The incidence of < 37 weeks' spontaneous PDs among BV pregnant women with a pH= > 4.5 was relatively low, 3.8%, possibly due to the study's excluding conditions.
Excluding conditions for which prior fractures or other trauma might be a risk factor did not alter our results, but residual bias is possible.
Also, patients with late presentation of excluding conditions were not considered for the present risk analyses: 6 women due to pregnancy-induced hypertension, 1 individual because of overweight and 3 patients because of hematologic conditions.
Among secondary injuries, cerebral edema is of special significance, as it can greatly aggravate brain damage and is the main condition related to increased ICP, excluding conditions potentially leading to surgical interventions, such as hematoma and contusion.
Excluding conditions representing fewer than 20 admissions, mortality was lowest for patients with cutaneous malignancies, with 11 (12.0%) hospital deaths amongst patients with basal cell carcinomas and highest for those with scleroderma with 19 (54.3%) hospital deaths.
Inclusion criteria were patients aged >20 years with normal renal function or with stages 1~4 CKD, excluding conditions such as acute renal failure, inherited kidney diseases, nephritic syndrome, cancer, and long-term use of steroid.
Subclinical breakthrough HBV infection was defined as one or more HBV markers positive in one or more consecutive samples, excluding conditions for chronic HBV infection and false-positive result, without any reported clinical symptoms of hepatitis.
First, we have made a careful selection of the sample, excluding conditions that can influence scores in functional health literacy tests, affect the accuracy of the HbA1c assay or determine different targets of glycaemic control.
For since what is produced is not dependent solely on any single cause, or indeed any finite set of causes considered as a unit, the production of a new event always requires the conjunction with some hitherto excluded condition.
"The companies are more aggressive in trying to exclude conditions from policies," Joe Garagiola Jr., the Arizona general manager, said.
