As adequate toe flexor strength is also crucial in maintaining balance, it was hypothesised that poor toe flexor strength and toe deformities would increase the risk of falls in community-dwelling older people.
It was hypothesised that poor results of the Internet-based hearing screening would be associated with worse performance on the test of phonological representation (a rhyming test), lower quality of life and more self-reported hearing problems.
It is hypothesised that poorer or discrepant PS scores are associated with higher levels of psychological distress, rather than the level of activity.
It has been hypothesised that slow acquisition of trial evidence due to poor recruitment may have reduced investment in the conduct of RCTs by some funding agencies, which may prefer to invest in less reliable, but more rapid approaches.
It has been hypothesised that hypometabolism reflects impairment, while hypermetabolism may indicate compensatory activity.
28 29 It has also been hypothesised that under ascertainment of AF could explain some divergences, with a reported lower burden of AF in African-Americans potentially a result of poorer access to medical care.
It can be hypothesised that experienced nurses with poor CS may have developped professional stress that may have induced a higher motivation for training, and may explain that they benefit most of the training.
It was hypothesised that patients with a poorer dental status (presence of decayed teeth, calculus, dental plaque, gingivitis, infectious dental processes, mucosal lesions, untreated fractured permanent anterior teeth and children with treatment needs…) would have lower COHIP scores.
It is hypothesised that across two national surveys poor self-rated health will be independently associated with somatisation and will result in high rates of service use after adjusting for established diagnoses.
It is hypothesised that across both surveys: (1) poor self-rated health will be powerfully and independently associated with neurasthenia and health anxiety and (2) that this association will also manifest itself in high rates of reassurance seeking, reflected by high rates of service use independent of established psychiatric and physical diagnoses.
