Prospective randomized trials of this specific question are currently being considered by groups around the world (Goldhirsch A, personal communication).
We applied correction factors of 0.66 and 0.72 to the MEP and MBzP concentrations, respectively, because the analytic standards used were of inadequate purity (Calafat A, personal communication).
Of note, one-third of transfusion-dependent DBA patients in an Italian study had significant iron overload as determined by SQUID imaging (Ramenghi U, Piga A, personal communication).
As of March 2002, the H2E had as partners 260 hospitals, 36 clinics, 8 nursing homes, and 25 other facilities across the United States (Wendroff A, personal communication).
Further research using NHANES data for children has shown that children had higher PFOA levels than did adults (Calafat A, personal communication, May 2008).
According to a questionnaire in 2000, 42% of the primary care units in the county of Stockholm employed general practitioners with special interest in asthma, and 58% employed asthma and COPD nurses (Kihlström A, personal communication).
NHANES 2003 2004 procedures did not include the use of field blanks (Calafat A, personal communication), but we believe contamination during collection was unlikely because a) 6.5% of samples were below the LOD, which argues against systematic error across the entire sample, and b) BPA extremes were associated with sex, race, age, and income, which argues against substantial random error.
"Has he thought about it being a personal communication problem or his attitudes towards women?" Er, probably not, Clare.
Perhaps I was the only one this day to feel that his words were a personal communication.
A change of approximately 0.5SD, i.e., ~5 points, is considered as a clinically relevant change (Riley A, personal communication).
Analysis of reported toxicities from the SORCE trial supports the rarity of sorafenib hepatotoxicity in the adjuvant setting, with this case representing an idiosyncratic reaction as opposed to a marked example of generalized hepatotoxicity (Meade A., personal communication).
