Third, we evaluated only patients admitted to the ICU and, therefore, our findings cannot be extrapolated to patients treated in wards and in the emergency room.
All the non-unions identified for this study were diaphyseal fractures and the findings cannot be extrapolated to other regions of the tibia.
Although our findings cannot be extrapolated to tissue from the vascular zone of the meniscus, our use of avascular tissue prevented possible blood contamination, which would have made accurate comparison difficult.
Finally, participants in this study were adult, had a Karnofsky Score of ≥40; thus our findings cannot be extrapolated to hospitalized patients or children.
The present findings cannot be extrapolated the broad Autism spectrum, and further work is needed to explore amygdala function across a range of intellectual abilities.
Furthermore, our findings cannot be extrapolated to racial groups other than those represented in INFORM (Caucasians and African Americans) and should, therefore, be examined independently in other racial groups.
In addition, although the HIV status of the children was not available, the prevalence of TB and HIV co-infection among adults attending the TB Institute in Sana'a is low (<1%, unpublished), and the findings cannot be extrapolated to areas with high HIV prevalence.
Our findings cannot be extrapolated to other underserved groups.
Therefore, our findings cannot be extrapolated to such situations.
Unfortunately, these findings cannot be extrapolated to the national situation.
