Sentence examples for underlying contributor from inspiring English sources

A common underlying contributor to IUGR is placental hypoxia due to impaired placental invasion of maternal blood vessels and/or poor placental vascular development that diminishes the fetal vascular surface area available for oxygen diffusion [7].

Undernutrition in mothers and children is an important underlying contributor to an estimated 35% of child deaths and responsible for 11% of the global disease burden.

1 A decade later, another report announced that tobacco smoke exposure was likewise an underlying contributor to what is now considered a long-standing global health epidemic.

Considering the negative impact of EDS, the high prevalence of GERD [ 1, 2], and the clear association between GERD and fatigue [ 4, 7], it would appear prudent for general practitioners to consider GERD as an underlying contributor to daytime somnolence in patients with normal liver function.

Type 1 diabetes thus may be an underlying contributor to the observed emotional and biological disruptions, with depression exacerbating dyslipidemia (12).

While there are many larger underlying contributors to the housing shortage in San Francisco, it is possible that Airbnb adds stress on the margins.

A number of reviews have explored underlying contributors to poor hospital experiences by people with intellectual disability [ 13, 28- 30].

The underlying contributors to airway responsiveness were measured on the basis of the respiratory system resistance to saline and increasing intravenous doses of Mch, as per the method described elsewhere in detail by others [ 19- 21] with some modification.

In addition, we measured the underlying contributors to airway responsiveness, including airway reactivity (i.e., the slope of the increase in the mean pulmonary flow resistance [RL] for a given increase in Mch dose), airway sensitivity (i.e., the lowest dose of Mch that produced bronchoconstriction), and the maximum inducible bronchoconstriction (maximum RL).

Underlying biological contributors to LBW include prematurity (gestational age <37 weeks) and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) as measured by small for gestational age (SGA) [ 8].

The study, in the Archives of Internal Medicine, could not rule out underlying depression as a contributor to stroke risk.