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Discordant siblings might have subclinical (radiographic) stroke or be discordant only because of their relative youth.
Dizgyotic twins discordant on adult socioeconomic position, whether categorized by occupational class or educational level, likewise did not notably differ on their adult health status (Tables 3–6).
Pursuing future research into the combinatorial chemopreventive/chemotherapeutic potential of aspirin may be of greater value than trying to account for the discordant effect.
Because a SWISS proband might erroneously believe that a sibling never had a stroke, discordance is considered verified only if the sibling can be contacted for a structured telephone interview and gives negative answers to all 8 items on the Questionnaire for Verifying Stroke-Free Status (QVSFS) (Table 1) [ 57 58 ] . Discordant siblings are excluded if they are deemed unreliable historians in the opinion of the interviewer administering the QVSFS on the basis of global impression of moderate or severe impairment of speech, language, hearing, or memory.
The only discordant note was sounded by the two hard-line Protestant Cabinet members, who boycotted the meeting and held a press conference ominously urging people not to "get carried away about new dawns and new days having arrived in Northern Ireland."