Sentences with phrase «percent less medication»

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Almost all medications transfer into breast milk, but most are safe to take while breastfeeding because the amount of the substance that makes it into breast milk is relatively small, less than one percent of the dose.

Reduced risk of interventions — studies have found that doula assisted births have 50 percent less chance of caesarean section, 40 percent less risk of a forceps delivery and 60 percent reduction in the use of epidural pain medication.

A majority of the women prescribed opioids, 96 percent, were prescribed short - acting medications, while 2 percent received maintenance doses and less than 1 percent received long - acting opioids.

«Thanks to the new anti-HIV medications, the rate of transmission has been lowered from 26 percent to less than 1 percent during the past few decades, and that has been a miracle of life for the children involved.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

«The COMT 158A > G AG / GG genotype was associated with shortened length of stay -LRB--10.8 days) and less treatment with 2 or more medications (18 percent vs. 56 percent) than the AA genotype.

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 already.

Results of the study, which earlier this year won first prize in the inaugural «PAN Challenge» for research on improving access to critical medications for Americans with chronic and rare diseases, showed that patients in the latter, high - cost group were significantly less likely (45.3 percent vs. 66.9 percent) to have a Part D claim for a TKI prescription within six months of their CML diagnosis, compared to the subsidized, low cost - sharing group.

By the end of the eight months, the second group reported 43 percent less neck and shoulder pain, 41 percent fewer headaches, and a 51 percent reduction in the use of pain medication.

Sixty percent of the patients filled their prescriptions less than 80 percent of the time, and were classified as non-adherent to their medication.