Sentence examples for epidemiological measures from inspiring English sources

These "severity weightings", which vary surprisingly little from country to country, are combined with standard epidemiological measures of years of ill health due to particular ailments and deducted from total life expectancy to yield the DALE.

Data sources are represented by several different cancer databases, as no single world cancer database covers these epidemiological measures.

Even in this study based on prior collected epidemiological measures, environmental factors can be found with effect sizes comparable to the best loci yet found by GWAS.

During this time, substantial clinical and epidemiological measures were collected, and a number of these were assessed as potential mediators for our genetic associations.

Limited knowledge has been gathered so far on the effect of such a sampling scheme on epidemiological measures, such as prevalence or multiplicity of infection.

Because prompt diagnosis of diarrhoea is of key importance to initiate effective therapy and to decide proper epidemiological measures, multivalent dipsticks are needed.

At our university, we rejected the term "binge drinking" two years ago as an epidemiological measure.

Years of potential life lost (YPLL), an epidemiological measure generally used for evaluating the efficacy of public health programs, can be applied as a common metric to compare potential fatality risks reduced in residential populations from remediation to those experienced by remediation workers.

As with any other epidemiological measure, the reliability of a joint indicator will be determined by the quality of the surveillance system.

Nothing in this study challenges the central role of the individual reproduction number as an epidemiological measure; because the empirical measures of reproduction number proposed here and in [12], [27], [29] use incident observed cases as the base, all of the complication in defining the 'typical' or 'eigen' case for structured models discussed most clearly in [24] are neatly sidestepped.

Definitions of each epidemiological measure are provided at the respective paragraphs.