Sentences with phrase «disease outcome variable»

When revascularization was added to the total cardiovascular disease outcome variable, the risk estimates were reduced for both men and women, but remained significant.

Not exact matches

«Patients who develop granulomatous lymphocytic interstitial lung disease (GLILD) as a complication of common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) often have poorer outcomes.

Additionally, the betas from the linear model appeared to be interpreted as a ratio, «Only episodes of excessive coughing and heart burn occurred on average > 2 times more in the cattle than in the control community (β > 2)», where the standard interpretation for a beta from a linear model would be a one unit increase in the outcome for a one unit increase in the explanatory variable, i.e. two more episodes of disease.

This evidence is important not only because it ties variables in our model to an important health - relevant outcome, but also because it may speak to at least one fundamental comorbidity between mental and physical health disorders, namely that between depression and heart disease.

Stepwise logistic and multiple regression analyses gave the same outcome variable predictors as the one step method: global outcome rating (disease conviction, P = 0.04; odds ratio 0.65, 95 % confidence interval 0.43 to 0.65); general health questionnaire score 5 or more (affective inhibition P = 0.007; 1.46, 1.1 to 1.9); delayed type hypersensitivity skin response (delayed hypersensitivity P = 0.005; 1.55, 1.35 to 1.82) and Karnofsky score (disease conviction, P = 0.003).

This strategy was used to examine the unique contribution of the parental variables after controlling for the observed influences of child demographic and disease variables on the child outcomes.

It is also possible that the relationship between mental health in adolescence and later outcomes reflects the presence of confounding variables and of previous problems or disease.