Subgroup analysis found that the effects of IPT - A were much greater in older adolescents.
Not exact matches
Because our
subgroup analyses (reported below) did not generally explain heterogeneity
found in specific primary outcomes, we discuss additional sources of heterogeneity below and in the discussion section of the review.
Four of the 6 studies
found no relationship between diphtheria - tetanus - pertussis vaccination and subsequent SIDS, 316, — , 319 and results of the other 2 studies suggested a temporal relationship but only in specific
subgroup analysis.320, 321 In 2003, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences reviewed available data and concluded that «[t] he evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between exposure to multiple vaccinations and SIDS.»
You may also want to take a step back from your main
findings by examining them in
subgroups and anticipating reviewers» skepticism by presenting experiments, data
analysis, or statistical models that quash errant disbelief.
First, it provides a strong argument against the opinion that
subgroup analyses of randomised trials should be strongly discouraged because they can lead to false positive
findings due to the multiple comparison problem.
Commenting on the
findings, Prof Robert Pirker, programme director for lung cancer at the Vienna General Hospital in Vienna, Austria, not involved in the study, said: «This
subgroup analysis shows that the effect of necitumumab was slightly greater in patients with EGFR expressing tumours than it was in the entire SQUIRE population.
In their latest study, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LJI) used single - cell transcriptome
analysis to identify a hitherto unknown precursor for a poorly understood
subgroup of killer T cells that is primarily
found in humans with chronic viral infections.
Depending on the histological
findings, a second round of targeted histological
analyses of
subgroup B mice may be undertaken with the objective of increasing the statistical significance of the observations.
However, in
subgroup analyses stratified by age, we
found that the deletion allele was associated with increased risk for lung cancer among individuals < 50 years of age (OR 2.17, CI 1.19 - 3.97), and that the association was gradually reduced with increasing age (p = 0.01).
In its
analysis of the eleven waiver applications, the Center on Education Policy
found that nine state applicants will base almost all accountability decisions on the achievement of only two students groups; i.e., all students and a «disadvantaged» student group or «super
subgroup.»
The Republic «s «AZ Fact Check» conducted its own
analysis and
found that charter students in the seven racial and ethnic
subgroups did indeed outperform the state average.
Analysis of 9th grade suspension data
finds that black students, students who are economically disadvantaged, and special education students are three demographics
subgroups that are disproportionately suspended, both in the frequency of suspensions and the duration in number of school days lost.
We
found, however, that by conducting a
subgroup analysis that excluded all dogs that died of cancer, the strong association between intact ovaries and exceptional longevity persisted.
Specifically, the paper considers: why and how
subgroup findings are important for applied research, the importance of prespecifying
subgroups before
analyses are conducted, and the importance of using existing theory and prior research to distinguish between
subgroups for which study
findings are confirmatory, as opposed to exploratory.
«Significant positive effects» were
found across all demographic
subgroups, the
analysis says.
Recent
findings suggest that, regardless of parity, the group benefitting most from nurse home visiting interventions are mothers living in impoverished areas who have lower psychosocial resources during pregnancy (despite the indices used to measure this).1 14 Trials that have had a broader client base, in terms of parity and risk, for example, the New Zealand Early Start programme, 8 15 however, have not yet reported
subgroup analyses.
For example, a tobacco - focused review which included any intervention type, classified interventions with a component of resilience content into different
subgroups such as social competence or social influence interventions,
finding evidence for both broad intervention approaches.6 For the alcohol - focused review, only universal interventions were included with such interventions grouped according to whether they targeted alcohol alone or targeted multiple substance types.5 While meta -
analysis was not conducted due to the heterogeneity of studies, the review concluded that some psychosocial and developmental prevention programmes were effective.
Results from the
analyses of the 4 sex / age
subgroups (data not shown) yielded
findings similar to the model based on the full sample.