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A mortality rate specific to either males or females.
Industry:Health care
A measure of a person's subjective assessment of the value of his or her health and functional abilities.
Industry:Health care
A multivariate method for determining a regression or prediction equation to predict an outcome from a set of independent variables.
Industry:Health care
A noninvasive method to evaluate the patency of blood vessels using magnetic resonance imaging.
Industry:Health care
A dialysis procedure during which blood is pumped outside the body through a dialyzer that acts like an artificial kidney; the dialyzer removes extra fluids and wastes from the blood and returns the clean blood to the body.
Industry:Health care
A clinical situation in which a patient has extremely high blood pressure values, typically greater than 180/120 mm Hg that is not accompanied by acute or progressing target-organ injury. These situations require oral antihypertensive therapy to reduce blood pressure to stage 1 values over a period of several hours to several days.
Industry:Health care
A falsely elevated blood pressure measurement that is usually because of rigid, calcified brachial arteries; this can be seen in patients who are ≥65 years, have long-standing diabetes, or have chronic kidney disease.
Industry:Health care
A highly contagious and life-threatening respiratory illness that first emerged in the winter of 2002–2003 in China and rapidly spread throughout the world.
Industry:Health care
* Reason for the use of drug therapy for the treatment, prevention, or diagnosis of a condition (illness, symptom) in a specific patient.
* A sign or symptom to suggest the necessity or advisability to initiate pharmacotherapy.
Industry:Health care
