Twelve SSc patients in the first subgroup fulfilled criteria for secondary SS according to the American European consensus group criteria.
An important fact is that, for minimalσθ-stable parabolic subgroups, our criterion implies, with the help of the Maas Selberg relations (cf. [B2], [B3]), a normalization of Eisenstein integrals.
Table 3 summarises the reporting of subgroup credibility criteria and characteristics of subgroup analyses in these full journal publications.
Table 4 summarises the agreements of subgroup credibility criteria for those 246 trials reporting at least one subgroup analysis.
The implementation rate for the subgroup START criteria recommendations was lower compared to other recommendations to add a drug (38 vs. 54 %, p = 0.02) (Table 3).
17 In our post hoc analysis, a small subgroup fulfilling criteria for PI-IBS appeared to benefit from mesalazine, but our study was also underpowered.
One included trial enrolled patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (PaO2/FiO2 of not more than 300) who had an anticipated duration of mechanical ventilation of more than 48 hours, of which a subgroup met criteria for ARDS [ 11].
The second and third subgroups meet criteria for probable CH.
In our study, we also classified individual lesions into four different response subgroups, using criteria that were based on both the vascular response and the change in size observed after treatment (Table 4, Figure 6A D).
Despite that, previous studies have typically utilized small samples, which limits the ability to examine subgroup differences in criterion validity (9).
Although we used HBeAg loss rather than HBeAg seroconversion as a stopping criterion, subgroup analysis showed that the virologic relapse rates were not different between the seroconversion and HBeAg loss groups.
