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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Attributable risk"”.
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Statistical assessment of cervical squamous cell carcinoma attributable risk to HIV-Infected Women in Zambia
… squamous cell carcinoma. The magnitude of the risk, however, is unknown for the case of Zambia. To determine the attributable risk of this cell on HIV positive subjects the study utilized a matched case-control design on data from medical records at National Cancer Diseases Hospital (NCDH) in …
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Statistical assessment of cervical squamous cell carcinoma attributable risk to HIV-Infected Women in Zambia
… squamous cell carcinoma. The magnitude of the risk, however, is unknown for the case of Zambia. To determine the attributable risk of this cell on HIV positive subjects the study utilized a matched case-control design on data from medical records at National Cancer Diseases Hospital (NCDH) in …
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Characteristics of Latinos with No Usual Source of Care
… coverage with not having a usual source of care. Attributable risk equations were used to define the characteristics that would have the greatest impact on increased access to healthcare. This study found that nearly 35% of Latinos are without a usual source of care. All sociodemographic and …
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A statistical analysis of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) data to determine the risk factors for HIV infection in Namibia
… prevention strategies, this study determined the risk factors for HIV infection in Namibia and estimated the potential for HIV prevention. The study adopted a cross sectional research design with a sample of 14296 VCT clients from Oshana, Khomas and Kavango regions of Namibia for the period of …
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The prevalence and risk factors of diabetes mellitus among tuberculosis patients at Ubuntu clinic, Khayelitsha
… that diabetes mellitus (DM) triples the risk of tuberculosis (TB) disease and worsens TB outcomes. South Africa carries a heavy burden of TB which is primarily driven by the human deficiency virus (HIV). The burden of non-communicable disease is also growing rapidly in South Africa. There …
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Biological And Psychosocial Risk Factors Of Stroke In African Americans Enrolled In The Jackson Heart Study (JHS)
… the impact of biological, psychosocial and other risk factors on stroke in African Americans enrolled in the JHS and determine the population attributable risk of risk factors. Methods: this study used a nested case control design. Cases were patients with stroke during the follow up period. …
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Lifestyle Factors and Risk of Heart Failure: A Prospective Cohort Study
… and leisure-time physical activity with HF risk; 2) the association of coffee consumption with HF risk; 3) the role of lifestyle factors in explaining the risk of HF; and 4) the association between antihypertensive drug treatment and HF risk with the association between engaging in a healthy …
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Road Traffic Injuries in the Pacific: The epidemiology of road traffic injuries in Fiji and the role of driver sleepiness
… contemporary knowledge regarding the burden and risk factors for road traffic injuries (RTI) in Pacific Island countries. Aim To investigate the epidemiology of RTI and the contribution of driver sleepiness to fourwheel motor vehicle crash injuries in Viti Levu, Fiji. Methods Systematic reviews …
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Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for Chronic Disease Management and Prevention: Focus on Asthma
… (II) How can we apply Big Data for asthma risk factors analysis and enhance chronic disease self-management and population-level interventions? (III) By identifying smoking as one of the highest population-attributable risk factors, can we use Big Data in evaluating possible substitutes …
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The contribution of non-additive and longitudinal genetic effects to health and cognitive traits
… regions identical by descent) on disease risk. Initially, using data from the Genes & Health cohort and UK Biobank, I developed a method to control for social and environmental confounding in autozygosity-trait associations by including indicators of parental relatedness in regression …
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Child road trauma: a profile for children in New South Wales and evaluation of properly-used age-appropriate restraints as a countermeasure
… using restraints significantly elevated the risk of death for child passengers involved in a crash compared to any other restraint use. The advantage of child restraints over seat belts in terms of fatality reduction was not statistically significant, although previous studies have shown an …
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Pilot comparison of clinical effects and compliance with commonly prescribed antihypertensive drugs in HIV hypertensive patients at University Teaching Hospital
… with Enalapril (140.5/84 mmHg, p= 0.003). The attributable risk for good daytime systolic and diastolic BP control was at least 20 % and 32 % for Moduretic and Enalapril (50 % and 67 %, p=0.046 and 0.0143 respectively) and Moduretic (50 % and 62%, p=0.691 and 0.425 respectively). The circadian …
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Pilot comparison of clinical effects and compliance with commonly prescribed antihypertensive drugs in HIV hypertensive patients at University Teaching Hospital
… with Enalapril (140.5/84 mmHg, p= 0.003). The attributable risk for good daytime systolic and diastolic BP control was at least 20 % and 32 % for Moduretic and Enalapril (50 % and 67 %, p=0.046 and 0.0143 respectively) and Moduretic (50 % and 62%, p=0.691 and 0.425 respectively). The circadian …
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CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CBCT) DOSIMETRY: MEASUREMENTS AND MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS
… the CTDI method to the organ, effective dose, risk estimations with physical measurements and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations.</p> <p>An On-Board Imager (OBI, Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA) was used to perform old and new CBCT scan protocols. The new CBCT protocols introduced both partial …
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The Medicalization of Stress: Hans Selye and the Transformation of the Postwar Medical Marketplace
… disease causation that embraced the concept of attributable risk, Selye helped to reconcile mid-century biomedicine with the contemporaneous rise in chronic disease in North America. Selye was a visionary, but was not insulated from financial and cultural pressures. In order to attract funding …