Sentence examples for indicator of ill from inspiring English sources

"Whilst short sleep may represent a cause of ill health, long sleep is believed to represent more an indicator of ill health," said Professor Francesco Cappuccio, who led the study and is head of the Sleep, Health and Society programme at the University of Warwick.

In children, autonomic nervous function is related to various highly prevalent health problems and might therefore represent an early indicator of ill health.

We consider widespread pain to be an independent indicator of ill health.

However, the frequent use of other services may also be an indicator of ill health and therefore complexity.

Well, sleeping less-than-necessary may cause ill-health, whereas being a long sleeper (sleeping more than is biologically necessary) is believed to represent more an indicator of ill-health.

Of the three large UK care home surveys commonly cited as describing residents, all used proxy data collected from social care staff without access to healthcare records [ 7– 9], two took a narrow view of health defined by aims and objectives focused around quantifying social care costs [ 7, 8] and none measured NHS resource use, an important indicator of ill-health episodes.

On all indicators of ill health, the Somali women scored higher than the Rwandese women.

By using a large number of cardiometabolic risk factors as indicators of ill health or factors contributing to ill health, we were able to avoid reliance on self-reported health measures, which may be subject to socially patterned reporting bias.

Ferraro et al. reported that people with a BMI of more than 30.5 reported poorer rating of health than those with normal or below normal weight even after controlling for a number of indicators of ill health and physical functioning [ 27].

To address this we excluded those with prevalent stroke and myocardial infarction, adjusted for other potential indicators of ill health such as blood pressure, cholesterol concentration, BMI, diabetes mellitus, and aspirin use, and also repeated the analyses excluding people with stroke within the first two years of follow-up.

Though like many of their predecessors, the majority of the indices used in these studies are comprised primarily of indicators of ill-being rather than well-being, with the exception of Martin et al. (2011).