... behavior in patients with diabetes: patient characteristics, thepatient family, the practitioner andthe health system, andthe community/ work setting [28] Integrating such factors in the disease ... associatedwith psychological and behavioral functioning All sociodemographic, lifestyle, medical and clinical factors collected were significantly related to the one or the other of the dimensions, ... except the tobacco status (not shown) The results of the multi-factor analyses are presented in table Thirteen factors were statistically associatedwiththe BA dimension In particular, patients...
... [1,12-15] On the opposite there are considerably less reports about patient- and surgery related factors Concerning patient related factors we know about the importance of implantation time, patient ... we also expected patients that used their prosthesis till the end of their life to differ in some of the remaining influencing factors Additionally for important influencing factors we expected ... available thepatient' s scores for knee pain and satisfaction withthe operation were noted The stratification of these values was similar to that in walking capacity indicated no pain and no satisfaction,...
... Both the JSN andthe cartilage volume loss were found to be positively correlated withthe worsening of pain The cartilage loss also correlates withthepatient global score, and JSN withthe ... light new and unique information about the topographical loss of cartilage in the different subregions of the knee andtheassociated risk factors Moreover, the impact of the location and rate ... factorsassociatedwiththe loss of cartilage andthe evolution of symptoms in patients with knee OA in which meniscal damage and bone marrow changes are the features most closely associated with...
... interpretation of the data, and drafted the manuscript LAM contributed to the design, statistical analysis, interpretation of the data and provided substantial input to the intellectual content of the manuscript, ... HIV-infected women andfactorsassociatedwith HCV seropositivity in the Republic of Georgia AIDS Research and Therapy 2011 8:25 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage ... risk factors of thepatient s last regular sexual partner(s), and medical care-related risk factors (e.g., history of invasive medical manipulations and blood transfusion) Information on patient s...
... involvement and lessening of their dedication to work in the interest of satisfying their personal needs On the other hand, the variables “occupation” and “gender” were statistically significant in the ... is related withthe type of occupation and that the “worn-out” profile is associatedwiththe cumulative effect over time of the characteristics of an organisation The recognition of these variables ... behaviour, is strongly associatedwith all of the dimensions of the definition by Maslach, Schaufeli and Leiter [2] It is, therefore, the profile of exhausted, cynical and rather ineffective workers...
... of the 2002 lineage However, there appears to be some diversity within both forested and wetland areas Particularly, there is a possible small sub-group with samples 4893, 8441, and 3077 The ... May 2007 shows the land cover of Louisiana Pertinent parishes are labelled with their parish names together as representative of the North American 2002 clade The between and within distances ... in the wetland areas It is also interesting that there is more genetic diversity within Louisiana than without That is, the diversity when comparing between the wetlands and forests within Louisiana...
... interviews withthe person most closely associatedwiththe hands-on management of the broiler flocks and houses, and to record observations of cleaning and disinfection procedures between flocks The ... in any of the models The direction of association was inconsistent for the presence of other commercial poultry on the farm and spreading manure on the farm in the summer season, andthe statistical ... limiting the number of houses built The protective effect of livestock andthe conflicting results for other poultry on the farm were unexpected and inconsistent with other studies For the latter,...
... vaccination, size and breed can influence the antibody response [2-5], but this has not been investigated in Sweden The aim of the study was to investigate factorsassociatedwith reaching the internationally ... preformed according to Hosmer and Lemeshow [7] The fit of the model was evaluated withthe Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test withthe data partitioned into 10 deciles, and by visual examination ... considered outliers The impact of outliers was assessed by running the model without the observations considered as outliers, and comparing the coefficients between this model andthe model using...
... student and other; * Factorswith a significant risk difference between the IDP group andthe no-IDP group according to the interaction test (log-likelihood ratio test) given that in northern Uganda ... reflect the HIV prevalence in the hospitals' catchment areas and may be not fully representative of the whole region's population With regard to thefactorsassociatedwith HIV-1 infection, the strength ... information on the HIV-1 epidemic in northern Uganda and identifying the socio-demographic factorsassociatedwith HIV-1 infection in this conflict-affected region http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/1/1/3...
... (ICUs and combined intensive care and high-dependency units) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, coordinated by the ICNARC The Case Mix Programme Database (CMPD) contains pooled case mix and ... identify factors on admission that are associatedwith acute hospital mortality We evaluated the discrimination and calibration of the APACHE II, SAPS II and ICNARC models in these patients Page ... finally the other conditions relevant to thepatient' s admission It is not possible to identify treatments received by the admitted patient using the ICNARC Coding Method, so admissions with the...
... weight-bearing within the joint Therefore, the motion in the sagittal plane is beyond that of a simple hinge joint The complexities involve the coupling motion in the other axes The kinematics of the tibiofemoral ... joint the articulation is between the distal end of the femur andthe proximal end of the tibia The medial femoral condyle is larger and more symmetrical than the lateral femoral condyle The long ... translations and three rotations are possible in the knee joint Withthe tibia moving about the femur, these motions are illustrated here The top left view is in the sagittal plane, the top right is in the...
... treatment in patients withthe cure/treatment completion was 212 (90.5) days; in patients with treatment interruption, the median duration of therapy was 26 (104.5) days, and in the patients who ... school and an 800-bed tertiary care center serving the population of Khon Kaen and nearby provinces, with a cachement area of 7,376,988 km3 The patients evaluated for the study sought care at the ... recorded in the microbiology laboratory database Of these, 226 cases (60.1%) fulfilled the study criteria and were included in this analysis There were 150 males and 76 females and their mean...
... drafted the manuscript JB performed the flow cytometry RT conceived the study, participated in the design of the study, andwith EM performed the statistical analysis All authors read and approved the ... suppress the activation and nuclear translocation of the IFN-regulatory factor IRF-3 [4,47], and antagonize type I IFN activity by inhibiting the type I IFN andthe signaling cascade [10,29], the ... SOCS1 and SOCS3 negative regulation of the type I IFN response and ISG15 expression following infection with RSV or RSV mutant viruses lacking the G gene, or NS1 and NS2 gene deletions These...
... work for the elderly We hypothesized that to obtain work through SHRC may change their life and enhance "Ikigai" among the elderly We therefore tried to explore thefactorsassociatedwith "Ikigai" ... be the main purposes of seeking work andthe rest were categorized as "other" Gender differences for the distribution and mean values of these factors were examined by means of Kruskal-Wallis and ... well-being among Japanese, and examined factorsassociatedwith "Ikigai", which is with an awareness of importance to use the term originated in the basis of cultural background and social norms [17]...
... The amino-acid sequences of the predicted 613 amino-acid dFOXO protein and hFOXO3a are 27% identical over the full protein length, and 82% identical within the forkhead DNAbinding domain Furthermore, ... alignment of the forkhead domains of these 16 proteins and of the human FOXO proteins FOXO1 (FKHR), FOXO3a (FKHRL1) and FOXO4 (AFX), the C elegans DAF-16 and mouse Foxa3 (HNF-3␥; protein names on the ... (Figure 5l) The lethality associatedwiththe complete loss of dPKB is therefore largely due to hyperactivation of dFOXO We also observed that dFOXO interacts withthe tumor suppressors dTSC1 and dPTEN...
... state with a view to identify thefactors that are associatedwith mental illness in the general population at the community level The overall prevalence of psychiatric morbidity found at the community ... frame of all the communities in the selected local government areas was drawn The communities where the study was carried out were randomly selected by simple random sample (balloting) The communities ... regression analysis was done to determine factorsassociatedwith mental ill health in rural and urban Oyo State and also to remove the effect of confounding variables The dependent variable was psychiatric...
... The patients with collagen diseases included 38 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, 38 patients with scleroderma, and 26 patients with polymyositis/ dermatomyositis All the patients with ... and helped to draft the manuscript Y Kawaguchi participated in the design and coordination of the study, and recruited a subset of the patients ST conceived the study together with Y Kawano and ... All the patients with AOSD met the criteria for AOSD of both Cush and colleagues [12] and Yamaguchi and colleagues [27] All the RA patients fulfilled the 1987 classification criteria for RA of the...
... SARP for 94 patients; the incidences of SARP in the group with NTCP > 4.2% and NTCP ≤ 4.2% were 43.5% and 1.4%, respectively (p < 0.01); the incidences of SARP in the group with V10 ≤50% and V10 ... 0.001) and V10 (p = 0.015) were found to be the significant factorsassociatedwith SARP statisti- cally; the incidences of SARP in the group with NTCP > 4.2% and NTCP ≤ 4.2% were 43.5% and 1.4%, ... statistically between the clinical parameters (sex, age, smoking and diabetes history, induction chemotherapy, concurrent chemotherapy regimens and PS) of patients withand without SARP Several...
... conceived the study designed the study, analyzed the data and wrote the first draft KD analyzed the data and contributed to the draft manuscript All authors contributed to the manuscript and approved ... testing and behavioral factors such as use of alcohol, knowledge, belief and attitude towards HIV/AIDs and health system related factors Attitudes and beliefs about ART and their relationship with ... attitude score for HIV was created by summing the scores of the 11 questions The attitude score ranged from to 11, withthe higher the score, the greater the degree of attitude towards HIV Individuals...
... retained in the final model The findings are consistent with Yavuzer and colleagues where they did not see any difference between the patients with diabetes and diabetes with neuropathy [3] These findings ... Briefly, thepatient was measured in the supine position withthe knee on the frontal plane The ankle was dorsiflexed maximally withthe subtalar joint in a neutral position by palpation The goniometer ... The goniometer was aligned withthe lateral column of the foot and lateral lower fibula Available dorsiflexion at the 1st MPJ was measured passively withthepatient standing in a relaxed posture...