It is certainly possible, however, that patients with severe gout lose their jobs or decide to retire as a result of their disease; such loss of productivity would not be ascertained in a diary study or with the WPAI questionnaire used in this study.
Antibody specificity had already been ascertained in a previous study [ 22].
It was ascertained in a preliminary study that investigated baseline variation in this model and tissue type, that n=10 was a sufficient sample (see Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) accession number GSE13802 for the complete dataset of this pilot study).
Marijon et al. [ 27] ascertained, in a small study, that cardiovascular risk factors differed between ethnic groups in Mozambique with hypertension being most prevalent in the African population and this population group having very few other risk factors in comparison to the European and South East Asian groups.
Analyses of secondary outcomes excluded cases with missing outcome information (the primary outcome, return of spontaneous circulation, was ascertained in all study subjects).
At the time of initial US examination, the following factors were ascertained in all study subjects: gender, age, and number of US-determined TN.
Autopsy studies here are confined to the tail of the pancreas, and the changes in pancreas volume are calculated from population values ascertained in a large radiological study, an approach that was validated in nonhuman primates (7).
A significant limitation of this analysis is that causality between the Avahan program and the decrease in HIV positivity and the increase in condom use by FSWs observed after its roll-out cannot be ascertained in a pre and post study design.
However, IOP alone can hardly explain all of the pathogenesis of glaucoma and the importance of vascular factors, in particular of perfusion pressure (PP), has been ascertained in a number of epidemiologic studies and clinical trials as well [ 5– 8].
The effect of PMX-F therapy on PaO2/FiO2 was ascertained in a pooled analysis of seven studies [ 18, 22, 28, 33, 35, 37, 38] (151 patients), only one of which was an RCT [ 28].
