... was performed Seroprevalence of LPAI and associated riskfactors 163 using Microsoft Excel 2000 and SPSS, version 12.0 For identifying possible risk factors, seven suspected factors were included ... employees, flock age, and flock size All cases and controls were layer flocks Of 20 case-control pairs, 20 (100%) were successfully matched Seroprevalence of LPAI and associated riskfactors 165 Table ... the prevention of disease References Alexander DJ The epidemiologyand control of avian influenza and Newcastle disease J Comp Pathol 1995, 112, 105-126 Alexander DJ A review of avian influenza...
... incidenceof hyponatraemia and that patients with surgical and neurological/trauma diagnoses are at increased riskof developing hyponatraemia compared with medical patients, but at similar riskof ... patients and hypernatraemia in 2157 (26%) patients Among a total of 29,142 ICU admission days, the incidence density for a first episode of ICU-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia were 3.1 and ... days of hyponatraemia (IQR = one to three days) and hypernatraemia (IQR = one to five days) was two Multivariable analysis of patient characteristics The incidenceof ICU-acquired hyponatraemia and...
... health, and social policy priorities Longitudinal studies of the trajectory of functioning and quality of life should help to define the natural history of the disease and expand understanding of ... Maryland DONALD L PRICE, Professor of Pathology, Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland RAYMOND P ROOS, Professor of Neurology, University of ... National MultipleSclerosis Society The views presented in this report are those of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Strategies for the Future and are...
... [10], MultipleSclerosis Quality of Life (MSQOL-54) [11], the MultipleSclerosis Quality of Life Inventory (MSQLI) [12], the Functional Assessment ofMultipleSclerosis (FAMS) [13], the MultipleSclerosis ... Quality of life and its assessment in multiple sclerosis: integrating physical and psychological components of wellbeing Lancet Neurol 2005, 4(9):556-566 Keegan BM, Noseworthy JH: MultipleSclerosis ... quality of life measure for people with multiplesclerosis Clin Rehabil 2001, 15(3):247-258 Khan F, McPhail T, Brand C, Turner-Stokes L, Kilpatrick T: Multiple sclerosis: disability profile and quality...
... provision of critical care beds in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and hence reduced access to critical care for lower risk patients By contrast, a further study in the USA reported an incidenceof ... or the number of organ dysfunctions (P = 0.84) Overall, 23% of admissions had an APACHE II score of 25 or more (indicating a high riskof death [8]) However, 83% of admissions had multiple organ ... impact of these changes will require a longitudinal understanding of the underlying epidemiologyof severe sepsis in the population It is important to know not only baseline data, such as the incidence...
... data of the prevalenceof overweight and obesity and associated early riskfactors in a very young age group (6– to 72–month–old) of Singapore Chinese children The prevalenceof overweight and ... conducted on all ethnicities of preschool-aged children in Singapore to evaluate the prevalenceof overweight and obesity, and to compare the prevalenceof overweight and obesity in preschool children ... of overweight and obesity and subsequent short term and long term complications Further studies of the prevalenceof overweight and obesity and the early associated factors should be conducted...
... 60–72 months) with the skewness of 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 of Skinfold (Triceps) measurements of boys by age groups Figure 12 Distribution of Skinfold (Triceps) measurements of girls by age groups 78 3.4 Prevalenceof overweight and obesity ... years (1,159 boys and 1,097 girls) were involved in the analysis ofprevalenceof overweight and obesity This is because the “CDC and IOTF BMI for age” definitions define the cutoffs from to 20...
... interviewers of our research team The questionnaire was adapted and modified from both the SCORM (Singapore Cohort Study of the RiskFactors for Myopia)74 and the quality of life questionnaire of MEPEDS ... Visit and Ethics consideration The children were registered and the qualified optometrist of the survey team explained about the risks and benefits of this survey they participated The parents of ... for children years old and above, were calibrated once a year 42 2.4.1 Measuring Height and Weight of Child years old and above For a child years of age and above who can stand without support,...
... overweight and obesity which intersect the adult cut-off points of a BMI of 25kg/m² and 30kg/m2 at age 18 years, respectively.43 The cut-off points proposed by the IOTF are age and sex specific, and ... population-based study of the prevalenceof obesity in preschool children was conducted in China in 2000 Liu et al (2007)54 found a prevalenceof 7.4% of overweight and obesity in a large population of 262,738 ... prevalenceof overweight and obesity 1.3.1 Methodology of literature review Using the PubMed database, I searched Riskfactorsof overweight and obesity” and total of 17,868 articles were found...
... conception and design of the study, the conception and interpretation of the statistical analysis, and drafted the manuscript YWL contributed to the study design, drafted the paper and revised of the ... frequency of psychosocial difficulties than children with PE We believe that a better understanding of the features associated with psychosocial problems might improve assessment of emotional riskand ... Chicago, Ill) and Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Corp, Pedmond, Wash) in this study For categorical variables, data were compiled as frequency and percent, and the difference between patient and control...
... combination of one of these riskfactors with smoking [7-11] Combined radiochemotherapy is the gold-standard in treatment of anal cancer since Nigro et al reported their data [12] Local control rates of ... was stopped after first cycle of chemotherapy at a dose of 43 Gy because of toxicity and old age of the patient The intensity of chemotherapy was reduced in smoker and non-smokers due to hematologic ... provided a total dose of 50 Gy with a split course of weeks, the EORTC protocol a total dose of 59,4 Gy with a split course of weeks and the RTOG protocol a total dose of 50–54 Gy dependent on...
... retrospective analysis ofincidenceand possible riskfactors Chest 1997, 111:1278-1284 Parquin F, Marchal M, Mehiri S, Hervé P, Lescot B: Postpneumonectomy pulmonary edema: analysis andriskfactors Eur ... lobectomy, and sublobar resections) were performed through a standard posterolateral thoracotomy Type of pulmonary resection, duration of surgery and intraoperative fluid administration and blood ... pre and intraoperative risk factors: a retrospective clinical study of a hundred forty-three cases Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2010 5:62 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and...
... in newborns and infants – riskfactorsand efficacy of MCT-diet Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2010 5:127 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient ... assessed the duration of drainage, the day of maximum loss of chylous and the type and duration of treatment (fatty acidfree MCT-enriched diet, TPN, octreotide, recanalisation of thrombosed veins ... could not methodically analyze the impact of the loss of pro- and anti-coagulation factors, total protein and immunoglobulins on infections, thromboses and on the outcome (Table 2) In our study,...
... Strengths and limitation The main strength of our current paper is that it provides a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of the epidemiologyof vascular disease and related riskfactors ... excess CVD morbidity and mortality may due to several factors including the higher prevalenceof CVD riskfactors such as hypertension and diabetes [8,21-29] The major riskfactors for CVD have ... explored a range of novel riskfactors in an attempt to improve the prediction of future CVD These novel factors include markers of inflammation and haemostasis Of these factors lipoprotein(a) levels,...
... add to the understanding of the type of professional burnout present in employees of a university organisation in Spain and support the idea of a differential characterisation of burnout syndrome ... major successes and achievements and “overload” involves risking one’s health and neglecting personal lives in the pursuit of good results [15-17] This burnout profile is a category of exhausted ... absence of control and acknowledgement, and the neglect felt by individuals in this situation Shedding light on associations of this type would permit a better characterisation of these profiles and...
... between 25 and 75 years, place of residence in the defined vicinity of the participating hospitals, and linguistic and cognitive ability to understand and fill out the questionnaire and to provide ... effect of additional working factors on the knee, but few studies dealing with these topics are available Our results not support the results of Sandmark and colleagues [25] andof Elsner and colleagues ... results of Niu and colleagues, obesity was a risk factor for the incidenceof but not for the progression of knee OA [30] These results underline the importance of the early prevention and reduction...
... time, extra-articular disease and by most of the traditional CV risk factors, that is, the presence of diabetes mellitus and/ or hypertension at inclusion, and the level of triglycerides all predicted ... investigate the presence of traditional and disease related CV risk factors, at the onset of RA and during the first five years following diagnosis, in a large cohort of patients; second, to evaluate ... treatment was also used; at each time t of an event and for every patient in the risk set, we determined the composition of the risk set and calculated the actual value of the variable DMARD at time t...
... variables were significant and independent riskfactors for falls: taking four or Fig Type of medications prescribed and taken regularly by non-fallers and fallers and single andmultiple fallers (% ... Journal of Safety Research 45 (2013) 7–13 Table Comparison of demographic, co-morbidity, medication and health status characteristics of fallers and non-fallers and single fallers andmultiple ... The aim of this paper is to use such baseline data to compare health and lifestyle factors between fallers and non-fallers and between single andmultiple fallers in persons aged 65 years and over...
... diabetics The complex and intimate relationship between atherothrombosis and traditional and novel riskfactors is discussed in the following chapters of Traditional and Novel RiskFactors in Atherothrombosis ... factorsand the riskof myocardial infarction among men: Opposite and synergistic effects offactors XI and XII Blood, Vol.108, No.13, pp.4045-4051 16 Traditional and Novel RiskFactors in Atherothrombosis ... level andriskof myocardial 14 Traditional and Novel RiskFactors in Atherothrombosis infarction (Doggen et al., 2006) Moreover, inhibition of FXII did not change platelet aggregation and fibrin...