Although the children were citizens, few families sought public assistance for them, the study found.
The institution made adequate space and specialized assistance available for the study to be performed.
Twentypercentt of mosques have Islamic schools of full-time general study for children, and 70percentt provide charitable assistance for the poor, the study reported.
We thank Helen Struthers for her support in conducting the study, Landon Myer for assistance with the study design, and Edmore Marinda for assistance with the data analysis.
The authors thank the Health Insurance Company AOK for providing part of the patient relevant data and for encouraging this study, Juliane Stelzer for technical assistance and the study subjects for their participation.
Svante Wold, a pioneer in the field of PCA and PLS, is acknowledged for early estimation of the cohort size (n = 30) and for assistance on the study design.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/11/26/prepub The authors would like to thank Megan Renfrew, Senior Project Manager at the Disparities Solutions Center for assistance in the study design and administration, and Elizabeth Taing, Research Assistant at the Disparities Solutions Center for her assistance in manuscript preparation.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2415/12/58/prepub The author wishes to thank the data collectors and statisticians for their assistance, and the study subjects for participating in this study.
The authors wish to thank Hadia Jaffery, Rachel Burrows and the staff of the Washington University School of Medicine Research Participant Registry for help in subject recruitment, Ioana Gruchevska, Janine Kampelman, the staff of the Clinical Research Unit, and Dr. Adewole Okunade for technical assistance, and the study subjects for their participation.
We also thank the following people for assistance with the study: Drs. Elaine Abrams, Susan Allen, Marc Bulterys, Elwyn Chomba, Ted Colton, Wafaie Fawzi, Saidi Kapiga, Chewe Luo, Lynne Mofenson, Ellen Piwoz, Kevin Ryan, Jeffrey Stringer, Sten Vermund, Cheswa Vwalika.
