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Autonomic dysfunction in patients with advanced cancer; prevalence, clinical correlates and challenges in assessment.
- Source :
- BMC Palliative Care; 2012, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p3-10, 8p, 4 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- The article focuses on the study of prevalence, clinical correlates and challenges in evaluation of autonomic dysfunction (AD) in patients with advanced cancer. Several assessments including symptom severity, autonomic function, muscle strength, anthropometric measurements, walking speed, medication use, comorbidities and demographics were done. It was concluded that autonomic dysfunction is highly prevalent in patients with advanced cancer.
- Subjects :
- AUTONOMIC nervous system diseases
CHI-squared test
CONFIDENCE intervals
EPIDEMIOLOGY
INTERVIEWING
LONGITUDINAL method
PALLIATIVE treatment
PARASYMPATHETIC nervous system
RESEARCH funding
SCALES (Weighing instruments)
SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry)
SYMPATHETIC nervous system
T-test (Statistics)
TUMORS
U-statistics
LOGISTIC regression analysis
DATA analysis
DISEASE prevalence
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
KAPLAN-Meier estimator
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1472684X
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- BMC Palliative Care
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 74100842
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-11-3