diversification correlation risk and exposures to alternative risk factors

... 0–2 risk factors were classified as low risk and those with 3–5 risk factors were grouped as high risk for a diagnosis of diabetes This paper will focus on respondents with type diabetes, low risk ... risk (0–2 risk factors) , and high risk (3–5 risk factors) EQ-5D The EQ-5D was used as a measure of respondents' HRQoL and utility values The EQ-5D provides a simple descriptive profile and a single ... surgery to clear arteries) These risk factors were derived from the literature, national guidelines, and expert opinion as modifiable or treatable risk factors for the future development and/ or...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... prognostic factors for recurrence in early cervical cancer "Abundant" vascularization and the lowest PI are related to postoperative treatment due to risk factors that can be easily and prospectively ... patients Other prospective randomized trials [16] have found a Table 4: Risk group according to amount of vascularization and PI Low Risk High Risk Total Scanty Vascularization and PI > 0.82 (55.2%) ... vascularization and PI < 0.82 was evaluated according to prognostic factors Two main risk groups were established The high -risk group that was defined as having at least one of the following prognostic factors: ...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:22

... disease-related factors, and markers of endothelial activation Traditional risk factors, like increasing age and dyslipidemia, accounted for increased IMT values in SSc patients and controls After ... artery (CCA) in patients with SSc and healthy controls In addition, we related the outcome to traditional risk factors and markers of endothelial activation Materials and methods Patients Consecutive ... Characteristics of patients and controls The demographic characteristics and the traditional risk factors of SSc patients and healthy controls are shown in Table Patients tended to be older (55.4 ± 11.6...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... Finland (to Timo Partonen) and Grant from Finnish Cultural Foundation (to Ani Englund) References 10 11 12 13 Conclusion Our findings herein link the circadian gene variants and risk factors ... http://www.jcircadianrhythms.com/content/7/1/5 Seasonality and disruption of circadian molecular clockwork are risk factors for metabolic syndrome ([12,20] We now found that the common risk factors for metabolic syndrome are ... Ncoa3 rs2230783 and Per2 S662G, so these were excluded from further analysis Each polymorphic SNP was then analyzed in relation to seasonality and to metabolic syndrome risk factors The significant...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... surgery(defined as a history of knee surgery, including meniscal and ligamentous repairs and unilateral total knee replacement for OA), family history of total knee replacement (defined as a total knee replacement ... with and without risk factors for OA, (ii) to determine the relationship between MR cartilage T2 parameters, age and cartilage morphology as determined with WORMS and (iii) to assess the reproducibility ... in both hands) [17]) Subjects from the control cohort had neither knee symptoms nor risk factors for OA The exclusion criteria for the study included rheumatoid arthritis, bilateral total knee...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... acute stress symptoms and risk factors to determine which children and families might need more support This toolkit should be made accessible for parents and children at PICU and should be evaluated ... a larger sample of parents and explore possible other risk factors for mental health problems So, parents at risk can be identified and monitored in an early phase and referred for psychological ... = fathers ntot = ntot = 41 ntot = 12 At 3-months follow-up n = 86 families (including 84 mothers and 65 fathers, ntot=149) SRS-PTSD (ntot=115) n = 69 mothers and 46 fathers HADS (ntot=128) n...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... 4.2 Risk factors: In order not to confound matters with the two different catheters, analysis for risk factors was confined to patients catheterized with the novel silver hydrogel catheter A total ... CAUTI was to study risk factors for CAUTI, particularly the impact of noncompliance with recommended precepts of urinary catheter care on the risk of CAUTI 2.3 Clinical Features and Symptoms associated ... 2.2 Risk factors: A small number of prospective studies (Garibaldi et al 1974; Shapiro et al 1984; Platt et al 1986; Johnson et al 1990) examined the risk factors for CAUTI mainly in the 1970s and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 21:28

... overweight/obesity On the other hand, understanding the associated factors is helping to generate hypotheses for testing causal factors To implement effective prevention and intervention, evaluation ... study and temporal relationships between exposures and overweight and obesity cannot be ascertained Therefore, further cohort studies are needed to identify causal factors of overweight and obesity ... overweight and obesity and associated early risk factors in a very young age group (6– to 72–month–old) of Singapore Chinese children The prevalence of overweight and obesity are 8.1% and 7.1%,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 11:58

... 2.29, 1.62 and 2.35 and kurtosis of 15.53, 5.27 and 13.72, respectively On the other hand, the age groups of 6–11.9, 12–23.9 and 24– 35.9 months showed normal distribution (p=0.54, p=0.60 and p=0.12, ... 60–72 months) were skewed towards higher values of 1.71, 1.63 and 1.21 and kurtosis of 5.19, 6.15 and 2.09 respectively As shown in Figure 6, similarly skewed distributions towards higher values ... age groups were skewed towards higher values (skewness ranged from 0.66 to 1.97) and they had kurtosis which ranged from 1.70 to 9.39 The distributions of weight according to different age groups...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 11:58

... Hypothesis for Risk Factors From the literature review, we hypothesized that overweight, obesity or combined overweight and obesity is potentially associated with the following risk factors: (i) birth ... conducted from February 2006 to November 2008 2.2.2 Study area and Study population The study areas were South-Western part of Singapore (Bukit Batok, Clementi and Queenstown) and Western parts of Singapore ... of Singapore and 3,009 (72.2%) children responded 2.2.3 Sampling method All households located in the South-Western (Bukit Batok, Clementi, and Queenstown) and Western (Jurong East and Jurong West)...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 11:58

... specifically as Risk factors of overweight and obesity in preschool children” and found 1,066 articles After that, I chose the titles related to the risk factors associated with overweight and obesity ... Approximately 16% 17 1.3 Risk factors for Obesity Scientists have been trying to find out the risk factors for obesity in children to prevent the onset of obesity Socioeconomic status (SES) and parental ... overweight and obesity 1.3.1 Methodology of literature review Using the PubMed database, I searched Risk factors of overweight and obesity” and total of 17,868 articles were found Then, the topic...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 11:58

... inflammation, and lifestyle factors including dietary habits and physical activity also contribute to the development of insulin resistance and subsequently to type diabetes Adiposity contributes to T2D ... Western countries and developing nations, suggests that most cases of this disease are caused by changes in environmental factors Major risk factors for T2D such as overnutrition and low dietary ... al., 1988) and predicts the development of glucose intolerance and T2D (Weyer et al., 2001; Abdul-Ghani and Defronzo, 2009) Insulin secretion and β-cell function as contribuiting factors in the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/11/2015, 16:47

... atherosclerosis and thrombosis [19-21] Moreover, EPCs expanded from the obese subjects possessed reduced adhesive, migratory, and angiogenic capacity [22] and fail to respond to vascular endothelial ... EPCs and their migratory activity have been reported to be reduced in patients with risk factor for coronary artery disease and negatively correlated with the Framingham cardiovascular risk score ... cells in circulation and the decrease of the values of cardiovascular risk factors According to our study, the circulating progenitor cell number can be improved by diet and weight loss Acknowledgements...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... Xu B and Song J Prevalence and risk factors of overactive bladder syndrome in Fuzhou Chinese women Neurourol Urodyn 2006; 25:717 Teleman PM, Lidfeldt J, Nerbrand C, Samsioe G, Mattiasson A and ... benefit from better detection and treat- 393 ment initiation The OAB-V8 questionnaire is a possible effective and fast screening tool Our study also examined the risk factors for OAB in men We found ... Overactive bladder: prevalence, risk factors and relation to stress incontinence in middle-aged women BJOG 2004; 111:600 Coyne K, Margolis M, Zyczynski T, Elinoff V and Roberts RG Validation of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:35

... Attributable to Risk Factors Risk Factor Selection Burden of Disease Attributable to Individual Risk Factors Joint Effects of Multiple Risk Factors Burden of Disease Attributable to Multiple Risk Factors ... Age and Sex Joint Contributions (PAFs) of the Leading Risk Factors to Mortality and Burden of Disease, by Region Individual and Joint Contributions of Risk Factors to 10 Leading Diseases and Total ... Disease Individual and Joint Contributions of Risk Factors to Mortality and Burden of Disease from Site-Specific Cancers Individual and Joint Contributions of Risk Factors to Mortality and Burden of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... coagulation factors and the risk of myocardial infarction among men: Opposite and synergistic effects of factors XI and XII Blood, Vol.108, No.13, pp.4045-4051 16 Traditional and Novel Risk Factors ... TRADITIONAL AND NOVEL RISK FACTORS IN ATHEROTHROMBOSIS Edited by Efraín Gaxiola Traditional and Novel Risk Factors in Atherothrombosis Edited by Efraín Gaxiola ... success has not been extended to some group populations as diabetics The complex and intimate relationship between atherothrombosis and traditional and novel risk factors is discussed in the following...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20

... Abortions and breast cancer: record based control study Int J Cancer 2003;103:676-679 11 Schwerdlow A, dos Santos Silva I, Doll R Cancer Incidence and Mortality in England & Wales Trends and Risk Factors ... 28 Carroll P Trends and reproductive risk factors in female breast cancer incidence in Great Britain Br J Cancer 2004;91(Suppl 1):S24, Poster 29 Carroll P Trends and risk factors in British female ... incidence is available (2005 for Republic of Ireland; 2004 for England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Sweden; 2003 for Czech Republic and Finland; 2001 for Denmark) Linear Regression Response...

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Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... improvements in design and collection of air quality and health data, and other critical considerations [35] Recent efforts to link ambient monitoring data to health data, in attempts to reduce potential ... been told by a doctor or other health professional that they had these conditions To be eligible to provide answers to the questions about asthma, respondents first had to answer affirmatively to ... Results Monitor selection and exposure estimation Application of the specified monitoring criteria to AQS annual monitoring data resulted in the inclusion of 1125, 1111, 1074 and 1051 monitors for...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... coagulation factors and the risk of myocardial infarction among men: Opposite and synergistic effects of factors XI and XII Blood, Vol.108, No.13, pp.4045-4051 16 Traditional and Novel Risk Factors ... success has not been extended to some group populations as diabetics The complex and intimate relationship between atherothrombosis and traditional and novel risk factors is discussed in the following ... following chapters of Traditional and Novel Risk Factors in Atherothrombosis – from basic science to clinical and therapeutic concerns Beginning with pathology and pathophysiology of atherothrombosis,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 20:20