And yet, as recently as 30 years ago, anxiety per se did not exist as a clinical category.
This has led to the definition of "borderline resectable pancreatic cancer"—a new clinical category that has affected the design of clinical trials.
In the clinical category, Stephen Sozio, of the Department of Medicine, won first prize.
Also, the number of patients in each clinical category was not large enough for statistical analysis of their effect on visual impairment, although, as stated earlier, posterior uveitis or panuveitis generally had worse visual acuity.
In recent years, some experts have recommended that slightly elevated blood pressure have its own separate clinical category, so doctors can identify those at risk for full-blown high blood pressure as well as problems like heart attack and stroke.
In 1885, Gilles de la Tourette published an account in Study of a Nervous Affliction describing nine persons with "convulsive tic disorder", concluding that a new clinical category should be defined.
We then calculated the odds of death (adjusted for casemix) separately for each clinical category.
The following variables were retained in our multivariable regression model: industry funding, industry-favoring result, clinical category of article, group authorship, journal of publication, and sample size.
Adhesion levels were quantified by microscopy using the unique, anonymous identifier (with the operator blinded to the clinical category) and results were expressed as the mean number of parasitized erythrocytes bound per mm2 of surface area.
From all the patients, 175 (92.1%) presented with dehydration and of those, 7.5% (14), 62.0% (116), 30.5%(57) fell in the clinical category of mild, moderate and severe dehydration respectively.
Amongst the 16 subgroups within the clinical category variable, only those with at least 20 articles each were retained as distinct subgroups for analysis; all other subgroups were combined into "others".
