Recent studies have asserted that the region's weather is getting more severe, including heavier rainfall and more frequent and intense flooding.
Other studies have shown that patients with distal leg pain and a positive straight leg test had more severe symptoms, heavier psychological distress and more health care utilization than those without a positive straight leg raise [ 21, 22].
Additional possible explanations for more severe disease after heavy rainfall include a larger bacterial inoculating dose and infection with more virulent bacteria.
On the mountain slopes, climatic conditions are more severe and precipitation is heavier.
Moreover, this shock test machine can be regulated conveniently to adjust to a different type of equipment and be extended easily to suit more severe shock environments and heavier equipment.
This does not clarify any causal direction and it may simply be that more distal pain actually is experienced as more severe and results in heavier psychological distress, and therefore these are mutually interdependent covariates.
Weather conditions on Sunday are supposed to be more severe than they were Saturday, when heavy rain postponed play for 40 minutes.
For heavy drinkers with more severe conditions (i.e., recurrent alcohol dependence), time-limited counseling may improve short-term recovery rates, but its long-term impact is less clear.
Our study suggests that the heavier burden owing to a more severe degree of a psychotic episode is made even heavier by more severe depressive and anxiety features at the time.
