... Sangianantoni A, D'Angio F, Santarelli A, Lo Muzio L: Oral aphthous ulcers and dental enamel defects in children with coeliac disease Acta Paediatr 2006, 95(2):203-207 Majorana A, Sapelli PL, Malagoli ... Paediatric Department of the University Politecnica of Marche (Ancona, Italy), and the diagnosis of CD was based on serological tests (Ab-htTG IgA, Ab-htTG IgG, AGA IgA, AGA IgG, EMA IgA, EMA IgG), ... studied and lack of adequate controls Finally, no studies have been performed, in CD patients of a Central Region of Italy (Ancona, Marche, Italy) The aim of this case- controlstudy was to assess...
... with RA Materials and methods Patients and controls The study used a case- control design to compare patients and controls A total of 189 patients diagnosed with RA according to the American College ... alleles, was as homogeneous as that in the 24CAs samples, validating our stratification of patients by 24CAs allele A similar pattern was also observed in healthy individuals, although a statistical ... Gotoh H, Kawaguchi Y, Harigai M, Hara M, Saito S, Yamaguchi T, Shimada K, Kawamoto M, Tomatsu T, Kamatani N: Increased CD40 expression on articular chondrocytes from patients with rheumatoid arthritis:...
... far froma person’s local area and have become known as out-of-area treatments In England, 21% of residential and nursing care placements are in out-of-area treatments and these cost on average ... categorical data and compared the groups on all other variables The data was collected and analysed by the lead author We consulted a statistician before analysing the data and carried out the analysis ... following admission to in-patient rehabilitation We aimed to address this gap by carrying out a case- controlstudy to identify the factors that are associated with achieving discharge from in-patient...
... infections, availability model, interval, sex, of piped in addition availability maternal age water ARTICLES Downloaded from pediatrics.aappublications.org at Viet Nam:AAP Sponsored on March 3, 2013 ... birth intervals, family income, occupation and education of the parents, ethnic group, maternal age and smoking habits, housing, crowding, water and sanitation vanables, antenatal cane, and type ... adjusted for in all analyses In addition, the following vanables remained statistically significant in the conditional likelihood analysis: (1) deaths due to diarrhea: availability of piped water (piped...
... spouse control design as an alternative control selection for a nationwide population-based case- controlstudy is valid and feasible, and can produce highly acceptable research results for a fixed ... design and a routine control selection design in a large case- controlstudy that was incorporated into a nationwide mortality survey in China in 1989–1991 As an example, we assessed the hazards ... death certificate Third, social class, which is also associated with both smoking and cancer deaths, was not measured in this study, and the separate calculation of risk patterns in urban and...
... Holland (database administrator); Karen Jones, Jane McArthur, Catherine Lott, Jennifer Scane, Teresa Mayne, Ashley Scali, and Nicole Mahler (research associates); Carol Walleyn and Tanya Zillich ... and agricultural industries of the geographic study area Band et al [21] conducted acasecontrolstudy with 1018 cases in British Columbia It was similar to this study but with separate analyses ... 26 Metal-related Metallurgical, metalworking, metal fabrication 64 75 Transportation Transportation 37 26 Cleaning/beauty care Beauty salon/hair care 25 14 Dry cleaning, laundry Bars/gambling...
... Classification Ottawa, Canada 16 STATISTICS CANADA 1998 North American Industrial Classification System Ottawa, Canada 17 CHECKOWAY, H., N PEARCE & D CRAWFORD-BROWN 1989 Research Methods in Occupational ... breast cancer patients year research grant from Canadian Breast Cancer Research Foundation—Ontario Chapter 60 BROPHY, J., M KEITH, I LUGINAAH, et al 2003 Occupational histories of breast cancer ... persistent and bioaccumulate in the adipose tissue.29 Acasecontrolstudy that controlled for both traditional breast cancer risk factors as well as exposures among women engaged in farming, found that...
... Mfinanga SG, Mutayoba BK, Kahwa A, Kimaro G, Mtandu R, Ngadaya E, Egwaga S, Kitua AY: The magnitude and factors associated with delays in management of smear positive tuberculosis in Dar es Salaam ... da Saude Secretaria de Vigilancia a Saude Programa Nacional de DST/AIDS: riterios de definicao de casos de aids em adultos ecriancas Brasilia, Ministerio da Saude: Ministerio da Saude, Secretaria ... cough Astudycase was defined as a patient who presented a delay in initiating treatment and acontrol as a patient who did not present a delay in initiating treatment For purposes of the analysis,...
... exhaust and lung cancer risk in a pooled analysis from case- control studies in Europe and Canada Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2011;183(7):941–948 Silverman DT Is diesel exhaust a human lung carcinogen? ... smoker was defined as acase subject who had stopped smoking more than years before their date of death and acontrol subject who had stopped smoking more than years before the matched case subject’s ... cumulative exposure to radon, asbestos, silica, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from non-diesel sources, and respirable dust in the study facility based on air measurement and other data...
... Cerami A, Bucala R: MIF is a pituitary-derived cytokine that potentiates lethal endotoxaemia Nature 1993, 365:756-759 Calandra T, Bernhagen J, Mitchell RA, Bucala R: The macrophage is an important ... malarial anemia J Infect Dis 2009, 200:629-637 Dhanantwari P, Nadaraj S, Kenessey A, Chowdhury D, Al-Abed Y, Miller EJ, Ojamaa K: Macrophage migration inhibitory factor induces cardiomyocyte apoptosis ... 0.052 Data are presented as mean and range of values death due to severe sepsis compared to patients without allele CATT7 The concomitance of the -173 allele C and the -794 allele CATT7 as a haplotype...
... Myocardial infarction Cardiac failure Haemorrhagic shock Myocardial infarction Haemorrhagic shock Haemorrhagic shock Euthanasia (endometrial carcinoma) Cardiopulmonary insufficiency Haemorrhagic ... MC, Langhans W, Schwartz GJ, Plata-Salaman CR: Pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokine mRNA induction in the periphery and brain following intraperitoneal administration of bacterial lipopolysaccharide ... inflammatory reaction Materials and methods Selection of cases and controls Data were obtained of all brain autopsies that had been performed on patients who died in the Amsterdam Medical Centre (AMC)...
... duration of the job phase and summed up Characteristics of cases and control subjects The characteristics of the cases with lymphoma and control subjects are given in table The mean age of cases ... lymphoma cases as well as for control subjects The average count of different industries is 2.9 for lymphoma cases as well as for control subjects Data analysis At first, we analyzed the relationship ... years; and of cases having T-NHL (n = 35) 50.6 ± 17.0 years Of the 710 case- control pairs, 55% are male and 45% are female The average number of different occupations (held for at least year)...
... reference radiologist's assessment 21.7% of the cases had a grade knee osteoarthritis (n = 64; mean age 56.9 years); 39.7% of the cases had a grade osteoarthritis (n = 117; mean age 58.2 years); and ... population controls, 328 agreed to participate (55%) Non-participation was higher among younger control subjects and among control subjects with non-German nationality Onecontrol subject was treated ... was 59.1 years (standard difference 8.5); the mean age of population controls on the interview date was 47.9 years (standard difference 12.5) The mean body mass index of cases was 26.6 (standard...
... had a higher ovarian and stromal volume, stromal area and a higher area stromal area/area ovary ratio (S /A ratio) compared with the control women (P < 0.05) (Table 4) The total ovarian area was ... statistical analysis CL have made substantial contributions to acquisition of data, AMC have made substantial contributions to interpretation of data All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... evaluation of Ferriman-Gallwey-Lorenzo scores Concerning the association of ultrasounds ovary parameters and cardiovascular risk variables, stroma volume, stroma area, and S /A ratio showed a...
... 20 minutes Statistical analysis The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS version 16.0) was used to manage and analyze the data First, missing values were handled according to the guidelines ... demographic characteristics As demographic characteristics of the Dutch norm population of the KIDSCREEN-52 were not available, data on marital status, educational level, and employment in the general Dutch ... group (patients or healthy siblings) as fixed factor and family as random effect to account for within family correlation Besides analyzing the total study sample, we performed exploratory analyses...
... was established as a cross-sectional case- controlstudy Subjects' BMI was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters Binge eating status was assessed through a ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/publishing_adv.asp Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Annals of General Psychiatry 2006, 5:15 12 13 http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/5/1/15 Ramacciotti CE, Paoli RA, Catena ... Results An initial exploratory analysis involved calculation of means and standard deviation for age, gender and BMI Differences between the groups were tested using Kruskall-Wallis nonparametric...
... stay, education, marital status, living status, primary language used, total GDS, total HAMD-21, GAS and HAS at both admission and discharge in SUG and NSUG, an analysis of variance (ANOVA) was ... %Education (< high school) Average length of stay (days) Scales Mean HAS at admission Mean HAS at discharge Mean total HAM-D 21 at admission Mean total HAM-D 21 at discharge Mean GAS at admission ... statistical analysis, and corrected the manuscript TW participated in data management and statistic analysis DC helped with the database collection and statistic analysis All authors read and approved...
... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 10 No Vonkeman et al with NSAIDs) with the appropriate pharmacoeconomic information Materials and methods The pharmacoeconomic evaluation was linked to a 26-month ... 10,402 patient years of NSAID use (Table 2) [5] There were no cases with more than one event during the observational period Data for these cases was retrieved from questionnaires and hospital administrative ... they all used actual primary clinical data from trials and applied them to an economic model These data may however not always be generalised outside the controlled environment of the clinical...
... instructed- and 45% in the control group) stated that they wished to get information from the healthcare personnel Emotional and psychological surgical preparation plays an important role in many areas ... Campus, Cayyolu/Ankara- Turkey Zekai Tahir Burak Gynecology Training and Research Hospital, Gundogdu Mah Karacabey Sok Hamamonu, Turkey Authors’ contributions The work presented here was carried ... in the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory are considered as “high anxiety level” 2.5 Evaluation of the Data Data obtained in the study were evaluated on the computer using SPSS package program The following...