Because the iControl has more than 3000 samples, we treat it as a background population for our TCGA analysis and use it as a control group (that is also used in AGS).
It is possible that women enrolled into our cohort differ from the background population of DES daughters.
Our patients are likely to be representative of the general population of patients with newly diagnosed clinical, symptomatic diabetes in this age group because of the well-defined background population in each general practice, the unchanged inclusion activity during the inclusion period, and the small number of exclusions [ 9].
Our patients are likely to be representative of Danish patients with newly diagnosed, clinical, often symptomatic diabetes in this age group because of the well-defined background population in each general practice, the unchanged inclusion activity during the inclusion period, the small number of primary exclusions, and the acceptable participation in the eye examinations [ 24].
Even with the lower representation of technical specialties in our study population compared to the background population we feel confident that the results reflect the population in general.
The simulated disease outbreak is called an inject because it is injected over the background population.
Mortality in the high-risk population may be higher than in the background population because of causes unrelated to HCV (e.g. overdoses and accidents).
As mentioned previously, the CopDiff sample is expected to have a higher morbidity than the background population because these people were referred for blood testing.
They studied a large cohort (n = 3,028) of self-referred individuals who may have been at higher risk than the background population because one in five reported hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, and a family history of premature CHD.
Births at the Aarhus and Odense Obstetric departments were overrepresented among horticulture workers compared to the background population, because participants were primarily recruited in hospitals located in these two cities.
