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Next, says Maxwell, warming to his point, “Imagine that my wee friend operates the flap valve such that, whenever a fast gas particle approaches the window from inside the left box toward the right box, he opens the flap and lets the faster than average, hence hotter, gas particle through.
When the water from the bucket arrives at the bottom of the water pipe, it pushes against a flap valve, thereby opening the valve and watering my bean field.
Most investigators have calculated only prevalence ratios or prevalence odds ratios, dividing the prevalence or odds of valve disease in exposed persons by prevalence or odds in an unexposed control group.
If persons with prior valve disease are included in both the exposed and the unexposed groups, a gross underestimate of actual risk may occur.
These include measurement bias (related to acquisition and reading of echocardiograms) [ 22 ] , selection bias (particularly in studies with incomplete follow-up) [ 31 ] , and potential reversibility of valvulopathy [ 10 24 25 32 ] . If a reversible component occurred rather quickly after stopping drugs, then one might expect a stable, lower prevalence in studies performed well after drugs were stopped, with no relationship between prevalence of valve dysfunction and time off medication.