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Hazard Ratio: - A term used to compare an animal's daily dietary intake of a pesticide to its LD 50 value. A ratio greater than 1.0 indicates that the animal is likely to consume an a dose amount which would kill 50 percent of animals of the same species. (See: LD 50 /Lethal Dose.) [Environmental Protection Agency]
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Sleep Apnea Linked To Higher Risk Of Death - 04 Aug 2008 Medical News Today,When the 126 people who reported regular use of CPAP were taken out of the figures, the hazard ratio for cardiovascular mortality climbed from 2.9 to 5.2
IAC: TB Drug Alters Power of HIV Medication - 04 Aug 2008 MedPage Today,The adjusted hazard ratio was 2.2, with a 95% confidence interval from 1.3 to 3.7, which was significant at P<0.05. There were no differences between
IAC: Injection Drug Use No Bar to HIV Therapy - 04 Aug 2008 MedPage Today,...in a multivariate time-updated Cox regression, the hazard ratio of mortality was also similar (1.09 with a 95% confidence interval from 0.92 to 1.29).
HIV Microbicide May Have Raised Infection Risk - Jul 30, 2008 MedPage Today,The final analysis showed 25 infections in the cellulose sulfate group and 16 in the placebo group, with an estimated hazard ratio of 1.61,
Outcomes of Nevirapine- and Efavirenz-Based Antiretroviral Therapy ... - Aug 3, 2008 Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),...patients starting nevirapine with concurrent tuberculosis developed virological failure sooner (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 2.2; 95% CI, 1.3-3.7).
Secondhand Smoke Increases Spousal Stroke Risk - Jul 29, 2008 MedPage Today,The hazard ratio was 1.42, with a 95% confidence interval from 1.02 to 1.92. Among former smokers, current spousal smoking was associated with a 72%
Thyroid Function Linked to Alzheimer's Disease in Older Women - Aug 1, 2008 Medscape (subscription)...levels of the hormone (hazard ratio, 2.39; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.47 - 3.87; P < .001 for those in the lowest levels and hazard ratio 2.15;
Asthma Wheeze Follows Thunderstorms - Jul 11, 2008 MedPage Today,Overall, the hazard ratio for asthma the day after a thunderstorm was 1.035, which was significant at P<0.001, but the effect varied depending on what other
D2 Lymphadenectomy Alone or with Para-aortic Nodal Dissection for ... - Jul 30, 2008 New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),There were no significant differences in recurrence-free survival between the two groups; the hazard ratio for recurrence was 1.08 (95% CI, 0.83 to 1.42;
Anti-HIV Therapy Triples Asthma Risk in Children - Aug 1, 2008 MedPage Today,Dr. Shearer and colleagues calculated a hazard ratio for asthma medication use of 3.34 for children receiving HAART relative to untreated HIV-positive
Advances in the Treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma - Jul 25, 2008 Medscape (subscription)An intent-to-treat OS analysis showed a median survival of 26.4 months in the sunitinib group and 21.8 months in the interferon group, with a hazard ratio
Peg-Interferon Slows Melanoma Recurrence - Jul 10, 2008 MedPage Today,The hazard ratio was 0.82, with a 95% confidence interval from 0.71 to 0.96, which was significant at P=0.01. The four-year rate of recurrence-free survival
Statin Therapy May Boost Survival in Kidney Recipients - Jul 23, 2008 MedPage Today,Statin therapy was associated with a 36% reduction in the hazard ratio for all-cause mortality at 12 years, Rainer Oberbauer, MD, of the Medical University
Altered Blood Pressure Progression in the Community and Its ... - Jul 14, 2008 Archives of Internal MedicineBP to all-cause mortality (hazard ratio for 1-SD increase in systolic BP, 1.02 vs 1.25, P = .03; hazard ratio for diastolic BP, 1.00 vs 1.23, P = .04).
Antigenics Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results - Jul 31, 2008 Business Wire (press release),...an improvement in recurrence-free survival of approximately 45 percent over patients in the observation arm (P < 0.01; hazard ratio = 0.55).
FDA Extends Black-Box Warning to All Antipsychotics - Jul 18, 2008 Psychiatric News,In a study by Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, and colleagues, the mortality hazard ratio in the FGA-treated elderly patients was 1.47 times that of SGA-treated
Graft-Success Risk Higher for a Woman Getting Male Kidney - Jul 7, 2008 MedPage Today,Kidneys from male donors transplanted to female recipients had the highest risk of graft failure during the first year (hazard ratio 1.08, P=0.003) and from
Fetuin-A and Incident Diabetes Mellitus in Older Persons - Jul 8, 2008 Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),The association was not affected by adipocytokine levels but was moderately attenuated by adjustment for visceral adiposity (adjusted hazard ratio of
Statins Protect Against Dementia - Jul 29, 2008 MedPage Today,Statin users had a 43% lower rate of dementia and non-dementia cognitive impairment than nonusers (hazard ratio 0.577, 95% confidence interval 0.376 to
Positron Emission Tomography and Improved Survival in Patients ... - Jul 28, 2008 Archives of Internal MedicineThe PET period predicted better survival with a hazard ratio (HR) of 0.95 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.91-0.99) (P = .02). Use of PET was independently
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