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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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diet
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Six prospective randomised trials have evaluated the efficacy of elemental diets in Crohn's disease.
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The rate of relapse in elemental diet treated patients was higher than in those who had gained remission with prednisolone.
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During the early phase of reintroductions patients continued with elemental diet as a nutritional supplement.
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The subsequent relapse rate after elemental diet induced remission, however, is greater than after treatment with prednisolone.
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In conclusion, this study confirms that four weeks treatment with elemental diet , when tolerated, is as effective as prednisolone.
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In another trial this type of diet was as effective as an elemental diet in inducing remission in active Crohn's disease.
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In three of them, this diet was as effective as an elemental diet in achieving remission.
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Unlike previous studies comparing elemental diet with corticosteroids, in this trial we have stratified patients according to nutritional state before randomisation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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elemental carbon
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Earlier relapse after elemental diet treatment has also been noted in paediatric patients.
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He was referred in 1984 and had a full clinical remission with elemental diet and began single food reintroductions.
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He was seized by an elemental hunger but made himself eat slowly.
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The air filled with the strong scent of herbs being burned to discourage elemental spirits.
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The unique features for elemental analysis are the direct monitoring of surface hydrogen and the extreme sensitivity to the outermost atomic layers.
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They were also closely related, if not to the survival, at least to the elemental comforts of man.
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Twenty two patients were randomised to receive elemental diet and 20 to receive prednisolone.
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When you reduce some-thing to its most elemental state, its nuclear core, you can generalize from there.