The first follow-up examination for 1,436 participants was done between March 2007 and March 2010 (mean follow-up of 4 years).
The 128 tooth surfaces of the permanent dentition were scored as carious or not by intra-oral examination for 1,068 participants aged 18 to 75 years from 664 biological families.
At follow-up examinations, all four examiners were assessed for reliability among 21 children, yielding paired examination findings for 2070 tooth surfaces.
Among these, 60/109 cases of choledocholithiasis were revealed by ultrasound examination, accounting for 55.05 %, while 49 cases showed no abnormality in the ultrasound examination.
Among them, 60 cases of choledocholithiasis were revealed by ultrasound examination, accounting for 55.05 %, while 49 cases of choledocholithiasis were not detected by ultrasound examination but were confirmed by MRCP instead (the missed diagnosis rate of ultrasound was 44.95 %).
The IC rate has been estimated as the number of tumors diagnosed in a defined time period since the last negative screening examination for every 1,000 women with negative mammography screenings.
Examiner reliability in diagnosing caries experience used data from 13 children at baseline, yielding paired examination findings for 1,252 tooth surfaces.
We analyzed questionnaire and physician examination data for 1560 new immigrants from the former USSR divided into three groups by potential exposure to Chernobyl radiation.
Each of the Final Examination papers for 2005 and 2006 contained 15 MEQs and there were a total of 68 and 70 sections respectively (average 4.5 and 4.7 sections per question).
In the cardiometabolic risk in Chinese (CRC) study, we performed a community-based health examination survey for 6,431 individuals (18-93y) werewerandomlymly selected from residents living in the urban area of Xuzhou, China, in 2009.
