Sentence examples for rather than etiology from inspiring English sources
Adults with LADA are frequently initially misdiagnosed as having Type 2 diabetes, based on age rather than etiology [ 8].
Most of the studies of sperm quantity or quality have been concerned with time trends rather than etiology, and this end point was not considered further here.
However, constructing nosologic schemes primarily with reference to considerations about disease management and prognosis rather than etiology, and classifying diseases into increasingly refined categories, poses potential problems for epidemiologic research.
Right ventricular (RV) pacing, rather than etiology of AV block, has even been identified as an independent risk factor for the development of LV dilatation and dysfunction following chronic pacing [ 11, 12].
Although the extremes of these quantitative dimensions are important medically and socially, there seems to be no scientific advantage in reifying diagnostic constructs that have evolved historically on the basis of symptoms rather than etiology.
Under the guidance of American psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, the DSM-III initiated the classification of mental illnesses by patterns of symptoms rather than by etiology and avoided recommending treatments.
The latter requirement makes it more likely that a patient's bleeding symptoms are secondary to fibroids rather than another etiology.
Additionally, at least one fibroid was required to have indented the endometrial cavity, making it more likely that a patient's bleeding symptoms are largely or exclusively secondary to fibroids rather than another etiology.
This variable was more reasonably attributed to response to diagnosis rather than to etiology or causal association and therefore was not retained in the analyses.
For the purposes of this trial, we will focus on treating core symptoms rather than examining etiology, and only enroll those individuals that meet inclusion/exclusion criteria (see below).
Note that a twin sample was used because of our interest in heritability of LI, but no genetic analyses are reported here, as the current focus is on the cognitive profile of children with LI and normal reading skill rather than on etiology of these impairments.
