... hypertension, only 35.1% (37.8% of hypertensive men and 32.2% of hypertensive women) were aware of their hypertension, and only 20.1% (17.8% of the men and 24.1% of the women) were being treated ... Laboratory of Bavi) A more detailed description of the Bavi district and of FilaBavi can be found elsewhere (15) The study was conducted in accordance with WHO’s STEPwise approach to surveillance of ... conducted a study of chronic disease risk factors in the Bavi district of Vietnam Using the STEPwise approach of the World Health Organization (WHO) (12), we examined the prevalence of three major...
... aspects of the analysis of data from retrospective studies of disease Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1959, 222:719-748 Andersson N, Mitchell S: Epidemiological geomatics in evaluation of ... Thoennes N: Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women 2000 [http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/172837.pdf] U.S Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, ... exception of one question about pregnancy, interviewers administered the same instrument to men and women We limited domestic violence to reports of physical abuse, and we had no measure of severity of...
... that of the renal cortex and spleen, with attenuation of the ultrasound wave, loss of delineation of the diaphragm, and poor demarcation of the intrahepatic architecture (37, 38) Prevalence of ... epidemic of overweight and obesity– “globesity”– is taking over many parts of the world” (8) Of special concern in the context of this epidemic is the escalating trend in the prevalence of childhood ... Pollution ever, a review of some other studies suggested that in spite of the existing association of NAFLD with the early onset of the metabolic and vascular pathogenic changes of atherosclerosis,...
... broader aspects of health Assuming that knowledge of specific factors can further assist ophthalmologists in the care of their patients, the present study aims to create a risk profile of patient ... threat to quality of life (QOL) Several studies report an association between the number of conditions and QOL, where a higher number of diseases is related to deterioration of physical functioning ... characteristics of the patients Of the visually impaired population, in more than 50% the primary cause of vision loss was AMD Three patients (9.1%) who reported to suffer from the consequences of stroke...
... ‘bug-bear’ of a surgical practice: reducing the incidence of MRSA surgical site infections Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2006, 88(2):222-3 Gray JW, George RH: Is the incidence of ... [Figure 7] 63% of all cases involved extracapsular and intracapsular hip fractures 68% of these cases were in females and 89% of these cases were in patients over the age of 65 Overall, 37% of intracapsular ... to procedure, use of arthroplasty, length of inpatient residence, number of antibiotics used, concomitant surgical site infection (SSI), number of revision procedures and site of post-surgical...
... border cities throughout the US-Mexico border Funding Information Figure Map of Mexico Map of Mexico States of origin of migrating pregnant women, Tijuana General Hospital 2003 indicates Baja California; ... (CENSIDA) in other areas of Mexico, which is 0.09%.[4] This discrepancy may be explained by the nature of the population studied Our study was hospital based, with 24% of our patients having no ... J, et al.: HIV-1 infection in a cohort of pregnant Women in Baja California, Mexico: evidence of an emerging crisis? [ThPeC7301] Program and abstracts of the XV International AIDS Conference;...
... analysis, the group of LBWNB had higher percentage of mothers less than 12 years of schooling (88.4%), being 32.5% of them with less than years of schooling; higher frequency of adolescent mothers ... result of premature interruption of pregnancy or intrauterine growth restriction The objective of this study was to provide information on determinants of LBW and contribute to the understanding of ... years old, 63.8% of preterm pregnancy and 50.2% of primigravid women A total of 36.2% term pregnancies led to LWNB and this percentage of NB could be attributed to restriction of intrauterine...
... occurrence of retained Table Descriptive statistics of data included in the analysis of risk factors for retained placenta in 805 calvings in nine dairy herds Variables Level Abnormal partus1) No of ... the chi-square test Evaluation of the effect of retained placenta on the occurrence of reproductive and metabolic disorders Cows were grouped based on the occurrence of retained placenta 24 hr postpartum ... model analyses of five production disorders of dairy cattle J Dairy Sci 1993, 76, 2765-2772 15 Emanuelson U, Oltenacu PA Incidences and effects of diseases on the performance of Swedish dairy...
... Methods of cleaning Not practiced Sweeping Water hosing Yes Workers visiting other No farms* Yes Preparation of food on No the farm Well Source of water Tap water Yes Isolation of newly No bought animals ... herds The number of cows to sample from each governorate depended on the density of cows in that governorate Herds were randomly selected using the records of the Jordanian Ministry of Agriculture ... with ‡ cattle Yes: means the presence of the factor, No: means the absence of the factor biggest from the size point of view, and this affect the quality of veterinary services provided to both...
... surgical mortality rate of 5.6% Although hepatic resection is a safe therapeutic choice, the concern of the choice of hepatectomy in this group of patients is a higher risk of recurrence than transplantation ... Comparison of overall survival of patients within UCSF criteria and without UCSF criteria Soong et al World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2011, 9:9 http://www.wjso.com/content/9/1/9 Page of Table ... from 60.76 to 181.78 months Outcome of hepatectomy within UCSF criteria To determine the outcome of hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma, the survival rates of the patients were analyzed by...
... incomplete type of the defect The subgroup of subarterial ventricular septal defects is also analysed in the group of ventricular septal defects Patients with repair of tetralogy of Fallot are ... groups, likely a result of cannulation of the right atrium for CPB and surgical access via the atria Another example is the association of closure of a VSD with a variety of junctional neonatal ... and interpretation of data, drafting of manuscript SK: Acquisition of data RGG: Conception and study design, acquisition of data BJM: Conception and study design, acquisition of data JFV-J: Conception...
... Risk Profile Gene Risk Profile 20 Time [Years] 12 15 60 p=0.0012 40 No Gene Risk Profile Gene Risk Profile 20 0 80 12 15 Time [Years] 12 15 Time [Years] Figure Risk profile and occurrence of cardiac ... carriers of hepatic lipase were prone to undergo a reoperation and recurrent symptoms That's why part of the risk gene profile was homozygous expression of the G allele Homozygous expression of CETP ... disease, we constructed a risk profile Carriers of the risk profile were defined as having one of the following polymorphisms: hetero- or homozygous for the variants of eNOS 4ab, the ApoE allele...
... Washington, DC: U.S Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs; 1997 Payne AA, Gottfredson DC, Gottfredson GD: School predictors of the intensity of implementation of school-based prevention ... allocation of resources ST RU CT U RE OF T H E SCH OOL SY ST EM B o a r d o f Sc h o o l Co m m i s s i o n e r s Ch i e f Ex e c u t i v e Of f i c e r 1: Central Office Ch i e f A c a d e m i c Of ... course of first grade and to the end of third grade Aim two Measure the variation in the impact of WD by examining moderating factors at the level of the child and the social contexts of family,...
... hypotheses, the unit of randomization will be the clinic The unit of analysis will be the repeated measure of each risk factor for each patient, nested within the clinic The repeated measure of glycosylated ... control of one or more of these risk factors [5-7] According to the Chronic Care model (CCM), patient outcomes such as good control of these risk factors should be associated with the presence of ... participation among people at all levels of the practice [11] Another example of the importance of communication can be found in studies regarding implementation of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)...
... calcification of the aorta and both medial calcification and intimal thicken ng of medium-sized muscular arteries [26] i Finally, the gene product of RBBP8, located within the 18q locus, is one of the ... only look for genetic determinants of intracranial aneurysms, but also investigate genetic determinants of rupture of aneurysms Given that only a minority of all unruptured aneurysms rupture, ... been reviewed elsewhere [10-12] A disadvantage of the hypothesis-based approach of candidate gene studies is that genes involved in the pathogenesis of a disease through unknown pathways are overlooked...
... individuals of the same gender who had a date of birth within three years of the case from the practice register They then contacted the control subject with a date of birth closest to that of the ... 91% of the informants were 1st degree relatives and 95% were 1st or 2nd degree relatives Almost half of informants lived with the deceased (92 informants, 48%) Of the remainder, 49 (26% of the ... (57 subjects, 88%) Description of cases Of the 194 cases of suicide, 157 (81%) were male The median age (IQR) was 43 years (30 to 62 years) The most common methods of suicide were hanging or strangulation...
... of the test (≤50 copies/ml) was evaluated by testing samples with various levels of viremia Specificity of the PCR test was confirmed by sequencing The quality of PCR reactions and the lack of ... Genotype and history of blood transfusion All of the 40 patients with a history of blood transfusion (43.5%), got their blood transfusion before being infected with HCV Five out of patients with ... and he is infected by genotype Genotype and history of surgical operations A total of 45 patients had a history of medical surgery (48.9%) Most of them (86.7%) were operated before HCV infection...
... research groups often make use of the database of the public registry office of individual cities in order to recruit population-based controls With this database, a nearly unbiased sample of a defined ... knee OA Symptomatic knee OA and malalignment of the tibiofemoral joint In the data from the present study, the existence of malalignment of the tibiofemoral joint was associated with symptomatic ... results of these authors Symptomatic knee OA and sports In our study when looking at sports with a risk of unapparent knee trauma, cumulative sports (addition of hours over life of all these kinds of...