The patient group with increased blood glucose levels showed a slightly, but significantly, higher muscular FDG uptake compared with the matched subgroup of patients with normal blood glucose levels.
Moreover, the multiple case design supports the inquiry by focusing on how local authorities develop their HR and organizational capabilities to adapt to institutional pressures, and the desire to match subgroups of the embedded HR-related processes to investigate why municipalities are more or less different in dealing with the challenge to leverage HRD to 'corporate' accounting change.
Furthermore, subanalyses of the matched subgroups were able to stratify the results according to tumor burden (presence or absence of PVI, and EHS).
After exclusion of 154 cases, Group 1 was further randomised into two matched subgroups containing 543 and 501 patients each.
In terms of glaucoma diagnosis in this study, the 2 largest exactly matched subgroups were the postsurgical and POAG groups.
Association with individual variants, present at a frequency of >5% in either the case or control population, was tested within this haplogroup matched subgroup.
In a further investigation of age- and gender-matched subgroups of RA (n = 25) and healthy subjects (n = 25), not only serum PON activity, but also lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) was found to be significantly decreased in RA patients (125 ± 61 μmol/min/L, 63.2 ± 17.2 °Col/ml/hr/37 °C) than in healthy subjects (169 ± 67, 74.7 ± 19.5), respectively.
Among an age-, time- and location-matched subgroups of these cohorts the Malaria Attributable Fractions were similar (Table 3).
The above findings were confirmed in propensity score-matched subgroups of long-stay patients.
For the RT-qPCR validation we used random age-matched subgroups of patients with proven CAD but no MI (n = 9 in each), selected from the control groups I and II.
