"I don't know how anyone could ascertain at this point whether this is good or bad for the American citizenry," the Tennessee senator said on Fox News.
Finally, previous studies have used single measures of physical activity ascertained at 1 point in life, and none has examined whether there are cumulative benefits of physical activity across adulthood leading to lower fat and higher lean mass.
Most of the earlier studies that attempted to redefine BMI cutoff points in Asian populations relied on prevalence data, in which BMI and obesity-related conditions were ascertained at the same point in time.
A general assumption in epidemiological studies evaluating the hormonal profile of BBD is that levels ascertained at a certain point in time reflect overall long-term levels, provided that therapy, particularly hormonal therapy, has not intervened.
An analysis of unmet needs will be ascertained at two time points, at baseline and one month post intervention period, among participants with cancer.
"I am trying to ascertain whether we can determine at this point if we will suffer any loss of business because of our decision and if so, how much?" the analyst wrote.
We used both diagnostic and dimensional data ascertained at multiple time points during follow-up to study the course of major depressive disorder in a large cohort of older patients in primary care.
Exposure to second-hand smoke (ETS) was ascertained at several time points between birth and the age of 10 years (details provided previously [ 25]), and the percentage of years during which the parents or another person smoked in the home was classified into three mutually exclusive categories: no ETS, ≤50% or >50% of years recorded.
This extensive sampling procedure allowed us to ascertain at which point variance component estimates became most stable, and at which point the inclusion of additional animals into training yielded diminishing returns.
Moreover we did not ascertain, at what point during pregnancy the effect of the exposure is occurring as most studies evaluated the exposure at one point in time only.
