0 past simple and past participle of relapse
1 to become ill or start behaving badly again, after making an improvement:
Two of them relapsed with lung disease and died despite a second bypass.
At each follow-up point, individuals who reported any smoking in the previous week were coded as having relapsed, whereas others were considered abstinent.
In this sample, 9month follow-up data were available for 37 patients, 18 (51 %) of whom relapsed.
Patients who relapsed were more likely to have a preonset severe event than those who did not relapse d 0.76!
It is not known how many of these cases relapsed beyond the period of study.
We found a trend for poorer performance in divided attention at discharge in subjects who relapsed.
The fact that only 18 % of the patients relapsed within 12 years is remarkable.
At a median follow-up of 36 months, 351 patients had relapsed or died, compared with 515 expected treatment failures.
