When treatment does not rapidly bring about symptomatic improvement, patients have less long-term functional progress, higher health care costs, and a reduced likelihood of remission [ 3].
Patients treated initially with a combination of DMARDs have less long-term radiologic damage than do those treated initially with DMARD monotherapy.
It has also been shown that in patients having a THR, those with OA of the non-operative hip have less long-term improvement in function.
This means that if the first exposure to a virus is through a vaccine strain, an individual may have less long-term and cross-protection against new strains of influenza than if they acquired immunity via a natural infection.
I think if it was shortened and had less long descriptive paragraphs then it would be better but I was bored when I read it.
Maine, however, has less long-term leeway than Santana and Perez because he has a one-year contract.
Arc of Containment demonstrates that American failure in Vietnam had less long-term consequences than widely believed because British pro-West nationalism had been firmly entrenched twenty-plus years earlier.
While Portugal needs to attack its deficit "in a much more aggressive manner," the country is in a better position than Greece because it has less long-term debt coming due.
Abbott has less long-term safety and performance data, but many doctors have said Xience is easier to insert than Endeavor and does a better job of preserving blood flow.
It appears that most of these potential stressors have less serious long-term outcomes than the crisis orientation would suggest.
A third option, metronomic therapy which postulates continuous treatment with lower therapeutic doses, might have less severe long-term side effects, but is not designed to prevent emergence of resistance [19].
