Any disease causes negative emotions, difficulties and imposes limitations or forces changes in performing social functions [ 18].
Higher hospitalization rates for any disease caused by the contaminants of interest would result in higher CHD prevalence among hospitalized patients, resulting in overestimation of the association between pollution and hospital care use by CHD patients.
The definition of infectious diarrhea used in this study was diarrhea (i.e., three or more loose stools within a 24 h period) and/or vomiting as the presenting symptom(s) of any disease caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites; cholera, dysentery, typhoid, or paratyphoid were not included.
In addition, the 5′ upstream region of COCH was also analyzed for any potential disease causing regulatory variants.
Visual impairment was defined as any eye disease causing a noncorrectable decrease in vision that corresponds to a visual acuity of 6/12 (20/40) or less or a visual field of 60° or less in the better eye.
Although we did not find any possible disease causing mutations in other genes, the mutation detection rate of our NGS analysis was 57% of cases of known and novel mutations [ 34].
In a similar study, Pertz et al. examined 190 glaucoma patients and did not find any potential disease causing variants in COCH except for one reported coding polymorphism (Thr352Ser), two synonymous variants (Phe389Phe and Asp423Asp), and an intronic variant (IVS4-8A > G).
Mycosis, plural Mycoses, in humans and domestic animals, a disease caused by any fungus that invades the tissues, causing superficial, subcutaneous, or systemic disease.
Tetanus is a disease caused by bacteria found in soil.
