Proportions of patients who satisfied all or each of the components of the therapeutic goals did not differ between groups at either the fourth or eighth year.
In the regular diet group, the Kruskall-Wallis test indicates a significant difference between groups at the end of the first and the second UCMS procedure (week 7: H3, 33 = 25.1, p<0.001; week 20: H33 33 = 20.2, p<0.001).
There were significant differences in gestational age at first visit between groups at the two health facilities, as the majority of women at BDHC attended before 28 weeks (58.4% presented between 21 and 28 weeks) while 40.6% of women accessing care at PMH only presented after 28 weeks.
Similarly, in the high fat diet group, the Kruskall-Wallis test indicates a significant difference between groups at the end of both the first and the second UCMS regimen (week 7: H3, 38 = 8.5, p<.05; week 20: H38 38 = 15.9, p<0.01).
The Kruskall-Wallis test failed to establish any difference between groups at the end of the first UCMS procedure (week 7: H7, 71 = 11.8, ns), and at the end of the second UCMS procedure (week 20: H 7, 71 = 12.6, ns) (data not shown).
Means and standard deviation (SD) of the groups are reported; there were no significant differences between groups At the time of the first bronchoscopy, 10 mL saline was instilled into a lung subsegment (either the right middle lobe or lingula) followed by instillation of the test dose of reference endotoxin (4 ng/kg in 10 mL saline) into the contralateral lung.
Although there were significant differences in VAS score between two groups at the first and second postoperative day, the MD and 95 % CI were very small (MD = −0.47, 95 % CI:−0.74 to−0.20 and MD = −0.66, 95 % CI:−1.14 to−0.19 respectively).
Regarding patients' satisfaction, Mann-Whitney tests did not show significant differences between groups at baseline (p = .366) but showed significant differences between groups at the second assessment time (p = .047) (Table 2).
There was no difference in analgesic effect between PCEA and PCIA group at third postoperative day.
At the last day of measurement, nine patients with a positive cumulative energy balance (PCEB) (89 kcal/kg, range: 3 446) had a significant higher RQ than eight patients with a negative cumulative energy balance (NCEB) (-21 kcal/kg range: –53 to –4), (resp. 0.89 vs 0.83, P < 0.01), whereas there was no significant difference in RQ between these groups at the first day of measurement.
