Sentences with phrase «per cent of patients»

I had gall bladder surgery years ago and I think I had to wait a couple of days before I could eat dry hospital sandwiches — I was in the 10 per cent of patients that had «complications».

I had gall bladder surgery years ago and I think I had to wait a few days until I could eat my dry sandwiches — I was the in the lucky 10 per cent of patients where there were «complications».

Data also revealed that only 12.5 per cent of patients come for treatment in early stages of the disease.

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Forty four per cent of patients receiving these drugs had NSAID induced enteropathy when assessed by this technique; 20 % of these had comparable levels of inflammation to that previously reported in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

The response to treatment was recorded as good (no significant residual complaints) in 40 per cent or more of patients taking 100 - 150 mg pyridoxine daily and in 60 per cent of patients treated with 160 - 200 mg daily.

Abacavir is a highly effective treatment for HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) but around five to eight per cent of patients suffer severe side - effects, such as rash, fatigue and diarrhoea.

Previous research has shown that between 4 and 6 per cent of patients with CTE will also simultaneously show clinical features of ALS — that's 800 fold higher than the prevalence of ALS in the general population.

The drug erlotinib is prescribed to between 10 - 30 per cent of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, which accounts for 85 per cent of all lung cancer cases.

Approximately 30 per cent of patients with epilepsy do not respond to anti-epileptic drugs.

The researchers found that weight is most closely linked to tumours that are «endocrine - receptor positive» - the most common type of breast cancer, affecting 75 per cent of patients.

However, even after very extensive tests, there will still be 2 - 3 per cent of patients where it has not been possible to find the origin of the cancer.

Combining morphine, a narcotic pain reliever, and nortriptyline, an antidepressant, has been found to successfully relieve chronic neuropathic pain — or a localized sensation of pain due to abnormal function of the nervous system — in 87 per cent of patients, and significantly better than with either drug alone.

Ivacaftor is the first drug to treat the underlying causes of cystic fibrosis rather than just its symptoms and is currently approved for patients with the «celtic gene» mutation carried by about four per cent of all patients and 10 - 15 per cent of patients in Ireland.

In a new study, led by Imperial College London, the treatment prevented symptoms of severe disease from worsening for five years, in 46 per cent of patients.

A single infusion of the gene therapy drug showed improved levels of the essential blood clotting protein Factor VIII, with 85 per cent of patients achieving normal or near - normal Factor VIII levels even many months after treatment.

«At least 40 per cent of patients who suffer from severe forms of chronic pain also develop depression at some point,» says Venetia Zachariou of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

After chemotherapy, as many as 65 per cent of patients with breast cancer report memory lapses, difficulty concentrating, taking longer to complete tasks and difficulty multitasking.

TB now accounts for one in seven new cases in the US and five per cent of these patients are expected to die.

Thirty - nine per cent of patients who survived cardiac arrest and were able to undergo structured interviews described a perception of awareness, but interestingly did not have any explicit recall of events.

Usually, treatment would require whole - brain radiation which is extremely toxic and the average survival time is just 3 - 6 months from diagnosis, with fewer than 20 per cent of patients surviving more than one year.

«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.

In primary care, he writes, 90 per cent of patients respond well to an antidepressant.

Overall, only two per cent of all patients with massive hemorrhage received what might be considered the optimal transfusion of a high dose of clotting products in conjunction with red blood cells during the first hour of arrival within the Emergency Department.

Only two per cent of patients with life - threatening bleeding after serious injury receive optimal blood transfusion therapy in England and Wales, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and NHS Blood and Transplant.

Only five per cent of patients require revision surgery over a 10 - year period.

Meanwhile, diabetic retinopathy - the most common form of diabetic eye disease — affects between 40 and 50 per cent of patients with diabetes and is a leading cause of blindness in the Western world.

This test may be particularly useful for patients with high grade serous ovarian cancer because the mutated cancer gene TP53 is found in more than 99 per cent of patients with this form of the disease.

Until recently, 20 to 30 per cent of these patients would develop epilepsy and many need regular antiepileptic treatment.

Pre-malignant MPN occurs when the bone marrow makes too many blood cells, and in 10 per cent of patients can lead to overt leukemia.

They found that only 25 per cent of patients who tested positive for hepatitis B had used the exchange, whereas among those who tested negative for hepatitis B, 74 per cent had used the exchange.

Mott says treatment is considered «satisfactory» if 40 per cent of patients are free of eggs after a year.

The median survival for patients is 15 months, with less than five per cent of patients surviving beyond five years.

While 35 per cent of the patients who had not received any treatment reported an improvement, 59 per cent of the placebo group felt better.

About 11 per cent of patients were not able to tolerate medical cannabinoids, versus three per cent of those taking placebo.

In the moderate - risk group 65.9 per cent of patients were relapse free.

The drug erlotinib is prescribed to between 10 — 30 per cent of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, which accounts for 85 per cent of all lung cancer cases.

«Up to 50 per cent of patients become unresponsive to anti-TNF drugs because they develop immunity to this foreign protein,» he said.

Strikingly, only 30 per cent of patients were relapse free in the high - risk group.

The average adult patient has an 8th grade literacy level but over 20 per cent of patients read at or below a 5th grade level.

Less than five per cent of patients survive beyond five years.

And fewer than five per cent of patients survive their disease for five years or more.

Nine out of ten GPs say they feel pressurised to issue the prescriptions and 97 per cent of patients who ask for them are prescribed them.

About 70 per cent of those patients suffer from an underlying chronic disease.

Eighty - three per cent of the patient sample had a degree of cognitive impairment ranging from mild to severe.

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Among this group, top reasons for leaving were working conditions (for example staffing levels and workload), cited by 44 per cent, a change in personal circumstances (such as ill health), cited by 28 per cent and disillusionment with the quality of care provided to patients, cited by 27 per cent.

About 29 per cent - 130,000 - are of patients who are on the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP).

As a psychiatrist, McAll said that about 4 per cent of all the patients he saw needed some form of exorcism or deliverance.

Forty per cent of coronary - disease patients and sixty per cent of asthma patients receive incomplete or inappropriate care.

«You know they've won games with 30, 25 per cent possession — that means they know what they want to do and are patient to have that killing instinct of a snake.