Although polymorphism studies have lost their significance compared to previous years when genetic studies gained popularity, some polymorphisms in the genome have been reported to play considerable role in development of pathological conditions.
Various studies have lost patients due to suicide, which were counted as drop-outs; however, one could argue that suicide in terms of outcome should be listed in the "poor" outcome group, as suggested by Jarbin [ 50].
She got hold of some music - Beethoven, Liszt, Rachmaninoff - and as sanity slowly reasserted itself in China after Mao's death, she was able to resume her studies, having lost 15 years of her youth and musical development.
Five studies [ 35, 37, 44, 47, 56] did not indicate whether their studies had lost some participants to follow-up and neither did they mention that intention to treat analyses were conducted.
Since the study is on-going and 600 of 770 patients are recruited, we have already made some preterm experiences: Due to the actual financial crisis, the conditions at the labour market have changed and a substantial portion of the sick listed participants in the study have lost their job - either before inclusion or during the period of the intervention.
While the tuition fee increase has been a boon for conventional universities, the Open University's combination of distance learning and part-time study has lost its attraction.
This study also showed that practitioners of Health at Every Size achieved the same health benefits as dieters in the short term, yet after three years, most of the dieters studied had lost their health improvements, while the HAES group maintained their improved health, never having lost any weight.
One hundred and eighty-three (83%) patients in our study had lost weight at the time of diagnosis with almost half of these patients losing 10% or more of their pre-illness body weight.
Parasite-mediated selection can be much reduced in captivity [39], [40], and hence, the ornamental (petshop) guppies used in the current study may have lost the appropriate aversion response to infected conspecifics common in many wild fish species (reviewed in [9]).
We found that the bimodal GC3 distribution observed in extant grasses is ancestral to both grasses and most monocot species, and that other species studied here have lost this peculiar structure.
Most tribes studied by anthropologists have lost much of their culture and structure under Western influences.
