The study was approved by the local ethics committee (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, ethics committee), and written informed consent was obtained by all subjects enrolled in the study according to the Declaration of Helsinki.
During 2005-2008, pre-pregnancy and pregnancy-related data on dietary supplementation were obtained by interviewing 539 pregnant women enrolled at two obstetrics-care facilities in Durham County, North Carolina.
Similar data were obtained by Gruber et al., who enrolled one hundred and twenty non-obese subjects, including 48 migraineurs and 72 healthy volunteers; they found high levels of insulin in migraine patients and also showed a link between migraine-related hyperinsulinemia and increased NO stress [42].
Selection effects can be related to the relative generosity of MA plan versus FFS plan payment rates, the fact that wealthier elderly would have to give up supplemental coverage to enroll in managed care, the benefits to lower income elderly of obtaining 'free' Part B coverage by enrolling in managed care plans, and other socio-economic factors varying from place to place [5, 18, 25 27].
Patients were enrolled after informed consent was obtained by the Leukemia Service at MSKCC.
If a participant meets eligibility criteria, informed written consent is obtained by the interviewer and he or she is enrolled in the study.
Patients were identified and enrolled by research nurses (with consent obtained by clinical research fellows); treatment assignment was performed by a third party.
Ethical approval for the study enrolling patients with MS was obtained by the IRB of Witten/ Herdecke University(#21/2012).
And in January, VA officials reviewed pending applications for 173,000 vets and found that nearly 18,000 of them should have been enrolled, according to an internal VA document obtained by The Huffington Post.
A November 2009 email from April Cumpston, a director of admissions at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh's online division, obtained by The Huffington Post, gives a sense of the pressure to enroll students.
