The marks secured by students in periodic formative assessments during the course and the summative assessment at the end of the course were obtained from departmental records.
Three classes of variables were used: A number of variables relating to events during illness course were obtained from the lifetime clinical & OPCRIT interviews.
Data to evaluate the course were obtained from a baseline questionnaire administered to all first and second year students during mandatory medical school lectures or after scheduled examinations prior to the commencement of the course.
Data on the course of pregnancy were obtained from interviews and review of the pregnancy follow-up booklet.
Time course microarray data were obtained from M. tuberculosis samples cultivated in a chemostat in order to estimate the TFA of the DosR regulator.
Data on incidence and course of malnutrition were obtained from two sequential follow up rounds and thereby dependent on two different measurements.
The time-course gene expression data were obtained from the GEO database (accession number: GSE32119).
The data regarding the uneventful course of the pregnancy were obtained from the Registry.
Demographic data including age, disease duration, course and brain weight were obtained from the case records collected at the MSTB and based on information from the same source.
Clinical and laboratory data at the time of diagnosis and during the acute course of the disease were obtained from medical reports and files from the 456 patients.
