Sentence examples for background population of the from inspiring English sources

The incidence of laryngeal or pharyngeal cancer among the gastrectomy patients was compared with the incidence in the Swedish background population of the corresponding age, sex, and calendar year.

This reorganization had very little impact on the background population of the DACOBAN database, and almost none for the present Capital Region, but it led to a 17% increase in the population when North Jutland County was reorganized into the North Denmark Region.

The background population of the Malmö Diet and Cancer (MDC) study, in Sweden's third largest city (Berglund et al, 1993), consists of all men born in 1923 1945 and all women born in 1923 1950 who were living in Malmö during the screening period 1991 1996 (n=74 1991 1996

Compared to the background population, a higher proportion of participants were women, the participants had an average annual household income below the national average of this age group, but had longer education than the background population of this age group [ 13].

GO::TermFinder uses a list of genes as input and determines whether those genes have gene ontology (GO) terms overrepresented in their combined set of annotations compared with what would be expected by chance for a randomly selected group of genes from the background population of all of the genes [ 16].

Strengths of our study are its population-based design, which allows generalization for the background population of Northeast Germany, and the large number of individuals included.

Control DNA samples (n = 323), representative of the background population of central Poland, came from the repository of the Department of Medical Genetics [ 10].

In monitoring a minor geochemical element in groundwater or soils, a background population of values below the instrumental detection limit is frequently present.

Mortality in this group remained high compared with the background population of patients with ESRF for the duration of our study (up to two years following ICU discharge).

This allowed comparison with the background population of submitted cases, as opposed to the case series commonly reported in veterinary literature.

Ramtoola et al. [ 9] found slightly lower perinatal mortality (22/1000) with gestational diabetes as defined by the World Health Organization diagnostic criteria (impaired glucose tolerance) than that of the background population of Mauritian women (26/1000).