Subsequently, we analysed whether baseline characteristics differed between participants with missing data and those without missing data for the response variables (long term complicated grief and depression) at the final measurement.
Linear trend analysis over the studied period shows spatially variable long-term trends, with a significant increase of Hs (up to 0.02 m yr−1) and a counterclockwise shift of Mwd (up to −0.1° yr−1) at northern latitude, contrasting with a fairly constant trend for Hs and a clockwise shift of Mwd (up to +0.15° yr−1) at southern latitudes.
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Pancreatic islet transplantation is technically much easier for the patient, but has variable long-term success [ 1].
Serious injuries often require at least 1 surgical repair, and these repairs have variable long-term outcomes, e.g. CBD injury may even cause end-stage liver disease and necessitate liver transplantation [ 23, 24].
Likewise, the outcome variable long-term sick leave also consisted of two measures: an event indicator (yes or no) and time to nine consecutive DREAM-registered sick leave benefit weeks, 25 or end of follow-up/competing risks (early retirement benefit, retirement pension, disability pension or death)/censored observations (emigration), whichever came first.
We wondered also whether the high odds of smoking cessation in part-time workers was due to an impact of health problems, and conducted a supplementary logistic regression analysis with the variable "long-term health problems" entered as covariate together with the other variables.
Even after controlling for I.Q., other drug use, age, sex, depression and other variables, long-term users scored significantly lower than control group members and shorter-term users on tests of verbal fluency, memory and coordination.
To assess the proportional hazards assumption using physical activity variables (long-term, recent; strenuous, moderate, and strenuous plus moderate intensities), we first visually examined whether Kaplan Meier survival curves had parallel lines (Therneau, 1996).
However, our data for alcohol were consistent with other data from Germany [ 16], and for dietary variables long-term reproducibility was fairly [ 36] indicating that dietary habits are stable over longer time intervals.
