Sentence examples for basis of a population from inspiring English sources

The selection of families was based on two complementary procedures: parents were randomly selected on the basis of a population list (meeting our inclusion criteria: age of the child and survey area) and contacted by post, or they were solicited while attending a children's public preventive care centre.

STUDY DESIGN: On the basis of a population of approximately 13,000 deliveries, we compared cord plasma leptin from preeclamptic (n = 256 women) and control pregnancies (n = 607 women) after taking the differences in gestational age and ponderal index into account.

On the basis of a population of 421 patients with intrathoracic squamous cell carcinoma treated with surgical resection, Law et al (2004) found that age was significantly associated with pulmonary complications and hospital mortality.

However, on the one hand, child neglect is not included for methodological reasons, and on the other hand, the number of child abuse victims is not determined on the basis of a population survey, but official information sources are used [ 65].

For Australia, trauma follow-up costs have been calculated for the year 2007 in the amount of approximately AUD 4.0 billion on the basis of a population survey and in the amount of AUD 10.7 billion on the basis of prevalence information from literature [ 53].

Since costs are oriented towards individual life courses in both countries – in Canada on the basis of a population survey and in Germany on the basis of individual case scenarios – this result could in fact point in the right direction, namely to regarding productivity losses as the main cost driver of societal trauma follow-up costs.

Age-predicted peak exercise heart rate was determined on the basis of a population-specific equation (20).

11 However, the influence of passive smoking exposure on the appearance of CAP in adults of all ages on the basis of a population-based study was not well known and uncertain.

The aim of the present study was to describe the prevalence of the use of ADHD medication especially stimulants and to quantify determinants of ADHD medication on the basis of a population-based German representative sample the German Health and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS).

On the basis of a population-based survey of 16 776 men and women aged 40 years and older conducted by Milsom et al [ 5] in 6 countries, by telephone or direct interview, the prevalence of OAB in Europe has been estimated to be 15.6 and 17.4% for men and women respectively, with an overall prevalence of 16.6%.

Third, the confounding adjustment method did not deal well with drugs given only to a particular patient population and therefore the control groups on the basis of a general population were not representative for that population.