Sentences with phrase «higher number of treatment»

Additionally, meta - analytic work has demonstrated that early intervention programs with fewer treatment sessions are more effective than those with a higher number of treatment sessions (Bakermans - Kranenburg et al. 2003).

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Worryingly, if unsurprisingly, the agency found that the majority of those with the condition aren't receiving adequate care: in high income countries, it estimates 50 % of those with the disorder don't get treatment, while in low - income countries that number rises to 80 % to 90 %.

«More than twice the number of patients [were] still living at the end of the study after receiving IMAB362 plus chemotherapy compared to chemotherapy alone,» according to Ganymed CEO Özlem Türeci, with patients showing the highest level of that protein biomarker responding best to the treatment.

The bottom line: The treatment of «inflation» as a simple headline number that needs to be pushed higher paints too simple a picture.

Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

Although the number of fraternal twins is much high than identical twins, there is research indicating that the rate of identical twins is rising due to fertility treatments.

Sports medicine personnel say the rise is because of more awareness and treatment of concussions instead of a higher number of actual injuries.

«There was no difference in the number of contacts between the high - and low - frequency treatment groups for women with non-missing data on breastfeeding outcomes.

The only outcome categorised as «high quality» is that treatment for GD reduces the chance of having a baby 4 kg + (number needed to treat NNT = 11.4 to prevent 1 large baby).

A spokesman stressed that the government's strategy on crime «is making a difference», telling politics.co.uk that the number of people entering and staying in treatment was higher than ever before, and insisting drug - related crime was falling.

Field hospitals in Afghanistan are struggling to cope with the high numbers of injured soldiers requiring treatment, a report has found.

Niagara County SPCA Executive director John Faso is accused of a high number of dog and cat euthanizations and poor medical treatment of animals.

While clomiphene is a first - line treatment used to induce ovulation in women with PCOS, it has downsides — namely that in a significant number of women it does not lead to improved ovulation or live births, and if it does induce ovulation, it frequently results in pregnancies with multiples who face much higher negative outcomes including death.

Treatment with the diabetes drug liraglutide, in combination with diet and exercise, led to a significant reduction in weight and improved a number of cardiovascular risk factors, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol, according to a multicenter study.

«Our results show that the number of responders was three times higher when correct information was given than when patients thought they were treated with an ineffective active placebo, even though the pharmacological treatment was identical,» says author Vanda Faria.

The trial enrolled 398 men with cancer that had not spread outside the prostate gland who were judged to be at high risk of treatment failure, based on standard tests for a number of features of the cancer.

In the group of patients with aggressive, or high risk, prostate cancer, the average number of days from diagnosis to surgery or radiation treatment was 96 days for Caucasian patients, and 105 days for African American patients.

Sîrbulescu notes that it is possible to isolate high numbers of a patient's B cells through a standard blood pheresis procedure, allowing collection of enough cells for several treatments at a single session.

In places where the number of new cases is low, aggressive contact tracing becomes the priority, whereas in those where the number of cases is high, more resources still need to be allocated to treatment and ensuring safe burials.

Although CSs comprise only 2 % -5 % of all uterine malignancies and 1 % -2 % of all ovarian tumors, they are responsible for a disproportionate number of deaths due to their high biologic aggressiveness and resistance to standard treatments, such as radiation and chemotherapy.

Unfortunately, laser treatment has a number of significant drawbacks including a high recurrence rate, laser injury to the retina, and an inability to treat the majority of patients affected with neovascular membranes (because the lesions are too large or ill - defined when discovered).

The fact that Connexin 30 knockout mice had a higher number of grafted cells than normal mice, and that some of the grafted cells expressed CONNEXIN 30 is a very important finding when considering cell transplantation as a treatment for hereditary hearing loss caused by CONNEXIN deficiency.

Of the locations sampled in the study, resistance genes that are most likely to be mobile and able to jump from one bacterial strain to another were found in the highest numbers in the chicken coops of villagers in El Salvador and in the outgoing «gray» water from the sewage treatment plant outside LimOf the locations sampled in the study, resistance genes that are most likely to be mobile and able to jump from one bacterial strain to another were found in the highest numbers in the chicken coops of villagers in El Salvador and in the outgoing «gray» water from the sewage treatment plant outside Limof villagers in El Salvador and in the outgoing «gray» water from the sewage treatment plant outside Lima.

The different arms of the trial were very well - matched as regards age (average age ≈ 55 y, ± 5 - 7 y depending on subgroup), education, time from onset of disease, and MDS - UPDRS scores at onset; the only evident differences were a higher number of males and higher body weight in the low - dose treatment group.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

There is evidence that visceral fat and high - fat diets can increase cancer risk; and while current cancer treatments have helped to lower cancer mortality, the number of obesity - associated cancers continues to climb.»

A gene screen revealed a number of genetic changes in the first (daughter) and third (great granddaughter) high - fat mice generations, including several linked to increased breast cancer in women, increased resistance to treatment, poor prognosis, and impaired anticancer immunity.

Because TMS has already been shown to be safe for the treatment of depression — and at much higher doses (i.e., the number of pulses)-- it offers a «gigantic margin of safety» to migraine patients, Dr. Lipton says.

I have a high school friend who has had a number of laser treatments for retinals tears... I am wondering if nutrition helps with this at all?

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) antidepressants can induce sexual dysfunction in a high number of patients and is a main cause of treatment discontinuation.

If you do need treatment, select a cancer center that handles a high number of ovarian cancer cases.

We matched 8,095 dual credit participants to an equal number of nonparticipants within the same high school at the point of postsecondary enrollment using propensity scores calculated through a two - level hierarchical generalized linear model with college type as a post treatment adjustment.

A number of changes have been made to help reduce emissions, such as: use of a complex exhaust gas recirculation system (with high pressure EGR and a cooled low - pressure EGR); integration of the water - cooled intercooler and the EGR valve with the intake manifold, which also improves throttle response; and packaging the exhaust after - treatment components close to the engine by combining the DPF with the SCR Catalyst.

Because we have increased the number of heartworm positive dogs we take in (a cost of $ 400 - $ 800 per heartworm treatment) that number is now even higher.

It is estimated that 1 dog in 10 suffers from some type of heart disease.1 The statistics for valvular heart disease are even more sobering, ranging from 10 percent of young dogs to as high as 35 percent of dogs ages 13 years and older.2 Although there are a number of treatment options for dogs with CHF caused by MMVD, there had been no consensus on what treatments could be beneficial in the preclinical stage of heart disease.3

«While there are existing PTSD treatments available for veterans, a number of them have limited effectiveness and high drop - out rates,» Dr. O'Haire said.

From the diagnosis and treatment of a vast number of ophthalmic conditions, to cutting edge surgical services, our specialist, Dr. Noelle La Croix, uses the latest equipment and her extensive years of training to provide the highest quality of care for your pet.

For a number of years Dr. Natasha Clarke has been and continues to provide the highest possible medical care and treatment to all members of the Willowind Lhasa Apso family.

Our mission is to provide high quality care to pets while providing affordable services so that we can help decrease the number of euthanasias due to financial limitations and help provide treatment options to caretakers with financial concerns.

Number of cases is unfortunately high, despite the ease of treatment (a once a month chewable tablet).

The spa is of a very high standard and as well as offering a number of great treatments it also offers the perfect escape from the city of Jakarta or the perfect release after a meeting.

If you want a bit of pampering, the spa centre has a number of high quality treatments to make you feel good as new, from massages to full body treatments.

Eric, thanks for the even - handed treatment of this «new» climate data, but I remain an anthropogenically - caused climate change skeptic because of the extraordinarily high number of unproved variables that must be shown to be true, in order for man's puny efforts at controlling the climate to have any long term effect.

The high population density of New York City would never have been possible without a number of technological innovations: an extensive network of mass transit, the electrical power grid, the water system, modern sewage removal and treatment, product packaging, food refrigeration, preservatives and, of course, solid waste removal.

A number of us are members of the Global Treatment Access Group (GTAG), a working group bringing together various Canadian organizations advocating for greater access to medicines, and other aspects of the human right to the highest attainable standard of health, in -LSB-...]

With clients ranging from physicians and physician groups to hospitals and urgent care centers, substance abuse treatment providers and ambulatory surgery centers, Andy and Damaris have successfully litigated a number of high - profile health care cases, many in the health care reimbursement arena.

Patients with hypertension, or high blood pressure, may be prescribed a number of different treatments by their doctors in order to manage their condition.

These diseases, especially when left untreated for a number of years, can lead to high medical treatment costs.

For example, a 62 - year - old man whose systolic blood pressure (the top number) is 125, doesn't smoke, and does not have diabetes or other cardiovascular problems, would have a 4 percent risk of stroke over the following decade; if the same man had a systolic blood pressure of 160 (140 and above is too high) and wasn't receiving treatment for high blood pressure, his risk of stroke within the next 10 years would be 15 percent.

Studies were generally small (mean number of patients = 35) and of variable methodological quality, with only five reporting blinding of outcome assessors to treatment allocation, and in some cases with high loss to follow - up.