It was conducted in a large generally healthy community-based sample that is likely to be representative of the general population.
No studies have examined a large, community-based sample that is unselected for LBP.
A strength of our study was the use of a population-based sample that is largely representative of young Australian adults.
A strength of this study is that it included a large, population-based sample that is highly representative, leaving little room for selection bias.
Because the Border Air Quality Study was enumerated using health insurance registration records, it is a comprehensive, population-based sample that is less subject to selection biases than a study requiring active participation.
This analysis is the first to our knowledge to examine the relation between vascular conditions, diabetes and dementia in a large heterogeneous population-based sample that is representative of the contiguous USA.
Strengths of the study included the population-based sample that is representative of adults in the United States (excellent external validity), decent sample size, good response rates, and inclusion of a broad spectrum of potential confounding variables and of several potential cardiometabolic mediators that were objectively measured.
With additional participants, not only can the Utah team more deeply examine these initial findings but they can also supplement them with genetic work, something that is impossible to do without a very large base sample; that is, a big enough chunk of the population that can serve as the basis of comparison.
The household survey is based on a sample that is then extrapolated to the whole population.
In conclusion, the present study shows in a large population based sample that depressive but not anxiety is associated with glucose metabolism status.
However, the results presented here provide insight to methodological aspects of the epidemiological study of mental health problems from population based samples that have not been scrutinized to date and present frequencies of children and adolescents showing clinical relevant symptoms that as a minimum call for further diagnostics.
