Age, gender, highest educational level achieved, group (SCD vs. AA), employment status, frequency of visit to SCU, pain crises frequency and other symptoms characteristic of SCD were used as covariates in our regression models.
The effects of factors including randomized treatment, age, gender, pre-treatment crises frequency, Hb-F level mean, daily pain from 4-week pre-treatment diaries, and 2-year Hb-F response level (low or high) were investigated.
Published investigations of possible lunar cycle influence on crisis call frequency since 1974 have been mainly American: Weiskot [ 5], De Voge & Mikawa [ 6], Michelson, Wilson & Michelson [ 7], Wilson & Tobacyk [ 8], but also Canadian: Byrnes and Kelly [ 9] and Bickis, Kelly & Byrnes [ 10].
Among the many arcane corners of the financial world highlighted by the Wall Street crisis, high-frequency trading — in which computers scan billions of bits of market data for trading opportunities that may exist for mere fractions of a second — has generated a surprising amount of discussion.
UK crisis-call frequency data, for which no analyses have hitherto been published, is valuable because it is separated by sex.
Four years of daily crisis-call frequency data, 1995 98, from Milton Keynes, a town in central England, were obtained, and frequencies by sex were compared for the lunar month and days of the week.
If this concept has validity it should be evident in crisis-call frequencies.
In contrast to earlier published surveys, this source had crisis-call frequencies available for men and women separately.
Would the sex-effect earlier reported in attempted suicides, of an excess of women over men at new moon periods, appear in crisis-call frequencies?
