All models were age- and sex-adjusted followed by multivariable adjustment, which included age, sex, systolic blood pressure, total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio, smoking status, and use of lipid-lowering and antihypertension therapy.
The Bank and the I.M.F. have been requiring these countries to accept "structural adjustment," which includes opening markets to foreign firms and privatizing state enterprises, including utilities.
It was unclear whether the complex €27bn adjustment, which included €15bn in tax rises and spending cuts announced in December, would convince the markets.
Strengths of this study include the high number of patients, the relatively long follow-up time, and multilevel adjustment, which includes several important pretransplant measures.
During the 1970s and '80s, many low- and middle-income countries underwent "structural adjustment," which included implementing more market-oriented agricultural policies.
We found that bone attrition and cysts were associated with structural progression or severity, but not after covariate adjustment, which included other OA subchondral bone features.
Only children with prenatal exposure from maternal greenhouse work showed consistent deficits after covariate adjustment, which included stunting and socioeconomic variables.
Doctors, as general practitioners, saw patients for medication review and adjustment, which included treatment for hypertension and cholesterol, and to a lesser extent also patient education.
After "full adjustment", which included terms for both mean and variability in greenness, the odds ratio for coronary heart disease or stroke (self-report) was 0.84 (95% CI: 0.69, 1.02) for adults with moderate levels of greenness (middle tertile) (Table 2).
Thus, dynamic exercise elicits marked cardiovascular and autonomic adjustments which include increases in CO, MAP, and SVR reduction.
