Sentence examples for flu status from inspiring English sources
Self-reported flu status had higher sensitivity and lower specificity than the Ministry of Health and NZ sentinel surveillance case definitions.
The distribution of maternal age, BMI, education, parity, periconceptional folate supplementation, fever or flu status during early pregnancy, and active or passive smoking, was statistically different between the cases and controls.
As shown in table 4, self-reported flu status performed poorly as a screening tool for H1N1 infection, failing to detect the majority of those who were seropositive (adult sensitivity 45.7%).
Seropositivity status was compared across the three self-reported influenza status groups (yes, no or possibly had the flu in 2009).
After controlling for race, sex, underlying disease, flu vaccination status and other factors, the researchers found that those on statins had a 41 percent reduced risk of death compared with those who were not taking the medicine.
The questions assessed included flu vaccination status, sex, age, educational level, country of origin, location of residence, and profession.
Study participants reported their flu vaccination status in the web questionnaires: 25.3% of study participants had received at least a single previous seasonal flu vaccination between 2006 and 2009; 63.1% (n = 755) of the study participants who responded to the follow-up questionnaire in the spring received the pdm flu vaccine in 2009 2010.
French producers had hoped to recover their bird-flu free status on 3 December, but the new outbreak means the country will not be cleared for at least 90 days.
Similarly, influenza vaccination status was determined according to whether the subjects had received the flu vaccine in the autumn prior to the IPD date.
The case is complicated because it is recognized that the Convention on Biological Diversity does not apply to human genetic resources, and the status of flu viruses contained in human tissue is unclear.
