Simplification of dosing regimens by reducing pill burden and size, and improving the palatability of phosphate binders is also likely to improve patient satisfaction and, with it, adherence.
Metastatic lymph nodes were evaluated for traditional prognostic factors, i.e., the number of involved nodes and the extranodal extension, but also for a variety of other node-related characteristics, such as nodal tumor burden and maximum size of tumor deposits, necrosis, stromatogenesis, extranodal vascular involvement, and nodal matting.
Mercury burdens increase with the age and size of individuals within given fish populations, in part due to the slower rates of elimination and longer exposure in larger individuals, and due to the consumption of higher trophic level foods by older and larger individuals.
Table S2 contains source and size of gene-sets used in the burden analyses.
The economy had flourished because what was once India's single most embarrassing burden – the size of its population – had now been translated into a market, its greatest asset.
Dosimetry is performed in conjunction with the radiation oncology team and depends on tumour burden, size of the liver, degree of shunting and hepatic function.
In the questionnaire for the professionals (Q3), information on sex, age, profession and working situation (steady job, temporary worker and other) will be collected with some other data on their attendance burden: size of assigned quota, average of daily office hours and house visits and average of time per visit in the centre and homes.
83 The reasons for the observed variations in antibiotic use patterns are multifactorial, and include factors associated with the resident (resident and clinical characteristics, infection burden) and the facility (size of the RACFs, institutional antibiotic policy).
Criteria for the selection of countries to be among the first to introduce PsA-TT were (1) presence of epidemic risk indicators; (2) presence of case burden indicators; (3) size of the target population; (4) expected annual vaccine supply; and (5) participation of population in clinical trials of PsA-TT.
The current finding that higher body weight was associated with lower U-Hg excretion supports the importance of body size in the body burden and elimination of Hg in children.
