Additional file 1: Core components comprising disease activity indices.
Several studies have proposed integrated surveillance comprising disease surveillance and meteorological data to provide signals for early warning and prediction of this disease [ 15, 18– 20].
Therefore, the independent variable age was excluded and a linear regression comprising disease duration as the only independent variable was formed.
The variability in the age of onset or the aggressiveness of the hereditary TTR amyloidoses can, in part, be attributed to differences in the thermodynamic and kinetic stability of heterotetramers comprising disease-associated and WT TTR subunits.
In Ethiopia, PHC workers are referred to as health extension workers, who upon completion of a 1-year training course deliver care comprising disease prevention and control, hygiene and sanitation, family health services and health education [ 10].
A first group comprises diseases caused by primary mtDNA mutations that lead to impairment of respiratory function.
This subset comprised disease free subjects over the age of 18.
However, disability is a complex feature: it comprises disease-specific as well as non-disease-specific elements.
For example, this could comprise disease status for a range of common diseases and measures on quantitative traits that are risk factors for disease.
The NICE criteria comprise disease activity score for 28 joints >5.1 twice over one month apart after treatment with methotrexate and one other disease modifying drug.
