The deficit panel's chairmen, Erskine B. Bowles and Alan K. Simpson, called for a phased-in program of modestly higher taxes and cuts to social programs and the military.
Their current plan, called a "preferred provider organization," enables them to see doctors outside the network for a modestly higher cost.
Within young and old, the incremental cost and QALYsDW gained are both estimated to be larger for Māori and the ICER modestly higher for Māori (e.g. $25,300 for Māori ≥ 65 years compared to $23,300 for non-Māori ≥ 65 years).
In addition, although a recent multivariate meta-analysis of 41 single- and multisite pharmacotherapy trials conducted from 1992 to 2009 found that the effect size for naltrexone was modestly higher than placebo, its clinical success for promoting abstinence and reducing heavy drinking has declined steadily since the earliest single-site studies (Del Re et al. 2013).
Even so, the reëlection of a Republican House was no more a repudiation of, for example, levying modestly higher taxes on the highest incomes than was the reëlection of the President or the strengthening of the Democratic majority in the Senate.
But if we demand higher standards for all countries — modestly higher standards, so that we're not talking about driving the business back to advanced countries — we can achieve an improvement in workers' lives (and fewer horrible workers' deaths), without undermining the export industries these countries so desperately need.
The areas under the ROC curves for IMT and baPWV were similar (0.590 and 0.583, respectively), although that for FRS was modestly higher (0.645).
There was no significant effect modification by diabetes (P ≥ 0.13) except in the case of LpPLA2 activity's relation to total/HDL cholesterol (P = 0.007), for which the partial coefficient was modestly higher for nondiabetic than diabetic participants (r = 0.59 vs. 0.47).
The overall incidence of AEs was modestly higher for subjects treated with canagliflozin compared with placebo (Table 4).
The increase in S-oxidation for these cysteines was modestly higher (2 8%); however, these cysteine residues remained substantially unreactive toward nitrosative stress.
