Since the QThrombosis algorithm is new (box 2), we had no established thresholds for defining a high risk group.
However, as the risk of diabetes increased as the HbA1c level increased, a certain degree of arbitrariness in the cut-off point for defining a high-risk group is unavoidable.
The aim of this study was to determine an HbA1c cut-off value for defining a high-risk group that corresponds to the FPG cut-off value (5.6 mmol/l) [ 1, 2] by comparing the risk of developing diabetes against the FPG and HbA1c levels in a Japanese population.
The aim of this study was to determine the HbA1c cut-off for defining a high-risk group that corresponds to the fasting plasma glucose cut-off by comparing the risk of diabetes against the fasting plasma glucose and HbA1c levels in the Japanese population.
Regrettably, there is no consensus regarding criteria for defining an ethnic group.
To determine the cell-cycle phenotype, we selected a cut point of 30% for Mcm2 protein expression to define a group (Mcm2 <30%, phenotype I) in which the majority of tumour cells reside in an out-of-cycle state (Supplementary Figure 3, Figure 4).
If I were asked to define and confine myself using only one term, I wouldn't hesitate long before I chose the word "geek". For decades, young Americans on the fringes of youth culture were denounced and condemned as "geeks". Over time, the term served as common ground for these outcasts; it came to define a group of nerds who fit in together by not fitting in with anyone else.
(For convenience, we define a group "-" for each IS family to accommodate the IS elements with no group information in that family in the ISfinder database. So there are 47 IS groups in total, including the "-" group for each of the 20 IS families).
The eligibility criteria for this study defined a group at lower risk (one or more of the risk factors: presence of embryonal carcinoma or vascular invasion, or stage >pT2).
Face to face attendance with the GP on 30 or more occasions in two years, excluding routine health monitoring such as international normalised ratio (INR) monitoring for patients taking warfarin, defined a group of patients who were in the top ten per cent of attenders for each of the two years [ 4] in two differing pilot practices.
For each desired SNP, we defined a group of individuals without a minor allele (G = 0) and with at least one minor allele (G = 1) and estimated the mean baseline PSA in these two groups.
