Moreover, a notable strength is the health outcomes chosen to explore, cardiovascular morbidity, that are available at an individual basis, but most previous studies have used aggregate mortality data, both disease-specific mortality [44, 83] and overall mortality [38, 42, 44, 84].
Further long-term research should be conducted to explore the morbidity of GSD and plausible biological mechanisms underlying its development.
Further long-term studies should be conducted with a larger sample size to explore the morbidity and consequences of pressure ulcers and plausible biological mechanisms underlying its development.
Perhaps a replication study could implement standardized strategies to classify the patients according to depression categories and to explore co-morbidities.
As "health" is defined by WHO as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" [ 15], it is important to explore co-morbidity of physical functioning and psychological well-being among the elderly.
Aim 1 of this study explored respiratory morbidity among this cohort by measured pulmonary function.
32 Only one study 21 explored the morbidity burden or severity and HRQoL.
This study explored the morbidity of health problems among first-graders and its association with sex, levels of urbanization, and quantity of medical resources.
The survey explored obstetric morbidity, health seeking behaviour, factors affecting service uptake and traditional beliefs and practices in the childbearing period.
There were three key objectives to the scoping exercise: 1) to explore how maternal morbidity is currently defined in the literature, 2) identify where there are discrepancies and gaps in current research, and 3) to determine the value of undertaking full systematic reviews relevant to maternal morbidity concepts.
