When comparing the median frequency of 24-h heartburn-free days in the different BMI categories of EO patients, treatment with dexlansoprazole MR 60 mg led to a significantly higher frequency compared with lansoprazole 30 mg (84.8% vs. 81.8%; P = 0.022) at the highest BMI category, but not at lower BMI categories.
This is the phenomenon, currently very prevalent, of corporate travel departments insisting that those who do travel buy cheaper -- and sometimes less convenient -- air fares and stay at a lower category of hotel than the ones they may be used to.
Cell lines that overlap two categories are rated at the lower category.
These differences were much more pronounced at lower eGFR categories (<60 ml/min/1.73 m).
Three education levels were defined: lower (categories 1 3), middle (category 4), and higher (categories 5 6) education.
That hurricane - a lower Category 3 storm - left dozens dead.
Smokers were defined at the second screening as having increased (moved to a higher category), maintained (stayed in the same category), or reduced (moved to a lower category) their smoking intensity or as having quit smoking.
Their first level consisted of meta-categories, which included more specific individual categories at lower levels.
At lower and more specific categories and taxa, it belongs to the phylum Chordata, the class Mammalia, the order Carnivora, the family Canidae, the genus Canis, and the species Canis lupus (or C. lupus).
Compared with nulliparous women, those with one or two children were at higher risk in the first decade after the last pregnancy, whereas those with three or more children were at lower risk in most categories of time since the last birth.
