We included patients who were stabilised on one of the coumarin anticoagulants acenocoumarol or phenprocoumon and who had started using one of the following antibiotics between January 2001 and October 2003: co-trimoxazole, amoxicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, clarithromycin, doxycyclin, nitrofurantoin, norfloxacin or trimethoprim.
Four additional participants were tested but excluded from the analysis: one had a new epileptic seizure 1 month after testing; the data from one participant were excluded as she never stabilised on the staircase in the perceptual task (see below; Levitt, 1971); and demographic data from two participants were missing.
By including two screening steps (T1 and T2) we were able to evaluate the difference between the level of ADHD symptoms on admission (T1) and one week later (T2), when they had been detoxified or stabilised on treatments such as methadone.
But in China air pollution deaths have roughly stabilised on 2005 figures.
Now is time for the critical decisions: do we stabilise on scene or do we scoop and run?
Stabilised on methadone, I became nearly unemployable by polite society: a shiftless, untrustworthy coke-sniffer, sneak thief and corner-cutting hack, toiling in the culinary backwaters.
The SOEs shed tens of millions of jobs under Mr Jiang, but their share of urban employment has stabilised on Mr Hu's watch.
There are large numbers of patients who are stabilised on the epilepsy treatment and the effect of withdrawing it could be catastrophic".
Two-thirds of the patients, stabilised on a regular daily heroin dose, find a job either in the open market or in state-subsidised schemes.
Asian markets stabilised on Tuesday after suffering significant losses across the board the previous day, but investors remain cautious as long as doubts hang over the future of Greece's membership of the eurozone.
