Diabetic patients had reduced esophageal sensitivity, with reduced quality and nonreproducible EPs having increased latencies and reduced amplitudes.
Cancer cachexia is associated with reduced quality of life scores, reduced performance status, lower response rates to chemotherapy and overall poorer outcomes (DeWys et al, 1980; Ross et al, 2004; Barber et al, 1999a).
Stress and burnout are important issues for health care professionals because they are considered as significant risks to health and well-being of physicians, and are also associated with reduced quality of health care, attrition, and reduced commitment to practice [ 18].
Many of the MiSeq reads had significantly reduced qualities near the ends, and the second reads typically had more bases with reduced quality (Supplementary Fig. S4).
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is frequently associated with reduced quality of life (QoL) and sleep disturbance.
Depressive and anxiety disorders in later life have a high incidence and are associated with reduced quality of life.
Chronic pain is often associated with psychological distress and social impairment, with reduced quality of life, working capacity, and social costs [5].
There are no known differences in pathophysiology and in both eCH and cCH impairment is high with reduced quality of life [2] and high direct and indirect costs [3].
Urinary incontinence is associated with reduced quality of life and given the high prevalence of people with this condition, it could be useful to know the impact of having urinary incontinence on physical, psychological and social aspects.
A society might also follow a health care policy that rations life-preserving care made available to the very old in order to reduce the extent to which expensive medical technology extends the lifespans of very old people with reduced quality of life.
Introduction: Cognitive dysfunction is an important long-term complication of critical illness associated with reduced quality of life, increase in healthcare costs and institutionalization. Delirium, an acute form of brain dysfunction that is common during critical illness has been shown to be associated with long-term cognitive dysfunction(1).
