... treatment interruption This is in agreement with previous studies suggesting that multiple factors are involved in the success of TB treatment, and that developing a TB control strategy providing care ... Table Univariate analysis of factors influencing treatment interruption and treatment failure or death in patients with smear-positive pulmonary TB Factors No of treatment interruptions/ No of patients ... treatment interruption and cure/treatment completion) were evaluated in relation to the patient demographic data, baseline clinical characteristics and clinical management (Table 3) Factors influencing...
... higher prevalence of mental ill-health when compared with those living within nuclear family structure, (X2 = 0.09, 1df p = 0.766) Those living within monogamous family structure had higher prevalence ... then entered into the Computer using SPSS 10 statistical software for analysis Logistic regression analysis was done to determine factorsassociatedwith mental ill health in rural and urban Oyo ... sampling frame of all the local government areasin Oyo state was drawn and stratified into urban and rural areas based on World bank classification [9] One rural and two urban local government areas...
... providing confirmation testing of initially positive HIV cases All individuals with a confirmed HIV diagnosis are first seen at IDACIRC in Tbilisi In addition to clinical assessment the initial ... information on all individuals with confirmed HIV infection since the first case reported in 1989 The IDACIRC also coordinates treatment for individuals infected by HIV Treatment for HIV/AIDS in Tbilisi, ... IDACIRC since the beginning of the epidemic In 2006, two regional AIDS treatment facilities were opened, providing local treatment options for individuals living outside Tbilisi after initial...
... lead to caution in interpreting the factors identified as being associatedwith mortality Severe sepsis – together with cardiorespiratory and renal dysfunction – was associatedwith increased mortality, ... where deteriorating physiology may be useful in making decisions regarding withholding or withdrawing treatment We are not able to report on long-term follow up for mortality in these admissions ... that patients diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma had an increased risk of hospital mortality (adjusted OR = 2.38) This is an unexpected finding, since patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma have a relatively...
... in previous studies [17,19] As in our study, insulin therapy was associatedwith a marked decrease in psychological functioning Many factors were associatedwith the three DHP-18 dimensions in ... original DHP-18 is a validated instrument for Page of use withpeoplewith type diabetes [17] Concerning the French version, in line with Meadows’ preliminary results (based on the responses of people ... variability was explained by all these factors Discussion Psychological and behavioral functioning was measured in a large sample of peoplewith type diabetes who were livingin France by using a scale...
... prosthesis till the end of their life to differ in some of the remaining influencing factors Additionally for important influencing factors we expected to find a direct correlation to wear score Methods ... modes: delamination, cracks, pitting, abrasion and polishing Delamination was defined as sheets of polyethylene coming off the surface Cracks were seen in some inlays presenting as white lines at ... plotted against wear score (Fig 3b) This resulted in improved R2 (0.45 and 0.79) indicating that a model incorporating activity level is more accurate in predicting wear score than the model with implantation...
... were associatedwith an increased risk of mortality A subjective well-being and a feeling that life is worth living may represent prognostic factors for longevity and healthy aging in the later ... culturally defined as a subjective evaluation of well-being among Japanese, and examined factorsassociatedwith "Ikigai", which is with an awareness of importance to use the term originated in the ... annual income including pension benefits was assessed in terms of Japanese yen (
... More clinical evidence on using IMRT in treating lung cancer is needed We started using IMRT to treat lung cancer in 2005, and we evaluated clinical and dosimetric factorsassociatedwith severe ... showed an increasing steepness toward higher doses and an increase in steepness from V10 to V40 was more pronounced for the total lung; A 10% increase in V10 resulted in a 10% increase in pneumonitis ... versus sequential thoracic radiotherapy in combination with mitomycin, vindesine, and cisplatin in unresectable stage III non-small-cell lung cancer J Clin Oncol 1999, 17:2692-2699 Komaki R, Seiferheld...
... trochlear area These findings are in line with the work of Amin and colleagues [4] in patients with knee OA with meniscal lesions and that of Biswal and colleagues [30] in patients with meniscal tears ... trend toward correlation with joint stiffness is a new and most interesting finding, as there is, to date, very little information of this kind originating from longitudinal studies However, from ... and positioning in protecting the integrity of cartilage in both healthy and OA individuals Our data, however, clearly point to the fact that by far the greatest risk was associatedwith the presence...
... significantly associatedwith late presentation to HIV/AIDS care which is consistent with the finding of the studies done elsewhere [16,18] This could be partly explained by that peoplelivingwith HIV/AIDS ... peoplelivingwith HIV/ AIDS from obtaining the maximal benefit of being screened for tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections, receiving timely antiretroviral therapy, and benefiting from ... difficulty faced by peoplelivingwith HIV/AIDS to present early for HIV/AIDS care.” (Pharmacy technician from Dessie Referral Hospital) Perceived HIV stigma ’’ .Some peoplelivingwith HIV/AIDS did...
... signed an informed consent approved by the Committee for Protection of Human Subjects Clinical examination One examiner and the principal investigator underwent training prior to the inception ... sense in place of neuropathy thinking that this represented advanced clinical neuropathy This also was not retained in the final model The findings are consistent with Yavuzer and colleagues where ... patients with diabetes and diabetes with neuropathy [3] These findings are also supported in part by the neuropathy findings of Mueller and colleagues; however, the unloading differences in conservative...
... treating not only the feelings of despair, passive coping and inefficacy that characterise it, but also of intervening in the actual contingency system of the organisation, directing its influence ... treatments for this clinical profile should include restoring balance to this distorted view of their needs by approaching the associated guilty feelings, encouraging a renewal of interest and personal ... to observe a considerable increase in the number of studies dealing with burnout The growing interest of researchers in this psychosocial disorder is easy to understand In a relatively short time,...
... select studies assessing the factors related to early interruption of clinical interventions in subjects with EDs: (a) inclusion in at least one of three databases, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Cochrane ... discriminated between "early" and "late" dropout (8%) Therapeutic setting Inpatient setting Nine studies (34.6%) analysed the dropout phenomenon in an inpatient setting [6,12-15,17,18,37,38] In one ... significant in more than two studies is very small (AN binge eating/purging type, maturity fear, broadly defined borderline traits and early life events) Some interesting results emerged concerning the...
... cocaine, to require help injecting, and were more likely to engage in distributive syringe sharing Being homeless may be associatedwith a more disheveled appearance and a tendency to inject in ... in unsafe behaviors such as sharing or renting/buying syringes at shooting galleries Alternative interpretations could explain our results For example, homeless and/or methamphetamine injecting ... possession were associatedwith a three-fold higher odds of receptive needle sharing [25] Being arrested for syringe possession was also independently associatedwith shooting gallery use in both Tijuana...
... had injected heroin daily, 33% had injected cocaine daily, 14% had injected speedballs (heroin and cocaine combined) daily and 5% had accessed methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) Mortality In ... crack cocaine use and greater than once daily injection of heroin, cocaine and/or speedball (a mixture of heroin and cocaine), and use of methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) Sex-work involvement ... outcomes, including blood-borne infection, than among young peoplein the general population[3] In a study of new onset injection drug users, mortality rates varied by calendar year, were elevated in...
... virus transmission: defining environmental factorsassociatedwith an urban- suburban outbreak in Northeast Ohio, USA Geospat Health 2008, 2:215-225 17 Harper RA: Forest Inventory & Analysis Factsheet ... positive pools in forested areas while the phylogenetic study shows more diversity in the wetland areas It is also interesting that there is more genetic diversity within Louisiana than without That ... contiguous sequence Branches indicating Louisiana isolates are coded by eco-region with isolate ID in parentheses Other sequences included in this phylogeny include the following GenBank accession numbers:...
... farm To determine if the increased risk was indeed associatedwith increasing numbers of houses, rather than just increasing numbers of flocks, we included the number of flocks as an independent ... importance in the epidemiology of Campylobacter on broiler farms in Iceland In general, the factorsassociatedwith an increased risk of Campylobacter were increasing median flock size, spreading manure ... variables are listed in descending order, such that factors identified as being associatedwith Campylobacter in all models are the top of the table For example, increasing median flock size...
... vaccinated using vaccine B In the Of all the variables considered in the multivariable analysis only gender was not retained in the final model In the final model only type of vaccine remained ... available vaccines in Sweden To qualify into the study the dogs had to be vaccinated in Sweden and been vaccinated against rabies with one of the two in Sweden commercially available vaccines, and ... the finding of Minke et al [4] that there were significant differences in immunogenicity between the vaccines A and B in an experimental vaccination trial in laboratory dogs Two vaccinations increased...
... of SIV Infection of 14 Dams 7–54 days after delivery Mother Infant Infant age @ start SIV Infection in Infant Timepoint of SIV Detection in Infant (days p.i.) Last Negative Timepoint in Infant ... consistent with observations in HIV-infected women that higher milk viral loads and consistent shedding of virus in milk correlate with infant infection [23] Due to frequent longitudinal sampling and ... define the viral factors responsible for infant infection Conclusions This study has examined the viral and immunological factorsassociatedwith transmission of virus through breastfeeding in...
... population livingin the North-Central region of Uganda, which also includes the districts of Lira and Apac [4] About 10% of peoplelivingin the Acholi region are resident inurbanareas and ... http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/1/1/3 Table 4: Factorsassociatedwith HIV-1 infection among the antenatal clinic attendees living in/ out of protected camps for internally displaced peoplein Gulu, Kitgum and Pader ... rural area with about 10% of its population livinginurban settings In fact, the HIV-1 prevalence in the Acholi region is higher than the rates reported at ANC sites in other rural areas of Uganda...