Example sentences of "in patients [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It has been associated with the presence of cervical human papillomavirus in patients at student health clinics .
2 Only weight loss ( p=0.003 ) and dysphagia ( p=0.027 ) were more common in patients at stage CDC IV compared with earlier stages .
3 Dysphagia and weight loss were the only symptoms found significantly more frequently in patients at stage IV compared with patients at stages II or III .
4 The number of CD4 positive cells per microlitre and the CD4/CD8 ratio in the peripheral blood was reduced in patients at stage IV compared with patients at stage II/III , and — at stage IV — in patients with gastrointestinal infections compared with non-infected patients ( data not shown ) .
5 Compared with patients at earlier stages of HIV infection , we found a significantly increased rate of gastrointestinal infections in patients at stage IV .
6 In patients at risk of infectious endocarditis , ampicillin usually provides satisfactory prophylaxis .
7 These cases highlight the need for vigilance in patients at risk and suggest that the epidemic of parvovirus in the UK over the latter part of 1992 is still continuing .
8 In patients with this type of depression , their critical period is advanced so that it falls during sleep .
9 It should also be pointed out that other circumstances where there is an abnormality of timing of the body clock ( for example , after a time-zone transition , during shift-work , in blind subjects and in patients with Delayed Sleep phase Syndrome ) all tend to produce and feeling of malaise rather than a fully-blown clinical depression .
10 How would you eliminate a placebo effect — that is , the treatment works because the patient thinks ( or hopes ) that it will ? ( 3 ) Carbohydrate ( sugar ) intake is found to increase in patients with SAD .
11 Didanosine , which is manufactured by Bristol-Myers Squibb , was granted a US licence last October for use in patients with advanced HIV infection who were intolerant of zidovudine .
12 My continuing work is convincing me that there are probably no inimical remedies when LM 's are used , that Lycopodium can probably follow Sulphur , and that LM potencies can be repeated often and safely in weak patients and in patients with serious tissue pathology .
13 The drug tamoxifen , first described in the late 1960s , has some value as a palliative in patients with oestrogen-dependent tumours .
14 If it did , it might be valuable in patients with gout , when abnormal deposits of uric acid are responsible for the development of intensely painful joints .
15 They lowered blood pressure in patients with hypertension , prevented irregularities of the heartbeat which might be caused by adrenaline , reduced mortality after coronary thrombosis , and , perhaps most importantly of all , they revealed the complexity of the factors which control cardiac activity in man , and the difficulties of predicting the effects drugs will have without first carrying out extensive and detailed experiments , both in the laboratory and in the clinic .
16 Heart failure is common in patients with high blood pressure , and so these patients were often given thiazides .
17 This usually lasts longest in patients with speech problems .
18 More recent research has identified structural abnormalities in the composition of VLDL in patients with hypertriglyceridaemia .
19 Thus platelet thromboxane A 2 production ( measured as the stable degradation form thromboxane B 2 ) is increased in patients with arterial or venous thrombosis ( Lagarde & Dechavanne , 1977 ) and myocardial infarction ( Szczeklik et al , 1978 ) .
20 Increased platelet aggregation has been reported in patients with neuropathy ( O'Malley et al , 1975 ) retinopathy ( Heath et al , 1971 ; Bensoussan et al , 1975 ) and coronary artery disease ( Szirtes , 1970 ) .
21 Stewart et al ( 1983 ) described significantly higher levels of platelet-specific proteins in patients with transient cerebral ischaemia , and Handin et al ( 1978 ) found elevated levels in patients following myocardial infarction .
22 Cella et al ( 1979 ) found elevated β-thromboglobulin levels in patients with peripheral vascular disease but not in patients with cerebro-vascular disease .
23 Cella et al ( 1979 ) found elevated β-thromboglobulin levels in patients with peripheral vascular disease but not in patients with cerebro-vascular disease .
24 In support of this suggestion the same workers ( Shattil et al , 1977 ) found that platelets from patients with Type 2 hyperlipoproteinaemia had a higher cholesterol/phospholipid ratio and other workers have found an elevated platelet-free cholesterol in patients with the same condition ( Miettinen , 1974 ) .
25 A study to determine if excellent metabolic control reduced the mortality from myocardial infarction in patients with diabetes was disappointingly negative ( Gwilt et al , 1984 ) , but a similar study on a smaller number of patients in Scotland showed considerable benefit ( Clark et al , 1985 ) indicating the need for further investigation .
26 Because of the potential side-effects and risks of lithium carbonate ( e.g. toxicity , hypothyroidism , and renal impairment ) , as well the non-response of some patients , other drugs with possible prophylactic effects in patients with recurrent affective disorders are currently under investigation .
27 A team of Boston scientists led by Stephen Hauser report , in the same issue of the New England Journal of Medicine , that a combination of immunosuppressive drugs can halt the progress of the disease in patients with advanced progressive multiple sclerosis ( vol 308 , p 173 ) .
28 Surgery for superobesity is obviously a last resort , but this study confirms the conclusion of earlier short term follow-up studies which found a good psychological outcome even in patients with a history of psychiatric treatment .
29 Dr Pearson and Dr Rix point out that the level of psychiatric disorder in patients with a variety of other bowel complaints is much lower — only 34 per cent compared to 86 per cent .
30 Clodronate delays osteolytic bone lesions , reduces the degree of hypercalcaemia and decreases pain in patients with multiple myeloma , claim the authors of a 24-month multicentre study .
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