Time trend

Lowess regression models are used to display time trends and potential effects of instruments used or examiners on the measurements. Background knowledge is needed to interpret the graph. Typically the further the graphs for different devices or examiners are apart from each other, the bigger the instruments or examiners effect.

• Unexpected location
• Unexpected association strength
• Unexpected association direction
• Unexpected association form

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SBP_0.2
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DBP_0.2
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