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Showing 1 to 20 of 144 for “"Prospective cohort study"”.
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Lifestyle Factors and Risk of Heart Failure: A Prospective Cohort Study
… in a healthy lifestyle and HF risk. We conducted prospective studies among Finnish men and women who were 25 to 74 years of age and free of HF at baseline. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to estimate the associations of interest. Partial population attributable risk was …
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Adverse impact of hospitalisation on infant breastfeeding practices: a prospective cohort study
… breastfeeding. Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study of infant feeding practices among mother-infant dyads admitted to general paediatric wards at a tertiary children’s hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Medical, demographic and feeding practice data were collected through …
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Psychosocial predictors of quality of life post myocardial Infarction: A prospective cohort study in Pakistan
Introduction: The current study examined the psychosocial predictors (Type D personality, anxiety, depression & social support) in patients following MI. It further assessed the influence of these psychosocial predictors on quality of life of MI patients. Methods: In this prospective cohort study, …
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Quality of Life After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: A Longitudinal Prospective Cohort Study in Alberta, Canada
… survivors were derived from a prior case-control study where information at diagnosis was collected, then survivors were re-consented into a follow-up study. Three repeated measurements of physical activity and QoL were undertaken post-diagnosis. RESULTS: We observed improvements in physical QoL …
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Dietary Fiber Intake and Body Fat Gain: A Prospective Cohort Study of Middle-Aged Women
This study was conducted to determine the extent to which changes in dietary fiber consumption affect weight and body fat percentage (BF%) over time. An auxiliary objective was to examine the influence of age, total caloric intake, and physical activity (PA) on the relationship between changes in …
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Psychosocial predictors of quality of life post myocardial Infarction: A prospective cohort study in Pakistan
Introduction: The current study examined the psychosocial predictors (Type D personality, anxiety, depression & social support) in patients following MI. It further assessed the influence of these psychosocial predictors on quality of life of MI patients. Methods: In this prospective cohort study, …
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Clinical Outcomes Associated with Speech, Language and Swallowing Difficulties Post-Stroke – A Prospective Cohort Study
Background: Due to a lack of prospective research in South Africa's Speech-Language Therapy (SLT) private healthcare sector, this prospective cohort study investigated associations between speech, language, and swallowing conditions (i.e. dysarthria, apraxia of speech, aphasia, dysphagia), risk …
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Prospective cohort study on thirty day outcome of perforation peritonitis at the University Teaching Hospitals, Lusaka, Zambia
… (POSSUM) scoring system, was unknown. The study aimed to determine the site of perforation, the post-operative outcomes of leakage, wound dehiscence, re-laparotomy and mortality in relation to the site of perforation, and related the POSSUM score to the outcome. This was a prospective …
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Toward a better understanding of urinary fistula repair prognosis: Results from a multi-country prospective cohort study
… using data from a multi-country facility-based prospective cohort study, I examined the prognostic value of five existing classification systems - those developed by Lawson, Tafesse, Goh, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Waaldijk - for predicting fistula closure, and evaluated the …
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Incidence and Predictors of a Difficult Airway in Lean vs. Obese Surgical Patients: A Large Prospective Cohort Study
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Investigating language exposure and screen time in the early home environment: A longitudinal analysis of a prospective cohort study
… This thesis used data collected in an Australian prospective cohort study which utilised advanced speech recognition technology to objectively measure the home language environment among children aged between 6 and 48 months old. Four research studies were undertaken within this thesis that aimed …
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A prospective cohort study and evaluation of an end-of-life programme intervention in a primary health care setting
… benefit from palliative care. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate patient reported outcomes at a Community Health Centre (CHC) prior to an intervention and to evaluate the impact of an intervention involving a support group and focused care for people facing life threatening illness. …
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A prospective cohort study of the correlation between chest circumference and spirometry measurements over a 19-week intense training programme
… of the respiratory muscles. Thus, the aim of the study was to determine whether a strong, significant correlation between chest circumference measurements and spirometry measures existed in a young healthy active population, and whether this relationship remained consistent with changes in …
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Early infant breastfeeding practices, and predictors of breastfeeding cessation, in HIV-uninfected and HIV-infected mothers on antiretroviral treatment: a prospective cohort study
… practices under these policies. This study aimed to evaluate breastfeeding practices and predictors of breastfeeding cessation among women living with HIV (WLHIV) receiving universal ART, and a comparator group of HIV-negative (HIV-) women in Cape Town, South Africa. Methodology: This …
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CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF MARGINAL BONE RESORPTION OF ONE-PIECE IMPLANTS IN FULL ARCH REHABILITATIONS WITH FULL DIGITAL APPROACH: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY.
… Dental Sciences at the University of Milan, the study primarily evaluates the marginal bone stability and the long-term performance of monophasic implants subjected to immediate loading. These implants, characterized by the elimination of the abutment-fixture interface, aim to enhance mechanical …
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Adherence to antiretroviral therapy in young children in Cape Town, South Africa, measured by medication return and caregiver self-report : a prospective cohort study
Excellent adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is necessary if HIV-infected children are to experience the dramatically improved outcomes that this treatment affords. However, there is very limited data on adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Africa, with few studies that examine the …
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A prospective cohort study on ambient air pollution, airborne pollen (and fungal spores) and respiratory morbidities including childhood asthma in adolescents from the Western Cape Province
… spores on asthma-associated outcomes. This study systematically investigated these factors among schoolchildren residing in informal settlements in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Methods: A cohort study of grade-4 schoolchildren (n=590) recruited from six primary schools in four …
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Growth, infectious morbidity, and neurodevelopment of HIV-exposed and HIV-unexposed infants in the context of lifelong maternal antiretroviral therapy and breastfeeding: a prospective cohort study
… Methods This research incorporates data from two prospective, linked cohort studies of pregnant women living with HIV (Maternal Child Health Antiretroviral, MCH-ART study, 2013-2016) and without HIV (HIV-unexposed uninfected, HU2 study; 2014-2017) in Gugulethu, Cape Town, South Africa. Enrolled at …
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