Immediately following the 12 January quake, the most pressing need was to rescue people and provide life-saving care for patients suffering from major trauma, hundreds of whom underwent amputations.

紧接1月12日的地震之后，最迫切的需求是救援和为受重伤的患者提供拯救生命的医疗，其中成百人接受了截肢手术。

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But after following 385 patients with type 2 diabetes for 6.5 years, the researchers actually saw the opposite effect.

但随后的跟踪385位有第2糖尿病症状的病人6.5年之后，研究者们实际上看到了相反的效果。

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Patients often take the blame for not following up on treatment recommendations.

患者常常要对不进行跟进治疗建议负责。

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Debbie Lewis says she accepts that many people will have little sympathy for women who had PIP implants for breast enlargement - just one in 20 patients in Britain had the implants for reconstructive surgery following cancer.

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While all of the following procedures are beneficial for some patients, controversy surrounds how often they should be done and on whom they should be performed.

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Their ultimate goal is to develop a fast technique that can be used to start repairing the heart on the operating table immediately following a heart attack, ultimately improving the survival rates for heart attack patients.

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