We excluded and removed case-reports, studies that did not make comparisons with activity or land-based exercise and those that made comparisons of how to use local or immersion electrodes in water.
With this selection criteria, and after removing eighty-six cases that had missing data, and after removing one twin from each MZ twin pair, we were left with a final sample size of N = 872 male participants.
The extracted data required cleaning to remove irrelevant cases that were mistakenly selected by the keyword search (see Figure 1).
Using the incidence function and survival time distribution it is then possible to remove incidence cases that would have been diagnosed prior to enrollment as described in Pinsky 2009[ 14].
Removing the cases that were atypical mycobacteria, double-registered, misclassified or for which culture did not grow, and adding the 7 cases belonging to 2002 and 2006, DNA fingerprinting results were available for 555 cases (74% of all culture-positive cases participating in the study).
Discussions are confidential, and honours are removed only in cases that threaten to bring the system into disrepute, which rather assumes that it isn't in disrepute already.
On Monday, the court ruled that judges must remove themselves from cases that involve people who donated huge sums to help them get elected.
In the study, all the cases that removed the catheter were forced.
It is one of hundreds of cases that were removed from bankruptcy court this spring for separate consideration by a Federal District Court judge, Jed S. Rakoff.
Of the seven cases that were removed due to inability to confirm the diagnosis with information gathered from the Medical Records Verification Form, over half were patients seen by the reporting neurologist after having received a diagnosis elsewhere.
