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A more recent publication by Xu et al. [ 12] quantified the true backscattering coefficient µb and the attenuation coefficient µt of atherosclerotic tissues (Table 1>), corroborating the qualitative scheme for IVOCT plaques assessment proposed by the former study [ 11].

Our observations at TOK1 and TOK2 suggest the presence of strong interplate coupling around the Paleo-Zenisu ridge, consistent with the strengthening effect proposed by the former studies.

Furthermore, the cross-sectional study had a smaller sample size than the RCT which may explain some of the lack of statistical significance for differences by relative age in the former study.

In both cases the E1-E2 regiof of the HCV genome was analyzed by sequencing viral clones and the former study also included clones from the NS5A region.

In the former study by Kraus and colleagues [ 17], patients were categorized into one of two groups (patients who survived and patients who died).

In the former study by Kraus and colleagues [ 17],there were no normal subjects for comparison that may mask the true difference in adhesion molecules in different disease severities.

The present work extends the former study by focusing on the main infection that occurs in the ICU, namely pneumonia, with the aim to determine whether workload influences the risk for VAP and whether this effect is similar for early-onset and late-onset VAP.

The difference might have been caused by the different age group because the former study's participants were much older (standard age groups of 35 44 and 65 74 years old).

Such discrepancies with our study may be explained by a sampling of siblings in the former study therefore implying fewer recombination events than in a core collection encompassing a high diversity and several generations between individuals.

26 27 The difference between the results of Imbriaco et al 27 and Koskenvuo et al 24 might be explained by the younger mean age of the former study's patient cohort (35 years (Imbriaco) vs 41 years (Koskenvuo) vs 46 (EG) and 50 (LG) years (our population)).

For instance, in the present study, extraction was performed successively (not the whole crude extract) by hot extraction method, whereas in the former study, cold extraction method was employed and the growth inhibition assays were performed using crude (or whole) extract.