Thus, an elevated TG level can be seen as an associated etiological factor of alcoholic pancreatitis [ 16], whereas it may be considered as concurrent symptom of biliary pancreatitis [ 17].
Similarly, timeframes for reporting the types of male and female partners were slightly different, although for practical considerations, sexual partnerships were considered as concurrent, if the partnership was mentioned as current (e.g., spouse or female regular partner) or within the past month, as the eligibility criteria was that the participant must have had sex with a man in the past month.
In addition, there were 44 cases of dysplasia from 40 patients that were associated with carcinoma at the same anatomical site within 6 months, considered as dysplasia concurrent with carcinoma.
In case of transcriptional regulation we only considered as sufficient the concurrent evidence of (a) binding to the regulatory region of the target gene by the source protein (shown, e.g., by ChIP data), and (b) the demonstration of a regulatory effect (e.g. by expression data).
We considered as potential confounders: concurrent diagnosis of oesophagitis or gastritis within 1 year before BO diagnosis; hiatal hernia; smoking habits (non-smoker, ex-smoker, current smoker) and alcohol abuse (never, current, past).
Concurrent drugs considered as confounders included antiepileptics (N03), anxiolytics and hypnotics (N05B, N05C), and agents acting on the renin-angiotensin system (C09) dispensed from 30 days before the first day of the last menstrual period until 97 days after the last menstrual period.
Since they arrive within the same time frame, the guardian considers them as concurrent exceptions and checks the resolution tree to obtain PrimaryBackupFailedTogetherException.
Based on this method a concurrent system is considered as an environment consisting of processes specified in the system and a set of communication channels describing the interactions between the processes.
Generally, cisplatin combined with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) have been considered as one of standard regimen for concurrent chemoradiotherapy (Browman et al, 1994; Brizel et al, 1998; Wendt et al, 1998; Calais et al, 1999).
Previous or concurrent malignancy, were also considered as exclusion criteria, except for inactive nonmelanoma skin cancer, and in situ carcinoma of the cervix.
Concurrent chemoradiation therapy has been considered as the standard modality of locoregionally advanced NPC [ 15].
