Before doing that, we addressed the issue of measurement invariance that is critical in order to appraise between-group differences as meaningful [ 42].
In addition, we did not formally appraise agreement between reviewers before final consensus for study search, selection, abstraction or appraisal.
Generally speaking, independence is probably under-estimated because the MMDS knowledge table through which the causal relation are judged was designed to appraise causality between two causes, knowing that a medical doctor had declared them linked.
In this study, we investigate one of the largest cohorts of patients to date with rectal adenocarcinoma across all stages for HIF-1 α and HIF-2 α expressions and have appraised associations between expression and a number of clinicopathological variables.
We sought to appraise the relation between an undetermined ARF etiology and mortality in a large cohort of critically ill hematology patients.
This study was designed to appraise the relationship between enteric neuropathy and oxidative stress in cancer cachexia under l-glutamine-supplemented diet.
We took an ontological approach to comprehensively appraise the links between climate change and food- and waterborne disease.
Because the body composition assessment by BIA is device-dependent, the aim of this study was to appraise the concordance between the specific bioelectrical impedance device InBody S10 and DXA for the body composition evaluation.
Therefore, the aim of this study was to appraise the concordance between body composition measures, and more specifically appendicular lean mass per height square, obtained from the InBody S10 body composition analyzer and those obtained with dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA).
The major and rapid increases in puberty hormones mean that repeated hormone measurement is essential to appraise the relationships between biological variation in puberty hormones and the concomitant adolescent health problems and to allow exploration of the biological determinants of individual, social and physical environmental factors that are prominent in adolescence [ 6].
1r set as reference, * Significant association at 95% confidence level, ** adjusted for all significant variables and CRP status In order to appraise the relationship between maternal workload and zinc status, the most common and laborious activities in the community were identified and the mean number of the activities in the preceding week of the survey were quantified.
