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- Abdominal aortic aneurysm [r]: Aneurysm that involves the descending aorta from the diaphragm to the split at the iliac arteries. [e]
- Absolute risk reduction [r]: Decrease in risk of a given activity or treatment in relation to a control activity or treatment. [e]
- Bell's Palsy [r]: Condition that involves the facial nerve (VII cranial nerve) and results in the paralysis of one side of the face. [e]
- C-reactive protein [r]: Globulin that appears in the blood in certain acute inflammatory conditions, such as rheumatic fever, bacterial infections, and neoplastic diseases. [e]
- Colorectal cancer [r]: Malignancy that arises from the lining of either the colon or the rectum. [e]
- Cost-benefit analysis [r]: Method of comparing the cost of a program with its expected benefits in dollars (or other currency). [e]
- Deep venous thrombosis [r]: The formation of a blood clot ("thrombus") in a deep vein. [e]
- Diabetes mellitus type 2 [r]: Medical condition characterised by glucose intolerance and hyperglycemia [e]
- Digital object identifier [r]: Unique label for a computer readable object that can be found on the internet, usually used in academic journals. [e]
- Dyspepsia [r]: Chronic or recurrent pain or discomfort centered in the upper abdomen. [e]
- Evidence-based medicine [r]: The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. [e]
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease [r]: A condition in which stomach acid repeatedly flows upwards into the esophagus and throat. [e]
- Heart failure [r]: Defective cardiac filling and/or impaired contraction and emptying, resulting in the heart's inability to pump a sufficient amount of blood to meet the needs of the body tissues or to be able to do so only with an elevated filling pressure (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Herpes zoster [r]: Herpes virus that is responsible for chicken pox, which results in a painful blistery red rash that is confined to one side of the body. [e]
- Hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitor [r]: HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors which reduce 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl CoA and lower cholesterol synthesis. [e]
- Hypercholesterolemia [r]: Presence of an abnormally large amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the circulating blood. [e]
- Influenza [r]: An acute viral infection in humans involving the respiratory tract; the viruses are discussed in separate articles [e]
- Irritable bowel syndrome [r]: A disorder with chronic or recurrent colonic symptoms without a clearcut etiology (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Migraine headache [r]: Vascular type of headache, marked by severe cranial vault pain lasting several hours, resulting from intracranial, extracranial, or psychogenic causes. [e]
- Minnesota Colon Cancer Control Study (PMID 7580661) [r]: Randomized controlled trial of 46,551 participants aged 50 to 80 years in Minnesota, for screening of colorectal cancer using the stool guaiac test. [e]
- Obesity [r]: Excessive stores of body fat. [e]
- Odds ratio [r]: The odds ratio is a technical term often used in medical statistics. The odds ratio is the ratio of the relative incidence of a target disorder in the experimental group relative to the relative incidence in a control group. Essentially, it reflects how the risk of having a particular disorder is influenced by the treatment. An odds ratio of 1 means that there is no benefit of treatment compared to the control group. [e]
- Opioid analgesic [r]: Synthetic narcotic that has opiate-like activities, which induces analgesia by mimicking endogenous opioids, at opioid receptors in the brain. [e]
- Placebo [r]: A treatment or drug, administered by, or at the orders of, a health professional, that the professional knows will have no physiologic effect [e]
- Preoperative care [r]: Preparation and management of a patient prior to surgery. [e]
- Prostate cancer [r]: Malignant tumour of glandular origin in the prostate, most presenting as adenocarcinomas. [e]
- Quantitative literacy [r]: The knowledge and skills required to apply arithmetic operations (United States Department of Education). [e]
- Randomized controlled trial [r]: "Work consisting of a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table." (Anonymous, (2009) Randomized controlled trial (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.) [e]
- Relative risk ratio [r]: Proportion of diseased people amongst those exposed to the relevant risk factor divided by the proportion of diseased people amongst those not exposed to the risk factor. [e]
- Relative risk reduction [r]: Epidemiological measure calculated by dividing the absolute risk reduction by the control event rate. [e]
- Septic shock [r]: Serious medical condition caused by decreased tissue perfusion and oxygen delivery as a result of infection and sepsis. [e]
