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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"epidemiological factors"”.
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Investigation of relation between the epidemiological factors of cardiovascular diseases and genome in the Lithuanian population /
… different lifestyle habits and/ or genetic factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between nutrition, anxiety/depression, biochemical and genetic markers of atherosclerosis and CVD risk among 40-65 year old Lithuanian citizens. 469 individuals were investigated. All …
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Lower respiratory tract infection in sudden unexpected infant deaths
… metropole. Published studies have shown the risk factors for lower respiratory tract infection to include lack of breast feeding, prenatal and environmental tobacco smoke exposure, prematurity, immunosuppression, underlying medical conditions and overcrowding. The present study was aimed at …
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Some factors influencing serum triglyceride in man
… carried out chiefly to determine further the epidemiological factors influencing serum lipid (and in particular, serum triglyceride) levels in the population groups of Southern Africa. The original objectives are described on page 70 and the main conclusions summarised on page 114. Part III …
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A mathematical analysis of the financial and medical impact of hepatitis C among drug users in Perth, Western Australia
… encountered with transmissible diseases. Key epidemiological factors such as, how many Western Australian injecting drug users are hepatitis C seropositive or will become infected, duration of intravenous drug use, the intensity of infection, the fraction of those infected that will develop …
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Integrating Epidemiological and Genomic Factors to Inform Outcomes in Barrett’s Oesophagus and Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma
… there is a lack of consolidated clinical, epidemiological and molecular data to examine this question. In this thesis, I used orthogonal approaches to examine the overlap between the BO+ve OAC and BO-ve OAC phenotypes and explain the aetiology and the observed altered prognosis. To achieve …
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ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HOST-PARASITE COEVOLUTION
… in real pathosystems by various ecological and epidemiological factors. Here I expand on previous work by demonstrating that realistic demography, specifically density-dependent regulation of parasite incidence, can generate negatively self-regulating stabilising pressure. This is loosely …
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The neuropsychological endophenotype of specific language impairments and autism spectrum disorders: Category or continuum?
… ASD. Group differences in cognitive functioning, epidemiological factors including proband comorbidity and health problems, and familial data in 39 SLI children and 89 ASD children who presented for clinical evaluation at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit were examined by retrospective chart …
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An Epidemiological Evaluation of Antagonism Between the Normal Throat Flora and Group a Streptococci
… current investigation was to evaluate various epidemiological factors which may influence the. presence of organisms in the normal throat flora that are antagonistic to group A streptococci in vitro. Throat cultures were obtained from a population of individuals for one calendar year. These …
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Prevalence of Coccidia in Game-Farm Reared Pheasants in Iowa
… the hosts by this time. Recommendations. The epidemiological factors influencing coccidian infections are relatively unstudied. Investigations which attempt to analyze the influence of these factors on the etiology of coccidian infections should be of value not only from an academic point of …
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Senecavirus A: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Infection Dynamics
… objectives of our study were – 1) To investigate epidemiological factors that may contribute to SVA spread in the field and 2) To assess the pathogenesis and infection dynamics of SVA in finishing pigs. In our first study, a diagnostic investigation was conducted in swine herds affected by …
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Social determinants of human anthrax transmission in Zambia.
… an interplay of environmental and human activity factors. Notwithstanding that ecological and epidemiological factors have been researched to some extent, there is insufficient information concerning the social factors that influence human behavior associated with anthrax transmission in Zambia. …
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Social determinants of human anthrax transmission in Zambia.
… an interplay of environmental and human activity factors. Notwithstanding that ecological and epidemiological factors have been researched to some extent, there is insufficient information concerning the social factors that influence human behavior associated with anthrax transmission in Zambia. …
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How growers make decisions impacts plant disease control
… of plant disease depends strongly on biological factors controlling transmission, epidemics clearly also have a human dimension. Disease control depends on decisions made by individual growers, who are in turn influenced by a broad range of factors. Despite this, human behaviour has rarely been …
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Epidemiological Landscapes: The Spaces and Politics of Mosquito Control in Lahore
… cycles of land and urban development. Meanwhile epidemiological factors, regulatory norms, and everyday practices are contoured by long-standing colonial imaginaries of natural environments, the production of colonial subjects and racialised others, as well as extant architectures, technologies, …