The patient endorsed fatigue, a non-productive cough and 10 pound weight loss in the antecedent 4 months.
Five studies showed that GBS occurred more frequently during the colder months, and antecedent infection was reported in 26 76% of cases.
For studies assessing reproducibility (defined as within-subject repeatability over time, under similar conditions), the study had to have repeated (at least two) IGRA assays (same IGRA) done on the same group of subjects, preferably in a setting with limited TB exposure and without an antecedent TST within 6 months.
The score was created based on the weight expressed in points of five criteria: cytogenetics (good, 0; intermediate, 20; poor, 40; unknown, 20), WBC × 10/l (<25, 0; ≥20, 20), age in years (≤45, 0; 45–55, 20; >55, 22), antecedent hematological disorder in months (≤6, 0; >6, 13), and number of cytopenias (0 2, 0; 3, 15).
Thereby, the non-monsoon months were considered as antecedent dry period and the highest daily rainfall was considered as maximum intensity rainfall.
We evaluated onset time, the main presenting symptoms of hypoglycemia, blood glucose (if recorded), and antecedent hypoglycemia during the past 3 months (including documented symptomatic hypoglycemia, asymptomatic hypoglycemia, and probable symptomatic hypoglycemia).
In particular, 24 (22.4%) patients with severe hypoglycemia experienced at least one event of antecedent hypoglycemia within the preceding 3 months, and 21 (18.9%) patients with severe hypoglycemia experienced severe hypoglycemia previously.
Patients with history of antecedent SPM (i.e., diagnosed >12 months before DTC diagnosis) were excluded from the analysis.
Several factors are measured in Q4 (at 12 months after birth), providing proxy measures for unknown antecedent confounding factors.
Most (77%) patients reported the appearance of the first lesion after being in Lebanon for >2 months, and 53% of patients recalled history of an antecedent insect bite.
