... schooling and health would, depending on its nature, imply the possibility of increasing the aggregate level of health either by increasing schooling or by increasing health education and other ... Hakkinen et al º Data and variables The data are based on a Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort study (http://kelo.oulu.fi/NFBC) All births in the provinces of Oulu and Lapland in Northern Finland ... content in beer, light wines, wines and spirits [28] The frequency of smoking (number of cigarettes per day) and exercise (number of minutes of training) were calculated in a similar way using rather...
... CD-RISC show good psychometric properties and a high level of reliability and validity inyoungadults The findings also confirmed a single dimension underlying the 10 items of the scale The reliability ... original version (Cronbach’s a of the original version = 0.85 and of the Spanish version = 0.85), and the weights in factor analysis were within the range of 0.48-0.76 on our scale and within ... CDRISC in Castilian Spanish, and that this short and simple instrument requires little time to complete and is thus efficiently administered For that reason, it may be a suitable instrument for clinical...
... Chinese Malay Chinese Chinese Indian Chinese Malay Malay Malay Chinese Malay Indian Chinese Chinese Chinese Chinese Indian Chinese Indian Indian Malay Indian Chinese Chinese Chinese Chinese Indian ... iii outdoor smoking seats in dining establishments, indoor, open-air smoking corners in tertiary institutions, in office buildings; and Private spaces including home spaces During ethnographic ... yellow boxes and words painted on the floor Smoking area at indoor dining establishments demarcated by metal railings and signs Poster: Thank You For Not Smoking Here Indoor smoking room in a nightclub...
... trips and falls inyoungadults with a 16week daily online survey In the 16-week interval, high fall rates were observed, and the findings here provide new insight into the prevalence and circumstances ... groups in order to increase knowledge of fall risk in older adults The role of multitasking in falling was assessed by asking if participants were doing anything else in addition to the main activity ... alcohol use and fall risk was inconclusive inyoungand middle-aged adults (Kool, Ameratunga, & Jackson, 2009), and has been described as inconsistent in older adults (Mukamal et al., 2004) Increased...
... frequency of pain complaints, i.e painful defecation and abdominal pain This finding seems in line with previous studies reporting impaired QoL in children with functional constipation and those with ... outcome In the 43 adults with childhood constipation continuing into adulthood, self-reported complaints were constipation in 76.7% and fecal incontinence with or without low defecation frequency in ... symptom inyoungadults with constipation [15,16] This is remarkable since it is well-know that in both children and adults, fecal incontinence negatively influences quality of life [17,18] In addition,...
... additional and significant increases when walking and performing an attention demanding task [13,14] Regarding step width variability, in one study performance of an attention demanding task (walking ... motion In other studies, step width variability was significantly reduced while walking with a cane and maintaining contact between a hand and a wall [26] and grasping handles while walking on ... literature indicating that increased step time variability is associated with both normal and pathological aging Our current interest in step width variability is driven by its role in maintaining laterally...
... narrowing of the lateral joint space, patellar instability, circumduction gait, and cosmetic concerns We tried to mainly consider the deformity with a deviated mechanical axis as a principle indication ... was immobilized in a hinged knee brace until healing of the osteotomy site occurred Patients began to use a continuous-passivemotion machine 48 hours after the operation and continued to use it ... casting, staples and casting, and rigid internal fixation with an AO blade plate They reported satisfactory results only in those patients who had less severe degrees of osteoarthritis confined...
... which was determined mainly by soil depth, stoniness and rainfall deficit Our results indicate that the information gained from soil and foliar analyses is of limited use in predicting the productivity ... developed, as occurs in adult stands of Pinus pinaster [5] and of Pinus radiata [51] in the region Nevertheless, one indirect influence of soil depth was the 515 lower productivity in the soils subjected ... thinning The levels of growth recorded in the present study were lower than those reported for a continuous forest inventory of stands in Galicia, carried out during the past 20–30 years (mainly...
... activity was found in the apical fully expanded leaf and corresponded with the highest nitrate content (Table I) When a new leaf expanded, the NR activity decreased in the previous leaf and the highest ... fixatrice (rbduction de C chez Robinia pseudoacacia L au ) H printemps Bull Soc Bot 128, 239-247 Montagnini F., References Aznadi A nutrition azot6e du robinier (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) Thesis 3rd ... Studies are in progress to compare these results with those obtained on leaves from field-grown R pseudoacacia quelques Haines B., Boring L & Swang W (1986) Nitrification potentials in early succes-...
... standard-deviation increase in vitamin C/vitamin E intake before and after adjusting for energy intake, age, gender, body mass index, and tibial cartilage volume cChange in tibial plateau bone ... per standard-deviation increase in vitamin C/vitamin E intake before and after adjusting for energy intake, age, gender, and body mass index dOdds ratio of tibiofemoral bone marrow lesions being ... standard-deviation increase in vitamin C/vitamin E intake before and after adjusting for energy intake, age, gender, body mass index, and tibial plateau bone area ratio of tibiofemoral cartilage defects being...
... (e.g., walking, gardening, bowls, exercise classes and swimming) and activity undertaken while performing daily tasks such as shopping and visiting friends (e.g., walking and cycling) are recommended ... meal, drink, cinema and any other entertainment activities including watching sport Personal: personal business activities such as post office business, banking dry cleaning Walk: going for a ... commuting and business decline steeply after age 59y as the proportion of trips for shopping, personal business and visiting friends and family increase So it appears that shopping is the main reason...
... HRQOL inyoung Singaporean Chinese children with amblyopia and strabismus The findings from this study provided new information and insights about amblyopia and strabismus in the young Singaporean ... uncertain why some people develop strabismus Eyes inyoung infants are often initially poorly co-ordinated and misaligned Eye movement and vergence control improve at 10-15 weeks of age promoting ... distance stereoacuity inyoung children including the Stereo smile and Randot stereocards for preverbal children and the LangI/II, Frisby near and distance stereotest, Randot stereo-fly or butter-fly...
... have been proposed as independent contributors to balance dysfunction and falls risk in older adults [6] For example, increased intra-individual variability in step length and double support phase ... allow for acceleration and deceleration Any partial footfalls that did not have clearly defined beginning and ending or were in contact with the edge of the instrumented walking surface were removed ... total and anticipatory and postural responses components, suggesting both better gross motor function in those walking faster, and potential therapeutic training targets either focused on optimising...
... hepatitis, and cirrhosis were more frequent in female than in male children, adolescents, andyoungadults During the past decade, the number of publications on NAFLD and NASH has increased dramatically, ... adipose tissue hormones, such as leptin and adiponectin, earlier leptin activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary axis resulting in initiation and progress of puberty, and the presence of other features ... adolescents, andyoungadults increased in the past decades, paralleling the trends in obesity-related hospitalizations This could be a consequence of the obesity epidemic or of increased screening for...
... single and dual-task conditions inyoungand older adultsInyoung adults, muscle fatigue resulted in significant decreases in single-task gait velocity and stride length, whereas in older adults, ... youngand older adults at high risk of sustaining a fall when encountering a balance threatening situation in a fatigued state The finding that youngand older adults showed similar fatigue-induced ... Finally, muscle fatigue resulted in significant improvements in cognitive performance during walking inyoungand older adults These findings indicate that our initially formulated hypothesis...
... levels and post-ART changes in serum phosphate, albumin, ferritin and CRP and the risk of mortality in the first 12 weeks of ART in a cohort of adultsin subSaharan Africa with advanced malnutrition ... prior to 12 weeks among adults with advanced malnutrition and/ or immunosuppression initiating ART in a resource-constrained setting A post-treatment interval change in albumin was also a significant ... between albumin and hsCRP, and the hazard of death was non-linear (p < 0.10), and there was evidence that the association between albumin and the hazard of the combined endpoint of mortality and loss...
... we observed many young people (generally non-injecting drug users) living or congregating in groups on street corners, in building entrances, andin abandoned public spaces Cocaine is frequently ... sniffing cocaine (for at least the last 12 months) IDUs stopped injecting (no injection during the last 12 months) Table (bottom lines) shows the mean hours spent using drugs in 2001 andin 2004 ... working, and time looking for work among non-IDUs Change in time working Change in time using drugs Change in time looking for work Decrease or not work No change or Increase Total Not looking...
... Subjects, reporting in the first study, having had 'wheezing or whistling in their chest at any time' and/ or having 'woken up with a feeling of tightness in the chest' and/ or having 'woken up with ... smokers and peaked in subjects who reported asthma-like symptoms (wheezing and/ or nocturnal dyspnoea and/ or nocturnal tightness in the chest) and allergic rhinitis at baseline After adjusting for ... frequently in women andin recent generations ii) The presence of asthma attacks and nocturnal asthma symptoms (tightness and dyspnoea) inyoungadults is associated with a two-fold increase in the...
... characteristics, adolescents andyoungadults living in rural places are as likely to become nondependent drug abusers as individuals growing up in urban communities We qualify this null finding as important ... change The underlying rationale is that the association between boredom and drug use in adolescents andyoungadults might be stronger in rural than in urban communities because living in rural communities ... events, and adjustment in urban elementary-school children J Clin Child Psychol 1994, 23:391-400 Kliewer W: Children's coping with chronic illness In Handbook of Children's Coping: Linking Theory and...
... as a coadjuvant of grafting processes to produce bone- like tissue in the presence of employing autologous bone obtained from intra-oral sites, in order to treat infra -bone defects without the ... showed good results in manipulating and accelerating the wound healing process in a large number of medical disciplines, as evident in ophthalmology, dermatology, dentistry and rheumatology [10,11] ... distally, and lingually Data were obtained at baseline before treatment and at 10 days, and 6,9, and 24 months after treatment Surgical Technique After local anaesthesia, intrasulcular incisions...