Because so far no published studies have addressed HRQOL of children in war, we used this measuring scheme to examine how violence and deprivation affect quality of life of preschoolers in the Gaza Strip, who have experienced longstanding military conflict throughout their lives.
However, hyperuricemia risk prediction has been limited because previously published studies were cross-sectional, [ 12, 14, 17, 21, 22] and thus, only correlates of prevalent serum urate were identified in these studies.
We failed to perform stratified analysis in hospital-based case-control studies because of insufficient published studies.
In addition, because of recently published studies from Guinea Bissau, effects on infant mortality by sex and season were assessed.
Although these findings are by no means consistent between all published studies [46,10] (because of differences in subject matching and cohort characteristics), they generally agree with findings in this cross-sectional, age-, gender-, and BMI-matched study (see Table 1, Supplementary Figs. S1 S4).
The high follow-up rate is particularly notable because no other published study has conducted longitudinal research in a national sample of health benefit decision-makers, providing the country's first data on the attitudes and behaviors of employer purchasers and how they change over time in response to and independently of intervention.
Moreover, it is difficult to compare the results between the published studies because of the variations in ICU admission and discharge criteria as well as the settings and timing for the implementation of end-of-life decisions [41].
This study is different from previously published studies because it took place in a unique setting which houses only patients with infectious diseases and/or dermatology inpatients.
Moreover, it is difficult to compare the results between the published studies because of the variations in ICU admission and discharge criteria as well as the settings and timing for the implementation of end-of-life decisions [ 41].
The overall allelic polymorphism and discriminatory power of the VNTR loci in this population were lower than that reported in previously published studies because of the large number of Beijing isolates in our test panel.
