However, a comparison of some important characteristics showing no major differences between the survey participants and non-responding clinics is reassuring that the clinics which responded are representative (table 2).
Many readers who responded are concerned about "emissions and pollution from vehicles, especially in areas of central London" - as well they may be.
The researchers emphasize that their tests of the product as a cosmetic treatment, where most subjects responded, are separate from their tests of it as a medical product, where they do not yet know the response rate.
Some of the patients who responded are still alive after a year or more, whereas the nonresponders lived on average only 7.6 months.
"I am enclosing for information details of our recent annual survey which showed that 85% of the 1,000 people who responded are opposed to the rebrand of our club".
BlogHer cofounder Elisa Camahort Page sent along an e-mail sharing the findings from the site's straw poll: "Over half the women who responded are still having fun with the name.
