In our Chinese-predominant study population, the HRQoL instrument, EQ-5D, showed results and characteristics which were largely in line with Western data but with minor differences which were also observed with another HRQoL instrument in China.
A striking difference between the studies showing a positive drug effect (Table 1), and those failing to demonstrate a change in cough reflex sensitivity (Table 2) is the predominant subject populations studied.
Phylogenetic analysis revealed that genotype 6a was predominant in the study population.
Children were predominant in the study population, an observation that is in agreement with the reported incidence of KD.
Serotyping of MHC class I and II have found that A2, 3, 11 and 24, B51 and 60, and DR4, 9, 12, and 15, and DQ5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are the predominant among our study population (Table 1).
DENV-2 was the predominant serotype in our study population.
The predominant fiber type each study population was exposed to was ascertained from the literature.
This was not a predominant feature of our study population (Table 1).
For that reason, SNP rs1141718 was discarded for further analysis as it was predominant in all the study population.
The predominant views held in this study population regarding causes of mental disturbance incorporated both religious/magical and biopsychosocial.
Pulmonary disease was the predominant clinical presentation in the study population; however, extrapulmonary disease was reported more frequently for US-born blacks than for US-born whites (p<0.01).
