Example sentences of "patients [vb past] at " in BNC.

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1 Discrepant entries of peak expiratory flow accounted for 15% of those made on the appropriate day , and three quarters of patients made at least one discrepant entry .
2 The total number of discrepant records was 75 ( 15% of those not made on multiple entry days ) , and 75% of patients made at least one ( 1–9 ) discrepant entry .
3 Overall , 17 of 18 patients survived at least 5 years .
4 A check on the number of tablets returned at each visit showed that all patients took at least 70% of the tablets prescribed , and that the median ( interquartile range ) number of antacid tablets consumed per week was similar in both groups ( cisapride 2.2 ( 0.1–5.7 ) ; placebo 1.9 ( 0.3–3.6 ) : p=0.76 , Mann-Whitney U test ) .
5 Of the remaining 12 patients one died of acute renal failure during the initial investigation and treatment and the remaining 11 patients died at a median period of four months ( range one to 18 months ) because of progressive cahexia .
6 Subsequently , an apparently very different kind of proarrhythmic response occurred : patients died at a constant rate during the 10-month treatment period with flecainide and encainide , and the mortality paralleled the number of observed ischaemic episodes .
7 Eighteen ( 75% ) patients who received chemotherapy and eight ( 67% ) symptomatically treated patients completed at least two questionnaires on quality of life , including one at baseline , and were thus considered evaluable .
8 All 26 patients completed at least one year of treatment , including 16 patients receiving cyclosporin and 10 patients receiving placebo .
9 Altogether 118 ( 65% ) of the 181 patients smoked at least one cigarette a day , and the proportion of smokers in each of the histol0gical categories was similar : 10 ( 67% ) of the 15 without neoplasia , 12 ( 63% ) of the 19 with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade I , 18 ( 64% ) of the 28 with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade II , 71 ( 66% ) of the 108 with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III , and 7 ( 64% ) of the 11 with microinvasive carcinoma .
10 We found that 65% of the patients smoked at least one cigarette a day , a proportion nearly twice as high as that in the general population .
11 Nine per cent of patients had at least one urinary tract infection .
12 Thus all patients had at least two biliary lesions ( strictures/irregularities ) shown at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography .
13 The patients fasted at 0900 having not taken any drugs which affect gastric secretion or motility over the previous 10 days .
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