Compared to Schädlich et al., 6-min walking distance in our study was considerably lower at baseline.
This was especially true for rural hospitals that started from a considerably lower capacity baseline before the reform.
In all patients, the HBV replication at month 1 was considerably lower than that at baseline; the median reduction of HBV DNA level was 3.2 log10 IU/mL, which gradually reduced to 2.3 log10 IU/mL at 3 months, and this decrease was paralleled by a decrease in the serum ALT levels.
The smaller magnitude of the change in HbA1c compared with that achieved in the RCT may reflect the high proportion of individuals enrolled in the program with initial HbA1c values at or close to target, with the mean HbA1c of the cohort being considerably lower than the mean baseline value of 9.4% reported for the RCT.
Mean SF-6D scores in patients with RA at baseline (0.529) were considerably lower than age and gender-matched norms (0.822).
The 3.15 million yen per case (around US$26,700) that were used for the baseline case are considerably lower than estimates for the US (US$38,1004444 or England (£25,000 or US$37,500).
31 However, as the minimal clinically important difference may vary by population and by context, 32 these numbers might not be generalisable to our primary care study population in which PFDI-20 baseline scores were considerably lower.
The difference in AR between the Gail and Chen models was due to the fact that the Chen model includes breast density and therefore the baseline risk is considerably lower.
It is likely that the same predictors would apply, but given that mutations in these genes are rarer the magnitudes of their effects could be smaller (because they explain less familial aggregation) and the baseline would be considerably lower, perhaps by as much as 2 units on the LAMBDA scale.
With higher baseline values the MIC became considerably larger than one SEM, while with lower baseline values the MIC became much smaller than one SEM.
