In contrast, in the group of hemodynamic unstable patients that received vasoactive agents, though the rate of arrhythmias was comparable, a higher ratio of 30.9%% fulfilled criteria for the assessment of functional preload parameters due to more frequent controlled mechanical ventilation.
We suggest more frequent control of blood glucose values, especially in patients suffering from hemodynamic instability, renal failure and gastroparesis.
Toxicity was usually assessed with blood counts preceding each administration of chemotherapy, and complete serology before day 1 administration of chemotherapy, unless clinical need for more frequent control.
The focus here is on the term 'sustained', indicating that even if a particular desired state is reached, more frequent control examinations are necessary initially to ensure that the state does not change (ie, rebound) rapidly.
Admittedly, the number of visits and laboratory tests may be dictated by patient morbidity and disease history and not necessarily reflect QoC, e.g. kidney transplant recipients in general need more frequent control.
The proportion of women who ever used OC did not differ between cases and controls, whereas HRT was more frequent among controls.
There were similar proportions of only children in the case and control groups, while firstborn children were more frequent among controls than cases.
However, smoking and drinking were overrepresented in the cases compared to the controls (P < 0.001), and cases with family history of cancer were more frequent than controls (P < 0.001).
With regard to this item, our results also demonstrate that vaccination against S. pneumoniae was significantly more frequent among controls than cases, although the pneumococcal vaccination status of many subjects, both cases and controls, could not be ascertained.
The mean arterial pressure was higher among controls regarding both systolic and diastolic arterial pressure (p < 0.001); hypertension was statistically more frequent in controls than in HIV-infected patients [13, (10.5%) vs. 1, (1%), respectively, p = 0.003] (Table 2).
