Sentences with phrase «patients than in the controls»

They found that a particular variant of the MBP gene was significantly more common in the MS patients than in the controls.

Not exact matches

Intarcia has completed several late - stage clinical trials in which it uses the pump to deliver a glucose - controlling drug continuously for months — an idea, that if successful (and approved by the FDA) could significantly help patients with type 2 diabetes, fewer than half of whom maintain the recommended glycemic levels.

Final patient visits will be followed by completing data entry for the more than 35,000 patient years of study in REDUCE - IT, and typical database quality control measures, known as cleaning.

When labor time came, I was able to make fully informed decisions about my birth and felt like I was the one in control of my experience, rather than a patient whose baby was «being delivered.»

When labor time comes, I want you to feel like you are the one in control of your experience, rather than a patient whose baby is «being delivered.»

A study of mental functioning in alcoholic patients found that they performed less well than a control group in choosing the correct punchline for a joke.

In trials involving two groups of diabetic patients, adults and adolescents, the bionic pancreas provided tighter control of blood glucose than standard measures such as insulin pumps and blood - sugar monitors.

Patients newly diagnosed with primary SjS (in people with no other rheumatic disease) were around 11 times more likely to have had a prior infection with NTM than a matched group of controls.

When, for example, subjects were asked 20 times in succession to estimate the duration for which a square — displayed for exactly one second in each case — appeared on the screen, the estimates given by patients with schizophrenia exhibited a much higher level of variability than those of the control group.

Immunotherapy with a live bacterium combined with chemotherapy demonstrated more than 90 % disease control and 59 % response rate in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), according to the results of a phase Ib trial presented today at the European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.1

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

Nearly half (48 %) of patients with severe or difficult - to - treat asthma in The Epidemiology and Natural History of Asthma: Outcomes and Treatment Regimens follow - up study (TENOR II) still had very poorly controlled (VPC) symptoms after more than a decade of treatment, according to a new study presented at the ATS 2016 International Conference.

An outpatient with well - controlled episodic migraine may respond differently than someone with chronic migraine or a patient in the emergency room.

Maintaining or achieving blood pressure control in patients with arthritis and concomitant hypertension (treated or untreated) could avoid more than 70,000 deaths from stroke and 60,000 deaths from coronary heart disease each year, 2 making it important to investigate the effects of various NSAIDs on blood pressure.

Researchers at the Chemical Abuse Centers in Boardman, Ohio, found that combining magnesium oxide with the drug verapamil helped control manic symptoms in patients better than a drug - placebo combination.

«The significant improvement in overall survival with pembrolizumab was remarkable given that more than 40 % of patients crossed over from the control arm to pembrolizumab after progression of the disease,» said Reck.

Still other technologies use brain implants similar to those in the new study, but to control robotic arms, external skeletons, or computer cursors, rather than the patient's own muscles.

High - intensity exercise can help stable heart transplant patients reach higher levels of exercise capacity, and gain better control of their blood pressure than moderate intensity exercise, investigators report in a new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation.

Studying these mechanisms provided the researchers with «a source of variation that we think is effectively random,» says Doyle, adding that it represents «hopefully a better apples - to - apples comparison» of patients than prior studies that did not try to control for differences in which kinds of patients visit which hospitals.

More than 500,000 patients every year develop an SSI, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1 Orthopedic procedures have a low SSI rate, ranging from 0.7 to 2.1 infections for every 100 cases.2 Nevertheless, orthopedic surgery patients with SSIs have a two times higher rate of rehospitalization and a 300 percent increase in treatment costs.3

In the study, MBSR participants reported significantly greater improvement in the ability to pay attention, and also made fewer mistakes on difficult cognitive tasks than those in the control group, which received patient education materials and supportive counselinIn the study, MBSR participants reported significantly greater improvement in the ability to pay attention, and also made fewer mistakes on difficult cognitive tasks than those in the control group, which received patient education materials and supportive counselinin the ability to pay attention, and also made fewer mistakes on difficult cognitive tasks than those in the control group, which received patient education materials and supportive counselinin the control group, which received patient education materials and supportive counseling.

On the second day, patients in the methadone group required less than 1 mg of hydromorphone, compared to 3 mg in the control group.

On the third day, patients in the methadone group didn't require hydromorphone, compared to less than 1 mg in the control group.

«In our large population - based study of more than 6,000 adults with CAP and almost 30,000 matched controls, we found that CAP patients have high rates of long - term morbidity and mortality compared to those who have never had CAP, irrespective of their age.»

A study in Japan found that patients who listened to nature sounds during surgery emerged from general anesthesia more smoothly than a control group who heard the procedure; the latter experienced significantly higher heart rate and blood pressure while returning to consciousness.

«When studying magnetic resonance images of the brains of patients suffering from CRPS, we noticed that the choroid plexus was nearly one - fifth larger in patients than in healthy control subjects,» says Postdoctoral Researcher Guangyu Zhou from Aalto University Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering (NBE), who analysed the images.

After a year, significantly fewer myelin - treated patients had major attacks of multiple sclerosis (6 out of 15) than in the control group (l2 out of 15).

In a randomized controlled clinical trial, scientists from Joslin Diabetes Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital found that patients treated with a form of bariatric surgery known as Roux - en - Y gastric bypass did significantly better, after three years, than patients provided with an intensive diabetes and weight management program.

The results showed that a significantly lower proportion of different bacteria are found in the gut in patients with heart failure than in healthy controls.

Most of these men, who all had terminal prostate cancer with limited treatment options, had disease control lasting much longer than expected in this group of patients.

Another fact revealed by the study supporting food supremacy was that in all three groups, patients and control, food information was processed better than «non — food.»

Favourable outcomes, ranging from moderate disability to good recovery, occurred in only a quarter of the patients in the hypothermia group compared with more than a third of patients in the control group.

But it did not appear in any of the more than 300 controls from France and Italy or in 52 Italian patients with sporadic Parkinson's disease.

More than half of the ESC / E (Z) genes were over-expressed in PMDD patients» cells, compared to cells from controls.

The study, published in the September issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, demonstrates that the risk of CLABSI with PICCs is based more on patient factors, rather than the device.

The disease control rate (defined as partial response or stable disease for more than 12 weeks) for all patients was 32 percent (6 of the 19 patients) and 50 percent (three of six patients) in patients who received one prior line of chemotherapy.

The analysis revealed that while performing working memory tasks, the young patients with concussion had initial activation that was greater than normal, known as hyperactivation, compared to young controls in the right precuneus and right inferior parietal gyrus of the brain, whereas the older patients had hypoactivation (less than normal) compared to older controls in the right precuneus and right inferior frontal gyrus.

Shannon entropy analysis of FA histograms performed better than mean FA as a diagnostic test to differentiate between concussion patients and controls and also performed better in determining which concussion patients developed post-traumatic migraines.

It is not clear how comparable these controls were in their disease stage with the treated patients, so it's hard to be sure that the treated patients did better than they would have otherwise.

Other studies have shown that asthma patients experience more constricted airways than healthy control subjects in response to emotional stimuli.

MRI scans of the patients» brains showed that those in the tDCS group had more activity in the relevant brain areas for motor skills than those in the control group.

Patients who received automated telephone calls inviting them to get their blood pressure checked at a walk - in clinic were more likely to have controlled hypertension than patients who did not receive calls, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the Journal of Clinical HyperPatients who received automated telephone calls inviting them to get their blood pressure checked at a walk - in clinic were more likely to have controlled hypertension than patients who did not receive calls, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the Journal of Clinical Hyperpatients who did not receive calls, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the Journal of Clinical Hypertension.

Moreover, in another Japanese patient, they identified a homozygous frameshift (p.L206fs), absent in more than 2,500 chromosomes from ethnically matched controls, in the ciliary gene NEK2, encoding a serine / threonine - protein kinase.

At study entry, serum transthyretin levels were modestly lower in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis than in healthy volunteers, a finding that was consistent with reports showing lower transthyretin levels in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis than in either asymptomatic disease carriers or healthy controls.36

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Patients with HbA1C in the prediabetes range, 5.7 - 6.4 percent, were considered to be intensively treated if using two or more medications at the time of the test, or if started on additional medications after the test, because current guidelines consider patients with HbA1C less than 6.5 percent to be optimally controlled Patients with HbA1C in the prediabetes range, 5.7 - 6.4 percent, were considered to be intensively treated if using two or more medications at the time of the test, or if started on additional medications after the test, because current guidelines consider patients with HbA1C less than 6.5 percent to be optimally controlled patients with HbA1C less than 6.5 percent to be optimally controlled already.

U.S. patients were more likely to have adequate control; 63 percent met the recommended pressure of less than 140/90, compared to only 31 percent in Italy, 36 percent in the United Kingdom, 40 percent in Spain and Germany, and 46 percent in France.

No reports have examined the degree of heteroplasmy (presence of more than one type of mitochondrial genome) in ME / CFS patients vs. controls.

Patients in the MSC group showed significantly higher B - cell levels than the control group at 3 month post-transplant.

Using GCTA, the researchers analyzed the same genetic datasets screened in the Molecular Psychiatry reports — almost 1,500 individuals affected with OCD compared with more than 5,500 controls, and nearly TS 1,500 patients compared with more than 5,200 controls.