What do “resolved” and “improved” mean when they are used about recovering from a disease?

If you’re a novice, enjoy looking at this image below.

What does the underlined words

  • resolved or resolution
  • improved

mean in the picture above?

What is the interplay of “improved” and “reduced”?

In my native language, when a disease is said to be “improved”, we understand it went worse. Is “improved” used in an opposing meaning in English?

Why am I not a good individual?

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In OP’s context, resolved means that particular medical condition was no longer a problem.

If the underlying condition became less of a problem (but wasn’t “cured”) it would have been cured.

Some of the “medical conditions” (such as the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease) are better described in terms of a percentage reduction in likelihood of developing the disease.

Answered on April 5, 2021.
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In OP’s context, resolved means that particular medical condition was no longer a problem.

If the underlying condition became less of a problem (but wasn’t “cured”) it would have been cured.

Some of the “medical conditions” (such as the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease) are better described in terms of a percentage reduction in likelihood of developing the disease.

Answered on April 6, 2021.
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According to Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 30th ed, resolve means: “to restore to the normal state after some pathologic process; not a physical condition, but according to any theory or formula known at all” So

in this illustration, resolved means that the pathologic process has been stopped, and the normal state has returned again.

Improved means that the pathologic process is no longer progressing and the condition has moved more toward the normal state, but is not there yet (10 years from now) (i.e. it was a disease), or will never be.).

Reduction is used in its usual sense to describe the amount by which something is lessened. In the illustration, it is used for a lessening of a risk of cardiovascular disease (of cardiovascular disease) and of a rate of mortality.

What percentages are not exactly percentages to, yet for example some of them show the number of percentages.? I know that the number of percentages is always 1000. (By the way) Why the range is mainly because illustrator is using data from multiple studies? I would guess that most of the conditions listed as resolved or improved are a percentage of the people who had a condition, who then lost fat and no longer have the condition or the condition is improved. Whereas losing fat cured the obstructive sleep apnea in 74%-98% of adults who had sleep apnea before losing fat. (The flip side that losing fat did not resolve apnea in 2% to 26% of people).

Answered on April 9, 2021.
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According to Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 30th ed, resolve means: “to restore to the normal state after some pathologic process; not a physical condition, but according to any theory or formula known at all” So

in this illustration, resolved means that the pathologic process has been stopped, and the normal state has returned again.

Improved means that the pathologic process is no longer progressing and the condition has moved more toward the normal state, but is not there yet (10 years from now) (i.e. it was a disease), or will never be.).

Reduction is used in its usual sense to describe the amount by which something is lessened. In the illustration, it is used for a lessening of a risk of cardiovascular disease (of cardiovascular disease) and of a rate of mortality.

What percentages are not exactly percentages to, yet for example some of them show the number of percentages.? I know that the number of percentages is always 1000. (By the way) Why the range is mainly because illustrator is using data from multiple studies? I would guess that most of the conditions listed as resolved or improved are a percentage of the people who had a condition, who then lost fat and no longer have the condition or the condition is improved. Whereas losing fat cured the obstructive sleep apnea in 74%-98% of adults who had sleep apnea before losing fat. (The flip side that losing fat did not resolve apnea in 2% to 26% of people).

Answered on April 12, 2021.
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According to Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 30th ed, resolve means: “to restore to the normal state after some pathologic process; not a physical condition, but according to any theory or formula known at all” So

in this illustration, resolved means that the pathologic process has been stopped, and the normal state has returned again.

Improved means that the pathologic process is no longer progressing and the condition has moved more toward the normal state, but is not there yet (10 years from now) (i.e. it was a disease), or will never be.).

Reduction is used in its usual sense to describe the amount by which something is lessened. In the illustration, it is used for a lessening of a risk of cardiovascular disease (of cardiovascular disease) and of a rate of mortality.

What percentages are not exactly percentages to, yet for example some of them show the number of percentages.? I know that the number of percentages is always 1000. (By the way) Why the range is mainly because illustrator is using data from multiple studies? I would guess that most of the conditions listed as resolved or improved are a percentage of the people who had a condition, who then lost fat and no longer have the condition or the condition is improved. Whereas losing fat cured the obstructive sleep apnea in 74%-98% of adults who had sleep apnea before losing fat. (The flip side that losing fat did not resolve apnea in 2% to 26% of people).

Answered on April 12, 2021.
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Resolution: subsidence of pathological state (as inflammation). That is, reduction of the symptom such as reduction in swelling/inflammation.

To have been improved.

Improved means to make better than the person who made it before, so when we use this with disease we mean health is improved, not disease becomes worse. How can our lives

be improved?

Answered on April 12, 2021.
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Resolution: subsidence of pathological state (as inflammation). That is, reduction of the symptom such as reduction in swelling/inflammation.

To have been improved.

Improved means to make better than the person who made it before, so when we use this with disease we mean health is improved, not disease becomes worse. How can our lives

be improved?

Answered on April 15, 2021.
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In OP’s context, resolved means that particular medical condition was no longer a problem.

If the underlying condition became less of a problem (but wasn’t “cured”) it would have been cured.

Some of the “medical conditions” (such as the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease) are better described in terms of a percentage reduction in likelihood of developing the disease.

Answered on April 18, 2021.
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In OP’s context, resolved means that particular medical condition was no longer a problem.

If the underlying condition became less of a problem (but wasn’t “cured”) it would have been cured.

Some of the “medical conditions” (such as the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease) are better described in terms of a percentage reduction in likelihood of developing the disease.

Answered on April 19, 2021.
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According to Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 30th ed, resolve means: “to restore to the normal state after some pathologic process; not a physical condition, but according to any theory or formula known at all” So

in this illustration, resolved means that the pathologic process has been stopped, and the normal state has returned again.

Improved means that the pathologic process is no longer progressing and the condition has moved more toward the normal state, but is not there yet (10 years from now) (i.e. it was a disease), or will never be.).

Reduction is used in its usual sense to describe the amount by which something is lessened. In the illustration, it is used for a lessening of a risk of cardiovascular disease (of cardiovascular disease) and of a rate of mortality.

What percentages are not exactly percentages to, yet for example some of them show the number of percentages.? I know that the number of percentages is always 1000. (By the way) Why the range is mainly because illustrator is using data from multiple studies? I would guess that most of the conditions listed as resolved or improved are a percentage of the people who had a condition, who then lost fat and no longer have the condition or the condition is improved. Whereas losing fat cured the obstructive sleep apnea in 74%-98% of adults who had sleep apnea before losing fat. (The flip side that losing fat did not resolve apnea in 2% to 26% of people).

Answered on April 22, 2021.
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