Thirty - nine
per cent of patients who survived cardiac arrest and were able to undergo structured interviews described a perception of awareness, but interestingly did not have any explicit recall of events.
While 35 per
cent of the patients who had not received any treatment reported an improvement, 59 per cent of the placebo group felt better.
However, even after very extensive tests, there will still be 2 - 3 per
cent of patients where it has not been possible to find the origin of the cancer.
The average adult patient has an 8th grade literacy level but over 20 per
cent of patients read at or below a 5th grade level.
Data also revealed that only 12.5 per
cent of patients come for treatment in early stages of the disease.
Their expectations were more consistent with the statistic that over 70 per
cent of patients who had lived with the disease for 16 years suffered falls.
The drug erlotinib is prescribed to between 10 — 30 per
cent of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, which accounts for 85 per cent of all lung cancer cases.
«Fifty per
cent of the patients in our study have survived two years since their diagnosis — this is very encouraging and we are very positive about the outcome,» says Dr. Shenouda.
While she stresses that there will always be one or two mothers who need some sort of intervention, 98 per
cent of her patients do not ask for pain relief and have a wholly relaxed and practically pain - free labour.
«Up to 50 per
cent of patients become unresponsive to anti-TNF drugs because they develop immunity to this foreign protein,» he said.
For nerve pain, 30 per
cent of patients given a placebo saw a moderate improvement in their pain while 39 per cent experienced the same effect while on medical cannabinoids.
Seventeen per
cent of patients reported symptoms of respiratory infection within 7 days of the heart attack, and 21 per cent within 31 days.
However, when combined with an ECG and troponin test clinical judgement appeared to be an effective tool and the results suggest that at least 25 per
cent of patient admissions could have avoided.
Around half of patients with hypertension stop taking their medication within 12 months of being prescribed antihypertensive drugs, and severe intolerance is found in 10 per
cent of patients referred to the Barts Health Blood Pressure Clinic.
More than a decade ago, the US's National Institute of Mental Health set out to answer that, and the results were dismal: only 26 per
cent of patients even responded to an antidepressant, and at the end of a year, only 6 per cent were well.
A single infusion of the gene therapy drug showed improved levels of the essential blood clotting protein Factor VIII, with 85 per
cent of patients achieving normal or near - normal Factor VIII levels even many months after treatment.
The response to treatment was recorded as good (no significant residual complaints) in 40 per cent or more of patients taking 100 - 150 mg pyridoxine daily and in 60 per
cent of patients treated with 160 - 200 mg daily.
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Overall, only two per
cent of all patients with massive hemorrhage received what might be considered the optimal transfusion of a high dose of clotting products in conjunction with red blood cells during the first hour of arrival within the Emergency Department.
Today, 10 — 15 per
cent of the patients suffer recurrences, even though they were considered low risk patients according to classic diagnostics.
Regularly lifting weights was shown to lift symptoms of major depression in 60 per
cent of patients in a trial.
«At least 40 per
cent of patients who suffer from severe forms of chronic pain also develop depression at some point,» says Venetia Zachariou of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
I had gall bladder surgery years ago and I think I had to wait a few days until I could eat my dry sandwiches — I was the in the lucky 10 per
cent of patients where there were «complications».
Usually, treatment would require whole - brain radiation which is extremely toxic and the average survival time is just 3 - 6 months from diagnosis, with fewer than 20 per
cent of patients surviving more than one year.
Meanwhile, diabetic retinopathy - the most common form of diabetic eye disease — affects between 40 and 50
per cent of patients with diabetes and is a leading cause of blindness in the Western world.
Nine out of ten GPs say they feel pressurised to issue the prescriptions and 97 per
cent of patients who ask for them are prescribed them.
report on waiting times says by December 2008 only 77 per
cent of patients will avoid a delay of over 18 weeks between getting a referral from a GP and receiving the treatment from a specialist.
The new test for the genetic signature, published recently in the journal EBioMedicine, would take as little as one hour and identified 96 per
cent of patients who were at the very early stages of sepsis.
Strikingly, only 30 per
cent of patients were relapse free in the high - risk group.
In the moderate - risk group 65.9 per
cent of patients were relapse free.
They found that the vast majority of patients were in the low - risk group — where 94.3 per
cent of patients were relapse free for two years.
About 11 per
cent of patients were not able to tolerate medical cannabinoids, versus three per cent of those taking placebo.
Currently, colorectal «cancer recurs in about 50 per
cent of patients and is among the top three leading causes of cancer - related deaths.
Mott says treatment is considered «satisfactory» if 40 per
cent of patients are free of eggs after a year.
They found that only 25 per
cent of patients who tested positive for hepatitis B had used the exchange, whereas among those who tested negative for hepatitis B, 74 per cent had used the exchange.
Pre-malignant MPN occurs when the bone marrow makes too many blood cells, and in 10 per
cent of patients can lead to overt leukemia.
Until recently, 20 to 30 per
cent of these patients would develop epilepsy and many need regular antiepileptic treatment.
This test may be particularly useful for patients with high grade serous ovarian cancer because the mutated cancer gene TP53 is found in more than 99 per
cent of patients with this form of the disease.
Only two per
cent of patients with life - threatening bleeding after serious injury receive optimal blood transfusion therapy in England and Wales, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and NHS Blood and Transplant.
However, we found that only two per
cent of patients with massive hemorrhage received the optimal type of blood transfusion for their resuscitation.