SES i included: sex, age (continuous), educational attainment (high school and above, others), marital status (single, live with spouse or partner, widow er)/divorced/separated), employment (unemployed, stable jobs, unstable jobs), religion (Buddhism and others), income per capita (five quintiles).
Attainment of normal larval body size has been shown to require continuous acquisition of dietary protein, whereas the continued division of imaginal disc cells is largely independent of nutrition; instead, these cells require circulating growth factors, which are produced by fat bodies [27].
"In agreeing to undertake this review, Professor Donaldson brings with him a wealth of experience, knowledge and skill, as well as a personal commitment to continuous improvement and attainment of the highest standards".
In the regression models, we considered the following potential confounding factors: age (continuous years), educational attainment (college degree, master/doctoral degree), cigarette smoking (never or past, current), history of cardiovascular disease (yes, no), high blood pressure (yes, no), high cholesterol (yes, no), and type 2 diabetes (yes, no).
We considered age as a continuous variable and dichotomized education attainment as having completed less than high school or having completed high school (or the equivalent) or more.
Educational attainment is a continuous variable that measures the highest level of education that a respondent has attained in each wave, based on the number of years after primary school that it usually takes to acquire this level.
Two models are presented, unadjusted and fully adjusted for age (as a continuous variable), gender, ethnicity, educational attainment, work status, household income and a cumulative score of all three health behaviours (detailed fully adjusted models are available in the Online appendix).
A loading dose should be given to continuous infusion group to ensure rapid attainment of target antibiotic concentration b.
Age, BMI, and educational attainment were entered as continuous variables in the models.
Family annual income and educational attainment were treated as continuous variables.
We have tried some different categorisations such as considering four educational attainment categories or even a continuous variable.
