The observed trends have led to decline in vegetation resources and consequently biodiversity in the study area.
Later, additional in-patients who met the aforementioned criteria were consequently enrolled in the study from April 2008 to July 2009.
Of the 1561 total workers, 1294 workers (82.9%) who returned the questionnaire were consequently included in the study (participant rates for municipality workers, hospital medical workers, and firefighters were 75.1%, 84.8%, and 99.7%, respectively).
339 chronic hepatitis B patients with HBsAg-positive were investigated retrospectively, and divided at random into 2 subsets with twice as many patients in the training set as in the validation set; 116 additional patients were consequently enrolled in the study as the testing set.
One could expect that women in the EA group would have reported higher pain scores than women in the SC and MA groups, both during labour and when asked 2 months later, as women who received EA used a lower frequency of epidural and consequently remained in the study longer and continued to make pain assessments in a later and more painful stage of labour than the other two groups.
The genotype distribution and allele frequencies of the SNPs for MMP-2, -7, -8, -9, TIMP-1 and -2 for the 79 gastric cancer patients and 169 control subjects are summarised in Table 2. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms −1306C>T and −1575G>A for MMP-2 were found to be in complete linkage disequilibrium and consequently, in the rest of the study only MMP-2−1306C>T will be described.
We are, consequently, in the case previously studied.
A selection bias was probably present in this study because female and public schools students were more likely to return the consent by the legal guardian and consequently they were overrepresented in the study.
Systemic vasculitis is rare in children and consequently the study population was relatively small and heterogeneous; that said, we did not observe any obvious difference in EPC function between different forms of vasculitis in this study, and have previously demonstrated that downstream endothelial injury processes are similar across different forms of paediatric vasculitides [ 16, 18, 25, 59].
