Although patients with a pre-existing modified Rankin score of 2 or higher have a smaller potential benefit from thrombolytic therapy, because it is not possible that they will have an outcome after stroke that is better than their pre-existing disability, but still benefit from thrombolysis when compared with patients not treated.
However, it is not a given that the results would be better today, as medical innovations sometimes prove harmful 29 and as reducing risk factor thresholds means treating people at lower risk who have a smaller potential for benefit but the same risk of harm.
Colleges like Harvard and Columbia, he said, were "very elite blue-blood, upper crust institutions," and "they just had a small potential pool of applications".
This includes projects meant to develop drugs to combat diseases such as tuberculosis, which strikes large numbers of people in underdeveloped countries but few people in the Western world, and Niemann-Pick type C, which is rare and has a small potential market.
One element that had a small potential to change the long-term dynamic of the discussions was a letter late Wednesday from British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who offered opposition support to the divorce deal if May can guarantee a close, long-term relationship with the European Union.
Our analysis indicates that in equilibrium the conventional manufacturer adopts the decentralized channel strategy to avoid direct competition with the green manufacturer by inserting an independent retailer when the conventional product has a small potential market share and the product substitutability is high.
It has a smaller potential tuning rate.
14 15 It is possible that boys did not change their physical activity level as much as girls because of higher baseline values and, consequently, had a smaller potential for change.
Moreover, it is found that all spherical nanoparticles have positive zeta potential, and spherical nanoparticles from TOA/OD and TOPO/OD have a smaller zeta potential than those from OD.
He said high-yield bonds, which tend to move like equities but have a smaller loss potential, "can serve as an equity proxy for more conservative investors" and could enhance the yield in more aggressive investors' fixed-income portfolios.
