Sentences with phrase «high symptom burden»

Chronically - ill cancer patients have different exercise limitations than their healthy counterparts and other concurrent diseases and high symptom burden add challenges in how best to study and implement physical activity programs in lung cancer patients.

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The resulting higher viral burden in the patients causes more severe disease symptoms, or even death.

«We observed higher rates of neurocognitive decline, increased symptom burden and a decline in health - related quality of life over time among non-progressing patients treated with bevacizumab,» he says.

Consequently, a loose scientific consensus has long discounted the idea of mercury toxicity from dental amalgams, pointing to population studies showing that people with high exposures and even people with a high body burden do not necessarily have toxicity symptoms.

Simply put, most people suffering from chronic health conditions are dealing with a high toxic burden that is overwhelming the body's natural defenses and triggering symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease, cancer and cardiovascular issues.

«In the case of this study, burden is at a high - enough level that for some people, it could be causing symptoms of anxiety and, more likely, depression.»

We further hypothesised that a greater use of potentially maladaptive coping strategies and a heavier symptom burden would reflect higher rates of depressive symptoms.

When unable to appropriately address the causes or when there is no access to adequate non-medical or community services to treat depression, patients may become further burdened due to a lack of solutions for specific conditions.33 Our study provides a practical and non-medical option to prevent higher levels of depressive symptoms.

Functional expectations of caregivers are often huge with multiple responsibilities such as household chores, emotional support, providing transportation and symptom management.4 As cancer survivorship grows, from 50 % in the 70s, to 54 % between 1983 and 1985, to 65 % in 2009, the illness may become a chronic disease, further stressing caregivers with a cumulative and unrelenting burden of care and responsibility.5 Psychological morbidity or psychiatric symptomatology among cancer caregivers is high.6, 7 Levels of distress have also been shown to be higher than those reported by patients themselves.8

PTSD is a severe psychiatric illness characterised by four core symptom clusters: re-experiencing, avoidance, negative cognition and mood and hyperarousal.1 With an estimated lifetime prevalence in community samples of up to 8 %, PTSD results in a great deal of personal suffering and escalating social and economic costs.2 Unfortunately, current evidence - based treatments for PTSD leave a high percentage with a significant symptom burden, highlighting the urgent need for novel treatments.

The parent - reported and child - reported Brief Problem Checklist (BPC) were administered every 3 months during the first 18 months of the trial, which rates items from 0 (not true) to 2 (very true) with higher scores indicating greater symptom burden.

Our study also has key strengths: 1) analyses were based on a community sample and we were able to estimate the burden of behavioural problems associated with food insecurity among children in the general population, while most prior studies focused on high - risk families; 2) longitudinal follow - up of children's mental health allowed us to distinguish different types of symptoms and their developmental patterns over up to 7 years of follow - up; 3) statistical adjustment for multiple individual and family factors potentially associated with children's outcomes.