Sentence examples for controls for disease from inspiring English sources

Only the right knees of sham animals were used as controls for disease progression.

In addition, no matching of patients and controls for disease severity was made in two of these studies [ 16, 17].

Differences in genetic background are of greatest concern; even in studies in which healthy siblings have been used as controls for disease patients, only ∼50% of the genome is shared between any siblings, and phenotypic differences could be the result of DNA variants in the other ∼50% of the genome, rather than the disease-associated mutations.

Negative associations among measures of treatment burden and HRQOL were attenuated after controlling for disease burden and clinical characteristics but remained significant.

This study tested the relationship between metacognitive factors, intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety, and the predictability of, and distress associated with, acute fluctuations in symptoms in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), when controlling for disease parameters.

This relationship persisted after controlling for disease severity (using APACHE II score) in a multivariate analysis.

Follow-up studies that are able to control for disease and outcome severity, especially prospective ones to confirm or refute these findings are required.

Finally, the concept of buffering genes has implications for the use of centenarians, or exceptionally healthy elderly individuals as super-controls for disease studies; if the exceptional elderly are healthy because of a protective factor rather than lack of a disease allele, their use as an extreme comparison group may not necessarily be helpful.

To control for disease severity, we adjusted for stage and tumour differentiation.

Utility values remained stable over successive regorafenib cycles after controlling for disease status and treatment type.

The results were consistent across a number of sensitivity analyses including controlling for disease severity.