Sentence examples for competing diseases from inspiring English sources

We also acknowledge that differential survival could have biased the results of the study, as men who were overweight or obese in mid-life might have died of competing diseases before reaching older age [21], so that surviving overweight and obese older men might be unusually healthy compared with their normal weight counterparts.

In both cases, their social situations and competing diseases established a platform of interpretation producing divergent explanations.

This information could be used to inform the development of caveats in guidelines, educational initiatives or prioritisation tools that would support safe approaches to competing diseases.

2 3 Cervical cancer is the largest cause of potential years of life lost (PYLL) to cancer in the developing world, in some areas making a greater contribution to PYLL than competing diseases such as tuberculosis and AIDS.

They note that each of these factors complicates statistical analyses in one of two ways: 1) by creating heterogeneous, or competing, disease models or 2) by creating a multifactorial, interacting disease model.

Two women with Addison's disease and inflammatory bowel disease, respectively, were excluded to avoid the potential bias of competing disease.

In our study, we examine whether media attention may be pre-empted by competing disease events by quantifying any declines in other disease coverage.

Attractiveness principle in competing disease areas: polypharmacy in the very elderly is unfortunate because treatment gets prioritized according to the severity of comorbidities and side-effects.

This programming gap is often attributed to competing disease priorities and a lack of epidemiological information on the prevalence and/or severity of these conditions, particularly in resource constrained environments.

In very elderly people, the diagnosis of "death from natural causes" means many competing causes (diseases) simultaneously.

The LV-KOS contacts revealed no exhaustive information as to whether the registered RFE was related to the chronic diseases identified for the patient in our study or due to a competing chronic disease which was unknown to us.