Sentence examples for deficiency defined from inspiring English sources

Our primary objectives were to estimate (1) the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, defined as serum 25 (OH) D ≤ 20 ng/mL [15] and (2) the association between vitamin D deficiency and length of ICU stay.

The fact that glutamine deficiency defined as a low plasma concentration at ICU admittance is an independent mortality predictor [35, 36] makes it mandatory that future studies of exogenous glutamine supplementation define the patient groups studied in terms of glutamine deficiency.

Clinical vitamin D deficiency defined as equal or below 30 nm/L was found in 10% of skin type 1 compared to 5% of skin type 4. However the number of subjects with levels equal or below 30 nm/L was small and this did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.07).

This is a malaria endemic area where iron deficiency, defined as two of the following: (i) low ferritin, (ii) low iron and/or high transferrin in plasma, (iii) markedly reduced or absent iron in bone marrow aspirates and (iv) increase in hemoglobin level after iron supplementation occurs in 33% [23]

Androgen deficiency (defined according to Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guidelines) was present in 47% of patients.

Similarly, the incidence of MBL deficiency (defined as MBL levels < 500 ng/mL) was nearly identical in the two groups.

Neubauer, H. et al. Jak2 deficiency defines an essential developmental checkpoint in definitive hematopoiesis.

Does AP-5 deficiency define a new type of LSD?

If Spenser is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone, the protagonist of a more recent series by Robert B. Parker, is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity.

However, in females, when G6PD deficiency was defined by enzyme activity, deficiency was associated with a 52% reduced risk of uncomplicated malaria.

Severe ferritin deficiency was defined as ferritin <20 μg/L, mild deficiency was defined as ferritin within 20 40 μg/L, and no deficiency was defined as ferritin >40 μg/L.