Showing papers in "Journal of Chronic Diseases in 1987"

TL;DR: The method of classifying comorbidity provides a simple, readily applicable and valid method of estimating risk of death fromComorbid disease for use in longitudinal studies and further work in larger populations is still required to refine the approach.

TL;DR: Responsiveness should join reliability and validity as necessary requirements for instruments designed primarily to measure change over time in psychometric measures.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the utility approach is beyond the experimental stage, and is now a viable alternative for investigators to use in measuring health-related quality of life.

TL;DR: The dimensionality of health and the range of health states that can be measured within each dimension are discussed and it is recommended that labels be assigned to health measures in a manner consistent with their content and other evidence of validity.

TL;DR: A six-level scale similar in structure and detail to the Katz Index of ADL was examined and can be used to described a broader range of needs of elders in the community and will be particularly useful to health services planners, practitioners, and researchers.

TL;DR: It is concluded that new measures are needed to assess function in a busy office practice and that the COOP Chart system represents one promising strategy.

TL;DR: The two methods of presenting response options show comparable responsiveness in a questionnaire measuring quality of life in chronic lung disease, and the ease of administration and interpretation of the seven-point scale recommend its use in clinical trials.

TL;DR: This study examined the relationship between social network interaction and total and cardiovascular mortality in 17,433 Swedish men and women between the ages of 29 and 74 during a 6 year follow-up period.

TL;DR: The analytic approach introduced in this paper may be necessary to control bias in any epidemiologic study in which there exists a risk factor which both determines subsequent exposure and is determined by previous exposure to the agent under study.

TL;DR: Data from a large series of women participating in a nationwide breast cancer screening program conducted between 1973 and 1980 provide evidence for the hypothesis that certain environmental and hormonal factors which affect ovulation during reproductive years may ultimately postpone the menopause.

TL;DR: Significant trends remained significant for all categories except neoplastic disease when formal education was controlled for age, sex, race and smoking, suggesting that formal educational level may identify a marker in the pathobiology of disease of importance comparable to these other demographic variables.

TL;DR: To confirm the reported association of body fat distribution with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, blood pressure and serum cholesterol, data from the 1960-62 Health Examination Survey were analyzed and greater abdominal relative to lower body fat deposits were independently associated with increased cardiovascular risk.

TL;DR: Results indicated that the degree of adherence was higher for medication taking and glucose testing than for regimen tasks requiring greater lifestyle modifications such as diet and exercise, and no clear relationship between adherence and glycemic control could be demonstrated through either bivariate or multivariate analyses.

TL;DR: The objective of this paper is to introduce a new but related outcome concept termed "reintegration to normal living" and to compare it to the quality of life.

TL;DR: The authors describe an 11-item short form of the Profile of Mood States' 58-item Total Mood Disturbance Score, derived from a sample of 619 adults with mixed cancer diagnoses, and replicated on a second sample of 295 lung cancer patients.

TL;DR: There is no important circadian rhythm of BP which is independent of activity, and after allowing for the effects of activity on BP, there was no significant diurnal variation of BP.

TL;DR: The psychological and social adjustment following total and partial mastectomy in a group of patients randomly assigned to one or the other operation (National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Protocol--B-06) is investigated.

TL;DR: Because records can be flexibly summarized for each individual over time, data bases facilitate certain types of longitudinal studies which would be difficult, if not impossible, to perform using other methodologies.

TL;DR: Residents' estimates of the patient's stability was the most significant predictor of morbidity (p less than 0.001) and the judgment that a patient was stable had an 87% negative predictive accuracy, while the judgment unstable had a 46% positive predictive accuracy.

TL;DR: A self-administered questionnaire which measured 16 psychosocial variables supported the prognostic importance of the social emotional network in breast cancer patients.

TL;DR: In men, the risk of being hospitalized due to herniated lumbar disc or sciatica was lowest in professional and related occupations, significantly higher in all other groups and highest among blue-collar workers in industry and among motor vehicle drivers.

TL;DR: Results do not justify choosing one dialysis modality over another because of differences in perceived dysfunction, and only SIP score differences between transplantation and other treatment modality patients remained significant following the introduction of casemix controls.

TL;DR: This study afforded an opportunity to evaluate the generalizability of the Framingham risk model, using systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, and cigarette smoking, to the U.S. population with respect to predicting death from coronary heart disease.

TL;DR: This work examined the practicality and validity of three promising measures of overall health: the General Health Rating Index (GHRI), the Quality of Well-being Scale (QWB), and the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP).

TL;DR: Although patients experienced significant toxicity following initiation of treatment, their preferences remained stable on retest, and the results raise questions about the extent to which patients are willing to trade off survival rate for improved quality of life.

TL;DR: Different "models" are constructed for each of these three tumour sites and shown to provide an excellent description of most of the known epidemiology of each of the cancers, and to provide a basis for predicting the long-term effects of various factors on the risk of these diseases.

TL;DR: Low or intermediate social class and blue-collar occupations in services or industry in men and symptoms suggesting psychological distress in women proved significant predictors for hospitalization due to herniated lumbar disc or sciatica.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship of grip strength to age, physical activity and anthropometric factors was investigated in a population of 255 postmenopausal women not on estrogen therapy and 55 women currently on estrogen replacement therapy (mean age = 56.9).