... for falls (Deandrea et al., 2010) andpredictors for dizziness are indirect predictors for falls Various studies report the prevalence of dizziness in older people as being between 11 and 31% with ... eliminated to prevent dizziness and thereby falls The objectives of this study were to investigate the prevalenceandpredictors for falls and dizziness among people younger and older than 80 years of ... physical function and disability and fatigue, and the present study indicates that fatigue is closely connected to both falls and dizziness Different predictors for falls in people younger and older...
... Italy and the UK and after about 20 months in France and Germany • There appears to be a divide between France and the UK on the one hand and Germany and Italy on the other hand in the current ... activity (and back) and subsequently examines the impact on potential output 1.2 (stocks and housing in particular), saving increased and demand for consumer durables (notably cars) and residential ... macroeconomic and developments in the functioning of financial markets ( ) (3) See for instance Blanchard (2009), Bosworth and Flaaen (2009), Furceri and Mourougane (2009), Gaspar and Schinasi (2009) and...
... gender and disability, and due to the small samples of men and work disabled in the PhysR patient group, the PhysR and SSF patients were combined in analyses comparing men with women and the ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:46 Note: Mean scores and Standard Errors for PROFAD-SSI domains Ratings PhysR patientssicca controls on PROFAD-SSI domains Figure among of fatigue andand ... extra-glandular features such as Raynaud's, purpura, lymph node swelling or pain, and leucopenia were frequently experienced by PhysR-PSS patients Morbidity related to severe longstanding oral and...
... formation and infection were recorded after VABB The histology of the lesion was classified according to the system first proposed by Dupont and Page [14] and adopted by the recent review by Guray and ... in EQ5D/SF-36 dimensions and calculated scores and assessment of predictors Concerning step 1, two comparisons were made: i baseline versus early post-biopsy measurement and ii baseline versus ... depression and, consequently, worse health status as measured by EQ-5D TTO and VAS indices Increasing age was associated with worse baseline EQ-5D TTO and VAS indices; on the other hand increasing...
... conflict-related events andprevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among women raising children, and to identify factors that may alleviate the negative consequences of exposure ... years old selected randomly from households in Kabul Province, Afghanistan Random sampling was conducted based on the list developed with the cooperation and supervision of the Expanded Programme ... praying, holy place, and other Demographics and socioeconomic variables Age, number of household member, monthly household income, education, and occupation were examined Analysis The prevalence of...
... your mouth and teeth caused you any difficulty in: a b c d e f g h Eating and enjoying food Speaking and pronouncing clearly Cleaning teeth Sleeping and relaxing Smiling, laughing and showing ... scored maximum) were 0.6% and 0.1% As shown in Table and 8, the prevalence of oral impacts (OIDP total >0) was high, amounting to 51.2% and 62.1% in Kinondoni (urban) and Kibaha/Bagamoyo (rural), ... urban and 55.1% in rural) followed by cleaning teeth (18.2% in urban and 30.6% in rural), emotional stability (17.4% in urban and 30.4% in rural) and sleeping/relaxing (12.1% in urban and 27.0%...
... documents and procedures for handling subject data were reviewed and approved by the Human Subjects Review Board of the Miriam and Rhode Island Hospitals Author details Centers for Behavioral and Preventive ... medical illness have an ongoing and repeated exposure to health care providers and health care settings; they take medications regularly and have often been treated in EDs and inpatient units specifically ... Descriptive data are presented in terms of actual number (n) and percent of the sample population along with means for groups and standard deviations (SD) Pearson correlations were used to test...
... and CD69 and producing cytokines through 22 Rheumatoid Arthritis – Etiology, Consequencesand Co-Morbidities constitutive expression of mRNA for IL-4 and IFN-γ iNKT cells proliferate and expand ... higher and IFN-γ, IL-6 and IL-4 were lower in knockout mice IL-17 and IL-23 were undetectable in wild-type and knockout mice, and joint inflammation and cytokine production were similar in B6 and ... TCR and CD4 The absolute number and the percentage of T cells among Rheumatoid Arthritis – Etiology, Consequencesand Co-Morbidities them are indicated in the joint panels In panels of DLNs and...
... poverty and ill-health The case is injuries and their consequences but it could have been any lasting and severe disease Poverty and health have very close links to economic development and to ... beans, green beans and fruits such as pineapple, mandarin orange and 21 Methodology papaya Other economic activities are forestry (8%), fishing (1%), small trade (3%), handicraft (6%) and transport ... facing the Gulf of Tonkin and the South China Sea The coastline is over 3,000 km long and the land borders extend over 3,700 km (sharing 1,160 km with China, 1,650 km with Laos and 930 km with Cambodia)...
... the prevalence of gout at 1.5% (2.8% in men and 0.4% in women) [78] In England, Currie [79] reported the prevalence of gout to be 0.26% in 1975, and a multicenter study [80] reported the prevalence ... Aho K, Heliovaara M: Incidence andprevalence of ankylosing spondylitis in Finland J Rheumatol 1997, 24:496-499 97 Bakland G, Nossent HC, Gran JT: Incidence andprevalence of ankylosing spondylitis ... incidence andprevalence of ankylosing spondylitis [95,96] Using the population-based data resources of the Rochester Epidemiology Project, Carbone and coworkers [95] determined the incidence and prevalence...
... doses in SSc patients and in control patients were mg/d and 5.6 mg/d, respectively In the control group, 20 patients had alveolitis, and among them, 12 had sarcoidosis, and six patients had idiopathic ... sera (1:40) and of BALF (1:20) revealed values below the detection level Therefore, sera and BALF were diluted 1:20 and 1:5, respectively Values were corrected according to the dilution and BALF ... (p = 0.023) Predictors for end-stage ILD were again low predicted DLCO and FVC levels, high IL-2 levels, and a high percentage of neutrophils (Figure 2b, P < 0.05) All potential predictors identified...
... Diagnosis and classification of AF were established by standard ECG and holter ECG in all patients prior to admission AF was defined paroxysmal in 29%, persistent in 31% and long standing persistent ... surgery and to assess predictors of success Page of Materials and methods Patients From January 2007 to June 2008, 110 consecutive patients scheduled for first-time open heart surgery and known ... discontinued and replaced by β-blockage A physical examination, standard 12-lead ECG, 24hour Holter monitoring, and transthoracic echocardiography were conducted systematically at and 12 month...
... preoperatively (SVE and VE in 21% and 7%, respectively) and constituted the most common arrhythmias at all time points (Figure 1A) Their period prevalence peaked between 48 and 72 hours after ... Conception and study design, acquisition of data GvB: Conception and study design, revision and final approval of manuscript MCS: Conception and study design, acquisition of data, revision and final ... after the operation and again between postoperative day 10 and 15, which in most cases was shortly prior to discharge Standard 12-lead electrocardiograms were also recorded before and 4, 24, 48, 72...
... MDD and PTSD jointly) and carried out in the context of a very specific event, at a given time and place, without comparing the results obtained with other prevalence rates On the other hand, ... the general population For example, the prevalence of PTSD and MDD in the general population was 7.5% and 9%, respectively, after S-11 [35,36], and 2.3% and 8%, respectively, after M-11 [37] These ... limited our search to studies that analyzed the consequences of terrorist attacks and not other kinds of disasters; knowing and comparing the prevalenceand course of MDD after natural, technological,...
... RP: Race-ethnicity and the prevalenceand co-occurrence of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, alcohol and drug use disorders and Axis I and II disorders: United ... highest prevalence of PD, and Asians the lowest (see prevalence) Association between PD and Alcohol and Drug were positive & sig (except for Drugs & PD in Asians) This is true of unadjusted and adjusted ... investigating prevalenceand correlates of PD in provides support for there being no prevalence differences between non-white and white populations [20] The meta-regression suggests a lower prevalence...
... point, to increase understanding of future trends, and possible ways to curb the spread of narghile use [3] Furthermore, it is important to understand its use patterns and dependence-producing ... investigate the prevalenceand pattern of narghile use among students in three public Jordanian universities; to assess their beliefs about narghile's adverse health consequences; and to evaluate ... they smoke narghile only, and reported they smoke narghile and cigarettes Cigarettes and narghile were the preferred smoking methods among male students (42%) On the other hand, female students preferred...
... Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) of the United Kingdom [14], the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) [15], and most of the other 122 Colleges of Obstetrics and Gynecology ... surface antigen in the sera of pregnant women and associations between HBsAg status and known predisposing factors, including demographic and clinical predictors for maternal infection Neonatal ... However, results from other parts of Nigeria and Africa showed higher prevalence of HBsAg These include a prevalence of 9.3% in Awka [11], 11% in Makurdi [12] and 15.8% at the University of Maiduguri...
... number and included date of slaughter, date of birth, sex, breed, sire, paternal and maternal grandsires, milk production (weight of milk, fat and protein in kg) at latest yield control and during ... lactation number at slaughter, and weight of carcass at slaughter Except for analysis of age and breed prevalence, statistical analyses were restricted to animals ≥ years of age and restricted to animals ... in the last full lactation was described for cows with and without BRL, stratified by parity (2, 3, and > 5) and breed (Danish Holstein and Danish Red) The total (lifelong) kg ECM (total kg ECM)...
... increasing and HIV-2 prevalence is decreasing in many countries in West Africa [18-24], but trends in HTLV-1 prevalence are largely unknown HTLV-1 is endemic in Guinea-Bissau, and the highest prevalence ... paper [25] The trends of HTLV-1 prevalenceand incidence, factors associated with HTLV-1 infection, and associations with HIV-1 and HIV-2 in this area between 1990 and 2007 were determined Results ... the sexes and age groups (inter- Page of action period and age, p = 0.7; interaction period and sex, p = 0.2) HTLV-1 and HIV incidence by retroviral status In total, data from 835 men and 1512...
... patient and hospital characteristics, and this influenced their outcome Interestingly, the group of hospitals with the highest early DNR rate (adjusted for case mix) had lower rates of intubation and ... outcome influence resuscitation and first-day decisions? Resuscitation 1992, 23: 199-206 President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research: ... and mechanical ventilation, craniotomy, ventriculostomy, and cerebral angiography for ICH patients They also had shorter lengths of stay and lower total costs per patient What does this information...