In contrast to the aforementioned trial, in the present study the management of the telemonitoring intervention is carried out by primary care nurses and general practitioners (GPs).
Therefore, the lack of a change in urinary albumin excretion in the aforementioned trials does not preclude the finding of improved glycocalyx properties in our normoalbuminuric patients.
In our cohort, the mean age of pregnant women after UAE was lower (32.8 years) than that of pregnant women after myomectomy (34.3 years), and at the same time, it was lower than in the aforementioned trials.
The also observed that intensive care unit (ICU) mortality rates for treatment and control groups (46.5% and 54.9%, respectively) were much higher than the 28-day mortality in the aforementioned trials.
A general population of individuals, with a varied background of comorbidities which may or may not have excluded them from participation, is not fully represented in the aforementioned trials.
In addition to the aforementioned trial demonstrating no response to oral corticosteroids in asthmatic adult smokers, 22 a blunted response to inhaled corticosteroids was also documented in adult smokers in two randomised controlled trials.
Data for this analysis were abstracted from IMCI registers for initial consultations (first visit to the health facility for the disease episode) among children ages 2 59 months seen by a cohort of the first 32 IMCI-trained health workers in the intervention arm of the aforementioned trial.
Because of the aforementioned trial design limitations, it is difficult to draw substantive conclusions from these observations other than the importance of considering the need for risk factor assessment when designing future clinical trials in type 2 diabetes.
There are several difficulties in interpreting the aforementioned trials.
