Conclusion: A search for a specific etiology in each case is important for genetic counseling, prognosis, and therapy because inheritance, mortality, and morbidity differ between the groups.
To determine whether maternal serum concentrations of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), a cytokine with anti-inflammatory activity, also involved in cardiovascular morbidity, differ between women with early preeclampsia (<34 weeks) and those with uncomplicated pregnancies.
4 5 Outcomes of very preterm infants concerning survival rates, mortality and neurological and respiratory morbidity differ between neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and between European regions, according to varied uses of medical interventions and several approaches to the organisation of care.
Baseline co-morbidities differed between studies and in some studies the presence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or AMI was considered as exclusion criteria (Table 3).
However, it is not likely that this would have changed the main conclusion of no significant dose differences between DET and GLAR as there are no compelling reasons to assume that co-morbidities differ between T2D patients treated with DET and GLAR.
Overall, the severity of clinical co-morbidities differed little between groups.
My colleagues and I sought to determine if prevalence of preoperative risk factors for morbidity and mortality differed between male AI/AN and Caucasian surgical patients, and to determine if AI/ANs had an increased risk of surgical morbidity or mortality.
The patient factors, which predicted positive agreement between the two data sources, differed between morbidities (table 4).
Also, the rates of increase in the prevalence of morbidity (≥ 2 diseases) with age differed between the two study populations (approximately 1.3%/yr in the practice-based, and 0.8%/yr in the general population).
