Sentences with phrase «especially younger patients»
Our results, on the other hand, have led us to offer the treatment to more patients, especially younger patients and those with poorer prognoses,» said Dr. Roy.
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Be patient with regressive behavior, especially on the part of younger kids, who may have trouble making sense of emotions.
«We found that younger, working low - income patients were especially likely to face financial burden.
The best intensive care nurses never do become inured to the daily tragedies they witness, and helplessness in the face of imminent catastrophe, especially when it involves a patient not much younger than oneself, is unbearable even for the most stoic of professional personnel.
But little information is available about the long - term outcomes of young patients, especially women, who survive cardiovascular events.
The preliminary results suggest that the iMHere system may enable young patients become more independent in managing their spina bifida — especially those who use the system frequently.
Because the role of these tissues is to absorb chemicals (whereas the role of the bladder is to store and eliminate them), patients, especially young children, who underwent the procedure were often saddled with a suite of inescapable side effects.
A reduction in harsh radiation therapy could be a big deal for many HPV - positive oral cancer patients, especially as they tend to be much younger (often in their 40s and 50s) compared with the previous majority of patients whose malignancies are linked to smoking or alcohol consumption.
«For cancer patients, especially children and young adults, amputation of an arm or a leg is a very serious consequence of illness and we have for years been searching for therapeutics to prevent cancer - induced bone degradation.
A move to lengthen limbs internally rather than via an external scaffold could reduce the effects of painful treatments, especially among younger patients
Sure enough, when the researchers examined the brains of PD patients, they found more cells exhibiting signs of senescence than in people without the disease — and especially astrocytes, as they had expected.7 This was true even after matching patients for age, meaning that PD subjects had even more senescent astrocytes in their SNcs than is typical for people their age (ranging in this case from 50 — 92 years at autopsy)-- and remember, aging already drives an increase in the burden of these cells as compared with young people, even in those who have yet to develop Parkinson's disease.7
«We also found significant gender differences in life expectancy, especially in the younger patients.»
It's especially on my mind after a convo after my Lehi, UT class last night with a mother of a young (20 - ish) Crohn's patient who eats no fiber.
In my line of work it is no longer uncommon to see men under the age of 30 with hypogonadism, but making sure the diagnosis is accurate is especially crucial for younger patients.
The English Patient is at most a feature for dreamy young adults (especially those who consider it romantic for a character to become a Nazi in order to spend time with a former lover's dead body), and even the good points of The Crucible and Ghosts of Mississippi don't include the sort of insights that ought to come with age.
Years later, when my children were very young, I was working as a hospice volunteer; the question of what happens when you die was especially pressing to these patients, of course.
Median = 5 years, [E] ight were hospitalized... The outbreak strain was isolated from a pet turtle in a patient's home... This outbreak demonstrates that turtles remain a source for human Salmonella infections, especially for young children.
Skin conditions can be harmless to other pets and / or people in the home, but they may also be the result of infectious or ectoparasitic agents that may be contagious to other pets in the home or even people, especially the very young, the elderly, or immune suppressed people (such as cancer and HIV patients).
When I see a patient with ear problems and impacted anal glands, especially in younger dogs, food allergy goes to the top of my rule out list.
Maintenance of normal body temperature is especially important in small, young patients.
Examining comorbidity is critical because it is so prevalent among juveniles in the general population, 69,70 adult jail detainees, 71 and adults who have high arrest rates, such as substance abusers, 72 young, long - term psychiatric patients, 73 and homeless, mentally ill persons.74 Moreover, studies71 of adults suggest that juveniles with comorbid disorders may be especially vulnerable to arrest, particularly if they are poor and can not afford treatment.
Young people with ADHD are by nature impulsive risk takers, and there is clear evidence that untreated ADHD — especially with concomitant conduct disorder — is associated with a three - to fourfold increase in the risk of substance misuse.47, 48 In contrast, patients medicated with stimulants have a similar risk of substance misuse to controls.49 These data therefore provide strong evidence in favour of careful treatment and support for young people with Young people with ADHD are by nature impulsive risk takers, and there is clear evidence that untreated ADHD — especially with concomitant conduct disorder — is associated with a three - to fourfold increase in the risk of substance misuse.47, 48 In contrast, patients medicated with stimulants have a similar risk of substance misuse to controls.49 These data therefore provide strong evidence in favour of careful treatment and support for young people with young people with ADHD.