1.   Then, in a more exploratory analysis, relationships between risk and recognition within the exemplars of individual junctions are examined.

2.   Subsequently some more exploratory analyses are reported.

3.   Exploratory analysis identified prior slow healing, a large ulcer, multiple ulcers, and prior ulcer complications, in addition to smoking, as markers of slow healing.

4.   Additional potential risk factors for delayed healing were examined in a subsequent exploratory analysis.

5.   Exploratory analysis showed another nine risk factors associated with slow healing.

6.   Most important, the formal statistical reasoning that can be applied to a-priori hypotheses is strictly invalid for exploratory analysis.