The absolute difference (non-manual minus manual) in probability of surviving death from cancer to 70 years remained at 3% over the follow-up.
For each time point, score differences for sonic minus manual and rotary oscillatory minus manual are visually depicted using bar plots in Fig. 4a, b.
The means ± standard deviations of manual measurement minus automated measurement across all subjects were −1.6 ± 8.7, −1.4 ± 7.8, and 1.0 ± 5.8 for EDV, ESV, and EF, respectively.
Only in the post-brushing condition were the scores from sonic minus manual significantly (p < 0.1) higher than the scores from rotary oscillatory minus manual, indicating the preference for sonic compared with rotary oscillatory or manual toothbrush.
Also, the mouthfeeling scores for sonic minus manual was higher (not significant) than the mouthfeeling scores for rotary oscillatory minus manual brushing, over different time points in a day.
Main outcome measure Difference in systolic blood pressure between awake ambulatory blood pressure minus automated office blood pressure and awake ambulatory blood pressure minus manual office blood pressure.
Two different commercially available methods were used following the manufacturers' instructions: the automated nucleic acid extractor NucliSens EasyMag (BioMerieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France) and the manual QIAmp DNA blood mini kit (Qiagen, Basel, Switzerland).
This is the future, minus the manual refresh lark of course!
Blood samples were collected via venipuncture into vacutainer ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid tubes and used for manual DNA purification using QiaAmp mini DNA kits (QIAGEN, Venlo, Netherlands).
Fifteen 10 µm thick sections per biopsy were cut and collected in the same tube and their DNA extracted as instructed by the protocol for fixed tissues found in the manual of the QIAamp DNA mini Kit (Qiagen Inc., Valencia, California).
