Optimizing histological type within a broad sampling of maniraptoran theropods encompassing a diversity of sizes reveals multiple occurrences of the parallel-fiber suite within Paraves (Figure S2).
Human biomonitoring studies using adipose tissue are understandably quite limited because of the invasive procedures needed to isolate this biological matrix, so it is not likely that this study will be repeated with a larger sample size or a broader population.
Further investigation with a larger sample size over broader geographic areas may be warranted.
It was prospective with a relatively large sample size, involving a broad range of clinical presentations and diagnoses.
On the other hand, strengths of the study include the population-based design of the study, a fairly large sample size, and a broad panel of investigations that allowed us to directly compare the different MetS definitions.
To be eligible for participation participants had to be fluent English speakers and at least 50 years of age to have a large sample size and a broad range of adults to make comparisons within the groups of older adults.
There was no evidence of heterogeneity among study centres, except for the association between ED and ΔWCBMI in women (P for heterogeneity = 0.035), driven by a single centre (Doetinchem, the Netherlands) with a small sample size and broad confidence interval, that deviated from the other centres.
In order for our study to make broader generalizations and attain a larger sample size, reduced eligibility criteria were adopted (George, 1996).
Although our study was cross-sectional and based on only one population, our findings have merit because we performed the CFA in a standard manner, using a large sample size and with a broad variety of indices to judge the fitness of hierarchical and dimensional models to the data.
