1Gershon AS, Wang C, Vasilevska-Ristovska J, Guan J, Cicutto L, et al. (2009) Identifying patients with physician diagnosed asthma in health administrative databases. Can Respir...

95% uncertainty intervals are obtained by bootstrapping (1000 samples). #Age was included as continuous predictor variable in the regression models but for clarity this table...

1All rates per 1000 person-years, direct-standardized to the 2006 Ontario Census population by age, sex and urban/rural status (with 95% confidence intervals).

Ln: natural logarithm. M: male. F: female. H: height. BW: body weight. BFM: body fat mass. R2: coefficient of determination adjusted for degrees of freedom. ΔLLN  =  reference...

N/A: Not applicable. 1Crude rate per 100 people (95% confidence interval).2Direct-standardized rate by age, sex and urban/rural status to the 2006 Ontario Census population.

a Patients without a clearly definable provoking factor b 2.5 or 5 mg BID c Months d Percentage of recurrent thromboembolic events that are PE e Months of follow-up after...

Separate: Children whose biological parents lived separately before birth. Cohabiting: Children whose biological parents lived together before birth. SD standard deviation. a...

Data are presented as mean±SD, median (interquartile range) or percent. Chi-square test for categorical variables, the unpaired t test or Mann-Whitney U test for continuous...

COM = community patients (not seeking professional medical care), AMB = ambulatory patients, HOSP = hospitalized patients, ILI = influenza-like illness, GP =  general...

Group A: patients with at least one severe exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (E-COPD) in the three-year pre-index period; Group B: patients with only...

Echocardiographic parameters obtained in young (3 mos) and aging (20 mos) WT and I-1c mice. Data represent the mean ± SE. Ejection fraction (EF), fractional shortening (FS),...

City of Salvador, Brazil, 2008–2010. *Standard deviation; **p>0.05.

BackgroundCredible measures of disease incidence, trends and mortality can be obtained through surveillance using manual chart review, but this is both time-consuming and...

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; NIV, non-invasive ventilation; ARF, acute respiratory failure; MRC, Medical Research Council dyspnea score; OSAS, obstructive sleep apnea...

a Liu et al., 2011 [19]. b Ji et al., 2007 [20]. c Wei et al., 2010 [21]. d Noteborn et al., 2013 [22]. *Positions correspond to: IBDV (JQ684022), IBV (KJ425500), AEV...

SD = standard deviation; BMI = body mass index; BFP = Body fat percentage measured with bioelectrical impedance [24]; WHR = waist-hip ratio; HGS = handgrip strength, the highest...

Mean±SD [25., 50. und 75. percentile in case of non-normal distribution] or number (%). ap<0.05;bp<0.01;cp<0.005;dp<0.001 – comparison between survivors and...

* Indicates significant difference PRE vs. POST for that group (p<0.05). Denotes a significant difference PRE or POST (SHAM-RMT vs. HFAO) (p<0.05).

This is one of the first studies to (1) describe the out-of-hospital burden of influenza-like-illness (ILI) and clinically diagnosed flu, also for patients not seeking...

Table 2 Assessment of the risk of bias in individual studies based on (1) exposure determination which includes standardization of age and assessment of LUTS severity by IPSS...