Sentence examples for as a potential etiologic from inspiring English sources
Patients were considered to have NASH as a potential etiologic risk factor only if there was clear evidence of steatohepatitis on pathologic review of the explant specimen.
The search for a PD pathoetiologic mechanism has uncovered dysfunction of the immune system, particularly innate neuroinflammatory response, as a potential etiologic factor [ 2, 3].
Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) was first identified in the Netherlands in 2001 (1 ) and was implicated as a potential etiologic agent for respiratory infections.
Two reports related autism risk to ambient Hg pollution as a potential etiologic factor (Palmer et al. 2006; Windham et al. 2006) but did not have individual-level dietary data.
Finally, this work suggests that, in addition to West Nile virus, Toscana virus should now be considered as a potential etiologic agent of acute meningitis in the southeastern part of France.
Etiology was considered possible for cases with no laboratory evidence of CNS involvement but some evidence of acute infection that suggested a potential etiologic role in encephalitis, such as a >4-fold rise in antibody titer for enteroviruses or an oropharyngeal swab sample positive for influenza or parainfluenza viruses.
TB programs in areas where M. bovis is a potential etiologic agent in humans should therefore not neglect the zoonotic risk of bTB.
These results point to a potential etiologic role of cumulative physical workload to lumbar disc disease even among persons with a long-term elimination of physical exposure.
These findings confirm known associations between smoking and RCC and establish a potential etiologic role for ETS, particularly in the home.
Even as early as the 1900s, investigators had suggested uncompensated elevated IAP as a possible etiologic factor in the development of preeclampsia [10, 46].
Finally, a familial predisposition due to an underlying enzymatic defect was proposed by Fukuda et al. as a possible etiologic factor [6, 8, 9].
