In order to improve the clinical data analysis of CGD patients, many data from other countries will have to be added, while the quality of newly added information has to be warranted.
LS participated in the recruitment of patients and clinical data analysis.
MB participated in patient recruitment, collection and review of clinical data, clinical data analysis, clinical figure design, project coordination and biostatistical analysis.
AH participated in patient recruitment, collection and review of clinical data, clinical data analysis and interpretation and project coordination.
NP contributed to patient recruitment and clinical data analysis.
Chien-Ting Liu, Yi-Ching Chen, and Kun-Ming Rau collected the clinical data of patients and performed statistical data analysis.
Correlation analysis was performed on the clinical data of patients, the percentage changes of BMD values, and the PTH levels measured at the beginning of study, using SPSS software.
It should be noted that a previous reported analysis of clinical data indicates that patients with elevated P-REX1 levels in breast tumors had a shorter disease-free survival, and a multivariate analysis for known prognostic markers in breast cancer showed that P-REX1 is an independent marker [ 25].
Analysis of clinical data revealed that patients diagnosed as having UES exhibited a significantly shorter DFS (16.8 vs. 86.3 %; P = 0.0007) and OS (50 vs. 88.2 %; P = 0.0234) compared to those having low-grade ESS.
SP provided clinical data of patients included in the meta-analysis and critically revised the manuscript.
Underlining the good validity of the retrospective analysis, clinical data of the patients are very similar to those gained prospectively in a population of 465 travellers with imported dengue infection presenting at 43 European travel clinics [ 23] where 63% were reported to have headache, 52% muscle pain, and 34% rash.
