Sentences with phrase «percent of patients»

A side effect of ribavirin is that it causes anemia — a condition characterized by a decrease in red blood cell levels — in approximately 8 to 10 percent of patients.

«Emergency blood transfusions for major trauma need to be more rapid, consistent: Only 2 percent of patients with life - threatening bleeding after serious injury receive optimal blood transfusion therapy in England and Wales, according to research.»

«So you don't want to miss 10, 20 percent of the patients.»

The authors noted that most people who contract yellow fever do not have symptoms, but among the 15 percent of patients who develop severe illness, the fatality rate is between 20 percent and 60 percent.

Only 2.3 percent of patients were readmitted for the same complication they had experienced during their index hospitalization.

The visit came within a month before the suicide attempt in 64 percent of patients, and within a year in nearly 95 percent.

«There currently are no existing therapies to address the prognoses of the approximately 40 percent of patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction,» said Eldrin Lewis, MD, advanced heart failure specialist, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, study co-author.

For example, 45 percent of the patients treated with the clot removal procedure achieved functional independence compared to 17 percent in the control group.

«Currently, about 80 percent of patients in these clinical trials provide no useful information,» says Dr. Krolewski.

It is activated in 50 to 80 percent of patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), and in some, but not all cases, is associated with genetic mutations.

The current first - line treatment option for H. pylori infection includes two antibiotics and a proton pump inhibitor, but is ineffective in roughly 20 percent of patients.

In more than 20 percent of cases studied, patients returned to the hospital within 30 days, and about five percent of patients died within 30 days.

Nearly 90 percent of the patients were female.

Results show cochlear implantation was associated with improved speech perception in quiet and in noise, quality of life and depression scores, with 76 percent of patients giving responses that indicate no depression at 12 months after implantation vs. 59 percent before implantation.

Information on race / ethnicity was available for 78 percent of patients.

MRI revealed decreased blood flow to the injured area and osteonecrosis in 80 percent of patients in the superomedial quadrant of the femoral head.

More than 80 percent of the patients (30 of 37) who had the poorest cognitive scores before implantation improved their cognitive function one year after implantation.

Overall, 38 percent of patients made some type of healthcare visit within a week before attempting suicide.

• Fifty - eight percent of patients did not have regular follow - up eye exams • Smokers were 20 percent less likely to have exams • Those with less - severe disease and no eye problems were least likely to follow recommendations • Those who had diabetic retinopathy were 30 percent more likely to have follow - up exams

Results of the second, larger study were nearly as impressive: 38 percent of patients who took baby aspirin developed new polyps, compared with 47 percent of patients taking the placebo.

Within five years of diagnosis, 95 percent of patients die of the disease.

At 100 days post-transplant, the cumulative incidence of grade III - IV acute GvHD occurred in 3 percent of patients receiving abatacept compared to 32 percent receiving CNI / MTX and 22 percent receiving + ATG.

Sixty - one percent of patients were evaluated in the emergency department only, or were admitted for less than 24 hours, while 39 patients were admitted for 24 hours or more with a mean length of stay of 1.98 days.

More than 70 percent of the patients reported being told that treatment may affect their fertility; however, male patients were more than twice as likely as female patients to report that fertility preservation options were discussed.

Approximately 200,000 cardiac arrests occur each year in hospitals, and 24 percent of those patients survive.

Iron deficiency is present in approximately 50 percent of patients with heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFrEF; ejection fraction: a measure of how well the left ventricle of the heart pumps with each contraction) and is associated with reduced functional capacity, poorer quality of life, and increased mortality.

Researchers found that 46 percent of patients received reconstruction in 1998 but that figure rose to 63 percent by 2007.

Specifically, major complications occurred among 27 percent of clopidogel patients with the genetic mutations, compared to 8 percent of patients with the mutations who received the alternative medications.

The denosumab and zoledronic acid groups were statistically similar in all areas but spine bone mineral density (increased 0.060 g / cm2 versus 0.021 g / cm2, respectively) and flulike symptoms (none versus 29 percent of patients).

Nevertheless, the survival rate for lung cancer is dismal: 80 percent of patients die within five years of diagnosis largely due to the disease's aggressive tendency to spread throughout the body.

Nearly 35 percent of patients (1,716 / 4,946) were filling opioid prescriptions in the three months prior to surgery.

«Our main finding is that even at extremely low PSA levels (< 0.5), PSMA was able to detect sites of possible recurrence in 50 percent of patients while FMC detected possible recurrence in only 12.5 percent,» Morigi states.

It was not until age 20 that 50 percent of patients had at least one six - month period free of symptoms and treatment.

«However, we found that only 22 percent of these patients ultimately required such stepped - up intervention.

Only 10 to 20 percent of patients who present to EDs with suspected cardiac - related chest pain are diagnosed with acute MI.

Fifty - seven percent of the patients who underwent primary TKR and 53 percent who underwent revision TKR were female.

The most common reason for antipsychotic polypharmacy was to «reduce symptoms» — cited for 37 percent of patients.

About 60 percent of patients treated on the trial ultimately crossed over to the immunotherapy treatment arm due to disease progression.

The researchers note that 40 percent of patients at state psychiatric inpatient hospitals have a diagnosis of schizophrenia, while nearly 20 percent experience a longer hospital stay — «suggesting a high - risk population needing special attention.»

But at least 12 percent of patients are still prescribed multiple antipsychotics after an inpatient stay at a state psychiatric hospital, according to an analysis of U.S. data in the July Journal of Psychiatric Practice ®, published by Wolters Kluwer.

During a median follow - up of 5.6 years, about 16.5 percent of patients died.

The investigators found that at five years, 1.3 percent of patients who received radiotherapy had IBTR, and 4.1 percent of patients who did not receive radiotherapy had IBTR.

However, about 15 percent of patients treated with levothyroxine consistently say it doesn't help them feel better.

Antipsychotics According to a 2014 review of eight studies, as many as 55 percent of patients who take modern antipsychotics experience weight gain — a side effect that appears to be caused by a disruption of the chemical signals controlling appetite.

About 90 percent of patients who have had a heart attack currently receive beta - blockers, a class of drug commonly prescribed to improve survival and prevent future heart attacks.

This condition, reflecting age - related «wear and tear,» accounted for 91 percent of patients undergoing THA.

The primary outcome of death or new myocardial infarction through day 7 occurred in 5.5 percent of the patients treated with otamixaban vs. 5.7 percent of the patients treated with UFH plus eptifibatide.

The data showed that 12 percent of patients were discharged with a prescription for multiple antipsychotic drugs.

• A seasonal spike occurred each spring, when 18.5 percent of patients were diagnosed with dry eye.

The researchers determined that seroconversion in at least 70 percent of patients for each HPV type would define success.