5 Data on people with diabetes are identified for analysis in the quality and outcomes framework using primary care morbidity codes (Read codes).
Crosswalks were designed to convert the primary care morbidity codes (READ codes) into ICD10 and the pharmacy codes into ATC (WHO Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification).
Conjunctivitis was also found the primary ocular morbidity accounting for 29 %, followed by cataract (16.3 %), presbyopia (15.4%%), refractive errors (7.9 %), and blepharitis (7.5 %) during an ophthalmic outreach campaign in Kersa town, Southeastern Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [ 25].
The only research design that will give us definitive cause and effect evidence is a multicentre randomised controlled trial with primary cardiovascular morbidity/ mortality endpoints, however, given the circumstances, such a study is unlikely.
The life expectancies of PMV patients with degenerative neurological diseases, stroke, or injuries/poisoning as their primary co-morbidity seemed to survive longer than those with chronic renal failure or cancer, or a co-morbidity with them.
Reliable reference genes for the molecular evaluation of BMSCs derived from donors exhibiting OA as a primary co-morbidity have not been reported on yet.
Bariatric surgery has proven very effective in reducing type 2 diabetes, one of the primary co-morbidities of obesity (Buchwald et al., 2009), but is clearly an aggressive option with significant effects on quality of life.
Morbidity in primary diagnosis groups differs: high morbidity in CDH children, lower in MAS and PPH children, and relatively high morbidity in the sepsis group.
During the epidemiological transition, a long-term shift occurs in mortality and disease patterns whereby pandemics of infection are gradually displaced by degenerative and man-made diseases as the main form of morbidity and primary cause of death (Omran 1971).
Calf scours is a primary cause of morbidity and mortality in the dairy industry.
