Example sentences for: poisonings

How can you use “poisonings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Among renal transplant recipients with diabetes, the most common cause of hospitalized poisonings was insulin/antidiabetic agents, while in patients who experienced allograft rejection, the most common cause of hospitalized poisonings was immunosuppressive agents.

  • For time to poisonings, survival time was defined as the time from first renal transplant until hospitalization for poisonings, with patients censored at death, loss to followup, or end of the study (which was considered 31 December 1999, since this was the most recent hospitalization date).

  • Poisonings are among the most frequent indications for hospitalization in the United States [ 1 ] . However, the frequency of hospitalizations for poisonings (drug overdose or toxicity) in renal transplant recipients has been infrequently reported, [ 2 3 ] in contrast to its occurrence in kidney donors [ 4 5 ] . Because many medications used by transplant recipients can be toxic, it might be expected that renal transplant recipients would have a higher risk of poisonings than the general population, especially in the first post-transplant year when dosages of immunosuppressive medications are usually at their highest.

  • Benzodiazepines/tranquilizers were the third most common cause of poisonings in this study.

  • Only the primary discharge diagnosis was used to ensure these were active diagnoses, ie, to exclude diagnoses with "history of poisonings."


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