Surveillance for RSV should be strengthened to clarify the public health implications and severity of illness associated with RSV infection in South Africa.
This study shows that a disease-specific health status index and MDA provide different profiles of health status in an elderly COPD population, and only the disease-specific index has prognostic implications when severity of obstruction is taken into account.
The year-round circulation of respiratory viruses in the tropics may also predispose patients to co-infection with multiple pathogens, with implications for severity of disease [ 10, 11] and secondary bacteria infection [ 12, 13].
This study aims at assessing the prevalence of VDD (25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH D) level <20 ng/ml) among children with sepsis in developing nations and its implication on sepsis severity.
Domain specificity of anti-ADAMTS13 antibodies at presentation had no prognostic implication for disease severity in terms of mortality, likelihood of a neurological/cardiac presentation, or number of PEX to remission, suggesting that domain specificity of anti-ADAMTS13 IgG is unlikely a major determinant of their pathogenicity.
Huijbers, M. G. et al. Longitudinal epitope mapping in MuSK myasthenia gravis: implications for disease severity.
Therefore, the clinical implications of stenosis severity and with that the decision for PCI or CABG based on DSCT findings can be limited.
Differences in pharmacokinetic characteristics (duration of action, hepatic metabolism and/or renal excretion, enterohepatic circulation, active metabolites) may have important implications for the severity and duration of SUA-induced hypoglycaemia [ 24].
This had significant implications for disease severity, with those genotypes which had the earliest and largest recrudesces causing anaemia in their hosts comparable or greater than the original treated infection [AS (wt), AQ & ER in Figs 2D and 3].
Reutrakul, S. & Van Cauter, E. Interactions between sleep, circadian function, and glucose metabolism: implications for risk and severity of diabetes.
Far from being purely academic, if correct, their study has huge implications for predicting the severity of hurricanes.
