The most obvious limitation is that it only comprises elderly men.
Furthermore, the controls included in our study also comprised elderly persons willing to participate in the study.
As expected, our population was typical of hospitalized lung cancer patients and primarily comprised elderly male smokers in poor general health (WHO score >2).
Those lost to the program comprised elderly women who did not finish the program or those who missed six or more exercise sessions during the 10-week intervention.
Because the study population comprised elderly individuals, we further considered the potential for selection bias by performing a competing risk model for all non diabetes-related deaths.
The strength of this study is that this cohort of patients comprises elderly subjects with long duration of symptoms, high pain intensity, pronounced disability, low quality of life, small dural sac area, and multilevel disease.
Out of 132 patients, 17 were characterised by aged 75 or older, Karnofsky performance scale ≥70, absence of significant comorbidities and comprise the elderly group.
We would like the family to have a special connection or love of the park and they may comprise an elderly grandparent who was around in the 1920s, and has a photograph of themselves as a young child, and a young grandchild from the present day".
My chief memory of the experience was at an early performance on tour in Grimsby, where our audience comprised mainly elderly coach parties.
