... MINIMINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING MINISTRY OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE ANDEPIDEMIOLOGY * NGUYEN THI THI THO EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND SOME RISKFACTORSOF ... 3.3. Riskfactorsof pH1N1/2009 Table 3.15 - 3.18. The association between some factorsandriskof getting infection with pH1N1/2009 (univariate analysis) Risk factors Infected by 2009 pandemic ... Influenza pandemics in the XX century. The Spanish flu pandemic (1918 - 1919) consisted of 3 waves. The Asian flu pandemic (1957 - 1958) and Hongkong flu pandemic 2 2. To identify some risk factors...
... quality of life score. Mean quality of life score for those with OAB was 3.4 of 6, and those without OAB 1.6. Fur-thermore, 59% reported urge incontinence, 76% ur-gency, 90% frequency and 85% ... Fur-thermore, those with OAB had a worse quality of life score. Mean quality of life score for those with OAB was 3.4 of 6, and those without OAB 1.6. Thus, the 48% of men with OAB that are undiagnosed ... 75%, of which 48% had not been diagnosed/treated. The riskof OAB increased with age. OAB was not associated with BMI, smoking, race, diabetes, CHF, and COPD. Conclusions: The pre-valence of...
... Global Burden of Disease andRisk Factors burden of disease and its causes. This book provides thedefinitive, scientific account of that effort andof the healthconditions of the world’s population ... the impact of the global tobaccoepidemic, and on the global descriptive epidemiologyof majordiseases, injuries, andrisk factors. He is the coauthor of theseminal Global Burden of Disease ... Factor Selection 242Burden of Disease Attributable to Individual RiskFactors 247Joint Effects of Multiple RiskFactors 252Burden of Disease Attributable to Multiple RiskFactors 255Directions...
... schoolchildren and adults and increase the prevalence of asthma and asthmatic symptoms [65-67].Aeroallergens and Atopic AsthmaAeroallergens have a signifi cant impact on the development of asthma, and ... speeds, and clear skies (conditions observed in regions such as the Mediterranean, California, and Central and South America, all of which have high levels of traffi c). Extreme Weather Events and ... the start of the thunderstorm and the onset of the epidemic.ã There are no high concentrations of air pollution before and during the thunderstorms.ã There are no high concentrations of other...
... (chefs and office workers) were compared with a focus onnutritional and psychosocial factors. Methods: Two groups of subjects were tested for work and diet-related risks of CD (45 chefs and 48 officeworkers). ... cells of Table 1 Prevalence and medians of CD -risk factorsof the compared occupational groupsPrevalence of elevated risks median (P25-P75) p1Group chef group office group chef group office ... was tw ice ashigh compared to the group of office workers (Table 1).Clinical blood parameters andrisk stratificationWhen all relevant riskfactors (factors with definedreferences or evidenced...
... Household HIV Prevalence andRisk Survey of South African Children3.5 Riskfactorsandrisk environments for childrenChildren are at riskof contracting HIV/AIDS through a number of sources. Besidesvertical ... the exposure of children to the riskof sexual transmission of HIV infection. At the end of 2002, more than31 000 cases of rape and sexual assault of young people under the age of 17 years werereported ... caregivers of children 2 to 11 years of age and children 12 to 18years of age about communication about sex, sexual abuse and HIV/AIDS. Tables 21 and 23 show the responses of caregivers of children...
... Khan and Frankland 1983). Most soil profiles have an A horizon, which is primarily topsoil composed of decaying organic matter such as leaves and grass, and a B horizon, which is composed of ... is software developed by the National Exposure Research Laboratory of the Office of Research and Development of the USEPA (EPA 2001). This model was used to determine background intakes of each ... background intake and risk. Background riskandrisk calculated from elevated exposure were compared. The DEPM and its associated databases do not report residual zinc. Gerrior and Bente (2001)...
... Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, San Diego, California, 2Assistant Professor of ... General Hospital, Tijuana, Mexico and 6Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, San Diego, California* ... feasibility and acceptance of counseling and rapid HIVtesting during pregnancy at Tijuana General Hospital.[3]Part of our study focused on internal migration patterns and riskfactors for HIV...
... HIV/AIDSknowledge, attitudes, andrisk behaviors of schizophrenicpatients with those of diabetic patients.Specific objectives:ã To determine the knowledge, attitudes, and risk behaviors of schizophrenic ... greatest burden of HIV infection and where large-scale ignorance about the cause and preven-tion of the disease prevails.Several studies have reported the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of identified ... attitudes, and risk behaviors of diabetic patients in regard to HIV/AIDS; and ã To compare these 2 groups on these parameters and make conclusions as to how best to improve theknowledge, attitude, and...
... also 1 MINISTRY OF EUDCATION AND TRAINING MINISTRY OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE ANDEPIDEMIOLOGY Nguyen Minh Quang PREVALENCE AND INFLUENCING FACTORSOF THE LOWER REPRODUCTIVE ... about distribution of condoms, peer education and screening of STD and reproductive tract infections. The aims of program is to prevent and reduce HIV and LRTI with effectiveness and low cost. 1.3.3. ... self-assessment and riskof LRTIs. Table 3:25. Relation between personal characteristics, risk behaviors and LTRIs by multivariative regression model Personal characteristics and behavior risks OR95%...
... upper rank of the hypergraph – that is, the size of the largesthyperedge.The proofs of Theorems 1 and 2 involve the use of the combinatorial nullstellensatz [2].the electronic journal of combinatorics ... A note on polynomials and f -factors of graphsHamed Shirazi Jacques VerstraăeteDept of Combinatorics & Optimization Dept of Mathematics & StatisticsUniversity of Waterloo McGill UniversityWaterloo, ... Thisresult is best possible and verifies a conjecture of Addario-Berry, Dalal, Reed and Thomason [1].1 IntroductionIn this paper, we are interested in the existence of f -factors of graphs, where the...
... two groups ofrisk factors. The density of animal populations, the herd size, the type and breed of animal (dairy or beef), the type of husbandry system and other environmental factors are ... the style of management and the biology of the disease [7,11,25]. The factors influencing the epidemiologyof brucellosis in cattle in any geographical region can be classified into factors ... RBPT and ELISA results. According to the manufacturer, the sensitivity and specificity of the RBPT are 89% and 92%, respectively. The ELISA we used had a sensitivity of 86% and a specificity of...