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Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) was diagnosed by excluding symptoms associated with eating disorders, such as excessive exercise, anal disimpaction, laxative abuse, compulsive buying, and food hoarding.
However, MRI findings of equivocal or absent nerve root compression, whilst not excluding symptoms arising from the nerve root may change management options.
After excluding symptoms with low frequency, low discriminative power and not correlated with the overall scale, 29 were retained in the final version.
It may seem unreasonable excluding symptoms with relatively high frequency, such as "dry mouth" or "painful menstruation", but they are not "characteristic" of CS, they are as well important in other patients, therefore not adequate for discriminating CS.
In a logistic regression analysis (excluding symptoms and laboratory tests) age >65 years (OR = 2.6, 95% CI: 1.1-5.9) and Charlson comorbidty index ≥2 (OR = 2.7, 95% CI: 1.1-6.5) were associated with an increased risk of death in CAL.
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According to RSWGcr [ 6] clinical remission is based on a symptom severity criterion comprising eight items of the PANSS scale chosen as being the most diagnostic-specific for schizophrenia, and a duration criterion, thus excluding symptom domains not diagnostically relevant for the disorder.
Clinical assessment was carried out to exclude symptoms and signs of neuropathy.
In this model we also excluded symptoms.
During its development, the authors excluded symptoms that might arise from somatic aspects of illness, which made it useful in the elderly population.
The BDI-FS is a quicker quantitative screen for depression than the BDI, which excludes symptoms possibly related to other medical conditions [ 49].
At this point we do not wish to exclude symptoms that may be indicative of inflammation from the evaluation of UC disease activity.
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