Sentence examples for constituting the reference group from inspiring English sources

Following liver biopsy and histologic examination, the 28 early lactating cows were partitioned into 4 categories: group 1 (constituting the reference group of 6 animals displaying no hepatic lipidosis), group 2 (10 animals with low grade hepatic lipidosis), group 3 (7 animals with medium grade hepatic lipidosis) and group 4 (5 animals with severe hepatic lipidosis).

Workers with no opioid prescriptions constituted the reference group.

The perinatally HIV-exposed uninfected children constituted the reference group in this study.

The lowest quartile constituted the reference group.

All other participants constituted the reference group.

Twenty-five breast-fed infants constitute the reference group.

Twenty-five exclusively breastfed infants constitute the reference group.

Subjects with MF exposure <0.1  μT constituted the reference group.

They constitute the reference group throughout the paper unless otherwise noted.

Fifty-four healthy volunteers aged 43 78 years, mean 60, constituted the reference group for the elastography values.

Children with a z-score weight gain ≤ 0.67 SD were characterized as slow/average growers and constituted the reference group.