a population based study

... enfermedades crónicas estudiadas influyó significativamente en la puntuación de casi todas las escalas de la SF36® La HRQOL alcanzó valores inferiores cuando la persona ten a depresión/ansiedad, ... significativamente la HRQOL en todas las áreas Las escalas más afectadas por las enfermedades fueron dolor físico, salud general y vitalidad Conclusiones Se encontró una alta prevalencia de enfermedades ... crónicas para reducir la comorbilidad y disminuir su impacto sobre la HRQOL en los adultos mayores Salud del anciano, enfermedad crónica, calidad de vida, Brasil Rev Panam Salud Publica/Pan Am J...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... literature review, data analysis and drafting of the manuscript M B A Barros acted as adviser for the article proposal, data analysis and drafting the manuscript M B A Barros, C L G César, L Carandina ... Com o aumento da esperan a de vida, a melhoria da qualidade de vida dos anos conquistados passou a ser um dos maiores desafios da saúde pública O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a qualidade de ... VMSL, Barros MBA, César CLG, Carandina L, Goldbaum M Fatores associados não realização exame de Papanicolaou: um estudo de base populacional no Município de Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil Cad Saúde...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... ingeriam bebida alcoúlica pelo menos uma vez por semana apresentaram melhor qualidade de vida que os que nóo ingeriam Comparados com os que nunca fumaram, os fumantes tiveram pior qualidade de vida ... Lima MG, Barros MBA, Cộsar CLG, Carandina L, Goldbaum M Impact of chronic disease on quality of life among the elderly in the state of Sóo Paulo, Brazil: a population- based study Rev Panam Salud ... selected major risks: Geneva; 2009 26 Zaitune MPA, Barros MBA, Cộsar CLG, Carandina L, Goldbaum M Fatores associados ao sedentarismo no lazer em idosos, Campinas, Sóo Paulo, Brasil Cad Saude Publica...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... fibromyalgia Disability and health-care use Med Care 1996, 34:924-930 Jason LA, Richman JA, Rademaker AW, Jordan KM, Plioplys AV, Taylor R, et al.: A community -based study of chronic fatigue ... reasons to choose from, and health literacy may have affected the accuracy of these data Our study was cross-sectional in nature and does not allow for proper evaluation of treatment efficacy Also, ... Sedatives - Benzodiazepines Antidepressants Asthma medications Anti-histamines Cold/sinus Anti-migraine Anti-allergy Pain relievers (includes NSAIDs and narcotics) - Narcotic pain relievers - Acetaminophen...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Remission Partial Remission Partial Remission Partial Remission Partial Remission Partial Remission Partial Remission Partial Remission Partial Remission Partial Remission Partial Remission Partial Remission ... a symptom and variables at initial classification (i.e., age at initial classification, sex, race, education, income, fatigue severity, wellness score, illness duration, onset type, and age at ... Demographic characteristics of CFS subjects at initial classification (N = 65) Characteristic Description Female (%) Current age in years (mean, standard deviation, range) Race (%) White Black American...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... for children ages 2–4 DataStat, a nationally -based survey administration firm located in Michigan, was contracted to administer the California SCHIP statewide mail survey DataStat mailed the PedsQL™ ... an alpha of 0.90, recommended for individual patient analysis [40], making the Total Scale Score suitable as a summary score for the primary analysis of HRQOL outcome in population health analyses ... instrument and drafted the manuscript TMB participated in study conceptualization and design, and performed the statistical analysis All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... fibromyalgia Disability and health-care use Med Care 1996, 34:924-930 Jason LA, Richman JA, Rademaker AW, Jordan KM, Plioplys AV, Taylor R, et al.: A community -based study of chronic fatigue ... reasons to choose from, and health literacy may have affected the accuracy of these data Our study was cross-sectional in nature and does not allow for proper evaluation of treatment efficacy Also, ... Sedatives - Benzodiazepines Antidepressants Asthma medications Anti-histamines Cold/sinus Anti-migraine Anti-allergy Pain relievers (includes NSAIDs and narcotics) - Narcotic pain relievers - Acetaminophen...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... hospitalization, clinical status on presentation, and clinical outcome (survival) Statistical analysis included chi square analysis for categorical data and student's t-test for continuous variables ... prevalence Map of area) and high prevalence (gray area) for S aureus Figure strain USA3002 Map of Brooklyn indicating regions with low prevalence (white area) and high prevalence (gray area) for ... healthcare (and antimicrobial agents) Indeed, increased antibiotic consumption has been postulated as a protective factor against CA-MRSA in certain populations [3] It is evident that in a large...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:20

... Mori N, Kowa H, Nakashima K: Cosinor analysis of heart rate variability in ambulatory migraineurs Headache 2000, 40(6):457-63 29 Munakata M, Imai Y, Minami N, Sasaki S, Ichijyo T, Yoshizawa M, Sekino ... not make a good match: For Poisson random variable the mean equals the variance and we assume a oscillating number of crimes So the residuals will not automatically be homoscedastic and are afterwards ... harmonics can reach from only small adjustments of the fundamental oscillations to generating additional maxima, minima or plateaus cn f Comparison method (Fourier ANOVA) A statistical test for comparing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... for males and females Missing data on age at first sex for male and females Missing data on partners in past year for males and females Missing data on consulting a traditional healer for 13 males ... explanatory multivariable model was not derived, since this was a cross-sectional study and it is Page of not possible to establish causality, and many factors, such as marital breakdown, may ... the study participants from Kyamulibwa, Masaka district Author details Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute (MRC/UVRI) Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda 2Department...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... parental alcohol problems Parental basic education Using the highest secondary educational level of both parents, parental basic education was classified as a binary variable of having at least ... cross-sectional analyses suggested that the association between behavioral and affective factors and SUD was only partly accounted for by other correlates, such as early initiation of substance use and parental ... for age and gender In Model I, behavioral and affective factors and the covariates age and gender were included as predictor variables When assessed simultaneously, all three variables (attention...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... de Salud de Nazaret, Agencia Valenciana de la Salud Valencia, Spain Centro de Salud de Villamarchante, Agencia Valenciana de la Salud Valencia, Spain Authors’ contributions JSG, SP and GSG carry ... RodríguezGarc a M, Cannata-And a JB: The effect of vertebral fracture as a risk factor for osteoporotic fracture and mortality in a Spanish population Osteoporos Int 2003, 14:520-4 Lai BM, Tsang SW, Lam ... probability of 0.05, to retain the significant factors All analyses were performed using the STATA 10.0 (Stata Corp., College Station, Texas) statistical software Ethical Aspects The study was approved...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... This study provides population- based evidence that stable COPD patients have a pro-inflammatory state, with increased circulating levels of many inflammatory cytokines and acute-phase reactants ... Fibrinogen was assessed using a coagulation analyzer (Roche, Mannheim, Germany) according to the Clauss method and calculated from ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid to citrate plasma values The ... Caubet-CIMERA Illes Balears, Bunyola, Illes Balears, and CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Spain, 4Pneumology Department, Hospital Reina Sof a, Córdoba, Spain, 5IMIM/CREAL Barcelona, Spain, 6Medical...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... and statistical analysis Peter Lange helped collect the data and was involved in the statistical analysis All investigators participated in designing the study and in writing the paper, and all ... primerpairs: 5'-TAATGGATCATGGGCCATGT-3'and 5'-ACAGTGTTGAATGTGGTGCA-3' (first step reaction), and 5'CCGCCGCTGTGTGTGTGTGTGTGTTTTT-3' and 5'GCTTTCTCAAATAATTCCCC-HEX-3' (second step reaction) (mismatch underlined) ... et al.: A haplotype -based molecular analysis of CFTR mutations associated with respiratory and pancreatic diseases Hum Mol Genet 2003, 12:2321-2332 Casals T, De-Gracia J, Gallego M, Dorca J, Rodríguez-Sanchón...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... perinatal dataset SJ-G participated in the follow-up programme in Rotterdam as a paediatrician and advised in the analysis of the data D-T and LAA-K participated as medical doctors in the coordination ... outcomes are necessary for scientific evaluation and clinical management of the sequelae and the developmental problems As local patient groups are usually small, national and international collaboration ... acquisition, analysis and interpretation of the psychological data P-M participated in the follow-up programme in Rotterdam as a psychologist and participated in data acquisition, analysis and interpretation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... publications possible  Yudi Pawitan and Agus Salim for their guidance and discussion in data analysis  Teo Shu Mei and Nasheen Naidoo, my course mates and colleagues, for helping in R package analysis ... (ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/hapmap/raw_data/hapmap3_affy6.0/) This allowed us to investigate population differences of CNV profiles between the HapMap III and Singapore populations (Study III) It is important to study population ... ligated with biotinylated hairpin adapters The DNA fragments were then circularized and randomly sheared The fragments attached to biotinylated hairpin adapters were isolated to form a mate-pair...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:47

... Ataxia-Telangiectasia Mutated Adenosine Triphosphate Ataxia-Telangiectasia and RAD3-Related BRCA1-Associated Ring Domain BRCA1-Associated Surveillance Complex Breast Information Core Breast Cancer Type Breast ... 102 3.1.4 Absence of BRCA1 genomic rearrangement in Malay breast/ovarian cancer patients 3.2 BRCA1 haplotype analysis 103 105 3.2.1 Haplotyping of Malay breast/ovarian cancer patients and vii the ... BRCA1 alterations in Singapore breast and/or ovarian cancers The aim of this study was to investigate genetic alterations of the BRCA1 gene in Singapore Malay women with breast and/or ovarian cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:01

... BRCA1 genomic rearrangement analysis in Malay samples (Lim YK, et al, 2007) 104 3.2 BRCA1 haplotype analysis 3.2.1 Haplotyping of Malay breast/ovarian cancer patients and the general Malay population ... cancer (Table 10) The intronic variant, IVS18+73G >A, was identified in two samples, a breast and an ovarian cancer patients Patient N640 was diagnosed with early-onset breast cancer and no family ... recurrent c.2845insA mutation in Singapore Malay women Blood from FTA 26 Early-onset (breast/ovarian cancer) 30 Late-onset (breast/ovarian cancer) 56 All (breast/ovarian cancer) Paraffin-embedded...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:01

... protective factor in childhood ALL (See Table 2) Cnattingius et al (1995) looked into many maternal and prenatal risk factors for childhood acute lymphatic leukemia The study was a population- based case-control ... medical care available Given equal access to effective treatment regardless of race or ability to pay, black and white children with ALL can achieve same high survival rates, with 5-year survival ... and have amassed important and large amount of data on cancer incidence in Singapore Although trends in adult cancers have been published regularly by the Singapore Cancer Registry, similar analyses...

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:24

... were any contraindications to having a MRI scan Participants with Parkinson’s disease and dementia were excluded due their know effects on GI and falls The Southern Tasmanian Health and Medical ... level’ [14] Participants were also asked to keep a falls calendar to record any falls If a participant did not return a questionnaire they were followed-up with a phone call Any participant not reporting ... using STATA version 12.1 (StataCorp, TX, USA) Results Four participants were excluded (one person had a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and had missing falls data), leaving 124 participants Ninety...

Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 21:39