The delay in understanding the cause or causes of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy has been attributed to longstanding beliefs that it reflected psychological conflicts or a woman's inability to respond to excessive stress.
Canada's poor showing in the recent UNICEF benchmarking exercise can be attributed to its longstanding liberal-market orientation and the impediments to pan-Canadian reform imposed by federalism.
The tempest surrounding James Murdoch's rise to chief executive of the British Sky Broadcasting Group can be attributed to overheated shareholder activism and longstanding anti-Murdoch sentiment in Britain, a senior member of the company's board said on Tuesday.
To a large extent, this observed difference in diagnostic performance may be attributed to the fact that patients with prior CABG are generally older with longstanding CAD and thus more advanced and calcified CAD in both distal runoff and native coronary arteries [ 18, 32, 34].
Moreover, absence of the comparison district which is conflict-free, is another limitation as it would have determined whether the limited access to and gaps in providing VCT, PMTCT and ART services in northern Uganda was attributed to the longstanding conflicts.
Similarly, 2.7% (1.1% to 4.3%), 5.4% (2.4% to 8.6%), and 5.4% (0.7% to 10.5%) of limiting longstanding illness at 5 years were attributed to very preterm birth, moderate/late preterm birth, and early term birth.
The longstanding thrombocytopaenia in our index case was attributed to ITP, and he received multiple courses of steroids without a satisfactory response, increasing the risk of serious steroid-related side-effects [ 3].
The longstanding popularity of reggae in Birmingham, evidenced more commercially by bands such as UB40, has been attributed to the city's sizeable West Indian community.
