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Migraine headaches are more common than tension-type headaches in children and adolescents. Being overweight, smoking, and being sedentary are associated with recurrent migraine and tension-type headaches in adolescents.
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The development of neuropathic pain after traumatic nerve injury is strongly influenced by premorbid personality traits that are dominated by "negative emotional states."
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In a study of extracranial and transcranial color-coded sonography, there was no impairment of cerebral venous drainage in patients with multiple sclerosis as compared to healthy controls.
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A retrospective study of 12,333 infants < 6 months of age with urinary tract infections showed no difference in treatment failure between short-course (≤ 3 days) and long-course (≥ 4 days) of antibiotic therapy.
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In this single-center study of what happened to 126 consecutive patients who survived an ICU admission requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation, 56% of them were alive after one year, but only 11 of these were functioning independently. On average, the patients spent 74% of all post-discharge days in the hospital, in a post-acute care facility, or at home receiving paid home health care.
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Estimates in the past 10 years have consistently reported about 6 million Americans aged 12 or older using cocaine in the past year.
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Nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant coagulase negative staphylococci (MR-CoNS) was investigated in 291 adults upon hospital admission. MR-CoNS carriage was present in 19.2% of patients. SCCmec type IV was found in 22% of the Co-NS isolated, and sequencing revealed extensive structural homology between SCCmec IV in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MRSE) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
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There is considerable concern regarding in-stent thrombosis of drug-eluting stents (DES) when aspirin and clopidogrel are stopped for non-cardiac surgery (NCS), but a paucity of data.