Sentence examples for frequency exacerbation from inspiring English sources
Healthcare utilisation is not an optimal substitute for exacerbation frequency, exacerbation duration and exacerbation severity, depending on many unrelated social factors and comorbidity.
There were no significant correlations between ultrasound outcome measures and responses to Mc Gill pain questionnaire, current pain intensity, exacerbation intensity, exacerbation frequency, exacerbation duration, percent initial injury and Oswestry disability scale.
23 Exacerbations 24: frequency of exacerbations, time to first exacerbation, severity and duration of exacerbations.
Modest improvements in time to acute exacerbations, frequency of exacerbations, quality of life, 45 and also number of moderate to severe exacerbations 46 have all been reported with the use of macrolide prophylaxis in patients with COPD.
However, trends regarding frequency of exacerbation and time to exacerbation were consistent in the esomeprazole group.
Previous studies observed very small number of patients and simply compared frequency of exacerbation in COPD patients with GERD with in those without GERD [ 6, 7, 23, 24].
Presenting complaints like cough, breathlessness, night symptoms, type of asthma, frequency of exacerbation per year and family history of allergy or asthma were comparable between both the groups.
Patients not considered clinically stable (i.e., with changes in medication dose or frequency, disease exacerbation, or hospital admissions in the preceding 6 weeks) were also excluded.
Moreover, in two reports of them, COPD patients with GERD showed lower lung function as well as higher frequency of exacerbation than did those without GERD [ 23, 24].
Exacerbations may have detrimental and cumulative effects on health status, and thus the frequency of exacerbations is a significant factor that leads to a poor health status.
