Does cholecystokinin in plasma predict cardiovascular mortality in elderly females?
CCK in plasma is an independent marker of cardiovascular mortality in elderly female patients. The study thus introduces measurement of plasma CCK in gender-specific cardiovascular risk assessment.
In our patient cohort, deprivation does not appear to affect stage or performance status at presentation, nor survival from lung cancer. If cancer fatalism is more prevalent in deprived populations, this does not appear to lead to later diagnosis nor worse disease outcome.