Monthly Archives: November 2023
Cancer and neoplasms
Ukrainian migrants’ and war refugees’ admissions to hospital: evidence from the Polish Nationwide General Hospital Morbidity Study, 2014–2022
Nov
Baseline data review According to the NGHMS, 13,024 Ukrainian citizens were admitted to Polish hospitals (except for psychiatric facilities) in the analysed period, including 5,676 men and 7,348 women. 6,728 persons (51.7%) were admitted to hospital after the outbreak of war (24.02.2022), including 2534 men and 4194 women (Table 1). Table 1 General characteristics of […]
Cardiovascular
Are breast cancer patients with suboptimal adherence to cardiovascular treatment more likely to discontinue adjuvant endocrine therapy? Competing risk survival analysis in a nationwide cohort of postmenopausal women
Nov
Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group. Effects of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy for early breast cancer on recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of the randomised trials. Lancet Lond Engl. 2005;365(9472):1687–717. Google Scholar Davies C, Godwin J, Gray R, Clarke M, Cutter D, Darby S, et al. Relevance of breast cancer hormone receptors and other […]
Blood
Prospective association of occupational and leisure-time physical activity with orthostatic blood pressure changes in older adults
Nov
Abstract Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is common in older people. We examined the influence of self-reported occupational-related physical activity (PA) and leisure-time physical exercise (PE) on orthostatic response in a sample of older people over a 2 year period. Supine and orthostatic systolic blood pressure (sBP), diastolic blood pressure (dBP), and mean blood pressure (mBP) were assessed […]