Sentence examples for presentations of illness from inspiring English sources

In addition, the sensitivity and specificity of the criteria used to define influenza-like illness declines with increasing age due to atypical presentations of illness and the inability to distinguish between influenza and other respiratory viruses.

For example, screening tools could be developed that are sensitive to somatoform presentations of illness based on legitimate presentations of distress.

3 Factors that might contribute to this include multiple chronic diseases, longer hospitalisations, 4 5 more frequent use of invasive devices, such as urinary catheters, 6 more complicated diseases, less physiological reserve, an increased risk of falls and fractures, 7 and atypical presentations of illness.

Ventricular enlargement is the most consistently replicated finding in patients with schizophrenia [29] and is already present by first clinical presentation of illness and before exposure to anti-psychotic medication [30].

Median days for presentation of illness were 4 days ( IQR 8). 4 (19%) patients presented in defervescence phase and 17 (81%) patients presented in febrile phase.

Composed of photographs from her trip and sculptures woven from hair she lost during chemo, the exhibition forms an abstracted portrait that is more poetic and reflective than Wilke's bleak presentation of illness.

To summarize, in these women of high infection-risk, chronic HIV-1 infection, whether treated or untreated, was associated with endotoxemia that was unassociated with acute presentation of illness.

Second, more challenging access to quality health care (because of distance and poor roads, especially during rainy seasons) might have resulted in later presentation of illness in the rural setting.

43 Low health literacy may also be associated with lower involvement in screening, 44 and later presentation of illness.

Delirium is a common presentation of illness in frail older adults and is associated with poor outcomes [ 1- 7].

AKI is a complex disorder that has been observed to occur in ICU patients with severe presentation of illness during the 2009 pandemic (H1N1)v infection period [ 29], and it has been associated with increased mortality rates.