Sentences with phrase «subgroups of patients who»

It was small, and the findings can't be applied to certain subgroups of patients who were excluded from the study (such as those with severe depression who may be suicidal), to primary care settings, to forms of dementia other than Alzheimer's, or to other types of antidepressants.

We also apply these techniques to model systems in order to identify subgroups of patients who are uniquely sensitive or resistant to targeted therapies, such as poly (ADP - ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors or immune checkpoint blockade.

This imaging approach could also, in the future, help better define which patients with autoimmunity will likely progress to diabetes and classify subgroups of patients who might benefit from different therapeutic strategies.

He added: «The only positive and continuous result was in the subgroup of patients who took more exercise, which means regular exercise at least twice a week, plus the wine consumption.

Not exact matches

«Among the subgroup of vaccinated patients who chose to have chemo later, we are seeing 40 percent survival at two years and 20 percent survival at three years,» says Black.

In terms of cognitive disability, the researchers found that in the subgroup of MS patients who underwent neuropsychological testing, those with more cerebral microbleeds had higher disability on verbal and other cognitive function tests.

In addition, the subgroup of patients with unmethylated MGMT promoter and HLA - A2 appear to particularly benefit,» said Patrick Y. Wen, MD, director of the Center for Neuro - Oncology at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, who will present the data at the conference.

«We're definitely encouraged by these results, but we need to optimize the length of treatments, identify which subgroups of patients may benefit most, and determine if this approach works in patients who have nonsomatic forms of the condition that can't be modulated by head and neck maneuvers,» Shore said.

However, a pre-specified examination of the study's secondary endpoints, which included the rate of heart attacks, revealed that patients who received the methylprednisolone faced a 15 percent greater risk of death or heart attack and a 21 percent greater risk of heart attack alone, a pattern that was consistent across all subgroups.

The authors of the current study hypothesize that these previous trials may have inadvertently selected subjects who would be nonresponsive to the medication and conclude that future efficacy trials may require the identification of subgroups of patient populations.

Our primary aim is to identify subgroups of rNB patients who have potentially targetable genetic (ALK, MAPK pathway, Metabolic - related genes) and / or immunologic (tumor - associated macrophage infiltration and / or programmed death ligand [PD - L1] expression) biomarkers in rNB.

Intensive blood pressure (BP) control reduced the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events by 21 % compared with standard BP control in a subgroup of patients from the ACCORD - BP trial who had type 2...

Lin, Y. S., Lin, L. C., and Lin, S. W. Effects of zinc supplementation on the survival of patients who received concomitant chemotherapy and radiotherapy for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: follow - up of a double - blind randomized study with subgroup analysis.