Patients with no regular sinus rhythm, aortic valve disease or with impossibility to perform the echocardiographic measurements were excluded.
Forty subjects were enrolled, of which one subject was excluded because epiglottic views were unobtainable, and in this patient, all other measurements were excluded for reasons of consistency.
Those with IL-6 values below the lower limit of detection or with missing measurements were excluded, leaving 164 patients for analysis.
Those patients without completed chart data and/or available CT scanograms, or those with CT scanograms but without corresponding radiologist version measurements, were excluded from this study.
However, if the inter-analyzer discrepancy exceeded the MAD, either the data were not used or data from an analyzer suspected of producing invalid measurements were excluded and only data from the valid analyzer were used.
ECG measurements were available in the medical records for 28 subjects, but 2 subjects' ECG measurements were excluded from analysis because of a concurrent digoxin toxicity and a probable atrial flutter, respectively.
Three types of models have been proposed for such weak faults (Hardebeck and Hauksson, 2001): existence of over-pressured fluids on the fault (Rice, 1992; Sibson, 1992); existence of weak fault zone materials, although most of the candidate minerals tested by laboratory measurements were excluded (Morrow et al., 1992; Moore et al., 1996); and dynamic weakening of faults (Heaton, 1990).
These measurements were excluded from the study.
Subjects with counter-indications for eye-tracking measurements were excluded.
Lung function was measured annually over five years.[11], [13], [14] Lung function data from Annual Visit 1 to Annual Visit 5 was used for the current analyses and has been shown to have a good linear fit in previous LHS analyses.[11], [14] Subjects with <3 annual lung function measurements were excluded from analysis (n = 15), resulting in a final group of 414 subjects with data available.
In-patient measurements were excluded.
