Sentences with phrase «of patients in the study»

For example, joint laxity was observed in 59.3 % of patients in the study compared with a prevalence of approximately 10 % to 15 % in the general population; fibromyalgia was observed in 80.3 % of the subjects compared with approximately 2.1 % to 5.7 % in the general population; and allergic rhinitis was observed in 71.1 % of subjects, whereas its prevalence is approximately 20 % in the general population.

«We found genetic alterations in brain metastases that could affect treatment decisions in more than half of the patients in our study,» Dr Brastianos will say.

«Most athletic patients return to sports, highly satisfied with ACL reconstruction: 98 percent of patients in study say they would have the procedure again.»

Since the majority of patients in this study had four or less positive frailty values, the maximum assigned score was 4/11, rather than 11/11.

Dietitian Sue Waller (left) shows a meal to Mary Akin (center), one of the patients in a study conducted by Bettina Mittendorfer, PhD.

Less than 1 % of patients in the studies discontinued treatment due to treatment - emergent adverse events.

A lot of patients in our study had cirrhosis and probably didn't know they had cirrhosis.

About 40 percent of patients in their study who developed pneumonia from any viral infection died.

Dr Jeremy McRae, first author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: «Each of these disorders is incredibly rare, so the large number of patients in this study was crucial to diagnosis.

The average age of patients in the study group was 84.5 years, and many had additional serious health risks.

«Fifty per cent of the patients in our study have survived two years since their diagnosis — this is very encouraging and we are very positive about the outcome,» says Dr. Shenouda.

Approximately half of patients in the study had a low score, meaning they were low - risk for bacterial infection.

Importantly, all of the patients in this study needed and received potentially life - saving transfusions.

The majority of patients in the study (90 percent) received SBRT treatment at the time of diagnosis.

None of the patients in the study had received an opioid prescription for the previous six months.

Despite the allocation of all patients in this study to specific treatment, 48 of the 210 ongoing pregnancies (23 %) were achieved by natural conception.

Around one quarter of the patients in this study switched their anti-TNF treatment, with just under two - thirds of these switches due to therapy failure, one quarter due to adverse events and one eighth due to patient preference for subcutaneous administration.

Half of the patients in the study, which appears in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, had metastases that had grown while they were on previous therapy.

Just over half of patients in the study who gave consent and had tumor profiling ordered by a physician actually received results, due to a variety of technical and logistical factors.

However, the majority of the patients in the study had a progressive form of MS.. This is a more severe form of the disease, and for which there are currently no treatments.

The study team was able to diagnose children who had new mutations in genes already linked to developmental disorders - approximately one quarter of the patients in the study.

«Each of these disorders is incredibly rare, so the large number of patients in this study was crucial to diagnosis.

(The majority of patients in this study were white.)

Some people think that going gluten free is only beneficial in people who have both Hashimoto's and Celiac disease, but none of the patients in this study were found to have Celiac disease!

Given the grave ill health of his patients in that study, many patients practically at deaths door, 40 % is an amazing number of successes for what Dr Kempner was working with.

Different types of radiation equipment and scheduled of radiation therapy used, and limited numbers of patients in studies make interpretation difficult.

Radiographic pathology was found in 88 % of the patients in this study, and 50 % of those had received an anesthetic dental prophylaxis within the 2 years before this study took place.

More than 50 % of the patients in the study also showed mental deficits that...

Forty - four percent of the patients in this study also met diagnostic criteria for depression.

Not exact matches

While the new mid-stage study results from DNDi were impressive (they showed cure rates of 96 % to 97 % even for the sickest patients and those with liver scarring), more late - stage trials will be necessary before the drug is available on a large scale in the developing world.

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that Valeant Pharmaceuticals» infamous price hikes for a pair of heart drugs called nitroprusside and isoproterenol — whose prices were increased by 310 % and 720 %, respectively — had significant downstream effects on patient care.

In all studies, we assigned patients measures of unconventional natural gas development activity.

Finally, in our study of symptoms, we found patients with higher unconventional natural gas development activity had higher odds of nasal and sinus, migraine headache and fatigue symptoms compared to those with lower activity.

A series of preliminary Mayo Clinic studies conducted in 2010 showed promise for the potential use of a chemical component of green tea (epigallocatechin gallate) in reducing the number of cancer cells in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

In the asthma study, we found increased odds among asthma patients of asthma hospitalizations, emergency department visits and a medication used for mild asthma attacks with higher unconventional natural gas development activity, compared to those with lower activity.

In health care, this amounts to an hourly avalanche of new research papers, clinical trials, scientific studies, and patient health information.

The study participants were asked to develop strategies for landing the rocket mentally; this, in turn, allowed the patients to strategize ways of blocking out hallucinatory voices inside their heads.

The study, published today in the journal Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, found most of the fictional patients (71 %) were transferred from emergency directly to the operating theatre.

This study, published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, found that 22 patients who played the memory game made significantly fewer errors and needed significantly fewer attempts to remember the location of different patterns specific tests.

British - based GlaxoSmithKline, for example, conducts more than 100 studies a year in Canada, with the participation of some 10,500 patients in more than 1,000 medical centres.

BIIB098: MRI and relapse results from the phase 3 EVOLVE - MS - 1 study in patients with relapsing and remitting multiple sclerosis were presented at the 70th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).

In a study cited in Shawn Achor's book The Happiness Advantage, three groups of patients treated their depression with medication, exercise, or a combination of the twIn a study cited in Shawn Achor's book The Happiness Advantage, three groups of patients treated their depression with medication, exercise, or a combination of the twin Shawn Achor's book The Happiness Advantage, three groups of patients treated their depression with medication, exercise, or a combination of the two.

FITBIT DATA AIDS RESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioral MedicinIN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicinin the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

The company points to a simple resource allocation problem that's hindered the most effective patient care: the fact that it is physically impossible for oncologists to keep track of every study, every clinical trial, and every breakthrough in the wildly stratified world of cancer research.

Speaking of checkpoint inhibitor drugs... Merck's star cancer immunotherapy treatment Keytruda is facing some troubling clinical trial incidents which have now compelled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt three studies of the drug in multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, after a number of patient deaths.

To participate in the study, which concludes in July 2020, patients must be 18 years or older and have a histological - or cytological - proven diagnosis of a malignancy in the lung, breast, head and neck, genitourinary organs or ovaries or multiple myeloma.

The first step in the process is to surgically remove the patient's tumor and ensure that the patient is cancer free by confirming that there is no sign of cancer on blood tests and imaging studies.

Now, the firms are hoping that the completion of the study will show cardiovascular improvement in these patients, giving them a strong argument to present to reticent physicians.

Besides randomized controlled clinical trials, there are a number of ways researchers can study how a particular cancer treatment is playing out in the real world: there are retrospective studies, observational studies, and even prospective research done using patient registries.

The study, just published in Science, showed that the creation of what the researchers are calling microtumors can help predict drug effectiveness in cancer patients better than the current standard method of testing the drugs on rodents.