Birth weight ethnic differences and health outcomes in childhood

... interesting to see if ethnic differences still remain in the current setting of a developed nation 15 Table 3.1 Studies of ethnic differences in birth weight between Asian Indians and other ethnic ... Indians and Caucasians in Norway for perinatal mortality It would be interesting to determine if both currently exist in Singapore 3.1.2 Asian Indians and low birth...

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... of the literature and examine the relationship between sibship size and health outcomes later in life I use large-scale population-based survey data collected in Mexico The data set, Mexican Health ... role in transmitting the family background to health outcomes later in life Findings in this paper thus confirm results found in the epidemiolo...

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... DB The continued challenge of inappropriate prescribing in the elderly: An update of the evidence J Am Pharm Assoc 2002;42:847– 857 INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATION USE AND HEALTH OUTCOMES 1939 18 Chin ... efficient in maintaining health and using healthcare resources The model showed little dependence of health status on enabling variables, including income, insurance...

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... ability of baseline BDR on lung function and health outcomes over four years, and c) the variability of acute BDR over four years Patients Patients were recruited from 490 investigational sites in ... previously reported [10] A total of 5992 patients were randomized and received study medication in the UPLIFT study Of these patients, 5783 patients had bronchodilat...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... variation to health conditions in the household The role of drought for health outcomes is analyzed in a reduced-form regression that relates a measure of health conditions on drought incidence and ... output in the year of the survey With paddy rice being one of the most widespread and commonly planted crops, the regressions look at the relation...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:19

... disease-specific instrument for < /b> HBV infected patients in Singapore in Chapter Financial Impact of HBV infection – In order to quantify the financial impact of HBV infection in Singapore, a cost ... domain in HBV patients Third, we found the culturally adapted HQLQ to be a valid and < /b> reliable instrument for < /b> assessing HRQoL in HBV infected patients in S...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 09:38

... class in asthma Thorax 2009, 64:38-43 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-11-25 Cite this article as: Nachman and Parker: Exposures to fine particulate air pollution and respiratory outcomes in adults using ... concept, advising on analysis, interpretation and presentation of data, and assistance in drafting manuscript Both authors read and approved the final manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... aims to assist health educators to integrate chronic disease education into existing and new programs, using a population health approach It consists of: • background reading about how this chronic ... approach to be used in the primary health care setting Educating the educators All education providers require information/training about how to implement and embed th...

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... (Fajemilehin, 2001) Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the quality of life against the back ground of the health behaviours and traditional life style practices of the elderly persons in ... CONCLUSIONS The elderly persons’ socio-economic status traditional life style practices were strong determinant of health behaviours and quality of...

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... determinants of sexual QoL after prostatectomy [9] The aims of the present study are: 1) to assess QoL outcomes in prostate cancer survivors who are disease- free at least years after radical prostatectomy, ... Potosky AL: Urinary and sexual function after radical prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancer: the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study...

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... doi:10.1186/1742-2094-8-127 Cite this article as: Weinstock-Guttman et al.: Serum lipid profiles are associated with disability and MRI outcomes in multiple sclerosis Journal of Neuroinflammation 2011 8:127 Submit ... in the groups with and without statin treatment in the lipid profile variables including HDL, LDL, triglycerides, total cholesterol and chole...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... Sterud et al.: A comparison of general and ambulance specific stressors: predictors of job satisfaction and health problems in a nationwide one-year follow-up study of Norwegian ambulance personnel ... among ambulance personnel are mainly related to ambulance specific stressors • Health complaints and low job satisfaction among am...

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... Koutsouris, A S Andreou, C Pattichis, and C Schizas, “Multipurpose health care telemedicine system,” in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology ... TESTING AND RESULTS The described system was implemented to be used in two main test applications: telemedicine in emergency handling and remote health ca...

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