Sentences with phrase «more younger patients»

I wish Dr. Fung saw a few more younger patients and had more interest in nutritional supplements.

Not exact matches

Just consider the ways in which patients are clamoring for more telemedicine and virtual doctor visit options while medical schools are harnessing virtual reality systems like Microsoft's Hololens to teach anatomy to young surgeons.

For patients younger than 60, with a comparably high number of comorbidities, female patients have less diagnoses but take more drugs than males.

He always had that from a very young age but I would say that overall he is more patient now.

They're into trading players they've heard of for prospects they haven't, and they're into being patient with the young prospects who will help their team win more games... eventually.

Carvalho I'm not a huge admirer of but I understand wengers thinking, hes young and would more likely be patient and take to the bench more readily.

Younger patients are more likely to heal these types of tears than adults.

She has increased her strength and has eased up on her perfectionist tendencies to be more patient — vital to a young team.

But fans are more patient with younger, more inexperienced players.

Male testosterone drops each year, making fathers less reactive to emotional situations and thereby, more patient with young children.

Young children with involved fathers tend to be more patient and better able to handle stress and frustration once they're in school.

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The study also found that older people were more likely than younger people to believe it is OK to allow physicians to prescribe life - ending drugs to terminally ill patients who request them, and that the most religious or spiritual people were the least supportive of this idea.

Emergency patients over the age of 74 have significantly different and more complex health and social needs than their younger counterparts, even after controlling for illness severity, which has important implications about aging populations and emergency departments of the future.

«That's an advantage, particularly in younger patients, who are more sensitive to the effects of radiation,» says Fishman.

Doctors who were younger, saw more pregnant patients, or both were even more likely to do so.

One of the four outlets had patients who were significantly younger than the local population, and three of the four had more male customers than expected and a different mix of race and ethnicity.

But for young patients like Jonathan, proton therapy does appear to offer more benefit.

Patients 65 and older who have ambulatory surgery are much more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days than younger patients, regardless of their health before surgery, reports a new, large national Northwestern MedicinPatients 65 and older who have ambulatory surgery are much more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days than younger patients, regardless of their health before surgery, reports a new, large national Northwestern Medicinpatients, regardless of their health before surgery, reports a new, large national Northwestern Medicine study.

Over a 30 - day period, seniors were 54 percent more likely to be readmitted to the hospital compared to patients younger than 65 years, the study reports, after accounting for differences in other medical problems.

Patients undergoing elective THR surgery (n = 371,191) were younger, more commonly men, and had less medical comorbidity compared with patients undergoing hip fracture Patients undergoing elective THR surgery (n = 371,191) were younger, more commonly men, and had less medical comorbidity compared with patients undergoing hip fracture patients undergoing hip fracture surgery.

His explanation: «I think it's more important to improve the lives of stroke patients than to get young kids to run even faster.»

Older patients were about three times more likely to have complications than those younger than 65.

After one year, researchers found that primary care providers felt that treating pain patients was less of a problem in their practice, particularly among the experimental group, although younger practitioners continued to express more concern about prescription opioid use than older practitioners.

However, it does list exceptions for younger patients, African American patients, and those with high - volume cancer in the prostate — because these patients are more likely to have cancer progression with active surveillance.

This was not unexpected, Barry notes, since ASD therapies tend generally to be aimed at younger patients, whereas older patients more often receive care principally through schools.

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.

Specifically, physicians who reported knowing at least one patient, family member or friend with a poor breast cancer prognosis and who had not been screened were more likely to recommend routine screening for their younger and older patients, age groups where routine screening is controversial.

A new American Cancer Society study shows that uninsured adolescents and young adults were far more likely to be diagnosed with late - stage cancer, which is more difficult and expensive to treat and more deadly, compared to young patients with health insurance.

However, what we do know at this stage is that younger patients and patients who in general find it difficult to cope with stress are more likely to develop psychological problems following a TIA.»

AD is usually a late - onset illness, he notes, whereas breast cancer can affect much younger patients — and thus news of being at high - risk for breast cancer may be more traumatic.

The distinction between these two pathways may help to explain the difference between outcomes for younger and older patients — PA in younger patients is more likely to be caused by K: B fusion and 5 - year survival is generally high; PA in older patients is more likely to be caused by BRAF point mutations and 5 - year survival is generally lower.

Younger patients who are 60 - 70 years old can also consider these regimens, but they may live to see more skin damage from the treatments.

The results support current clinical guidelines on the treatment of hypertension in younger patients with CKD, but a more cautious blood pressure - lowering strategy for very elderly patients with CKD may be reasonable.

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.

Despite increased understanding of heart disease risk factors and the need for preventive lifestyle changes, patients suffering the most severe type of heart attack have become younger, more obese and more likely to have preventable risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a study scheduled for presentation at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

The vast majority of patients — 93 percent — were insured, while 7 percent, or 2,578, lacked coverage; they tended to be younger, male, non-white and unmarried, and more likely to be from regions of lower median income, educational level, and population density.

However, this procedure has been reported to fail in younger patients with more active lifestyles - the stiff metal stem in the thigh bone can cause trouble.

Surgeons are treating patients with a new type of hip implant that could lead to better outcomes for younger, more active people requiring surgery.

After infection, some healthy people experience a month or more of flu - like symptoms, but the disease can cause seizures and potentially fatal encephalitis in the immunocompromised, including patients receiving transplants, those with HIV / AIDS, cancer patients, the elderly, and young children.

Patients who received NSAIDs were younger, had lower levels of co-exiting illnesses, a lower cardiac risk index and had elective procedures more frequently than those patients who did not receivePatients who received NSAIDs were younger, had lower levels of co-exiting illnesses, a lower cardiac risk index and had elective procedures more frequently than those patients who did not receivepatients who did not receive NSAIDs.

But so far only a few differentiation agents have been successfully used to treat neuroblastoma, and more than half of the young patients treated with such agents still see their cancer return.

«Our study results highlight that in a young athletic population, allografts (tissue harvested from a donor) fail more frequently than using autografts (tissue harvested from the patient),» said Craig R. Bottoni, MD, lead author from Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Although all patients benefited from faster treatment, younger patients with longer life expectancies gained a little more than older patients.

If the trials go well, the company will then seek to treat younger patients who should benefit more from the treatment.

But patients older than 80 were more likely to receive hospice care than younger patients.

More than 400 of those patients each year were younger than 18.

«With more experience under her belt, the trainee is eventually able to expand research, recruit other young investigators and influence others in the techniques or methods the research uncovered, all for the benefit of patients.»

Meanwhile, the more aggressive treatment and longer survival for younger patients suggest the need to improve long - term survivorship resources.

And younger female patients without labral repairs are more likely to require revision arthroscopy.