However, in contrast, the ASPIRE patient population, who were all prior HCV treatment-experienced patients (patients with null or partial response or who relapsed), did not experience a reduction in health status problems (any dimension) at Week 48 versus Week 24; overall, health status problems were generally similar across the simeprevir/PR and placebo/PR treatment groups at these timepoints.
Maximizing growth rate despite a reduction in water status is a tempting strategy.
In keeping with this is the lack of change of BNP levels during low-flux HD in spite of a reduction in volume status due to ultrafiltration [ 18].
Fluid retention is the usual reaction of the body to a reduction in volume status, thereby leading to a more-positive fluid balance.
This suggests that those family members who become informal caregivers make adjustments to their working lives, resulting in a reduction in financial status.
Since COPD was observed mainly in elderly people that have diminished lung function and therefore a reduction in health status, fatigue was expected to be associated with COPD.
In patients with advanced cancer, progressive weight loss is common and leads to a reduction in performance status and quality of life (O'Gorman et al, 1999, 2000).
In the present study of patients with inoperable NSCLC, the presence of a systemic inflammatory response was associated with increased weight loss, a reduction in performance status, increased fatigue and reduced survival.
Asked if this meant a reduction in Nato's status or role, Paladino said: "I don't think we're changing the status of Nato, we're enforcing the agreement as it was originally drawn out.
Oxidative stress in diabetes coexists with a reduction in the antioxidant status, which can further increase the deleterious effects of free radicals.
