of ICA stenosis in symptomatic patients. Differentiating between internal borderzone and perforating artery infarcts is important, because each may arise from different mechanisms, namely, carotid disease and small-vessel disease, respectively.
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- M Del Sette
- Department of Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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Inzitari D, Eliasziw M, Sharpe BL, Fox AJ, Barnett HJ. Risk factors and outcome of patients with carotid artery stenosis presenting with lacunar stroke. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Group. Neurology 2000; 54:660-6. [PMID: 10680800 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.54.3.660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between carotid artery stenosis, other risk factors, and lacunar stroke. BACKGROUND Carotid artery stenosis in patients presenting with lacune stroke may be coincidental or causal. The distinction by risk factor profile is uncertain. The risk and cause of subsequent stroke, and benefit of carotid endarterectomy (CE) is unknown. METHODS Stroke in patients entering the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial were classified as nonlacunar, possible lacune (symptoms without CT lacunae), or probable lacune (symptoms with CT lacunae). RESULTS Of 1,158 patients with hemispheric stroke, 493 had features of lacunar stroke (283 possible and 210 probable). Lacunar stroke presented more commonly in patients with milder (<50%) degrees of internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis (p = 0.003). History of diabetes and hyperlipidemia, not hypertension, were associated independently even after accounting for the degree of stenosis. Medically treated patients presenting with nonlacunar stroke had a low risk of subsequent lacunar events of 2.9% at 3 years in comparison with 9.2% for probable lacunar presentation (p = 0.03). For patients with 50 to 99% ICA stenosis, the relative risk reductions (RRRs) in stroke from CE were 35% when the presenting stroke was probable lacunar versus 61% when the stroke was nonlacunar. Patients presenting with a possible lacunar stroke had a 53% RRR. CONCLUSIONS History of diabetes and hyperlipidemia were more important than arterial hypertension as risk factors for patients with lacunar stroke. Patients presenting with lacunar stroke more often had milder ICA stenosis. Although CE reduced the risk of stroke in all patients with 50 to 99% ICA stenosis, lesser benefits were observed in patients presenting with lacunar stroke.
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- Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Florence, Italy
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Chong KY, Craen RA, Murkin JM, Lee D, Eliasziw M, Gelb AW. Rate of change of cerebral blood flow velocity with hyperventilation during anesthesia in humans. Can J Anaesth 2000; 47:125-30. [PMID: 10674505 DOI: 10.1007/bf03018847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Although it has been suggested that the rate at which the cerebral circulation responds to changes in PaCO2 is different with differing anesthetics, there have been no attempts to measure this. Transcranial Doppler allows the continuous measurement of cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) and any changes over time. Our aim was to compare the rate of change of CBFV when end-tidal CO2 (P(ET)CO2) was rapidly altered during halothane or isoflurane anesthesia. METHODS Twenty-eight unpremedicated healthy patients were randomly assigned to receive air/O2 and either 1-1.5 MAC halothane or isoflurane as the primary anesthetic. After 15 min of steady state, P(ET)CO2 was rapidly reduced from 45 mm Hg to 30 mm Hg. CBFV and P(ET)CO2 were recorded every 30 sec for the next 10 min. RESULTS The rate of change of normalized CBFV (delta CBFV vs. delta time) was more rapid in the isoflurane group (P <0.0001) especially in the initial few minutes. In all patients anesthetized with isoflurane, and in all but two patients anesthetized with halothane, the reduction in P(ET)CO2 produced a corresponding decrease in CBFV However, there were no differences in the magnitude of cerebrovascular CO2 reactivity (delta CBFV vs. delta P(ET)CO2) between the two groups. CONCLUSIONS The rate of change of CBFV was faster in the isoflurane than in the halothane group especially in the initial few minutes. Indeed, for two patients in the halothane group Vmca did not change despite a change in P(ET)CO2. This may be of clinical importance when cerebrovascular tone needs to be changed rapidly.
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- Department of Anaesthesia, London Health Sciences Centre, University Campus, Ontario, Canada
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Barnett H, Gunton R, Eliasziw M, Fleming L, Sharpe B, Gates P, Meldrum H. Causas e intensidad del ictus isquémico en pacientes con estenosis de la arteria carótida interna. Hipertensión y Riesgo Vascular 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s1889-1837(00)71058-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Henderson RD, Eliasziw M, Fox AJ, Rothwell PM, Barnett HJ. Angiographically defined collateral circulation and risk of stroke in patients with severe carotid artery stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) Group. Stroke 2000; 31:128-32. [PMID: 10625727 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.31.1.128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 267] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Blood supply through collateral pathways improves regional cerebral blood flow and may protect against ischemic events. The effect of collaterals on the risk of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA), in the presence of angiographic severe internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis, was assessed. METHODS Angiographic collateral filling through anterior communicating and posterior communicating arteries and retrograde filling through ophthalmic arteries were determined in all patients at entry into the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial. Kaplan-Meier event-free survival analyses were performed on 339 medically treated and 342 surgically treated patients. RESULTS The presence of collaterals supplying the symptomatic ICA increased with severity of stenosis. Two-year risk of hemispheric stroke in medically treated patients with severe ICA stenosis was reduced in the presence of collaterals: 27.8% to 11.3% (P=0.005). Similar reductions were observed for hemispheric TIA (36.1% versus 19.1%; P=0.008) and disabling or fatal strokes (13.3% versus 6.3%; P=0.11). For surgically treated patients, the perioperative risk of hemispheric stroke was 1.1% in the presence of collaterals versus 4. 9% when absent. The 2-year stroke risks for surgical patients with and without collaterals were 5.9% versus 8.4%, respectively. Neither comparison in the surgical group was statistically significant. The observed reductions were independent of the degree of ICA stenosis and other vascular risk factors. CONCLUSIONS Collaterals are associated with a lower risk of hemispheric stroke and TIA, both long term and perioperatively. Angiographic identification of collaterals assists in identifying patients with severe ICA stenosis at lower risk of stroke and TIA.
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- R D Henderson
- John P. Robarts Research Institute, Department of Epidemiology, Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada
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Munoz DG, Ganapathy GR, Eliasziw M, Hachinski V. Educational attainment and socioeconomic status of patients with autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer disease. Arch Neurol 2000; 57:85-9. [PMID: 10634453 DOI: 10.1001/archneur.57.1.85] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether patients with autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer disease (AD) have different educational attainment and socioeconomic status than subjects without neurodegenerative disease. DESIGN Comparison of 2 groups of autopsied patients. Information on education and occupation was obtained by telephone interview of relatives conducted post mortem. PATIENTS One hundred fifteen patients enrolled in the University of Western Ontario Dementia Study with dementia and fulfilling diagnostic criteria of AD at autopsy were compared with 142 patients 65 years or older without dementia who died in the hospital and in whom autopsy did not show neurodegenerative disease. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Highest education level attained, years of education, occupation, and socioeconomic and income levels. All results were adjusted for sex, age at time of death, and year of birth. RESULTS There were no statistically significant differences in education, occupation, or socioeconomic and income levels between the groups. CONCLUSIONS There is no evidence that educational attainment is different in patients with AD than in subjects who die in the hospital from other diseases. These results indicate that education does not protect against advanced AD.
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- D G Munoz
- Department of Pathology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
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BACKGROUND Few data exist on the frequency and burden of epilepsy in Canada and on the impact of self-reported epilepsy in the general population. We assess the frequency, general health, psychosocial function, and health care resource use among self-identified epileptic persons in the general population. METHOD The 1990 Ontario Health Survey is an omnibus, extensive health survey of 61,239 subjects representing the Ontario population. Self-reported epileptic subjects are compared with three groups, i.e., those with > or = 1 other chronic illnesses, the general population, and those with no health problems. RESULTS The point prevalence of self-reported epilepsy was 5.8 per 1,000 population, a figure similar to that of active epilepsy in other studies. Quality of life, family function and social support were worse in epileptic than in other chronically ill subjects. Similarly, the epilepsy population had more disability days and limitations in activities, and lower annual income than all other groups, including the chronically ill. Accidents were no more common among epileptic subjects than among controls. Epileptic persons were high users of health care resources, including hospitalization, emergency room, psychological/social work, nursing services and telephone contact with health professionals. Barriers to health care were experienced infrequently. Small area variations in health status and care are explored. CONCLUSIONS The health profile of self-reported epileptic subjects is similar to that obtained in studies involving defined epilepsy patients. In the general population, self-identification as having epilepsy carries a significant burden of illness, reflected in poorer health, psychosocial function, and quality of life, and higher health care resource use.
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- S Wiebe
- Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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