For the current study, subjects were additionally excluded if they did not have longitudinal serum creatinine data in the HUP electronic medical records or had baseline eGFR less than 60 mleaving.73 m, leaving a final sample size of 400 subjects.
For the current study, control subjects with low scores by both models were classified as having low risk of breast cancer; they were highly unlikely to be BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.
A total of 124 healthy subjects were randomly selected for the current study from 1500 subjects without a personal history of disease.
Many of the traits that we have measured in the human subjects for the current study are currently being followed up in mice.
In the KNHANES 2001 (which included 8,064 subjects aged ≥10 years), 6,601 individuals aged ≥20 years were selected as subjects for the current study, and 5,501 individuals aged ≥20 years were selected from the KNHANES 2005 (which included 7,597 subjects aged ≥10 years).
Subjects for the current study were drawn from an expanding database of more than 8,000 subjects at the Osteoporosis Centre, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong.
This stability in particular was essential for the current study, which used within-subject manipulations over hundreds of days.
Eligibility criteria for the current study included: living PMRP subjects with known addresses who consented to future contact and were not currently living in a nursing home.
For reasons not specified in the article, Qi et al. used 738 subjects for the current study, a number that apparently includes almost 100 noncompleters as defined in the original publication.
All subjects for the current study were collected from one of the following population studies: 1) the Study of Health Assessment and Risk in Ethnic Groups [ 12]; 2) the Sandy Lake Health and Diabetes Project [ 13]; and 3) the Greenland Population Study [ 14].
