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Third, as with any claims-based comorbidity index, diseases are ascertained only if there are coded health care service claims available in the administrative data sets; these data were not confirmed with direct evidence from medical records.

The consequence of this method is that, if families are ascertained only because of colorectal and/or other cancers but not breast cancer, the power to identify an increased risk for breast cancer will be reduced and breast cancer risk estimates from these studies are likely to be underestimated.

This is a neutral or indifferent stage during which the sex of an embryo can be ascertained only by examination of the chromosomes in its cells.

Its validity can be ascertained only in terms of adequacy, which is too conveniently ignored by the proponents of positivism.

Wear of the UHMWPE acetabular cup in total hip arthroplasties (THAs) is influenced by the sliding distance and direction of individual points on the femoral head, which has as yet been ascertained only for normal subjects.

However whether a claim can itself be considered suitable can be ascertained only by asking whether it can be agreed on by all those affected in hypothetical conditions of freedom and equality.

These acquired monoclonal alterations were ascertained only by the 244 K aCGH platform.

Yet, when a more stringent extinction criterion was used (absence of viral genetic material amplifiable by RT-PCR), extinction was ascertained only for M296I treated with R and then with FUG (with 500 µg/ml FU, not with 200 µg/ml FU) (compare panels C of Figs. 2 and 3).

A total of 24 (15.1%) of the dementia/CIND cases were ascertained only from death certificates.

Usual source of drinking water, which was ascertained only for women, was tap water among 66% of participants.

Covariates were reascertained at the onset of each interval except for sex and smoking, which were ascertained only at baseline.