Sentences with phrase «number of obese patients»

Through the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF), GPs are rewarded financially for recording the number of obese patients — yet, ironically, not for doing anything about it.

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This phenomenon is more frequent in obese patients, in whom the size and number of PPAT adipocyte cells are higher.

Fat cells cultured from the body mass index of a morbidly obese patient cause multiple myeloma cells to anchor to a much greater extent than normal cells and produce a significantly larger number of blood vessels to sustain the cancer cells.

«These data open the door for clinicans to intiate a number of interventions in obese patients.

In one study when researchers in Czechoslovakia treated 60 obese patients with MCT oil they concluded that MCTs offered a number of benefits, stating, «Administration of... medium - chain fatty acids can... improve the long - term success of diet therapy of obese patients.»