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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Cross-Sectional Studies"”.
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The Effect of Preeclampsia on Renal Function: Cross-Sectional Studies of Postpartum Preeclamptics and Women Who Were Destined to Develop Preeclampsia
Preeclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy complication that is new-onset of hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks of gestation. However, subclinical renal dysfunction may be apparent earlier in gestation prior to the clinical presentation of PE. Although the maternal syndrome of PE resolves early …
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The Epidermiology of Hairstyle related african hair disdorders, in and Urban Township in South Africa
… investigation suggested a lack of population studies demonstrating the latter association. In addition the possible influence of the unique African hair follicle on disease pathogenesis had not been determined. The aims of this thesis were to: Present a systematic 1. literature review of …
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Developmental burden of childhood adversity: Insight from longitudinal perspectives
… poorer mental health and cognitive deficits. Studies have also linked adversity to alterations in cortical brain structures. To date however, almost all knowledge of the effects of adversity on outcomes has come from cross-sectional studies or longitudinal studies that used cross-sectional …
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A Systematic Review of the Lack of Mental Health Resources in Rural High Schools [paper]
… The data collected included randomized control studies, qualitative and quantitative studies, primary research articles, and cross-sectional studies. Six of the seven articles used were conducted in school settings. Participants in this study included 155,000 adolescents ages 14-18. Results …
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Role of Lifestyle Modifications in the Management of Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Adults: A Systematic Review [paper]
… There was a total of 1,710 patients, four cross-sectional studies (n=1,397), two retrospective studies (n=233), and one case control study (n=80). Article results were synthesized into a table. Results: The severity of hidradenitis suppurativa was most closely related to smoking status and …
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Biomarkers for autoimmunie disease diagnosis in the public health sector: A systematic review and meta-analysis
… to determine, from published case-control and cross-sectional studies, whether selected protein biomarkers are discriminatory indicators of RHD, RA and SLE. This review was carried out in accordance with the Preferential Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA). A …
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The Associations of Injury and Stress with Temporomandibular Disorders
… between injury and TMD is largely based on cross-sectional studies which limit causal inference about the role of jaw injury in TMD. The few prospective studies assessed jaw injuries from different settings and have a narrow focus regarding type of jaw injury, potentially limiting counts of …
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Essays on Socio-Economic Integration of Migrants in the UK Labour Market: Access (or Lack of Access) to the Professional Class, Gendering of Occupations and Earning Trajectories
… to assess my research hypotheses I use both cross-sectional and panel data based on the world’s largest panel survey: UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), (data collected between 2009 and 2014). The first two essays are cross-sectional studies examining access (or lack of access) to the …
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Investigating the effects of a 6-month aerobic exercise intervention on brain function and memory in older adults
… decline. Research in animal models and cross-sectional studies in humans provide evidence that engaging in aerobic exercise may mitigate the effects of aging on memory. Yet, despite abundant evidence from animal literature, many aerobic exercise interventions in humans have failed to …
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Disponibilidad y riqueza léxica en un grupo de estudiantes universitarios italianos de ELE
… on the available lexicon of informants through a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis. This test focuses on the vocabulary produced by respondents when prompted with stimuli and collects their mental lexicon. In addition, it was included a further test for measuring and evaluating lexical …
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Development and Characteristics of the Earliest Cross-Neutralizing Antibody Response to HIV-1
… of how to elicit such responses by vaccination. Cross-sectional studies of chronic HIV-1 infection have demonstrated that approximately 15% of HIV-1-infected subjects develop such responses. We characterized the development and epitope specificities of the earliest serum cross-reactive …
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The effects of depression on quality of life in the ageing population: A systematic literature review
… Rationale: To the best of my knowledge, studies have explored the relationship between depression and quality of life however no systematic literature review has been established to determine the association of depression on quality of life in the ageing population. This can contribute to …
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Marking time : the acquisition of tense and grammatical aspect by French-speaking learners of English
The two cross-sectional studies reported on here ( N = 70; N = 91) were designed to explore the relative influences of lexical asp aspect and first language (L1) knowledge on the second language (L2) acquisition of verb morphology. The participants were adult French-speaking learners of English who …
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An analysis of industrial company failure in the UK and Russia for the 1990s
… period, is based on binary logit analyses of a cross-section and unbalanced panel of large quoted companies, using accounting-based indicators. Conventional for cross sectional studies empirical design of modelling the failure determinants separately for various risk-horizons, prior to the event …
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Disentangling universal and cultural-specific risks to mental health among Asian Americans: A multi-site longitudinal investigation
… is normative and similar across ethnocultural groups. Intergenerational cultural conflict related to acculturation mismatch—where intercultural contact leads parents and offspring to diverge in heritage and mainstream American values and behaviors—is specific to immigrant …
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Exploration of biological causes of psychological problems in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
… healthy controls. Design: Mainly between-groups cross-sectional studies. Also two meta-analyses. Setting: The research took place mainly in two London gynaecology clinics, University College London Hospital (UCLH) and the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead (RFH). Some of the research was conducted …
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Migrations and gradations : reappraising the health profile of immigrants to Canada
… immigrants to Canada has been limited to cross-sectional studies (Dunn & Dyck, 2000; Newbold & Danforth, 2003), which may mask an immigrant-specific cohort effect. Furthermore, the practice of aggregating foreign-bom persons by geographical regions or treating all immigrants as a …
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TREATMENT INDICATIONS FOR SYMPTOMATIC VERSUS ASYMPTOMATIC FLORID CEMENTO-OSSEOUS DYSPLASIA IN ADULT PATIENTS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
… databases to identify cohort, retrospective, and cross-sectional studies on Florid Cemento-Osseous dysplasia treatment options in adults from 2001-2022. Inclusion criteria for this systematic review included: studies must be in English; open-access; published between 2001-2021. The PRISMA …
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Social media use in adolescence: Longitudinal relationships with social functioning and psychopathology
… that it focuses on a brief window of time (e.g., cross-sectional studies), a small number of variables (e.g., hours spent per day; depressive symptoms), and uses single reporters and measures (e.g., adolescent report using a questionnaire). Extant literature shows moderate relationships between …
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An exploration of the positive and negative relationships associated with the development of asthma and atopic disorders in primary school children in Cork
… aged 6-9 years. This thesis comprises of three cross-sectional studies which examined the prevalence of and associations with childhood allergy and a quasi-retrospective cohort study which observed the natural history of allergy from 6-9 until 11-13 years. Although not part of ISAAC, data was …
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