Three types of plaques were determined using the following classification proposed by Ballotta et al. [ 9]: (1) noncalcified plaques, i.e., plaques with a density <50 HU; (2) calcified plaques, i.e., plaques with a mean attenuation of 130 HU or greater; and (3) mixed plaques, i.e., plaques with a mean attenuation of 50-129 HU.
According to the classification system we used, the following classification results were obtained: five patients (55.5%) yielded excellent and good results, three patients (33.4%) yielded average results, and one patient (11.1%) yielded unsatisfactory results.
We used the following classification.
We used the following classification of ACKI in this study according to previous report [ 17]: 1. Risk: serum creatinine increased by 50% or more from index serum creatinine but had not reached 350 μmol/L.
Here, we have used the following classification of bacterial repetitive elements: (I) mobile genetic elements such as insertion sequences (ISs), transposons, phage sequences, and plasmid sequences; (II) RNA genes; (III) protein-coding genes; (IV) non-coding short interspersed repeats (ERIC/IRU, CRISPR, intergenic regions).
Compliance to medication was assessed at baseline and after 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months by a physician-rated, 4-point categorical scale using the following classification: noncompliant (patients being compliant to treatment schedule less than 20% of the time) and low (20%to59%9% of the time), moderate (60%to79%9% of the time), and high (≥80% of the time) levels of compliance.
The most likely pathophysiological mechanism was determined using the following classification system: (1) carotid-embolic, (2) haemodynamic, (3) thrombosis or occlusion of the revascularised carotid artery, (4) hyperperfusion, (5) cardio-embolic, (6) multiple, and (7) undetermined.
Plaque type was determined using the following classification: 1) noncalcified (plaques having a lower density compared with the contrast-enhanced vessel lumen); 2) calcified (high-density plaques); and 3) mixed (noncalcified and calcified components within a single plaque).
The association of diabetes status with stroke symptoms was evaluated using the following classification: 1) any of the six stroke symptoms, 2) each stroke symptom individually, 3) two or more of the six stroke symptoms, and 4) specific stroke symptom clusters that are similar to common clinical presentations (25).
For setting A1, offences were extracted as recorded by the MPS and CoLP between 1st April 2011 and 31st March 2012, using the following Home Office HOO) classifications; shoplifting (HO classification 46); theft person (HO classification 39); and theft other (HO Classification 49).
