Sentences with phrase «patients studied left»

A third of the patients studied left the area in the wake of the disaster.

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Here are some parts you left out: - A criticism of Byrd's study, which also applies to most other studies, is based on the fact that he did not limit prayers by the friends and family of patients, hence it is unclear which prayers may have been measured, if any

Studies have found that people have an aversion to washed clothing worn by murderers, and that they don't want an AIDS patient to occupy a hospital bed after they've left it — implying a belief in causality, which goes, weirdly, backward through time.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The first large study to examine cumulative radiation exposure from medical imaging after a heart attack has found that the average patient receives the equivalent of about 725 chest X-rays before leaving the hospital.

A large study published last month in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that beta blockers did not prolong the lives of patients — a revelation that must have left many cardiologists shaking their heads (JAMA, vol 308, p 1340).

«One previous study has shown that a large percentage of patients who are diagnosed as having complete paraplegia may still have some spinal nerves left intact,» Nicolelis said.

But some studies indicate shortening treatment courses would leave patients vulnerable to a resurgence of infection or, in some cases, potentially result in selective growth of resistance organisms.

A 2007 study suggests that nicotine treatment could help alleviate the dyskinesia often experienced by Parkinson's patients being treated with L - dopa (left).

Research has been limited since the previous definition excluded overweight patients, leaving them out of study populations.

French scientists in 2007 reported their study of a group of patients who had suffered damage to a region known as the left temporal lobe.

Brain - imaging studies have shown that most patients with frontotemporal dementia who develop skills have abnormally low blood flow or low metabolic activity in their left temporal lobe.

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

As of mid-February, no patients had officially enrolled in Maharaj's study, though about 10 had demonstrated interest by calling and leaving their information with his private practice, Maharaj said.

«We see patients who we're treating for ARDS who are very sick and, who at the time, may not look like their quality of life will be great, but our study shows that their level of acuity is not a marker of whether they will experience a high quality of life once they leave the hospital,» said Dr. Brown.

High - volume lung transplant centers have lower transplantation costs and their patients are less likely to be readmitted within 30 days of leaving the hospital following surgery, according to a new study of more than 3,000 Medicare patients who received lung transplants.

Getting Treatment Right Despite the prevalence of cancer in the elderly, treatment studies rarely include people older than 70, leaving doctors without clear guidance on what works best for such patients.

«Our study shows once a patient leaves the hospital their overall health outcomes are similar regardless of where they live.»

The study is titled «Epicardial adipose tissue volume predicts extent of left atrial fibrosis in patients with atrial fibrillation.»

The overriding finding from studying these patients is that the left brain doesn't seem to miss the right.

Study author Kerstin Jung says the combination of factual information with mental imagery is key because the information alone can leave a patient knowing the facts but not feeling they are true on an emotional level.

Contrary to popular practice, a measure of the heart's pumping function known as «left ventricular ejection fraction» is not associated with the long - term outcomes of hospitalized heart failure patients, a UCLA - led study of Medicare patients has found.

Studies of brain - damaged patients have shown that the same brain area responsible for processing such words — a region in the left frontal lobe known as Broca's area — is also involved in social tasks, such as recognizing emotional expressions.

Their study published online ahead of print in PNAS Early Edition suggests a new therapeutic strategy for patients with Duchene muscular dystrophy, a progressive neuromuscular condition, caused by a lack of dystrophin, that usually leaves patients unable to walk on their own by age 10 - 15.

More important, the technique leaves the underlying tissue unharmed, prefiguring a day when doctors might build miniature sensors directly onto the skin of their patients, or biologists might use microscopic tweezers to capture and study individual cells.

Previous studies have shown a benefit in adding a second antiplatelet drug like ticagrelor, from a class called P2Y12 inhibitors, but they investigated the additional therapy for only a year, leaving unanswered the question of whether patients would benefit from continuing this treatment longer.

Often patients get wrong or conflicting information from these studies alone, and we are left without a clear answer before surgery as to which parathyroid gland is the culprit.

Imagine if a study proposed to hypnotize patients, to tell them to believe all sorts of nonsense, and then to wake them up and leave them with those beliefs for the rest of their lives because it was expected that the nonsense beliefs would produce positive clinical outcomes.

«The concept for the CCRC arose from the needs of young adult ICU patients who we saw leaving the hospital with functional impairments as well as a spectrum of disorders — memory, attention, depression, mood and anxiety — typically not seen in other patients of similar age,» said Dr. Khan, lead author of the study.

According to a 2008 study, people who have POCD 3 months after they leave the hospital are nearly twice as likely to die within a year as are surgical patients who report no mental setbacks.

To be included in this study, patients had to show evidence of more than 70 percent narrowing in the arteries of the heart and more than 50 percent in the left main coronary artery.

Of special note today: gut microbiota species expressing orthologs of human Ro60 might be involved in triggering and sustaining chronic autoimmunity in lupus; The portal vein blood microbiome in patients with liver cirrhosis; A randomized clinical study suggests dietary promotion of short chain fatty acid producing gut microbes as an effective treatment for type 2 diabetes; and the sexual dimorphism of root, flower and leaf microbiomes in the wild strawberry plant

While this sequencing study was underway, the infection control team identified a new case of MRSA carriage in the Special Care Baby Unit, which occurred 64 days after the last MRSA - positive patient had left the same unit.

The authors concluded that with the inclusion of studies with larger patient samples, the mean weighted effect size of rTMS directed at the left temporo - parietal area for AVH has decreased, although the effect is still significant.

• Patients must have adequate coagulation (international normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT) ≤ 1.5 times ULN) • Adequate liver function (total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times the ULN, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2.5 times ULN Exclusion Criteria: • Presence of active / uncontrolled central nervous system involvement • History of clinically significant cardiac disease; uncontrolled hypertension • Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 45 % • Allogeneic stem cell transplant within 100 days before first dose of study drug • Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection • Chronic or active hepatitis B or C, requiring antiviral therapy • Evidence of history of bleeding disorder, dialysis, or coexisting cancer that is distinct in primary site or histology from the cancer evaluated in this study • Serious, uncontrolled infection • Unresolved chronic toxicity > grade 1 from prior therapy • Use of strong CYP3A4 inhibitors or strong inducers within 7 days prior to the start of study treatment and for the duration of the study

Brain scans from a control subject (left), a welder (center), and a subject with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (right), in a study by researchers at Washington University comparing brains of apparently healthy welders to those of Parkinson's patients.

In a double - blind, sham - controlled, cross-over study, Thibaut et al (2014) examined the effects of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex tDCS (DLPF - tDCS) on Coma Recovery Scale - Revised (CRS - R) scores in severely brain - damaged patients with disorders of consciousness.

When patients leave the hospital, as many as 40 % of the opioid medications they're prescribed aren't used immediately, according to several studies.

«Our goal has been to expand the study of gene therapy beyond Type 1 infants to address the urgent medical needs of children with SMA Type 2, and we look forward to understanding the potential clinical impact of AVXS - 101 in these patients who, left untreated, will never walk on their own and most will never stand without assistance.»

«Results of our study show within five days of surgery, most patients are experiencing relatively little pain, and yet, most still had well over half of their opioid prescription left,» said study co-author Dr. Elliot Hersh.

Additionally, a small study in six diabetic patients found that adding 50 grams of Moringa leaves to a meal reduced the rise in blood sugar by 21 % (6).

Patients put on a tight scalp cooling cap for a half hour before chemotherapy, and leave it on for 90 minutes to 120 minutes afterward, according to the two studies.

Another study was a pilot experiment which applied a cream containing witch hazel leaf extract to eczema patients twice daily for two weeks.

In contrast to what we're told in «Forks Over Knives,» Esselstyn's paper says that he started with 22 patients, five dropped out, and six stayed on the diet but never came back for data collection — leaving Esselstyn with only 11 people in the study.

In the first study the acne patients were given so much cocoa that one volunteer vomited within the hour and had to leave.

Since there have not been any studies to evaluate the effectiveness of the sublingual route for natural thyroid, one can speculate that perhaps these patients may have some sort of digestive malfunction, i.e. rapid digestion, which means that the pill may not even be fully dissolved before it leaves the stomach and goes into the intestines.

STUDY FOUR — cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy were fed olive leaf extract, and enjoyed reduced levels of two kings of inflammation, TNF - a and IL - 1beta (stSTUDY FOUR — cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy were fed olive leaf extract, and enjoyed reduced levels of two kings of inflammation, TNF - a and IL - 1beta (studystudy).

In all, over the course of the four years studied, more than 400 patients have suffered medical negligence in the form of «wrong site surgery» and an additional 420 patients have had foreign objects left inside their bodies following an operation.

The new study that was published online in the British Medical Journal found that patients with advanced cancer often wish to know how long they have left to live.

Disaggregating the effects of treatment, therapist, patient characteristics, and therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy research is notoriously difficult, and this preliminary study wisely leaves these questions alone.

In England however, people traditionally chew two to three fresh feverfew leaves per day to prevent migraines, and in one study more than 70 percent of patients using feverfew in this way had reduced headaches.