In the present study, we investigated whether age and serious comorbid conditions influence treatment decisions, complications and survival in breast cancer patients. The Eindhoven Cancer Registry ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease of the CNS, with highly heterogeneous outcomes. Most efforts to understand this heterogeneity have focused on disease- ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . High comorbidity burden was associated with reduced cost-effectiveness of TKA vs. healthy patients. Increased ...

Efficacy of Thalidomide in Preventing Delayed Nausea and Vomiting Induced by Highly Emetogenic Chemotherapy: A Randomized, Multicenter, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase III Trial (CLOG1302 study ...

Estimates of prostate cancer–specific mortality (PCSM) were similar for men randomly assigned to intervention compared with usual care on the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian PC screening study.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with lupus and gout had more than twice the risk for several cardiovascular comorbidities. The ...

BACKGROUND: Comorbidity indexes derived from administrative databases are essential tools of research in global health. We sought to develop and validate a novel cardiac-specific comorbidity index, ...

Comorbidity is a complex topic, conceptually and clinically. The definition of comorbidity from a conceptual point of view refers to a situation in which "a distinct clinical entity appears during the ...

—Analysis of 83.9 million person-years of data suggests that diagnosis with a primary mental health disorder increases risk of a subsequent disorder by 2- to 48-fold. Reviewed by Nicole Foubister, MD, ...