A large part of the women's advantage is likely attributable to biological factors, but other factors, such as co-morbidities, treatment compliance or health behaviour, are also probable contributors to gender survival disparities in Estonia and merit further investigation.
The proportions of definite or probable new infections attributable to exposure to an H. pylori infected person without and with gastroenteritis were 55% and 75%, respectively.
Besides, authors did not describe how they managed cases with incomplete records or with headaches attributable to probable migraine.
In the basic model we incorporated the probable absenteeism of HCWs attributable to illness.
Subtracting this background frequency yielded an overall proportion of about 7% of yersiniosis patients with symptoms attributable to probable "true" ReA.
Exposure to H. pylori infected persons with gastroenteritis, particularly with vomiting, increased risk for new infection, and three quarters of definite or probable new infections were attributable to exposure to H. pylori infection with gastroenteritis.
However, our results were robust to adjustments for a large range of sociodemographic, health behavior, and health status factors, making it less probable that they were attributable to confounding or obtained by chance.
The number of consultations in the preceding year and referrals in the preceding 3 years were recorded, and the number of consultations and referrals attributable to probable MUS were estimated using a method based on the contents of the record entries.
In TEMPO 3 4, the 16 cases with ALT elevations >3 × ULN that were attributable to tolvaptan (probable or highly likely) were detected between 3 and 18 months after initiation (Fig. 4).
In case of a reasonable relation with time, not likely to be attributable to other drugs or disease, and a reasonable clinical response to withdrawal, the causal relation to treatment was classified as probable.
