obese patient
collocation in Englishmeaningsofobeseandpatient
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obese
adjective
uk/əʊˈbiːs/us/oʊˈbiːs/
extremely fat in a way that is dangerous ...
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patient
noun[C]
uk/ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/us/ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/
a person who is receiving medical care, or who is cared for by a particular doctor or dentist ...
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(Definition ofobeseandpatientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Ultrasound imaging of the fetus in the grosslyobesepatientcan be challenging.
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This is especially true when dealing with either anobesepatientor a very early pregnancy.
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Positioning of obese patients seems more prone to set-up errors and requires online position verification.
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Given the various aetiological factors influencing the development of obesity, it is likely that some obese patients will respond better to serotonergic compounds than others.
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Obesity is implicated in many of the aforementioned conditions, and it is not uncommon for a clinicallyobesepatientto receive pharmacologic treatment for all of these.
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Figure 4 shows that overweight or obese patients were more likely to have a field placement error of 5 mm.
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The latter are more useful for obese patients, since they are not weight-bearing.
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Obese patients need to be strongly encouraged to lose weight to reduce anaesthetic risk and perioperative morbidity, but long-term outcome is not affected.
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A lack of resources is one limitation in providing obese patients with effective advice, support and follow-up.
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However, in some groups of obese patients favorable results have been maintained for several years, particularly if the initial weight reduction was substantial.
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The night eating syndrome: a pattern of food intake in certain obese patients.
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The findings would also suggest that overweight or obese patients might not be suitable for conformal radiotherapy, unless on-line imaging is available, although this requires further investigation.
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Irrespective of the direction of the set-up error, electronic portal imaging with online verification based on bony landmarks is recommended in obese patients.
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The obese patients had been referred to a surgery clinic for assessment of possible surgical weight reduction options, although not all were deemed suitable for such an intervention.
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These high responders might represent a subset of obese patients with reduced serotonergic activity that is more likely to show a large response to serotonergic drugs.
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The study strongly indicates that personality disorder difficulties are present in patients who binge eat, while obese patients who do not binge eat display significantly less personality disorder pathology.
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This can be essential in obese patients.
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For obese patients the lateral images are frequently of poorer quality so that the derived measurements are thought to be less accurate than those for the posterior-anterior image.
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The objective of this study was to assess set-up reproducibility of pelvic treatments for obese patients in the prone position, with and without the use of an immobilisation shell.
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