(n.) The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72ยก.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the 2 preinvasive disease categories were combined, an elevated odds ratio of borderline significance was found for 2 of the 3 lower quintiles for the 4 low quintiles combined.
(2) Age-adjusted all-cause mortality rates per 10,000 man-years of follow-up in normotensive men ranged from 64.0 in the least fit quintile to 18.6 in the most fit quintile.
(3) In multivariate analyses, the relative risks of breast cancer for women in the highest quintile of consumption of saturated fat and animal proteins were 3.0 (95% confidence interval, 1.9-4.7) and 2.9 (1.8-4.6), respectively.
(4) Each of the 469 kidneys was placed into 1 of 5 quintiles on the basis of its effective renal plasma flow at the first examination.
(5) Reproducibility of placing a dietary factor into a particular quintile of consumption was good for most foods, but it was lowest for cruciferous and leafy green vegetables.
(6) Overall, 69.9% of the age-sex-specific quintiles and height-sex-specific quintiles of systolic blood pressure were identical.
(7) The relative risks for highest vs. lowest quintile of intake were estimated for carbohydrates to be 2.57 (95% confidence interval 1.64-4.03), cholesterol 2.68 (1.72-4.17), dietary fiber 0.45 (0.30-0.63), and vitamin C 0.53 (0.38-0.76).
(8) There was no appreciable association between height and endometrial cancer: compared with the lowest quintile, the multivariate relative risks (RR) were 0.9, 0.9, 0.7 and 0.8 for each subsequent quintile.
(9) The increased risk leading to diabetes for those in the top quintile compared to the lowest quintile of the distribution of statistically significant risk factors were: body mass index = 21.7, triglycerides = 13.5, waist-to-hip circumference ratio = 9.6, diastolic blood pressure = 6.7, uric acid = 5.8, glutamic pyruvic transaminase = 3.9, bilirubin = 3.2, blood glucose = 2.7, lactate = 2.4 and glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase = 2.0.
(10) The percentage of the kidneys that had clinically significant pyelocaliectasis or in which the pyelocaliectasis significantly worsened was 20.4 per cent in the lowest (first) quintile and 9.3, 2.2, 5.4 and 3.2 per cent in the second, third, fourth and fifth quintiles, respectively.
(11) In only 1.0% of children did these quintiles differ by more than one.
(12) We observed a decreased risk of lung cancer mortality only in the higher quintiles of FEV1 in current smokers among men, but not in women.
(13) No suggestion of a protective effect of dietary fiber was observed (RRs for increasing quintiles were 1.0, 0.95, 0.93, 1.02, and 1.02).
(14) The increased incidence of diabetes was confined to the lowest quintile of SHBG values, where it was 5-fold higher than in the remaining group.
(15) Relative risk according to quintiles, and adjusted for age, family history, BMI and WHR, for women at the 80% level was 2.9 as compared with those at the 20% level for C-peptide.
(16) Correlation coefficients, quintile distributions, and regressions all confirmed the ability of baseline SBP and DBP to predict their respective pressures on follow-up examination.
(17) Interaction was also seen for the next lowest quintile (22.4-24.2).
(18) Among subjects who belonged to the lowest quintile on the basis of the food record measurement, an average of 51 per cent fell into the same quintile and 76 per cent fell into the lowest two quintiles when they were categorized on the basis of the food use questionnaire.
(19) The observation that cholecystectomy rates are not linearly associated with obesity suggests that women in the highest quintiles of body mass could be considered a reasonable group in which strategies for prevention of gallbladder disease might be tested.
(20) The results are presented by neighborhood income quintile group (based on percentage of low income), and by the mother's age, parity (number of live births), marital status and country of birth, as well as by CMA.
Sextile
Definition:
(a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.
(n.) The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: /.
Example Sentences:
(1) In considering logistic function 46% of CHD new cases originated from the first four informative characteristics of the upper sextile.
(2) Risk of CHD development in the upper sextile was 6 times as high as in the lower sextile.
(3) Risk of CHD development compared to the lower sextile increased 9.5-fold.
(4) Cholesterol metabolism has been studied in two groups of five rhesus monkeys each that were selected from the upper and lower sextile in the distribution of serum cholesterol concentration while being fed an atherogenic diet.
(5) 50% of all CHD new cases originated from the upper sextile of distribution (17% of values).