From the total US NHWS population, 33,765 respondents aged ≥ 20 years were not currently employed and were excluded from the analyses; of these excluded respondents, 13,178 (39.0%) were ≥ 65 years old.
Supplementary Table S1, available at Annals of Oncology online shows the characteristics of the studies included in the meta-analyses and details of the excluded studies are in supplementary Table S2, available at Annals of Oncology online.
In subsequent analyses of gene expression the excluded samples were used as ad hoc controls to identify cell-type dependent differences.
Another author (AWJ) assessed all the included and 10% of the excluded meta-analyses for eligibility.
We classified these people as unexposed in the main analyses of the study but excluded them in a subsequent sensitivity analysis.
Because four ear tissue groups were included in the transcriptome assembly, our analyses of the vocal system excluded transcripts with read count sums of zero across all six brain sample groups (see Figure 1D).
In further analyses of the data, we excluded patients with modified Marshall scores ≥2, whom, we reasoned, already had OD upon admission, compared with the respective patients with modified Marshall scores <2, who developed OD later during hospitalization.
In the analyses of treatment, we excluded a substantial part of the patient group (29%) owing to missing information, which may lead to selection bias.
Furthermore, in the geographical analyses of holdings we excluded 73 (2,3%) of the active pig holdings and 3309 (11%) of the active cattle holdings due to missing coordinate data, and thus our results underestimate the true number of holdings within the 3 km and 10 km radius and the number of movements at certain distances and between counties.
Further analyses of immunisations excluding the combined measles, mumps, and rubella immunisation supported this interpretation as they revealed no relations between maternal age and uptake of all other immunisations.
