Sentence examples for most severe comorbidity from inspiring English sources

In the most severe comorbidity group, interaction accounted for 40 deaths per 1000 person-years (24%).

The most severe comorbidity status of this group likely accounted, at least to some extent, for such an unfavourable outcome.

In the most severe comorbidity group (⩾4), the difference in mortality rates between melanoma patients and comparisons was 133.8 deaths (345.4 minus 211.6) per 1000 person-years.

In the most severe comorbidity group (⩾4), the standardised mortality rate was 345 per 1000 person-years in the melanoma cohort compared with 212 in the comparison cohort.

The mortality rate for patients with both melanoma and the most severe comorbidity category (⩾4) was 345.4 deaths per 1000 person-years, and hence 30% of this rate was due to the synergy.

Patients with World Health Organization performance status <2 were however excluded from this study, and therefore most likely also the patients with the most severe comorbidity and hence worst prognosis, which may explain the lack of association between survival and level of comorbidity.

The most frequent severe comorbidities were hypertension (57.3%), diabetes mellitus (16.1%) and peptic ulcer (12.7%).

The study had some limitations: 1) patients who were included in this study represent a sample of the poorest patients with severe COPD, but not those patients with the most serious comorbidity.

Cognitive impairment, the most common and severe comorbidity of epilepsy, greatly diminishes the quality of life.

Hospitalisations occur in the most severe cases, latent and tertiary syphilis or comorbidities.

Secondly, with regards to item 8 (comorbidity), it was often difficult to determine which of the patients' comorbidities was the most central and most severe.