Several characteristics, including income, race/ethnicity and age, may influence the magnitude of the effect of alcohol taxation on alcohol use and alcohol-related morbidity and mortality 3. Increases in alcohol prices may disproportionately affect lower-income populations because they have less disposable income 4.
On the other hand, diabetes may affect the lower urinary tract symptoms/functions [ 8- 13], and patients with type 2 diabetes may have a higher risk of BPH [ 3, 10, 12, 14- 17].
Although, at the beginning of the NHI programme, the behaviours of health-seeking and cultural or social issues may affect the lower prevalence rate of ADs in patients with TBI, 35 our finding indicated that the situation is changing, which could be from the improvement of health insurance programme or the change of health-seeking behaviours.
But environmental factors may affect which order (lower level survival needs or higher level desire for recognition) is most prominent.
Therefore, whereas high levels of DRAM-3 may affect cell viability, lower levels do not affect growth or viability when expressed alone in replete medium.
Far from being, as German football officials had argued, a problem limited to obscure corners of international championships, it now appears that match-fixing may affect at least the lower reaches of some of the world's best-run leagues.
Human socioeconomic status may affect WNV incidence as lower socioeconomic populations are likely to be more susceptible to disease in general.
In addition, a few studies indicated that poor sleep may affect lung function or lower the quality of life to exacerbate symptoms of asthma among youth [ 42, 43] or worsen the bronchoconstriction among persons with nocturnal asthma [ 44].
A lower education level may affect employment, which in turn might lead to their lower economic status in society.
