In addition, as baseline values are known to be highly heterogeneous due to inter-subject variability (organ depth, subcutaneous thickness and composition), we report changes in those values as median percentage change (range) from the nearest baseline, each animal being its own control.
Each parameter was varied by a range of 50% from the baseline cost used in the reference scenario, based on sensitivity reports from the literature, typically ranging from 20 50% of the original cost value [ 35, 44- 46].
Replication sample III comprises 2,005 male subjects (mean age 50.91 ± 16.41 years; range = 20 80) from the baseline cohort of the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP), conducted in North‐East Germany.
Mean and median values for measured hematology and blood chemistry parameters (including ALT, AST, LDH, and bilirubin) remained within the normal range from baseline to the end of the study, with the exception of two elevated findings (AST and ALT) at the end-of-study visit in the 100-mg once-daily (q.d).
Mean values for most of the hematology and blood chemistry parameters remained within the normal range from baseline to the end of the study, and there were no significant differences between placebo and control mean values.
Both groups had on average two assessable microdissected histological targets (range 1 8) per patient from the baseline (pre-progression) exam.
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In the method, the value of a single parameter was randomly selected from a restricted range of values while all other parameter values were randomly selected from the full range permitted by the baseline parameter space.
Follow-up interviews were completed, on average, 1.98 years from the baseline survey (range 1.19 3.01 years).
The data time-periods are not the same - Malawi's baseline data range from the last quarter of 2005 to early 2008, compared with the start of 2004 to the end of 2007 for Zambia - but clear differences as well as similarities in trends are evident.
