Analysis is being undertaken excluding such women.
The analyses were initially undertaken excluding participants with asthma and then repeated including participants with asthma.
Analyses were initially undertaken excluding participants with reported diagnosed asthma and then repeated including those with asthma.
Hence, a sensitivity analysis was undertaken excluding individuals who died or whose follow-up ended within 90 days of their stroke.
Sensitivity analyses were undertaken excluding non-exposed patients and the one year study was conducted over different calendar periods to assess the effects of calendar time.
To assess the effect of altered prescribing of vitamin D supplements around the time of a cancer diagnosis, a sensitivity analysis was undertaken, excluding women who received their first prescription of vitamin D (± calcium) within a year prior to diagnosis.
Owing to the likelihood of differences in lifestyle characteristics between vegetarians and meat eaters in addition to the absence of the meat component within their diet, sensitivity analyses were undertaken excluding vegetarians.
Sensitivity analyses were undertaken by excluding outlying studies and any with negative ratings on indices of methodological quality.
Due to the reported increased criminal problems, we undertook analyses excluding those convicted in close proximity to the diagnosis.
We also undertook analysis excluding all patients with exceptions, including disease wide exceptions, and, for comparability with nationally published attainment in the Quality and Outcomes Framework, we calculated attainment using the remuneration rules of the framework, which exclude or except patients only if they fail to meet the quality standard.
LPA results are shown for all assays, but equivalent results were derived when identical analyses were undertaken after excluding assays if the positive control (phytohemagglutinin [PHA] 2.5 μg/ml) PI was < 3, or less than the unstimulated condition, or if the CPM for the unstimulated cells was over 5000.
