Risk of HCC development increases in proportion to the degree of liver fibrosis in patients persistently infected with hepatitis virus.
We previously reported that PGE2, a small lipid associated with breast tumor development, decreased in proportion to circulating celecoxib concentration in postmenpausal women taking the 400 mg twice daily (bid) dose [ 18].
It is well established that renal allograft recipients (RARs) have an increased incidence of viral warts and premalignant and malignant cutaneous lesions, and the risk of their development increases in proportion to duration of graft survival.
Those mutant animals that survived till weaning developed into apparently normal adults suggesting that the Hex locus carrying the DTA allele may be silenced during development in a proportion of embryos.
Luo et al. observed a reduction in sFLT-1 levels in the outer retina in post-mortem samples from patients suffering from wet AMD, raising the intriguing possibility that inadequate suppression of endogenous VEGF might contribute to AMD development in some proportion of patients.
We show that diet-induced obesity mediates the development of osteoarthritis in proportion to increases in adiposity and serum leptin concentration.
To shed light on developments in the proportion of trials registered each year, ideally we would have compared these numbers to the actual number of clinical trials conducted each year.
followed human activities and migration from rural to urban areas during the fast socioeconomic development in China, the proportion of mild HFRS cases caused by SEOV steadily increased while the proportion of more severe cases associated with HTNV infection decreased (9, 10, 12 – 12 ).
While the state garnered 10 percent of the country's spending on academic research and development in 1980, that proportion had fallen to 7.9 percent by 2008.
White-on-white violence fell slowly but steadily in proportion to economic development and crime prevention.
