Example sentences of "in patients [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 In one study the mortality ranged between 2.5 and 33% in patients over 70 years depending on the surgical approach used .
2 Thus in both types of diabetes the threshold for commencing conventional drug therapy should be higher in patients over 65 years of age , although benefit has been shown in older non-diabetics in a recent study ( Amery et al , 1985 ) .
3 All the upper gastrointestinal malignancies were in patients over 65 years old ( range 69–87 years ) .
4 It occurs almost exclusively in patients over 60 years as a result of the postoperative complications of surgery performed for continued or recurrent bleeding .
5 In the large Mayo clinic series of pelvic J reservoirs with mucosal proctectomy , mean bowel frequency was 11 in 24 hours in patients over 50 years of age compared with seven in 24 hours in patients under 50 , a statistically significant and clinically important difference .
6 Hence the report from the Mayo clinic that after mucosal proctectomy with a pelvic J reservoir and endoanal , pouchanal anastomosis , bowel frequency in patients over 50 years was 11 in 24 hours , compared with seven in patients under 50 years .
7 The number of items prescribed differed across the age bands ( table I ) with a small peak in patients under 5 years old and rising rapidly from the 5–16 to 75–84 age groups .
8 The message from all three units is similar — hospital mortality from the first variceal bleed is not significantly greater in the elderly than in patients under 65 years .
9 Hence the report from the Mayo clinic that after mucosal proctectomy with a pelvic J reservoir and endoanal , pouchanal anastomosis , bowel frequency in patients over 50 years was 11 in 24 hours , compared with seven in patients under 50 years .
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