Sentence examples for possible control subjects from inspiring English sources

To minimize variation as much as possible, control subjects were matched to the AD cases for age, sex, fixation time, pH of the cerebrospinal fluid, and PMD.

For each case enrolled in the study, we attempted to identify four possible control subjects, based on a list of CD4 cell counts generated by the laboratory at each institution.

It is possible that control subjects who were included also had cutaneous melanoma.

None of the investigators reported protection against contamination (communication between experimental and control professionals) and it is possible that control subjects received the intervention.

In addition, in two of the studies, it is possible that control subjects who agreed to participate were self-selected for health-conscious behaviors, including eating a healthy diet rich in lignan precursors: the control participation rate was 72% in the Finnish study (Pietinen et al, 2001) and 33% in the Australian study (Ingram et al, 1997).

Disease misclassification was possible because some control subjects may have been subsequently diagnosed with CCA.

It is possible that eligible control subjects who chose to participate were those who tended to be more health conscious and thus different than the population that gave rise to the cases.

It is possible that RDD control subjects are spending more time outdoors than partner control subjects, resulting in more injuries than partners, because patients might have been more sedentary (for example, patients with DVT are generally more obese), and therefore their partners might also have been more sedentary either by assortative mating or a shared development of habits.

Totally 96 CSF samples from the patients diagnosed as "probable CJD", 6 samples from the patients of "genetic or familial CJD" and 22 samples from the patients who were not fulfill with criteria for probable or possible CJD as the control subjects were included for this study.

IFG subjects were matched for sex in all three categories and were matched as closely as possible for age to control subjects; however, adult IFG subjects in the IGT group were on average 2.4 years older than the control subjects (P = 0.03) (Table 3).

For an improved net reclassification, adding a variable to a risk score should lead to more case subjects who move up a risk category than down and, if possible, also to more control subjects who move down a risk category than up.