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Showing 1 to 20 of 228 for “"prospective cohort"”.
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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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Quality of Life After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: A Longitudinal Prospective Cohort Study in Alberta, Canada
OBJECTIVES: First, we examined the associations of post-diagnosis physical activity and change in pre-diagnosis physical activity on quality of life (QoL) in prostate cancer survivors. Then, we identified post-prostate cancer diagnosis QoL trajectories over time in the population. METHODS: 830 …
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Dietary Fiber Intake and Body Fat Gain: A Prospective Cohort Study of Middle-Aged Women
… in body composition over time. Design/ Subjects: Prospective cohort design with baseline and follow-up assessments 20 months apart and 252 middle-aged women (40.1±3.0 y). Diet, particularly caloric and fiber intake, was measured using 7-day weighed food records. Body fat was assessed via the Bod …
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Psychosocial predictors of quality of life post myocardial Infarction: A prospective cohort study in Pakistan
… quality of life of MI patients. Methods: In this prospective cohort study, 300 patients with definite myocardial infarction were recruited and assessed at baseline (2 -8 weeks) post MI (time 1). Out of 300 participants 191 completed assessments at 9 months follow up (time 2). Type D personality …
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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
… the POSSUM score to the outcome. This was a prospective observational study conducted at the Department of Surgery of the University Teaching Hospitals, Lusaka from July 2018 to March, 2019. During this period a total of 100 patients undergoing exploratory laparotomy for spontaneous …
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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
… B. The percentage of participants in the whole cohort who died was 43.9%, with 66.7% of Group B dying at some point in the study. All (100%) participants wanted the role of programme coordinator to continue, the support group to continue to meet, monthly and the programme to continue with few …
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The Impact of Psychosocial Factors on the Outcome of Surgical Repair for Rotator Cuff Tears – A Prospective Cohort (IMPROVE Study)
… at the baseline visit. Methods: A multi-centre, prospective, cohort study was performed where patients with a full-thickness rotator cuff tear were enrolled prior to RCR surgery. Patients completed multiple validated questionnaires to measure psychosocial functioning (symptoms of depression, …
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A prospective cohort study of the correlation between chest circumference and spirometry measurements over a 19-week intense training programme
Objective: Pulmonary disease is a common cause of morbidity and mortality; however a large number of individuals remain undiagnosed. Reasons for this include the inconsistent use of spirometry and the inability to produce acceptable and reproducible results. Chest circumference measurements have …
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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
… used deidentified data from two parallel, prospective cohort studies conducted at the Gugulethu Midwife and Obstetric Unit between 2013 and 2017; the unit is certified as Baby-Friendly. Utilizing the same research staff, measurement tools and procedures, the studies followed pregnant women …
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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.
… and functional outcomes. The study encompasses a prospective observational cohort design involving patients with edentulism requiring full-arch implant-supported prostheses. Participants were classified into two groups: those with complete edentulism and those undergoing extraction of …
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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
… Cape province of South Africa. Methods: A cohort study of grade-4 schoolchildren (n=590) recruited from six primary schools in four informal settlements was conducted over 12 months. In addition, a panel study, investigated the children for 2 consecutive school weeks in both summer and …
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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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Investigating prevalence and healthcare use of children with complex healthcare needs using data linkage. A study using multi-ethnic data from an ongoing prospective cohort: the Born in Bradford project
… and questionnaire data from a multi-ethnic prospective birth cohort over a five-year period. Rates of CA were calculated and healthcare use for children with and without CA was analysed. Results: Out of a birth cohort of 13,857 children, 860 had a CA. Using primary care data for children …
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