The associations for body fatness at ages 5 and 10 years individually and average childhood body fatness were significantly different by cohort (P for heterogeneity=0.03, 0.01, and 0.01, respectively).
In contrast, the net efficacy effects in this Australian study were considerably greater than the net reduction of 1.0 surface per child reported in a 2-year individually randomized clinical trial of fluoride varnish among children aged 6 44 months from low-income San Francisco families.
Australian school children (180 boys and 154 girls) from school year two, aged 6 8 years, were individually administered a modified version of the Children's Attraction to Physical Activity Scale (CAPA) [Brustad RJ. Who will go out to play? Parental and psychological influences on children's attraction to physical activity. Pediatr Exerc Sci 1993 5 210 23; Brustad RJ.
Controls were selected (graft function >2 years) and individually matched according to age, sex, number of transplants and date of transplant.
Eligible controls are persons without ESRD aged less than 50 years matched individually for age (same 5-year age group as the case), sex and region of the respective case at entry in the dialysis program.
239/425 eligible screen-detected patients from ADDITION-Cambridge study, and 239/684 patients clinically diagnosed within the previous 3 years were individually randomised to receive intensive treatment alone or in conjunction with a facilitator-led behaviour change intervention.
An equal number of 6815 subjects from boys and girls were individually matched by height and age to assess the independent effect of sex on BP; and an equal number of 1422 subjects from each of the age groups (12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 years) were individually matched by sex and height to estimate the independent effect of age on BP.
However, in children below 5 years of age, clinical symptoms of asthma differ individually in a nonspecific manner.
Control subjects were individually matched with patients by age (± 5 years) and sex.
Cases were individually matched to controls on age (within 5 years), gender, sigmoidoscopy date (within 3 months), and Kaiser Permanente clinic.
The controls were individually matched to the cases on the basis of ethnicity, gender, and age (± 5 years).
