The experts say that the drugs should be made available not just to those at risk not currently on anticoagulants but to those on warfarin who have poor monitoring, estimated to be a third of the total taking the drug.
Monitoring estimates refer to the number of chimpanzees reported during the study period for communities monitored for research or conservation (provided via pers. comm. as follows: Bulindi, Matthew McLennan; Kasokwa, Janette Wallis; Kasongoire, Geoffrey Muhanguzi).
CONCLUSION: Home BP monitoring produces estimates of mean night-time BP reductions comparable to those from ambulatory monitoring, while the differences varied among individual patients.
On average, the distance between home addresses and the nearest monitoring station was 6.7 miles in our study, and monitor-based estimates of CO, NO, and NO2 are questionable in their validity if air pollution measurements are more accurate representations of actual exposures for women living closer to a station (Ghosh et al. 2012 Wilhelmm et al. 2011).
ORs for autism per IQR increase in monitor-based estimates of entire pregnancy exposure to NO and NO2 were slightly smaller than associations with IQR increases in LUR-based estimates (Table 2).
Other work considered how close pregnant women lived to freeways, or used monitor-based estimates of air pollutants,, or models of traffic-related exposures to study links with ASD risk.
For PM2.5 and black carbon, monitor-based estimates (of PM2.5) were more highly correlated with personal exposures than were the LUR models (Nethery et al. 2007), Overall, these differences between the monitor-based and LUR model exposure estimates suggest that our finding of risks associated with both types of exposure estimates indicate some independence of these risks.
Ritz et al. (2007) reported associations between monitor-based estimates of air pollution exposure during pregnancy and PTD to be greater for women who did not work (and for whom a residence-based measure of exposure presumably is more accurate) than for women who worked outside their homes.
Models unadjusted for measurement error were more comparable for the two exposure assignment methods (1.13 (95%CI: 1.05-1.22) for the spatio-temporal model predictions and 1.12 (95%CI: 1.05-1.21) for the nearest monitor estimates), and the magnitude of HR increases and increases in the width of the 95% confidence intervals were comparable to those from the basic models.
