Current evidence suggests that bacterial vaginosis, which is a likely risk factor for HIV infection, may be a mediator of the association between intravaginal practices and HIV.
Major depressive disorder is a likely risk factor for dementia, but some cases of major depressive disorder in older adults may actually represent a prodrome of this condition.
There was a likely risk that the creatures would be killed by the pressure from the filtration system, he said, not from contact with any boiling water.
However, minimizing the objective function a non-linear problem with a large number of local minima in 6-parameter space by any gradient-based method runs a likely risk of the solution to get trapped in a local minimum.
Furthermore, all our patients had central venous catheters which is a likely risk factor for thrombosis in patients with acute leukaemia, although the incidence has varied in different studies and no studies have been in ICU patients only [55 57].
Buffett argues in favor of seeing climate change as a likely risk to the world, but against the need for more oversight, transparency or regulation of his companies.
A relative of mine who has lived with multiple sclerosis for many years, for example, has pets who have had Lyme disease and has found ticks on her body, yet despite a likely risk for having contracted Lyme, her doctor has refused on multiple occasions to order a Lyme disease test because he feels it is "wishful thinking".
Although not statistically significant, the authors of this study suggest that common-source exposure of the household contacts to poultry in their homes was a likely risk factor for infection.
These results suggested that environmental exposure is a likely risk factor for the development or reinfection of pulmonary MAC disease.
Environmental exposure is a likely risk factor for the development of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) disease.
In another study, haplogroup D was suggested as a likely risk factor for endometrial cancer in southwestern China[ 50].
