Sentence examples for chronic subjects from inspiring English sources

First, we consider that the expectation of improvements and the stage of the pain can influence the rates of change which are higher in acute compared to chronic subjects [22].

Results did not significantly differ between acute/subacute, and chronic subjects, nonetheless chronic subjects appeared more disabled.

Falla et al. [ 23] had demonstrated the lack of relationship between fatigability and duration of symptoms in chronic subjects, however a relevant less endurance in chronic subjects compared to acute/subacute ones was expected.

Another reason may be that the chronic subjects did not have fear of movement or catastrophization [ 33, 34].

Soon after diagnosis of psychosis and soon after drug initiation in more chronic subjects, may represent crucial times to intervene with regard to prevention of weight gain.

The endurance rates were similar for acute/subacute and chronic subjects, whereas males demonstrated significantly higher values compared to females in NFME test.

Throughout the chronic study, subjects followed the American Heart Association Step I diet.

When investigating recovery from stress, chronic pain patients had a significantly less BF recovery compared to non-chronic subjects (F3 = 4.93, P = 0.01; Table 2; Fig. 2d).

SBP and DBP profiles increased more throughout the test and there was more increase in vasoconstriction (i.e. less skin BF) in chronic pain patients compared to non-chronic subjects (F6 ≥ 2.72, P ≤ 0.036; Table 2).

On performing the same statistical analyses for chronic pain patients versus non-chronic subjects, as we did for the individual subject groups, we found differences between the groups that were not apparent when analysing differences between diagnostic groups.

We also made a comparison of the patients with chronic pain, i.e. FMS, SNP and the 12 TTH patients with chronic pain (Table 1), compared to non-chronic subjects (migraine, episodic TTH and controls grouped together; Fig. 2a e).