In an attempt to exclude the early effects of comorbidity on general mortality, deaths occurring within the first 6 months after diabetes diagnosis were excluded in a second sub-group analysis in Table 5.
Many referrals for OI diagnostics occur in the context of suspected NAI in an attempt to exclude a genetic cause of fractures.
3) The authors did some analysis in an attempt to exclude attentional explanations for their findings.
Please also see our response to a similar point raised by Reviewer 3, point 1. 3) The authors did some analysis in an attempt to exclude attentional explanations for their findings.
This was in an attempt to exclude possible effects caused by the microbial production process or the transgenes other than the target transgenes.
In an attempt to exclude possible contamination with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the IL-22 preparations, IL-22 was administered into the joints of TLR4−/− mice, and articular hypernociception and neutrophil migration were determined.
Finally, because of the high mortality rate in our cohort, we restricted analyses to women who survived at least the first 365 days of follow-up in an attempt to exclude women with more advanced disease at presentation.
Of course, some American states did impose "literacy" qualifications, often in an attempt to exclude African-Americans from voting, but aside from African-Americans in southern states, essentially all American men could vote by the Civil War.
While the sewer lines and storm water drains for the city are theoretically separate, there are in fact many illegal connections, and thus ash entered both the stormwater and sewer networks despite barriers and sandbags being put in place in an attempt to exclude it.
Studies conducted in developing countries (i.e. outside North America, Europe, Australia, Israel and Japan [ 16]) were excluded in an attempt to exclude mothers with suboptimal nutritional status.
