Example sentences of "[prep] follow up " in BNC.

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1 For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families .
2 The Martin Pipe-trained eight-year-old gained an impressive four-length victory in the £50,000 Newbury showpiece 12 months ago but , after following up over course and distance a month later , he missed the remainder of the season through injury .
3 To analyse changes in urinary albumin and sodium excretion and mean arterial pressure we meaned the values ( log transformed for urinary albumin excretion ) recorded during the placebo period and during the last three months of follow up .
4 It declined to 29 ( 11–146 ) mg/24 h with enalapril but was 109 ( 12–267 ) mg/24 h with hydrochlorothiazide during the last three months of follow up ( p=0.0087 ) .
5 Mean arterial pressure was similar between groups during placebo ( 97 ( 8 ) mm Hg in enalapril group v 97 ( 8 ) mm Hg in hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.996 ) and also at the end of follow up ( 89 ( 8 ) mm Hg in enalapril group v 93 ( 10 ) mm Hg in hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.2613 ) .
6 Urinary sodium excretion was comparable between groups during placebo ( 164 ( 59 ) mmol/24 h in enalapril group v 158 ( 62 ) mmol/24 h in hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.8092 ) , but higher with hydrochlorothiazide than enalapril at end of follow up ( 142 ( 56 ) mmol/24 h v 197 ( 73 ) mmol/24 h ; p=0.0469 ) .
7 Urinary albumin excretion was reduced by 20% ( -50 to 10 ) with enalapril at the end of follow up v 2% ( -36 to 32 ) with hydrochlorothiazide ( p=0.0176 ) .
8 The mean intergroups difference in mean arterial pressure was -1 mm Hg ( 7 to -9 ) during the last three months of follow up .
9 The rate of progression of urinary albumin excretion from the placebo period to the last three months of follow up was positively related to the difference between filtration fractions at time 0 and time 12 months ( r '=0.50 , p=0.026 for all patients ; r '=0.48 for enalapril group ; r '=0.54 for hydrochlorothiazide group ) ( fig 3 , right panel ) .
10 Mathiesen et al found a difference in urinary albumin excretion between captopril and no antihypertensive treatment by measuring blood pressure and urinary albumin excretion every four months in 44 patients similar to ours , but this was true only after four years of follow up .
11 In this connection Björk et al reported that enalapril protected glomerular filtration rate more effectively than metoprolol in diabetic nephropathy after four years of follow up .
12 After 10 years of follow up those in the highest grades of employment had about one third the mortality of those in the lowest grades .
13 The regression model for the i t h individual was log ( y i ) =log ( T 2 i ) + α+; β 1 x i 1 + … =+β p x i p +Ε i , where y i is the observed number of short spells of absence T i is the number of years of follow up , x i 1 … x i p are the explanatory factors of interest , and Ε i is a Poisson error term .
14 Many hoped to achieve a reduction in numbers of follow up appointments .
15 Obesity increased equally in all groups over the 20 years or so of follow up , despite sustained medical advice but without help from a dietitian .
16 Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late .
17 6528 male and female patients providing 54355 years of follow up .
18 Our study is based on 6528 men and women first registered between 1 January 1972 and 31 December 1990 , providing 54355 patient years of follow up .
19 This general population survey was of 15 411 men and women screened between 1972 and 1976 and providing 231 888 subject years of follow up to 31 December 1990 .
20 Of the 216 patients discharged in 1989–90 , none became vagrants during the first year of follow up ( J Leff et al , unpublished study ) .
21 The length of follow up in all the studies ( median six weeks ) was short relative to the generally accepted desirable duration of treatment in this population .
22 The results for acute myocardial infarction were generally similar to those for total coronary heart disease and will are not reported separately , although in men younger than 50 the log-log survival curves by periodontal disease tended to converge as duration of follow up increased .
23 Selection bias should also have been low because of the high rate of follow up .
24 Table I shows the details of times of follow up .
25 This was in spite of a longer mean time till exclusion or end of follow up for the adenoidectomy cases .
26 Ten to 15 years of follow up is required , in a population with considerable competing risks of death .
27 We calculated the recurrence rate using the formula here , the number of cystoscopies at which recurrences were found divided the total length of follow up in months , and multiplied by a hundred to produce a convenient figure .
28 The maximum length of follow up was twenty six years .
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30 After 52 weeks of follow up , a response ( HBeAg seroconversion and HBV-DNA negativity ) was observed in 22 patients ( 55% ) .
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