However, within the limits of the recently available publications on randomized controlled clinical trials and prospective clinical cohort studies, the tendency revealing from the studies' results favors the platform switching technique to prevent or minimize peri-implant marginal bone loss, compared with implants with platform matching abutments.
Moreover, restrained eaters reported lower ratings of prospective food consumption postprandially, and a tendency towards higher fullness/lower hunger.
Prospective studies show that there is a tendency towards weight gain over time [ 33, 34].
Although the group comparison suggests that strong approach tendencies for cannabis, rather than weak avoid tendencies for cannabis, predict changes in prospective cannabis use in heavy users, the present findings with a relative measure are not conclusive regarding this issue.
The principal factor could be the need to restrict knowledge to prospective enterprise entrants due to the monopolistic tendencies of entrepreneurs.
Information on natural hair color at age 20 and childhood and adolescent tanning tendency were collected in the 1982 prospective questionnaire.
There was a tendency to underreporting compared with the prospective data and the administrative data, which has often been reported in studies analyzing retrospective patient-reported data compared with administrative or provider data [ 4, 5, 12, 37, 38].
Fluoroquinolones were less frequently administered to NHAP patients than to CAP patients as the initial antibiotic regimen in the present study; a similar tendency has been observed in former prospective studies.
Nevertheless, the similar PPV found in the retrospective evaluation indicates that the diagnostic tendency for meningococcal disease in the prospective evaluation was typical of the larger EDs across NSW that participate in the state ED Data Collection.
Kenneth L. Zimmerman Huntington Beach, Calif., July 6 , 2008 To the Editor: In "An Ideal Husband," Maureen Dowd offers Father Pat Connor's "mostly common sense" view of the negative character traits that young women should avoid in a prospective husband: abusiveness, drunkenness, financial irresponsibility and sociopathic tendencies.
Prospective studies on BMD changes after THA report a tendency of decrease in BMD during the first year after surgery.
