... analysis of five clinical trials in which atomoxetine was generally shown to be effective in improving certain aspects of HRQoL in 794 children and adolescents with ADHD [31] In addition, in our ... period, dominated the ratings [14] Chou and Table Adverse events causally related to treatment (at least possible) reported in at least 2% in any subgroup of patients (sorted by percentages in ... http://www.capmh.com/content/5/1/26 Page 11 of 13 Table Adverse events as reason for study termination reported in at least patient in the total group (sorted by percentages in the total group) Age Adverse event...
... analyses of health spending percapitaand its determinants can be quite useful in assessing the importance of these links and other possible “indirect” influences of ageing, defined in the sense of ... importance of ageing in the increase in health expenditures percapita during the period from 1940 to 1990 in the United States He found that that ageing, in the sense of an increasing proportion of ... can so by introducing generous pension and insurance schemes thereby enhancing the incomes of the elderly and influencing the social arrangements in which they live; by expanding public insurance...
... CJL: Rethinking DALYsIn The global burdenof disease: a comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries and risk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020 Edited by: Murray ... number of incident cases of a health problem (which may be treated by intervention j) in population groupofage a and sex s while j H as is the proportion of incident cases seeking treatment in ... benefits of an intervention were measured as the reduction in the burdenofdisease (DALYs averted) as a result of the intervention Following the Global BurdenofDisease methodology [32-34], the burden...
... cohort of 1,000 individuals in 11 age bands by gender was defined The number of persons at the beginning of each interval was calculated by subtracting from the number of people in the previous interval ... number of deaths occurring in that interval The number of person-years in each interval was calculated assuming that deaths occurred in the mid-point of the interval and adjusting for the length of ... in each agegroup Quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) in each age interval were calculated by multiplying the number of persons-years by an estimate of health-related quality of life (HRQL) in...
... Global Burdenof Disease, DALYs( 3,0), 2001 The 10 Leading Causes ofBurdenofDiseasebyBroadIncome Group, 2001 The 10 Leading Causes of the BurdenofDiseasein Low- and Middle -Income Countries, ... of Death, byBroadIncome Group, 2001 The 10 Leading Causes of Death, by Sex, in Low- and Middle -Income Countries, 2001 The 10 Leading Causes of Death in Children Ages 0–14, byBroadIncome Group, ... by Cause, Sex, andAgein High -Income Countries, 2001 Deaths by Cause, Sex, andAgein the World, 2001 DALYs( 3,0) by Cause, Sex, andAgein Low- and Middle -Income Countries, 2001 DALYs( 3,0) by...
... showing INDIAN PEDIATRICS JUNE 10, 2012 [E-PUB AHEAD OF PRINT] KAR, et al HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE eosinophilia and two cases with neutrophilia Routine and microscopic examination of stool and ... newly emerging infection in Orissa, India National Med J India 2010;23:313 INDIAN PEDIATRICS JUNE 10, 2012 [E-PUB AHEAD OF PRINT] KAR, et al HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE TABLE I AGEAND SEX DISTRIBUTION ... Council of Medical Research, Dept of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India Competing interests: None stated INDIAN PEDIATRICS JUNE 10, 2012 [E-PUB AHEAD OF PRINT]...
... determination of the size of the population groups exposed to PM10 and PM2.5, and the type of health effect of interest The incidence of the health effect being estimated (e.g the underlying mortality ... from a number of causes (see Section 6) In this context, upper and lower estimates could be obtained by applying the upper and lower coefficients of the confidence intervals for estimating the relative ... size of the effect; and the larger effect sizes reported by some studies of developing countries Therefore, we recommend a range of 0.6 1.5% increase in mortality per daily increase of 10 g/m3 in...
... (including the six WHO regions) andincome groupings, with the countriesgrouped as high, medium or low income, depending on their gross national incomepercapitain2004 The classification of ... lower in low -income countries than in middle- and high -income countries (Figure 11), reflecting the lower past smoking rates in low -income countriesand the higher past smoking rates in high -income ... Table A4: Attributable DALYsby risk factor andincomegroupin WHO regions, estimates for 2004 52 Table A5: Countriesgroupedby WHO region andincomepercapitain2004 54...
... train and develop local personnel in cost-effective ways These include training/teaching missions of experts from first-world units, and twinning arrangements of African units with over- ture in ... begins, complex cases being flown to up in most of the major centres in South Africa, and also a few in mentor institutions Africa, including in Egypt and Uganda However, while this phase of ... per 000 using echo-based screening of schoolchildren,(30) stage, the pathology is defined by annular dilatation, chordal elong- probably a better estimate Because of the difficulty in obtaining...
... national average contribution of ALRIs in children under years, and COPD and lung cancer in adults aged 30 years and older, to the total attributable burden is shown in Fig The burdenofdisease attributed ... Romieu I, Bruce N Indoor air pollution in developing countriesand ALRI in children Thorax 2000; 55: 518-532 Smith KR Inaugural article: national burdenofdiseasein India from indoor air pollution ... followed by 9% in the coloured and about 1% in both the Indian and white population groups (Table II) Age- standardised attributable mortality rates by population group are presented in Fig Large...
... includes the GDP per capita, the second one includes the GDP and the income distribution variables (GINI andincome share held by the lowest 10%), and the third one includes the GDP and the percentage ... controlling for incomeandincome distribution variables In terms of magnitudes, an increase of one unit in the density of health workers per 1000 will decrease, on average, the total burdenofdisease ... the GINI coefficient, and the income share held by the lowest 10% of the population The former was included as a measure of income, the second as a proxy of absolute poverty, and the remaining...
... discriminate between different levels of readiness to change, which also reflects coping efforts SIS was partly predicted by age, indicating older people on average having higher SIS scores This finding ... amount of suffering These differences in distribution also argue in favour of measuring suffering with a visual and indirect method such as the PRISM-RII The PRISM has been proven useful in measuring ... psychological well-being and insight into the patients' illness perceptions The non-verbal PRISM-RII is a promising tool that can be used both in research and clinical settings, in particular also...
... study, performed the physical examinations, and was involved in drafting of the paper RS was involved in data collection and drafting of the paper FR was involved in data analysis and drafting of ... effect of BCG vaccination or may have been caused by the revaccination schema: TST-negative HCWs are revaccinated, inducing a positive TST, without changing the IGRA Increasing the cut-off for ... vaccinated at least once TST is performed by trained personnel following standard procedures In brief, 0.1 mL (2 TU) of purified protein derivative (PPD, RT23; Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen,...
... discriminate between different levels of readiness to change, which also reflects coping efforts SIS was partly predicted by age, indicating older people on average having higher SIS scores This finding ... amount of suffering These differences in distribution also argue in favour of measuring suffering with a visual and indirect method such as the PRISM-RII The PRISM has been proven useful in measuring ... psychological well-being and insight into the patients' illness perceptions The non-verbal PRISM-RII is a promising tool that can be used both in research and clinical settings, in particular also...
... scanned in a supine position with no load-bearing during or prior to scanning The 25 scans in the training collection were segmented by slice-wise outlining of the medial tibial and femoral cartilage ... MRI-tib We investigated the performance of linear combinations of these individual markers by means of pattern recognition methods [35] Here, methods also exist for combining markers in non-linear ... population at a certain stage of the disease; and a prognostic marker is also needed for selecting those in this group at a high risk for disease progression Finally, an efficacy of intervention marker...
... morbidity and mortality, and the poisoning of maize flour by white Rhodesian farmers This serves to demonstrate that that which is seemingly irrational is, in fact, a logical interpretation of the ... both biomedical and conspiracy explanations for the origin and transmission of HIV Elite and healthy civil sector professionals who initially discredit sorcery charges may later invoke these same ... interpretation of the origin of HIV/AIDS against these historical circumstances Also of interest to healthcare practitioners is an explanation of why even literate and educated Zimbabweans can...
... included infectious myonecrosis caused by IMNV in its list of reportable diseases from competent authorities for aquatic animal diseases in 18 member countriesin Asia Its members include China, ... know of anyone attempting to so Conclusions Negative test results for IMNV in our continual tests since 2006 and lack of official reports of IMNV outbreaks in the Asian member countriesof NACA ... occurrence of IMNV from Indonesia but not from China, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam supports our contention that outbreaks of infectious myonecrosis have not yet occurred in Asia outside of Indonesia...
... further grouped into "developed" "low-mortality developing" including China and much of Latin America, and "high mortality developing" including Sub-Saharan Africa, and many countriesin Western and ... childhood diseases (lower respiratory diseases, diarrhoeal diseases, and perinatal causes such as birth asphyxia, birth traumas and low birth weight) were also the leading causes ofdisease burden, in ... missing data and to assess the reliability of data, and the use of a common metric to summarise diseaseburden from both diagnostic categories of the International Classification ofDiseaseand Injuries,...
... quercetin may attenuate lung inflammation by inhibition of protein and lipid kinases involved in inflammatory cytokine and chemokine production Quercetin has inhibitory effects on phosphatidylinositol ... Quercetin also has anti-inflammatory effects, inhibiting lipid, protein tyrosine and serine/ threonine kinases by its capacity to compete with the binding of ATP at the nucleotide binding site ... decreases in the levels of neutrophil attracting C-X-C chemokines KC and MIP-2, monocyte and macrophage chemoattractant MCP-1 and pro-inflammatory cytokines including IL-1b, IL12p40 and MIP-1b In addition...
... reports of exacerbations with the medical notes relating to clinic attendances in the intervening year to increase accuracy As part of their routine clinical care at clinic visits during the ... repeatability of measures of quadriceps strength in this patient group QMVC measured on two occasions within weeks of each other in our lab in a groupof 15 patients with COPD was 28.8(9.2) at baseline and ... 2007, 8:25 the findings of this study would have been skewed by an uneven pattern of drop out We chose to define exacerbations as episodes of worsening ofdisease sufficient to cause patients...