Kate Stables grew up in the UK and later relocated to Paris, where she records as This Is the Kit.
Clinical data (diagnostic details, cancer treatment, cancer stage, and presence of comorbidities), were abstracted from medical records, as this information was not available from the QCR.
A weakness of the study relates to the retrospective evaluation of patient records as this approach could result in underreporting of treatments and counselling.
From the virtual species distribution generated in Step 1, we randomly selected 130 presence records, as this number borders on typical for some moderately well-known species in many of the databases we have worked with.
Medical practices were chosen because they all used the same software system for electronic medical records, as this would facilitate student training, however, utilising additional systems would increase the number of general practitioner practices available for recruitment.
We did not quantify dietary salt intake based on dietary records as this is considered unreliable due to recall bias, variations of sodium content of common food items, lack of information on sodium added during cooking or at the table and imprecision with estimating portion size [ 20, 21].
