The aim of this study was to identify the clinical and biochemical factors associated with non-expression of the disease as defined as transferrin saturation <45%.
Exclusion criteria were pre-existing chronic kidney disease as defined as eGFR less than 50 mL/min or plasma creatinine concentration above 1.7 mg/dL (above 150 μmol/L) more than 10 days prior to initiation of the first RRT.
This preliminary study suggests that kefir may be involved in improving the risk profile for cardiovascular disease as defined by CRP.
We did a systematic review of non-invasive tests used to stratify patients at risk of clinically significant liver disease in a general population setting and report the prevalence of chronic liver disease as defined by these tests.
The Canary Prostate Active Surveillance Study is a multicenter study and a biorepository that will discover and confirm biomarkers of aggressive disease as defined by histologic, prostate-specific antigen, or clinical criteria.
Similarly, we have found that it is difficult to get more than one sample from a given child who has achieved the inactive disease as defined by the Wallace criteria20, as these children have frequently achieved the CRM state by the time of their next regular clinic visit.
Sheff says that drug addiction is a disease as defined by Stedman's Medical Dictionary, since it causes "anatomic alterations" to the brain that result in "cognitive deficits" and other symptoms.
Starting at day 180, study subjects were eligible to receive additional subconjunctival or intravitreal sirolimus, based on their initial group randomization, every 2 months if they were found to have active disease as defined above.
Low NPA concentrations of SP and IFN-γ were significant independent predictors of severe disease as defined by "need for supplemental oxygen" with a similar ROR.
Pulmonary granulomatous disease, as defined by a histological diagnosis and negative culture, was only proven in 11 episodes in 10 patients.
All 193 male Caucasian schizophrenic patients met criteria for the disease as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition, Revised (DSM-IV-R), as described previously [27].
