obese patient

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Figure 4 shows that overweight or obese patients were more likely to have a field placement error of 5 mm.
The latter are more useful for obese patients, since they are not weight-bearing.
Obese patients need to be strongly encouraged to lose weight to reduce anaesthetic risk and perioperative morbidity, but long-term outcome is not affected.
A lack of resources is one limitation in providing obese patients with effective advice, support and follow-up.
However, in some groups of obese patients favorable results have been maintained for several years, particularly if the initial weight reduction was substantial.
The night eating syndrome: a pattern of food intake in certain obese patients.
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.
Irrespective of the direction of the set-up error, electronic portal imaging with online verification based on bony landmarks is recommended in obese patients.
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.
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.
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.
This can be essential in obese patients.
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.
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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