Sentence examples for main chronic condition from inspiring English sources

Initial data extraction from the 2003 and 2009 SDACs was of people aged 45 64 years who reported they had left the labour force because of ill health and that their main chronic condition was diabetes.

Like we did here, previous studies [ 10, 18, 19] have extracted data from national household survey data on people who have left the labour force because of their ill health or disability and used "main chronic condition" data to identify the disease having the largest (disabling) impact on individuals.

A multiple regression model of the log of annual income was used to assess the differences between annual incomes of people in employment (full time) who reported they did not have a chronic health condition and people not in the labour force who reported they had left because of their illness and nominated diabetes as their main chronic condition.

We completed separate regressions to determine the effect on PCS due to each of the main chronic conditions of interest.

Still, a majority of the main chronic conditions predominate in older age groups in both regions (19).

Therefore we used persons with hypertension alone, but none of the other main chronic conditions, as the referent group for the analysis.

We were unable to directly account for severity of illness for all main chronic conditions either at baseline or follow-up.

Logistic regression was again used to assess change in PCS over four years in patients with one, two, three or four or more of the main chronic conditions relative to those with hypertension alone.

In these models, the study population was divided into those with hypertension alone (referent group), those with the main chronic disease of interest (with and without other conditions), and those with any other of the main chronic conditions other than the condition of interest.

Therefore the statistically significant changes in PCS scores over time resulting from the linear regression analysis may not necessarily be greater than 6.5 points Little increase in the odds of functional decline was evident in individuals with 1,2, or 3 of the main chronic conditions.

If an individual recorded multiple health conditions, their main chronic health condition was also recorded.