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... practice guideline for Bipolar Disorder (2002) Important factors influencing obesity in bipolar patients include nutrient intake and physical activity In assessing the nutrient intake of persons ... guidelines are being formulated to aid clinicians in identifying patients at risk Screening for diabetes should include questioning patients about symptoms such as excessive thirst and urination, ... studied primarily in patients with seizure disorders Carbamazepine-induced increase in total cholesterol is primarily due to an increase in HDL [34] This occurs during the initial weeks of therapy,...
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... products, was found to increase the risk of bleeding into the brain or tissue around the brain in women, but not in men Certain classes of drugs can in some circumstances prolong the interval between ... determines that a proposed study is unsafe, clinical testing may begin 31 days after the IND application is submitted to FDA The sponsor then proceeds with the three main stages of clinical drug testing: ... Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies, Vol 2, Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, DC: 1994., pp 1-10; and “Equality in Clinical Trials: Drugs and...
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... in maintaining the willingness of the public and health care providers to participate in data-gathering activities that are in the public interest Although confidentiality concerns are like Statistical ... new web data system, for instance, Minnesota is doing regional training for local health officials on how to health assessment In this training, they advise people to combine data from three to ... dissemination systems, for instance, typically include epidemiologic surveillance data on infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, and, increasingly, bioterrorism Cancer registry data are included...
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... were introduced by Paul Levy during his investigations of the behavior of sums of independent random variables in the early 1920s (Levy, 1925) A sum of two independent random variables having ... bivariate marginal distribution functions Loosely speaking, tail dependence describes the limiting proportion of exceeding one margin over a certain threshold given that the other margin has already ... Table 2.1 lists various Archimedean copulae in the same ordering as in Table 2.1 in H¨rdle, Kleinow and Stahl (2002) or in Nelsen (1999) and the corresponding a upper and lower TDC The quantlet TailCoeffCopula...
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... women of childbearing potential from participating in early clinical drug trials Further, we did not identify the level of female participation in initial drug testingIn our examination of drug ... drugs Principal Findings FDA Guidance Does Not Define Representation of Women in Drug Testing FDA has not issued specific guidance or criteria for drug manufacturers to use in determining the ... providing guidance for drug manufacturers’ use in conducting clinical trials in humans, (2) reviewing manufacturers’ proposals for conducting clinical trials to ensure that they are performed in...
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