It is unquestionable that geographically-related characteristics (e.g., diet, health care system), enhancing risk factors, may influence long term clinical outcomes.
: The city of Providence is geographically very compact, characteristic of eastern seaboard cities that developed prior to use of the automobile.
These characteristics vary geographically across weather zones thus locally measured variations rather than globally standardized thresholds are most informative.
A global picture shows that skewed distribution of the health workforce geographically, and by specific characteristics, poses significant challenges to quality health care delivery [ 3].
We used transmission studies with wild-type mice to define the strain characteristics of geographically distinct cases of vCJD to establish whether a common strain of agent is responsible for vCJD cases from 5 different countries.
Since the first virus description in sheep in 1930 (1), RVF epidemics have been occurring in geographically limited areas with characteristic features and vegetation types (46).
Second, by using different weight matrices, we confirm the existence of strategic interactions in relation to R&D spending among European countries with similar economic, international trade and sectoral structure characteristics, though not geographically close.
These two rift basins were originated during the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean and have similar characteristics and are geographically separated by an elongated basement high that strikes quasiparallel to the Portuguese coastline.
They wrote in a self-critique that "it is not designed to yield very reliable estimates of the characteristics of small, geographically clustered demographic groups.
China is a geographically large country, and the characteristics of drug resistance of TB might vary among provinces (2 ).
These characteristics may vary geographically and, therefore, further research should be designed to local-, regior-, or country-specific circumstances as appropriate.
