A paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that much of that variation in outcomes for infants born at 22, 23 or 24 weeks of gestation is explained by differences in the hospital
rates of active treatment.
They found that hospital
rates of active treatment varied substantially.
Not exact matches
Older children and teens often can be a more
active participant in the
treatment and designing
of behavioral exposures, as they are more able to think about their own experiences,
rate how hard or easy things are (e.g. Ordering at a restaurant vs speaking in a small group).
«Rheumatologists can be reassured that
treatment of active rheumatoid arthritis with anti-TNF therapy may lead not just to an improvement in joint symptoms, but also a reduction in the
rate of myocardial infarctions in the medium term,» says Dr. Dixon
The
treatment response was related to baseline homocysteine levels: the
rate of atrophy in participants with homocysteine > 13 µmol / L was 53 % lower in the
active treatment group (P = 0.001).
If we confined the analysis to the biologically compliant subjects (n = 136), the effect
of treatment was slightly greater with a reduction in atrophy
rate of 31.1 % in the
active treatment group (
rate of atrophy: 0.73 % [0.57 — 0.88]-RRB- compared to the placebo group (1.06 % [0.90 — 1.22], P = 0.004 after multi-adjusted analysis).
In contrast, in the group on
active treatment there was no relationship between baseline tHcy and the
rate of atrophy.
[35] The first randomized, controlled study
of DBS for the
treatment of TRD targeting the ventral capsule / ventral striatum area did not demonstrate a significant difference in response
rates between the
active and sham groups at the end
of a 16 - week study.
The mean
rate of brain atrophy per year was 0.76 % [95 % CI, 0.63 — 0.90] in the
active treatment group and 1.08 % [0.94 — 1.22] in the placebo group (P = 0.001).
In the absence
of such an
active randomized control condition and in the absence
of significant effects on teacher
ratings of ADHD behavior, we can not ascertain that the observed improvements can be attributed to the specific
treatment procedures, instead
of non-specific
treatment factors or expectancy effects
of parents.