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Given the large number of excluded measures, it is acknowledged that some of those measures might have environmental effects as well.
By domain, the excluded measures that do not appear to play a large role follow.
We excluded measures aimed at reducing short-term sickness absence among people who were in employment.
We excluded measures of quality of life, satisfaction, mortality, hospital admissions, process of care or clinical parameters that were not surrogates of the course of disease.
We should have excluded measures of early life experiences as well on this basis, however to ensure we had adjusted for environmental differences during growth we also included leg length and seated height in one of the models.
In a multivariate analysis (reported in the text below) that excluded measures of prior health system contact, the odds of being diagnosed with stage III/IV disease were 76% higher (OR=1.76; 95% Confidence Interval [CI] 1.37 – 2.28; p < 0.0001) for patients with previously undiagnosed diabetes (compared to previously diagnosed diabetes).
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Liver disease was excluded measuring liver enzymes.
Moreover, they are more likely to be independent from the business cycle, hence this exercise allows us to test the robustness of the results to excluding measures more suspicious of suffering from endogeneity (see the discussion in Sect. 2.3).
According to the IFS, pensioner households will be £119 a year better off as a result of the changes this month, while working age households without children will be £156 worse off - figures which exclude measures targeting the "very rich".
Feature selection was not used other than excluding measures which resulted in non-significant models.
The Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory [ 28, 29] specifically excludes measures of self-poisoning.
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