Showing posts with label North America. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

People around the world living longer, but sicker, study says | Synopsis

People around the world living longer, but sicker, study says

Diagnosing the dummy
Diagnosing the dummy by Ano Lobb. @healthyrx
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Excerpt:

LONDON –  Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases and disabilities of modern life, according to the most expansive global look so far at life expectancy and the biggest health threats. The last comprehensive study was in 1990 and the top health problem then was the death of children under 5 - more than 10 million each year. Since then, campaigns to vaccinate kids against diseases like polio and measles have reduced the number of children dying to about 7 million. Malnutrition was once the main health threat for children. Now, everywhere except Africa, they are much more likely to overeat than to starve. With more children surviving, chronic illnesses and disabilities that strike later in life are taking a bigger toll, the research said.

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Sandy Cairncross

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Relevance: 0.605542

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0"We have to take this data with some grains of salt," said Sandy Cairncross, ...
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  • Mean: 0.088496
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Jennifer Cohn

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Relevance: 0.579105

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-0.101036"It's the nature of infectious disease epidemics that if you turn away from them, they will crop right back up," said Jennifer Cohn, ...
0.172651"The way we treat HIV could be a good model for chronic care," she said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.071615
  • Mean: 0.0358075
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Christopher Murray

Overall Sentiment: 0.391139

Relevance: 0.468212

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  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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Continent: Africa

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Relevance: 0.838393

Continent: North America

Overall Sentiment: -0.242329

Relevance: 0.616451

Continent: Asia

Overall Sentiment: -0.348015

Relevance: 0.454608

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Continent: Latin America

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Region: Western Europe

Overall Sentiment: -0.279967

Relevance: 0.714964

Region: Southeast Asia

Overall Sentiment: -0.150219

Relevance: 0.469548

Country: U.S.

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Country: Japan

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Country: India

Overall Sentiment: -0.312026

Relevance: 0.400895

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Country: China

Overall Sentiment: -0.303959

Relevance: 0.38473

City: LONDON

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Organization: Institute of Health Metrics

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Relevance: 0.546288

Organization: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Organization: Doctors Without Borders

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Organization: London School of Hygiene

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HealthCondition: heart disease

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HealthCondition: diabetes

Overall Sentiment: -0.136856

Relevance: 0.613402

HealthCondition: polio

Overall Sentiment: -0.291318

Relevance: 0.533151

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HealthCondition: AIDS

Overall Sentiment: -0.238635

Relevance: 0.496484

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HealthCondition: Malnutrition

Overall Sentiment: 0.0982798

Relevance: 0.492271

HealthCondition: stroke

Overall Sentiment: -0.140417

Relevance: 0.481807

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HealthCondition: depression

Overall Sentiment: 0.370686

Relevance: 0.474151

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HealthCondition: lung cancer

Overall Sentiment: -0.169117

Relevance: 0.458381

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HealthCondition: HIV

Overall Sentiment: 0.015463

Relevance: 0.451509

HealthCondition: infectious disease

Overall Sentiment: -0.446549

Relevance: 0.42315

HealthCondition: tuberculosis

Overall Sentiment: -0.360391

Relevance: 0.376551

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HealthCondition: malaria

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Current breast cancer screening guidelines may lead to more missed cases | Synopsis

Current breast cancer screening guidelines may lead to more missed cases

Cancer Art
Cancer Art by Keoni Cabral
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License
Excerpt:

The mammogram screening guidelines set forth by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), one of the top advisory panels on health issues to the government, may lead to more missed cancers and a decline in screening, new studies have concluded. Two new studies that looked at the effectiveness of the guidelines were presented on Nov. 27 at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago 9 Photos Busted! 8 mammogram truths every woman must know About one out of eight women in the United States will get invasive breast cancer during their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. In 2012, there will be about 226,870 new cases of invasive breast cancer and about 63,000 cases of new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS), the earliest state of breast cancer. In total, 39,510 women are expected to die in 2012 from the disease.

People:

Dr. Elizabeth Arleo

Overall Sentiment: 0.115826

Relevance: 0.312829

SentimentQuote
0.127614"Recommendations on screening mammography are extremely important public policy and we wanted to contribute to that dialogue," author Dr. Elizabeth Arleo, assistant professor of radiology at New York - Presbyterian Hospital -- Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, said
-0.157284"Recommendations on screening mammography are extremely important public policy and we wanted to contribute to that dialogue," author Dr. Elizabeth Arleo, assistant professor of radiology at New York - Presbyterian Hospital -- Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, said in a press release. "We get questions all day long from patients and referring physicians on the appropriateness of screening mammography. The inconsistent information is very confusing for everyone."
-0.210167"It seems unacceptable to potentially miss nearly 20 percent of the breast cancers we are identifying," Arleo said. ...
0.0765064"It seems unacceptable to potentially miss nearly 20 percent of the breast cancers we are identifying," Arleo said. "This, in our view, would represent a substantial degree of under-diagnosis."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.1633306
  • Mean: -0.04083265
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Dr. David C. Levin

Overall Sentiment: 0.216503

Relevance: 0.270367

SentimentQuote
0.243125"We'll never see 1,000 out of 1,000 women getting a screening mammogram, but you'd like to see that number closer to 1,000, and certainly higher than 322," he said. ...
0.0762425"We'll never see 1,000 out of 1,000 women getting a screening mammogram, but you'd like to see that number closer to 1,000, and certainly higher than 322," he said. "We need to continue to follow these numbers and to watch the breast cancer mortality statistics."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.3193675
  • Mean: 0.15968375
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Dr. Therese Bevers

Overall Sentiment: -0.361982

Relevance: 0.18867

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

HealthCondition: breast cancer

Overall Sentiment: -0.310215

Relevance: 0.892698

Disambiguation: DiseaseOrMedicalCondition | CauseOfDeath | RiskFactor | DiseaseReferences:

Organization: American Cancer Society

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Relevance: 0.366822

Organization: Task Force

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.313095

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