The circles relating to patient factors covers a broad range of factors, the explicit inclusion of all of which would overcomplicate the diagram making it hard to follow.
It is generally acknowledged that – apart from socioeconomic and demographic factors – a broader range of host response mechanisms, ranging from genetic factors, biological stress mechanisms and psychosocial processes, e.g. coping styles, social network of the patient, operate at the level of the individual, but have also an important influence at the population level [ 31, 33, 34, 36].
Diez-Roux et al. (2001) found that persons residing in disadvantaged neighborhoods in general had a higher incidence of heart disease than persons living in more advantaged neighborhoods, even after adjustment for risk factors and a broad range of personal factors.
The type-I Interferon (IFN) response is an early innate immunity component and is antagonised by factors of a broad range of pathogenic viruses.
These microdeletions, however, also represent genetic risk factors to a broad range of other neurodevelopmental disorders.
The AP2 family of transcription factors plays a broad range of roles in cell growth, tissue morphogenesis, and cancers.
This is particularly encouraging for development of a generalized approach for future applications to predict host-interaction factors across a broad range of bacterial phytopathogens.
The 48 IMPF articles consider prognostics factors in a broad range of diseases and health conditions (Additional file 1: Figure S1).
To minimize the chances of overlooking any important confounders, we adjusted our analyses for age, sex, lifestyle factors, and a broad range of concurrent conditions.
These virulence factors have a broad range of functions during pathogenesis, including the secretion and synthesis of type III effectors (T3es), motility, chemotaxis, synthesis of exopolysaccharide (EPS), and degradation of plant cell walls.
