Part of the problem is the casting of Jake, the writer and bullfight aficionado left impotent by a war wound who uses wit, charity and, oh yes, booze to adjust to his condition.
Due to the nonnormal distribution of CAC scores with an abundance of scores of zero, logistic regression was used to model the probability of a CAC score >0 for type 1 diabetes status (yes or no), depression (yes or no), and depression within diabetes category (yes or no), adjusted for age and sex.
We all hope that the mistakes will be small ones, and that we can help them to recover, adjust and, yes to learn from them.
So, but yes, these guys are waiting and at some point, they have to adjust their expectations.
The good news is, there is protocol for this craziness -- and yes, it has been adjusted to take the abysmal economy into account -- and it's not as overwhelming as you might think.
Multivariable models were constructed to adjust for potential confounding variables, including age (continuous), sex, BMI (<18.5, 18.5-24.9, 25.0-27.0, ≥27.0; kg/m), hypertension (yes/no), diabetes (yes/no), history of CVD (yes/no)), plasma uric acid (continuous).
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.
