Sentence examples for absolute deficiency from inspiring English sources

Diabetes is a common disease of metabolic-endocrine (ductless gland) origin involving a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin, a hormone that plays a major role in carbohydrate metabolism.

The relative or absolute deficiency of insulin secretion is an important factor in the development of diabetes.

Depletional hyponatremia is usually hypovolemic, with an absolute deficiency of water but a relative excess of body water compared with sodium concentration.

Objectives: Familial chylomicronemia syndrome is characterized by massive accumulation of plasma chylomicrons, which typically results from an absolute deficiency of lipoprotein lipase (LPL).

Introduction Diabetic ketoacidosis, generally resulting from an absolute deficiency of insulin, is a frequent cause of hospitalization in intensive care unit.

In type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM)), this results from an absolute deficiency of insulin secretion [10].

Our observation that children with lower scores in factor 1 ("crowded scenes") do disproportionately badly in their SATS reading test suggests that within the population, relative or absolute deficiencies in the visual attributes represented by this factor may be a real disadvantage in the classroom.

%Hypo > 10%, has been more commonly used for defining absolute iron deficiency and functional iron deficiency [ 18].

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are commonly anemic due to a variety of reasons, including functional or absolute iron deficiency and erythropoietin insufficiency (3, 4).

Three categories of iron status were defined: 1) absolute iron deficiency (ferritin <100 μg/L); 2) functional iron deficiency (ferritin ≥ 100 μg/L and TSAT <20%); and 3) adequate iron status (ferritin ≥ 100 < 800 μg/L and TSAT ≥ 20%).

Only a small proportion of the patients (< 10%) had absolute iron deficiency and only 17.8% of patients had functional iron deficiency.