Sentence examples for because of prevalent from inspiring English sources

The Catskills region receives some of the severest mercury contamination in the country, in large measure because of prevalent wind patterns that regularly carry harmful smokestack emissions from the Midwest.

In the Health 2000 Study, 1,224 persons were excluded either because of prevalent diabetes or age less than 35 or higher than 84 years.

In all, 14 765 women were included in the analyses after excluding 43 women because of prevalent breast cancer.

Among these, 72 were excluded because of prevalent primary CNS tumours and 25 because of missing follow-up data.

Among the 38 274 women who participated, 1094 were excluded because of prevalent cancer (of any site, except basal cell carcinoma) and 419 were excluded because BMI could not be calculated.

Among women, we excluded 3,581 because of prevalent type 2 diabetes (n = 1,171), missing data on egg consumption (n = 852), or missing data on potential confounders: BMI, exercise, smoking, energy intake, fruits and vegetables, nutrients, alcohol consumption, and hypertension (n = 1,558).

Use of recorded administrative data to estimate incidence of diabetes using either the Canadian National Diabetes Surveillance System definition or one ICD-9 code 250 produces biased estimates in part because of inclusion of prevalent cases as incident cases.

If the socioeconomic uptake differentials reported from pilot screening trials in Scotland continue within the nationally coordinated programme, an initial attenuation of the incidence inequalities reported here can be expected because of detection of prevalent cases in screening participants.

None of these other outcomes led to a clear selection bias problem because of the use of prevalent exposures.

In the first few years after the introduction of the programme, the incidence rate would be expected to increase because of the detection of prevalent cases by screening.

The present results are generaliseable to a cross section of patients with depression, as the condition is present at any time in general practice, but might overestimate chronicity because of the sampling of prevalent cases.