Sentences with phrase «year of therapy compared»

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For example, in the combined hormone therapy trial, treated 50 - to 59 - year - olds had five additional cases of heart disease and five more strokes per 10,000 women annually compared with the same - aged group on placebo.

A three - year randomized controlled clinical trial has found that two topical creams are effective in most primary, low - risk superficial BCC, comparing favorably with photodynamic therapy (PDT), as reported by investigators in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

In a recent study, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, PTSD patients allowed to choose between therapies ended up costing about $ 1,622 less on average per patient per year compared with patients who were assigned treatment.

Concizumab and similar therapies represent «a completely different way of approaching haemophilia compared to anything we've been doing for the last 50 years», he says.

In a related Editor's Note, Deborah Grady, M.D., M.P.H., a deputy editor of JAMA Internal Medicine, writes: «It is possible that treatment beyond one year would result in better outcomes, but these data provide no support for use of higher - dose cholecalciferol replacement therapy or indeed any dose of cholecalciferol compared with placebo.»

After a year of treatment, in the 62 patients who received the gene therapy, FEV1 was 3.7 % greater compared to placebo.

Earlier this year, a government panel of experts recommended that the money would be better spent comparing several experimental therapies instead of one alone.

People with breast cancer or lymphoma were three times as likely to develop heart failure within five years of their cancer diagnosis, and 20 years following cancer treatment were still nearly twice as likely to have been diagnosed with heart failure compared to similar patients who didn't undergo cancer therapy.

• After 12 years, the incidence of deaths from prostate cancer was 5.4 percent for patients who underwent radiation therapy plus hormone treatment, compared with 13.4 percent for those who had only radiation therapy.

A class of oral specialty drugs, tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), has revolutionized the treatment of CML, largely transforming it into a chronic condition and enabling many patients to have a near - normal lifespan, particularly when compared to a median survival of less than three years with prior therapies.

A second phase 3 study presented Sunday found that adding radiation to hormone therapy, also known as androgen - deprivation therapy (ADT) in patients with locally advanced or high - risk prostate cancer reduced the seven - year risk of dying by 43 percent compared to treating with hormone therapy alone.

After a median follow - up of five years, either hormone therapy plus Zometa reduced the risk of relapse by 36 percent compared with hormone therapy alone.

Among these studies are studies on more than 19,000 children representing of 47,000 patient years of growth hormone treatment; a prospective study of 100 adult growth hormone — deficient patients followed for 1 to 4 years, a study of 910 children treated with growth hormone for 11 years, a study of 32 adults and children followed for up to 40 years treated with growth hormone (average 10.8 years); a study of 180 growth hormone — treated children followed for over 6 years with reduced cancer recurrence risk (RR 0.6); a prospective analysis of 289 growth hormone — deficient adults who, after 5 years of growth hormone therapy, showed lower risk of malignancy (RR 0.25) and decreased risk of myocardial infarction (RR 0.19) and early mortality (RR 0.22) compared with the untreated group.

After years of therapy, Buddhist practice, her brother's suicide, two failed marriages and motherhood, she rejects her old vision of comparing the past to «radioactive waste» that must be buried.

WH Smith has just reported an 8 % in profit in the 12 months to the end of August 2015, compared to the year before, with «coloring therapy» books helping to deliver a strong second half for the high street sector of the business.

In 1 study (n = 36) evaluating the effectiveness of behavioural family management consultation in patients with schizophrenia, the total cost of hospital care per year was $ US 45 280 in patients in the control group (individual supportive therapy) compared with $ US 4245 for those receiving psychotherapy.

Our intensive treatment approach can get the job done in a matter of days, compared to the months or years that hour - per - week therapy takes.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study compared individual Coping Cat (CBT) and child - centered therapy (CCT) for child anxiety disorders on rates of treatment response and recovery at post-treatment and one - year follow - up, as well as on real - world measures of emotional functioning.

A study of individual cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder showed positive outcomes at 1 - year follow - up, but the benefits were reduced over time, suggesting the need for booster sessions to sustain the gains.19 As with many forms of therapy, CBT has been found to be more successful in reducing relapse in the depressive pole compared with the manic pole.30 A large randomised trial of CBT showed no difference between CBT and treatment as usual, when all participants were included in the analyses.31 However, results of a post-hoc analysis suggested that CBT was effective for participants who reported fewer than 12 prior episodes of illness and were not acutely unwell when therapy began; numbers of episodes of mania rather than depression seemed to predict treatment response.32 Such data can help guide the clinical application of CBT for bipolar patients.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Multisystemic Therapy (MST) compared to «regular services» (RS) two years after intake to treatment to investigate whether MST was successful at preventing placement out of home, and to examine reductions in behavior problems in multi-informant assessments.

In 2005 a study found 64 % of depressed patients who had not responded to drug therapy were «very satisfied» with telephone therapy after 1 year compared with 48 % of those in face - to - face therapy.

This indicates that parents of families who received additional therapy, compared to parents of families who did not, reported more decrease in parental overreactivity at posttest, and more decrease in parental internalizing symptoms and stress about their competence in parenting at 1 - year follow - up.

This concentrated, intensive approach to working with couples, has been compared to months or years of other therapy.