In the improved footwear group, 38.8% of patients had a recurrent ulcer, which was not significantly different from the 44.2% recurrence in the usual care group (relative risk reduction 11%, odds ratio 0.80 [95% CI 0.44 1.47], P = 0.48).
And only one of the 127 patients who received anticoagulation had a recurrent (non-fatal) pulmonary embolism, a substantially lower rate than the typical recurrence rate with larger pulmonary embolism (6%).
FOR years, I had a recurrent dream.
One patient (2.7%) had a recurrent pelvic floor defect.
For more than a year, she had had a recurrent skin infection.
All my life, I have had a recurrent food dream: I face a buffet or cafeteria line, laden with beautiful foods.
For many years, I have had a recurrent dream in which Lew Weiland's headlights, in the dark of night, appear like dawn above the tenth fairway.
I had a recurrent fantasy of a muscular ostrich pursuing me in the night and pecking through my skull into my brain — a terror that stemmed from my first and only trip to the zoo.
Paul E. Tsongas of Massachusetts, a presidential candidate in 1992 who concealed that he had had a recurrent cancer, died in 1997, as his first term would have been ending.
Cai Guo-Qiang, the Chinese installation and pyrotechnic artist, recently told me that as a child he had a recurrent dream of a fireworks display in Tiananmen Square at which no one was present — no crew, no audience — except him.
In total, 99 (22.8%) of 434 patients receiving aspirin had a recurrent adenoma compared with 121 (28.9%) of 419 patients receiving placebo (relative risk, 0.79; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.63 0.99).
