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Owing to the cross-sectional design, causality between alcohol consumption and medical services use could not be ascertained, although it seemed unlikely that the use of medical services had led to alcohol drinking.

The reasons for the contradictory behavior remain to be ascertained, although it is likely that they involve a modulation of the balance between the anti-apoptotic and pro-inflammatory functions of NF- kB while, at the same time, inducing the expression of interferon stimulated genes with chemo-attractant properties such as CCL-2/MCP-1 and CCL-5/RANTES [ 29].

The ideal subset of endometriosis patients who would benefit from medical intervention has not been ascertained although it would appear that those with more severe disease and/or with prior evidence of implantation failure might be the best candidates.

These patients were being treated with anti-TB therapy and assessment of clinical and radiological improvement for confirming TB disease at 2 months follow-up could not be ascertained, although improvement was noticed at the 1 month follow-up.

Whether this finding can be attributed to a lower clinical aggressiveness or to a higher chemosensitivity of high MVD tumours remains to be ascertained, although the latter hypothesis appears the most likely.

A reduction of 120 g in birth weight was reported (using documented birth weight only) from Zimbabwe (in a nationally representative sample from a demographic health survey of 1999), where only the main type of fuel was ascertained, although multiple fuel use was also reported to be common practice (Mishra et al. 2004).

Whether or not this model will "work" cannot be ascertained unless it's adopted.

Although it cannot be ascertained that the back muscle forces were the same between groups, the analysis of the principal (extension) and coupled (lateral bending and axial rotation) L5/S1 moments demonstrated that the main efforts were comparable.

This latter may also provide further evidence to suggest that infectivity does not appear to equal virulence in this snail-schistosome system [ 16, 25], although it remains to be ascertained as to which trait may have the greater genetic variability.

Although there is serological evidence that the calf had been infected with BVD virus, it cannot be ascertained whether the abnormality was due to the BVD virus infection.

Although in-hospital per cent mortality risks can be ascertained, inpatient deaths are usually at such low rates that it may be difficult to achieve adequate statistical significance.