The main strength of this study is that we selected participants randomly from the community, with a large sample size, and obtained both structural and symptomatic measurements.
Symptomatic measures or measures of broader functioning that are completed only at one time point (e.g. at the end of intervention) do not provide a measure of within-individual change which is an essential feature of symptomatic or functional outcome measurement.
KOOS-score may qualify the measurement of symptomatic knee OA in epidemiological studies.
We found 12 articles that reported additional effects of cervical length measurement in symptomatic women, such as the reassurance or the sensory consequences related to the transvaginal procedure.
For the objective measurement of symptomatic remission the following 7 BPRS items are included [ 35, 36]: 1) grandiosity, 2) suspiciousness, 3) unusual thought content, 4) hallucinatory behaviour, 5) conceptual disorganization, 6) mannerism/posturing and 7) blunted affect [ 35, 36].
The main strengths of this trial relative to other hypoglycaemic experimental designs include the extensive measurement of symptomatic, cognitive and counter-regulatory hormonal responses and the double-blind crossover design, which eliminates potential investigator and patient bias as well as inter-patient variability.
Data in Fig. 7 represent means of 54 measurements from asymptomatic patients (A; n = 9) and 132 measurements from symptomatic patients (S; n = 22).
Body mass measurements of symptomatic runners who presented to the medical tent were, unfortunately, not obtained due to significant clinical symptomatology that precluded ambulation to designated weighing stations.
The results of the present study indicate that, in patients with recently symptomatic ICA occlusion, TCD measurements of the haemodynamic state of the brain cannot be replaced by oxygen-15 PET and vice versa for identification of patients with haemodynamic compromise.
Following challenge, participants are reviewed daily for 14 days, with regular assessments made of clinical and symptomatic features, routine biochemical/hematological measurements, and daily blood and stool cultures.
