And you won't know whether your child will be asthmatic until
he shows persistent symptoms, such as wheezing and constant coughing.
Not exact matches
In comparing the patients in initial and follow - up study, the young patients had significantly reduced post-concussion
symptom score at follow - up than at the time of the initial exam, but no significant change of the post-concussion
symptom score was observed in the older patients, who also
showed persistent hypoactivation.
During the lecture, Picker discussed his work
showing that an extensive treatment with CMV, a
persistent virus that stays in the body without causing
symptoms, can be used to target and clear SIV, a close cousin of HIV that infects rhesus macaques.
Some infected dogs
show no
symptoms, while others may develop a
persistent cough, runny nose, fatigue, fever or reduced appetite.
A dog may
show acute
symptoms such as
persistent fever, anemia, weight loss and weakness.
This discomfort my
show up as external
symptoms (for example, as obsessive behaviours) or may be noticed more internally, such as a
persistent sense of inadequacy or loneliness.
Reviews of cognitive behaviour therapy in schizophrenia indicate that evaluations are mainly case studies or uncontrolled trials.3 — 5 Four controlled trials have suggested that cognitive behavioural interventions can result in a reduction of psychotic and associated
symptoms that are resistant to medication in chronic schizophrenia, 6 — 9 and a single trial has
shown reduction of
symptoms in acute schizophrenia.10 Although these trials are small and all suffer methodological limitations, particularly a lack of blind assessment, they represent encouraging evidence that cognitive behavioural interventions can have considerable benefits in reducing
persistent hallucinations and delusions.
Although Fig 1
shows that infants of women with
persistent symptoms had a lower prevalence of adequate well - child care, no difference in adequate well - child care was found between women with
persistent or ever
symptoms and those without
symptoms, after adjustment for confounding variables.
Others have
shown that women with depressive
symptoms postpartum have a risk of
persistent elevation over a substantial period of time (4, 12).
About 5 % of all children in the Western world fulfill diagnostic criteria for attention deficit — hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 1 and a large proportion of such children are treated pharmacologically.2 ADHD has been associated with criminality3, 4 and externalizing disorders.5 Beneficial short - term effects of ADHD medication on
symptoms of ADHD and associated conduct problems have been
shown in numerous randomized, controlled studies involving children6 - 8 and adults.9 - 11 ADHD
symptoms are largely
persistent from childhood into adulthood, 12 but one prominent feature of ADHD treatment is that the discontinuation of medication is common, 13,14 especially in adolescence and early adulthood.15 The importance of treatment discontinuation for criminality and other longer - term outcomes is largely unknown.