Sentence examples for illness over time from inspiring English sources

While the study did not compare trends in smoking among people with mental illness over time, Dr. Frieden and Douglas Tipperman, lead public health adviser on tobacco prevention for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, cited indications that smoking rates for this population have not declined nearly as quickly as smoking in the general population.

It detects change in illness over time, but its clinical usefulness as an aid to management needs further study.

This is a compromise: it balances the need to reflect the illness over time in an individual against the considerable problems of recall bias.

First, a routine assessment of childhood trauma in both the early phases and established cases of BD should be undertaken due to the heightened risk of developing a more severe illness over time.

Second, addressing childhood trauma could be a focus of early intervention strategies and approaches to potentially prevent these individuals from developing an unalterable chronic illness over time; however this is only speculation.

For the individual patient in a therapeutic encounter, MIDAS counts days affected by headache in the previous 3 months as a compromise, balancing the need to reflect the illness over time in that individual against the increasing likelihood with time of recall error.

People suffering from progressive, life-limiting conditions such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's and cystic fibrosis all have illnesses that over time take away their ability to walk, yet they will now be ineligible for meaningful support until their condition has deteriorated to the stage at which it is almost life-threatening.

But the manic, erratic behavior turned out to be the precursor of a more serious bipolar illness that would over time become immobilizing.

Clinical and demographic features of human illness have shifted over time as the disease has moved from crowded cities to the rural West.

For instance workplace absences due to illness are likely increasing over time as a result of the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS; a national survey done in 2002 found a 16% HIV prevalence rate among health workers [ 24].

Indeed, Mr. Brill says, the bigger the hospital system in a region, the better opportunity a system has to coordinate a patient's care in various inpatient and outpatient venues and cut costs through efficient, expense-saving "bundling" in treating individual patients' injuries and illnesses over time.