Sentences with phrase «patients were at higher risk»

Immunocompromised patients are at highest risk for invasive aspergillosis.

Her team's next step will be to understand whether certain patients are at higher risk for getting infected with rhinovirus in the first place and to ask if there are other risk factors for pneumonia and other poor outcomes from the infection.

Egg donation, like IVF and ICSI, is considered a safe treatment, despite the older age of patients, but a new study from France has found that the pregnancies of egg donation patients are at a higher risk of disorders — particularly relating to high blood pressure — than the pregnancies of routine IVF patients using their own eggs.

The results validated a previous group's discovery that measurement of the genetic diversity between Barrett's cells in any given lesion is a good predictor of which patients are at high risk of developing cancer.

Targeted programs for patients at especially high suicide risk would be more feasible, but it is difficult for clinicians to predict with good accuracy which patients are at high risk for suicide.

A new report published online today in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that big data predictive analytic methods might help address the problem of determining which recently discharged patients are at highest risk for suicide.

While Pichia clearly inhibits Candida in the lab, more work is needed to tell if a lack of Pichia is the reason HIV patients are at a higher risk for thrush.

The finding, published online January 8 in Nature Communications, suggests it may soon be possible for clinicians to identify when patients are at highest risk for seizures, allowing patients to plan around these brief but potentially dangerous events.

«Morbidly obese patients are at high risk of heart attack, heart failure and diabetes.»

Summary: Our goal is to develop a powerful new type of glaucoma decision support tool to help eye doctors quickly and effectively identify which glaucoma patients are at high risk of getting worse and prevent them from losing more vision.

Brentuximab vedotin was previously approved by the FDA to treat cHL after relapse, cHL after stem cell transplant when a patient is at a high risk of relapse or progression, systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) after failure of other treatment, and primary cutaneous ALCL after failure of other treatment.

Once the T cell count is less than 200 cells per ml of blood, symptoms of AIDS begin to manifest and the patient is at high risk of recurrent infections that will eventually lead to death.

Results from recent studies will help us identify which prediabetic patients are at high risk for developing the disease, and which patients will develop debilitating complications.

Refrain from smoking: Diabetic patients are at higher risk of developing heart problems.

Specifically, patients are at high risk of suffering severe infections or blood clots.

The FDA reiterated the potential complications researchers and consumer groups had been warning of for years and noted which patients were at highest risk of developing these complications.

Not exact matches

There is a great review paper by Amos Grunebaum published earlier this year looking at the risk profiles of homebirths that found that high risk patients are being attended at home by CPMs.

That's an awful lot of high risk patients you're treating at home.

«Results of this trial are good news to patients with high blood levels of uric acid or those at risk for gout.

We can conclude that primary or secondary prophylaxis of febrile neutropenia with G - CSF is justified, but patients at higher risk for thrombocytopenia should be treated with caution.»

«We can improve our tailoring of treatment to each patient if we know who among patients taking methadone treatment is at high risk for opioid relapse,» said Dr. Zena Samaan, principal author of the study and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences of McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.

This discussion is urgently needed with teen patients, who are either uninformed or misinformed about the dangers and risks associated with electronic cigarettes, says Nancy Campbell - Heider, PhD, a University at Buffalo addictions and high - risk adolescent behavior expert.

In other words, patients with 20 percent BSA were at almost an 84 percent higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, patients with 30 percent BSA were at a 104 percent higher risk, and so on.

One of the studies, published in 2008, suggested that patients whose antiretroviral treatment was deferred until their CD4 cell counts were below 250 were at greater risk of opportunistic infection than those that received antiretroviral treatment when CD4 cell counts were higher than 350.

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture are at substantially higher risk of mortality and medical complications compared with patients undergoing an elective total hip replacemenPatients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture are at substantially higher risk of mortality and medical complications compared with patients undergoing an elective total hip replacemenpatients undergoing an elective total hip replacement (THR).

«The type of inflammation seen in psoriasis is known to promote insulin resistance, and psoriasis and diabetes share similar genetic mutations suggesting a biological basis for the connection between the two conditions we found in our study,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn. «We know psoriasis is linked to higher rates of diabetes, but this is the first study to specifically examine how the severity of the disease affects a patient's risk.»

«We've known that children of patients with bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing the illness but the biological mechanisms are largely unknown,» said Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D., first author and a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth.

Dr Falsini said elderly patients may be at higher risk because they usually have pre-existing issues that can predispose to delirium such as dementia, visual and hearing impairments, depression, use of psychoactive drugs, infections, or electrolyte disturbances.

The data suggest that this immunosuppression - only approach could benefit patients with DC — and, perhaps, other bone marrow failure syndromes — who are at high risk of poor transplant outcomes because they can not tolerate the toxicity of conventional or even reduced - intensity conditioning.

Patients with both conditions are at especially high risk of serious complications and death.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Tobias Kurth, Head of the Institute of Public Health (IPH) at Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has now been able to establish the following: female migraine patients have a higher risk of stroke or heart attacks than women without migraine.

These findings are important because they define a potential prophylactic strategy to prevent HO in combat casualties and civilians at high risk of this disabling condition, thereby dramatically improving the function and quality of life of patients at risk.

«Because of its promising role in determining who has poorly controlled glucose levels, we have already begun to use the fructosamine test, at our institution to determine who is at high risk of complications and allocate resources to optimizing the glycemic control in these patients» said Dr. Parvizi.

But patients with the antibodies in their blood are at high risk of dying while waiting for a perfect match, said Brian Feingold, M.D., M.S., study lead author and medical director of Pediatric Heart and Heart - Lung Transplantation at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and associate professor of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania.

For the 12 - week, $ 170,000 pilot project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will begin later this month, Young's team plans to recruit about 60 patients from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who are experiencing chronic pain, are on long - term opioid therapy, and have reported other behaviors — such as drug or alcohol abuse — that put them at high risk of addiction.

Patients with multiple health issues and who are at higher risk of adverse events are less likely to receive follow - up care from a physician after visiting an emergency department for chest pain, reports a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

While annual vaccination remains the best defense, current recommendations advise prompt antiviral treatment for high - risk patients with influenza, including those who are hospitalized, who have severe influenza illness, or who are at higher risk for complications.

The benefits of gabapentin were also similar on analysis of different subgroups, including patient considered at high risk of nausea and vomiting.

Our intention with this study was to assess Ipilimumab as an adjuvant treatment for patients with completely resected stage III melanoma at high risk of recurrence.

As well, patients who score higher on the CHADS2 score, a rule used by physicians to determine a patient's risk of stroke, are at increased risk of stroke with or without atrial fibrillation.

«We know that patients with BRCA mutations are at high risk for developing breast, as well as pancreatic, ovarian, prostate and other cancers, and we have learned over time that BRCA plays a very important role in DNA damage repair.

When the investigators looked at patients» pre-transplant characteristics, they found that high body mass index and cirrhosis caused by alcohol consumption were linked with an increased risk of developing steatosis.

They also discovered that compared with healthy controls, patients with first episode schizophrenia had higher levels of insulin and increased levels of insulin resistance, again supporting the notion that this group are at higher risk of developing diabetes.

In some cases, combination therapy with voriconazole and an echinocandin is recommended for certain patients at highest risk.

«We found very high response rates to this treatment combination, which has the added benefit of having a much reduced risk of long - term organ damage compared to the highly toxic chemotherapy agents typically used for patients with relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma,» says Dr. Kelly, who is Program Director of the Pediatric Hematology / Oncology Service Line at the Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo and holds an additional faculty appointment with the University at Buffalo.

This could involve screening patients to avoid or minimise steroid use if they are at high risk, or if steroids are needed, developing a specific plan to monitor their adrenal function.

In the Netherlands and parts of Scandinavia health care — associated MRSA prevalence has been maintained at 1 to 3 percent for decades through an aggressive «search and destroy» approach: Hygiene practices are strictly enforced and all high - risk patients and staff members are systematically screened for MRSA; those found to be infected or carriers are quarantined.

Patients in the study were those at highest risk for developing chronic pain and persistent high - dose opioid use after major surgery.

«This test will help to determine whether an individual is at high risk of developing liver fibrosis, or whether a patient's liver disease will progress rapidly or slowly, based on their genetic makeup.

«Our findings provide evidence that the results of earlier studies — that patients who had normal weights were at higher risk of death — may have been related to unintended weight loss as opposed to a protective effect of being overweight or obese.