In Indonesia, the incident number of cases detected from 2001 2011 has varied significantly over time.
Others have argued that estimates of the number of incident cases of DR TB (rather than just the fraction of incident cases which are resistant) is also an important statistic to report [34], [35].
Furthermore, as with retrospective studies in general, the level of ascertainment of incident cases is of concern.
The major shortcoming of our study is the small number of incident cases of diabetes leading to wide confidence intervals.
The TDD incidence was calculated by dividing the total number of incident cases of TDD by the total person-years.
In Spain, a registry of incident cases of ILD was set up from October 2000 to September 2001 [ 20].
These all involve the same numerator: the number of incident cases of disease (b).
And there may have been some selection bias since only 32% of incident cases of colorectal cancer were approached.
An excess of incident cases of breast cancer was also seen in a smaller Japanese study (Minami et al, 2000).
Women were not included, as the database contains an insufficient number of incident cases of diabetes to facilitate meaningful analyses.
