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Statistics for neurological health vs. death
Friends and I have been discussing mental health and lifespan due to examples of family members with dementia who could live for another 15-20 years vs. family members whose minds were sharp as a tack ...
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Doctorate in Medical Informatics [closed]
I am a scientific employee at a medical faculty. I administer and develop data capturing tools for medical studies and I want to get my doctorate. I want to build a data sharing platform, where ...
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How much does one night of reduced sleep impair immune function?
I just watched the Sleep is your superpower TED talk by Prof. Matt Walker. In that video, he claims that 1 night of sleeping only 4 hours reduces natural killer cell activity by 70%.
My first ...
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How many patients have been diagnosed by doctors as having allergies?
This is a followup to another question.
I propose a method of getting an upper bound on the number of people who have received a doctor's diagnosis of having an allergy. This would include any form of ...
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What are the most age-invariant causes of death?
Which causes of death have the most (roughly) constant incidence rate among all age groups, and what are the mechanisms whereby those causes of death have this property? (Any answer can of course look ...
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How to interpret the statistical results from a medical study
I would greatly appreciate help in understanding the significance of the snippet below copied from a study at the link below.
"Compared with participants eating three meals per day, the ...
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How to interpret injury rates published in a sports medicine journal?
In the following article abstract: 200-400m breaststroke event dominate among knee overuse injuries in elite swimming athletes the authors indicate
Overuse injuries (0.22 / 1000 h) were more frequent ...
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Does this paper report miscalculated metrics?
During a literature search I stumbled upon this paper, which evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography for the detection of gallstones (compared to the gold standard cholecystectomy).
Their ...
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What percentage of USA have a 'dangerous' STI
After a quick google search I found that 1 out of 5 people in the USA are estimated to have an STD, which seems like allot!
However, the vast majority of those are HPV, and if vaccinated I don't think ...
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Workable statistics about diagnoses per disease / country / year
I'm looking for data/stats related to the number of diagnoses (per year) (per country) (per disease) at least from 2000 up to 2020/2021 for major diseases (like the 5-10 most related to deaths WW). ...
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Does this infographic show that masks increased the transmission of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County?
As the title says, my father alleges that this graph shows that masks have increased COVID-19 rates. Does the graph prove this relationship, or is this just a faulty correlation?
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Is it true that surgery for cancer can cause the cancer to spread? [closed]
This cancer.org article says:
You may have heard that surgery for cancer can cause the cancer to spread. It's very rare for surgery to cause cancer to spread. Advances in equipment used during ...
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CDC - Severity of Disease Among Adults Hospitalized - Covid
The cdc published
Severity of Disease Among Adults Hospitalized with
Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 Before and During the Period of
SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Predominance — COVID-NET, 14 States,
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What is the lifetime incidence for tendinopathy for regular humans?
I wonder what the lifetime incidence is for tendinopathy for regular humans (e.g., not only athletes).
What I have found so far:
I found the lifetime incidence for Achilles tendinopathy in {1}:
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What is the difference between lifetime incidence and cumulative lifetime incidence?
I read on https://lermagazine.com/article/achilles-experts-ponder-effects-of-heel-elevation:
In athletes, Achilles tendinopathy has a prevalence of 19% and a cumulative lifetime incidence of 24%. ...
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