In surveillance areas where most sentinel groups had an adequate sample size to estimate %PNSP accurately (i.e., the number of isolates met the sample size requirement), sentinel groups performed well compared with population-based surveillance (Table 2).
It is a possibility that those people who the authors have followed up with may be a self-selecting group who have been relatively well compared with those (84% of the initial cohort or 75% of the survivors) people who died or became too unwell to be reassessed during the course of follow-up.
WHILE the combined earnings of the 10 largest securities firms declined from the first quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2002, the group did not lose money, performing well compared with other recent turbulent periods.
"Well, compared to 2007, definitely.
As well, comparing overall septic group to nonseptic group there was no significant difference in parameters of CFT, alpha angle (p > 0.05), but when looking closer to cloth strength, parameter A10 was borderline (p = 0.056), MCF was significantly higher in septic patients (p < 0.05) and fibrinolysis was significantly decreased in sepsis (p < 0.05) represented by parameters LI60 and ML.
Well, "compares" is a stretch.
However, the distribution of C1858T and T1858T genotypes carrying the predisposing allele did not differ significantly between males and females in the patient group as well as compared with the control group (Table 3).
There were significantly more positive cultures for S. pneumoniae in the well group when compared with the ill group.
In the first series of models, ORs were generated for the low mental well-being group compared to the middle-range group and in the second series for the high mental well-being group compared to the middle-range group.
However, the elevated risk in the well-controlled group compared to the normotensive group was not explained by baseline differences in blood pressure.
