Except for minimal differences in systolic blood pressure (up to 3 mmHg), total cholesterol level (up to 0.15 mmol/l) and log triglycerides (up to 0.05), surplus metabolic syndrome cases had the same degree of impairment in measured variables whether they were categorized by IDF, NCEP or ACE definition (tables 6-10 in Additional files 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).
Although using a substantially smaller number of observations, the models using only level I geocoding and level I and II geocoding produced very similar coefficients and model fit compared with the model using levels I III geocoding, except for a minimal difference for some county-specific dummies.
Minimal differences for this instrument remain to be evaluated, for its role in research, training and practice.
Feng et al. showed that five-month-old female apoE-/-Fas-/ mice experienced a greater decrease in vertebral BMD than in femoral BMD by the time they reached nine months [ 16]; this could account for the minimal difference seen among the femoral BMD values of the different treatment groups.
Conception rate in cows within these categories, however, was greatest for CIDR_OBS, resulting in minimal differences in actual pregnancy rates between CIDR_OBS and CIDR_TAI treatments, both of which were superior to Ovsynch.
Qualitative consideration of rating differences as a function of the service sector (hospital vs community) and setting (large urban vs town/small city) revealed minimal differences for both women (difference of ±0.1) and men (difference ±0.3).
The program RNA-SSD uses a stochastic local search algorithm for identifying sequences with minimal differences between the predicted and the desired secondary structure.
While Lumetti et al. [ 21] reported minimal differences for allogeneic blocks when compared to autogenous blocks, Spin-Neto et al. [ 30] found major dissimilarities between them For the allogeneic bone block, large segments of necrotic bone with empty osteocytes lacunae and little osteoclastic activity, and minimal number of blood vessels invading Haversian canals were found.
Sensitivity analyses for the outpatient and non-outpatient claims for the entire cohort showed minimal differences compared to the main analysis (Table 1).
The results suggest that a haptic accelerator pedal system is most effective for preventing over-acceleration, whilst minimal differences were observed between systems in terms of the effect of the assistance provided to prevent under-acceleration.
For specialized care, there are minimal differences also nonsignificant (surely the cause is higher heterogeneity in these studies).
