The reports on TCS-mediated endocrine disruption are controversial and the present study aimed to elucidate the probable mode of action of TCS as an antiandrogenic compound using a robust study design.
This study uses a robust study plan to quantify the risk difference of AEs between ethnic minority and Dutch patients in hospital care.
Our study used a robust design also pursued in previous studies, including a large representative sample of death certificates and applying a mailing procedure guaranteeing total anonymity for patients and physicians [ 15, 16].
Our study used a robust quasi-experimental research design to measure the impacts of Eugene, Oregon's Safe Routes to School program on walking and biking.
This study used a robust methodology that included a very broad search of the literature using clearly defined search terms and stringent inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Although this study used a robust set of controls for confounding, unmeasured confounders, such as neighborhood effects, could not be controlled for.
Since obtaining a diagnosis of unsafe abortion is crucial in settings where reporting is deterred by legal, ethical and moral concerns, our study used a robust methodology to distinguish unsafe abortions from spontaneous abortions.
Both study used a robust physical activity intervention that may account for "the healthy" weight gain in intervention children with more fat free soft tissues and less fat mass [ 31].
Given that previous studies have used a robust system to select alternative splicing events and only weak expression of eyeless was detected in SL2 cells (present study), it is likely that the two fold changes in the ey/ey(2a) ratio was below the threshold to be detected by Blanchette et al. [54].
Our objective was to characterize variability in phthalate metabolite urinary concentrations and determine if demographic, behavioral, and temporal factors predicted urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations in young children using a robust, longitudinal study design.
