I have been delivered the message my physical and mental inability to be in the center of extreme criticism and controversy essentially doesn't make me a devoted activist, even though my condition is stress-triggered and has real, painful impacts on both my Crohn's Disease and my anxiety.
Exclusion criteria are not providing written informed consent; physical or mental inability to give consent or participate in follow-up activities (e.g. dementia); previously received CN; or where language skills prevent questionnaire completion.
Patients who were not expected to survive longer than 24 hours according to the treating physician, patients in whom intensive care treatment was partly withheld from admission, and patients who due to language barriers or mental inability were not expected to be able to give consent even after recovery, were excluded.
Patients with any of the following conditions were excluded: patients with treatment failure, patients with resistance to at least one antituberculosis drug, ongoing bacterial pneumonia or within the 4 weeks preceding inclusion, chronic respiratory condition before TB diagnosis, ongoing treatment with β-blockers, physical or mental inability to perform the spirometry test.
Excluded from the study were patients with dementia, mental instability, inability to understand or speak Danish or patients who were unable to participate in a focus group due to their physical condition.
Diabetes, contraindications to metformin, secondary causes of obesity, psychiatric disturbance, significant mental illness, inability to take part in physical activity, weight loss medications or medications known to cause weight gain, and weight >120 kg.
Impaired insight, defined as lack of acceptance of mental illness, inability to relabel pathological symptoms as abnormal and reluctance to accept treatment [ 1] is a fundamental feature of schizophrenia and related psychoses [ 2, 3].
Exclusion criteria for the control group: mental illness; inability to understand the information presented and to sign the informed consent; evidence of stenosis of both subclavian arteries; atrial fibrillation; eGFR EPI) < 30 ml/min (CKD stage 4 and 5).
These focus groups yielded evidence of pro-male bias and a 'discriminatory animus' [ 41] toward female managers, manifested in stereotypes of women's emotionality, mood swings, tendency to make mistakes, lesser productivity, unreliability, disorganization, vengefulness, lesser mental agility, inability to handle power, weakness, indecisiveness, and incompetence.
Exclusion criteria for the hemodialysis group: mental illness; inability to understand the information presented and to sign the informed consent; acute disease requiring hospitalization at the time of patient enrolment; evidence of stenosis of the subclavian artery of the arm without shunt or of the non-shunt arm chosen to be used for the Mobil-O-Graph measurements; atrial fibrillation.
Cancer survivors often complain about "chemo brain," a mental fog and inability to concentrate that persist long after treatment.
