During an ordinary work day blood pressure was self-monitored once every hour in two samples of asymptomatic nonmedicating 28-year-old men. They were selected on the basis of previous compulsory blood pressure recordings made at the age of 18 when they had been drafted for military service. Su...
The authors report in this paper the results of an elaborate series of experiments on crossed immunity tests with typhus viruses. They point out that errors may arise in such work if the following precautions are not observed and careful preliminary tests carried out. 1. If the test inoculation...
The tests were not performed for other meta-analyses owing to the small number of included studies (n < 10). Certainty of Evidence The certainty of evidence on the associations of cycling and running with the risk of all-cause mortality was assessed as ‘moderate’, because of ...
For all statistical tests, differences with P values of less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant.Results: Statistically significant differences were observed between the initial and poststorage ethanol concentrations in the overall sample group (P < 0.001). However, for the individual ...
As assessed by post-hoc tests, no significant difference was found between groups in responding to their own phobic object. Interestingly, whereas blood phobics exhibited a large HR decrease to the spider film, spider phobics virtually showed no response to the surgery film. The significant Group...
Couple-years of follow-up were determined as periods delimited by HIV tests, and corresponding questionnaires on sexual behavior, in the HIV-negative partner. These were eligible for inclusion in this analysis if (1) couples had condomless sex during the period (reported at the end of the ...
The total evoked action potential was the total number of action potentials that were counted in the 38 depolarization steps. Non-parametric statistical tests (Wilcoxon signed-rank test) were performed for comparisons. Action potential shape analysis...
We presented proportions of participants opting for each testing modality, and, for self-testers, those who had used the test kits (disaggregated by choice of testing method (oral-fluid-based and blood-based self-testing)). We used Chi-square tests to determine association between choice of ...
like growth factor 2 (IGF2) and autophagic pathways which could play central roles in disease pathogenesis. Our preliminary work has shown a significant decrease in autophagy activity together with a drastic downregulation of IGF2 in peripheral blood mononuclear cell from Chilean persons with PD165....
All the hormone blood tests and sperm examinations were performed in the same laboratory. The main inclusion criteria were physician-diagnosed infertility, female age 18 to 42, male age 18 to 59, and written consent to infertility treatment. Given that the couples had already consented to ...