Although the cases in this cancer cluster may in fact have a common etiology, their small number and the length of time between diagnosis and our exposure assessment lessen the ability to find an association between leukemia and environmental exposures.
However, using census-tract level exposure information, as was used in this assessment, lessens the amount of potential exposure misclassification compared to using county-level information, which is commonly used in epidemiologic studies of environmental exposures [ 47, 70– 72].
(Some co-op boards, however, impose offsetting assessments at the same time to lessen the pain of the assessment).
Monthly or less frequent regimens lessen lifestyle disruption, preference assessments identify the attributes patients value, and bone turnover markers provide physiologic accountability.
Nevertheless, a significant lessening of the global assessment of disease activity by the patients was observed between V1 and V5 (P = 0.0047).
Thanks in part to assurances like these, the level of alarm in Southampton about the headaches associated with the tournament seems to have lessened and the assessments of the benefits are probably more realistic this time around.
Its design includes contributions extracted from a prior analysis of the existing assessment methods, to lessen the uncertainty of the job ratios often used in these types of analysis.
