For patients at increased risk of end stage renal disease (ESRD) but also of premature death not related to ESRD, such as patients with diabetes or with vascular disease, analyses considering the two events as different outcomes may be misleading if the possibility of dying before the development of ESRD is not taken into account [ 49].
The vast majority of mobile phone stores are misleading customers about the possibility of price increases on so-called "fixed contracts", according to a consumer watchdog.
As MR imaging can show lesions of different natures, the possibility of misleading features in immature HO should be considered during evaluation of a pelvic MR examination performed for an infection process.
We found no obvious specific signs to distinguish HELLP from TTP; and, in the cases reported here, the ratio LDH/ASAT was not helpful [ 20], underscoring the possibility of misleading presentation [ 24].
In addition, or alternatively, it might be misleading to ignore the possibility that caries formation is a result of two relatively independent events: initial acid infiltration and late demineralization, as shown experimentally.
First, expressing human cDNAs in a yeast deletion mutant diminishes the possibility of misleading phenotypic readouts by eliminating unwanted side effects of the residual yeast protein that is present in partial loss-of-function alleles.
Thus, irrespective of the plasmid or viral vector used for transfer of the regulatory units, the surrounding sequences were kept constant to rule out the possibility of misleading results caused by unpredictable effects of different spacing or altered sequence elements.
n.s.: statistically not significant (p > 0.05) To reduce the possibility of misleading results based on the distribution of missing data, we decided to impute missing values by multiple imputation, which is considered to be the statistically most valid imputation method [ 10].
Our results, however, are not exempt from limitations, mainly related to the high complexity involved in the evaluation of the performance of diagnostic tests and the possibility of misleading published studies which are not available through Medline searches, in addition to the heterogeneity of design across studies.
We minimised the possibility of misleading data from the effects of undiagnosed cancer in new medical records by excluding prescriptions, diagnoses of co-morbidities and records of body mass index made within the 12 months prior to the date of the diagnosis or pseudo-diagnosis of cancer.
