1Altogether, 125 patients received ‘late’ treatment and 23 remained undiagnosed before death thus received no anti-TB treatment (see text). Comparisons between those who had...

aunpaired tests since these were matching variables; otherwise paired tests.

Continuous variables are presented as mean with standard deviation (SD) and categorical variables as numbers and percentage. For group comparison independent sample t-tests were...

*Medical cost of aggressive care in the last one month of life US dollars 2,611±3,329. **95% CI, 95% confidence interval. Medical cost in the last one month of life of...

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Mann-Whitney U test or Fisher's exact test was used between healthy controls and patients with oral cancer. *p value<0.05 as statistically significant.

BackgroundIn Hong Kong, thalassemia major (TM) patients utilized up to 9.5% of blood supply in 2009. For long-term management of blood supply, we predicted the future blood...

Abbreviations: CBO =  Canadian-born 'Other'; CBA =  Canadian-born Aboriginal; FBO = Foreign-born 'Other'; FBSSA = Foreign-born sub-Saharan African. *Percent of all TB cases....

a. Easy sentence list for the speech perception test (English translation). The key words are underlined. b. Difficult sentence list for the speech perception test (English...

Categorical variables are reported as n (%). * The smoking index was evaluated among ever and daily smokers and was defined as the number of cigarettes per day multiplied by...

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...

-  =  missing; minimum (min.) resp. maximum (max.) performance is shown as reference where standard values are not available. Values deviating from normative data are...

*p<0.01, compared across the five income quintile groups.

* calculated by dividing the number of patients with the outcome ‘complete patient clearance’ by the total number of patients for each treatment. †calculated by applying the...

*Percentages may not always add up to 100 due to rounding errors. **There were 10 patients who had both pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB; they have been classified under...

P>0.05, Chi-square test). There was no significant difference between the two groups (

CRC, colorectal cancer; NA, not applied. 1Qualitative variables were compared by the Fisher's exact test; continuous variables were compared by the Mann-Whitney U's...

CHADS2, cardiac failure, hypertension, age, diabetes, stroke (doubled); TTR, time in therapeutic range.

*Defined as the presence of a hypoxic period (SpO2<95%) for >10% of the total sleep time.Abbreviation: ALSFRSr = Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional Rating Scale...

Follow-up time and events of breast cancer patients by lipid-lowering drug use at recruitment.