Sentence examples for area was ascertained from inspiring English sources

All subjects lived in Calabria (South of Italy) and their origin in the area was ascertained up to the grandparents' generation.

Cases of HUS among residents of the FoodNet catchment area were ascertained in 2 ways.

The level of interest in developing skills in ten core areas was ascertained using the 'research spider' a second time in the survey.

Control subjects in the three geographic areas were ascertained through random-digit dialling, with a 90.5% screening response rate.

Interviews were conducted in a very remote island community in Scotland, selected for the study following detailed discussions with the lead clinician for chronic pain in the NHS Highland area during which it was ascertained that there was a cluster of patients living on the island who met the TOPS project selection criteria.

We first restricted the subjects to those who lived in the study areas where cancer incidence was ascertained.

Acute myocardial infarction was diagnosed in 17% of cases and accuracy was ascertained using AUC (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve).

The identification of each protein was ascertained using retention times, peak area ratios and second derivative UV spectra.

Diagnosis of CD was ascertained by standard clinical criteria [ 34], and strictured areas were identified by enteroclysis [ 35].

Mortality was ascertained through verbal autopsies.

Mortality was ascertained in 2007.