One patient (4%) with prominent articular disease did not show any improvement within four months, was assigned to another treatment, and was withdrawn from the study (Patient 6, Table 2).
For children who never attended daycare, an age of 72 months was assigned as the age when first started daycare, and a value of 0 was assigned as duration of stay, mean hours per week, mean number of children, total number of children, and total child hours.
Sixteen 9-month-old infants (8 female, mean age: 9 months, range: 8.3 9.8 months) were assigned to a new Short-wall Control group.
In this study female Saanen (n = 20) and Anglo Nubian (n = 20) goats aged six months were assigned by breed, body weight and fecal egg counts into four experimental groups (n = 10) (vaccinated or non-vaccinated).
Female Wistar rats aged 7 9 months were assigned to one of five groups: (1) sham + vehicle, (2) OVX + vehicle, (3) OVX + PTH, (4) OVX + alendronate, and (5) OVX + PTH and alendronate.
Furthermore, younger water buffaloes (<48 months) were assigned higher intensities of infection, as there is evidence of a self-cure effect in older animals [37], [38].
In the CYCAZAREM trial [ 19], 155 patients with generalized GPA and MPA received oral CY and PSL for at least 3 months, and patients who achieved remission by 6 months were assigned to treatment with azathioprine or oral CY.
Each model cycle represented a 90 day period, and patients remaining alive and active in care at the completion of 2 model cycles (approximately 6 months) were assigned a fixed lifetime program cost and health outcome.
Fifty-one infants (21 male, 30 female; age 6.9 13.1 months) were assigned to three groups according to the infant's age: seven to eight months (n = 17, mean = 7.7 months), nine to 10 months (n = 20, mean = 9.6 months) and 11 12 months (n = 14, mean = 11.7 months).
After obtaining written informed consent, patients taking lipophilic statins (atorvastatin or rosuvastatin) for at least 3 months were assigned to the statin group, whereas consenting, hypercholesterolemic patients not receiving any statins (LDL cholesterol >100 mg/dL) were allocated to the control group.
In this randomised, multicenter, open-label, three-way crossover study, patients ≥18 years with adult RA undergoing treatment with MTX for ≥3 months were assigned to receive MTX 10, 15, 20 and 25 mg weekly in a random sequence of three treatments: oral, SC into the abdomen and SC into the thigh.
