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Showing 1 to 20 of 284 for “"prospective study"”.
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California African-American Infant Mortality Prevention: A Prospective Study
… complement the statewide evaluation design, this study researched intragroup variability and the impact of culturally appropriate interventions through a prospective study design of African-American women participating in four of the California BIH intervention models: Outreach and Tracking, Case …
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A prospective study of injuries in professional Saudi Arabian footballers
… and competitive matches was employed. In Study 1 we prospectively evaluated the incidence (per 1000 hr of player exposure), severity and nature of injuries in professional Saudi Arabian football players competing in the Saudi Premier League over two competitive seasons (2010/11 and …
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A prospective study of implantation, maternal cardiovascular function and pregnancy outcome
… because of the difficulties in conducting prospective studies from prior to pregnancy and an inability to study events at the trophoblast-decidual interface in vivo. The primary objective of this study was to test the feasibility of being able to conduct and complete a prospective study …
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Ultrasound Evaluation Versus Direct Measurement of Uterine Cavity Length: A Prospective Study
… assess intrauterine cavity length. This study aims to assess the correlation between uterine cavity length on transabdominal pelvic ultrasound (TAUS) to the directly measured uterine cavity length. A prospective cohort study was performed at a single tertiary pediatric gynecology clinic. …
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Anthropometric Changes in a Prospective Study of 100 Patents Requesting Breast Reduction
… with enlarged breasts are not. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of nipple asymmetry in the horizontal plane and changes in the inframammary fold (IMF) in patients presenting with macromastia (defined as excessive development of the mammary gland by Merriam-Webster dictionary). …
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Emotional Health and Weight Gain: A Prospective Study of Middle-Aged Women
The objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which risk of gaining weight or body fat is affected by emotional health in women. A secondary objective was to determine the influence of age, baseline weight and body fat, physical activity (PA), energy intake, and changes in PA and …
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Peanut allergy: a prospective study of thresholds, co-factors, mediators and severity
… This thesis produces key data to enable this. A prospective study was performed on 60 peanut allergic participants to determine thresholds of reactivity to peanut using oral challenges with incrementally increasing amounts of peanut protein. Following a double-blind placebo-controlled peanut …
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Assessing the immune phenotype of cardiac syndrome x: a prospective study of biomarkers
… to further characterise this relationship by prospectively analysing a wide variety of molecular biomarkers in a cohort of CSX patients thereby charting the changes in biomarkers throughout the natural history of CSX from its initial diagnosis to eventual disease quiescence. We found that CSX …
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Risk factors for lower limb musculoskeletal injuries in novice runners: a prospective study
The aim of this study was to identify the possible risk factors for the development of lower limb musculoskeletal injuries in novice runners. The specific objectives of this study were: (a) to describe the demographic and training characteristics of novice runners; (b) to establish the incidence of …
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A prospective study on the outcomes on adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Cape Town
… be made to improve these outcomes. In this study we set out to establish the outcomes of CPR performed on all cardiac arrest patients in two hospitals in the Cape Metropole region.
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A farm-based prospective study for equine colic risk factors and risk associated events
… to reduce colic incidence. A one-year prospective study was conducted to estimate colic incidence and to identify risk factors. Farms with greater than 20 horses were randomly selected from two adjacent counties of Virginia and Maryland. Management information was recorded by …
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Violence against women : a prospective study of women presenting to a South African trauma centre
Background - Violence against Women is a major public health issue, and it is universally under reported. Objective - To conduct an injury surveillance of severe or life threatening violent acts against women, to determine the demographics of the injured women and to identify the nature of the …
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A prospective study of paediatric preoperative fasting times at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
… Africa is unknown. Objectives. The aim of this study was to determine the compliance with fasting guidelines and fasting times of children prior to elective procedures performed under anaesthesia at a paediatric hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The primary focus was fasting for clear liquid. …
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Psychological Well-Being and Health-Related Quality of Life Following Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation, A Prospective Study
… undergoing VT ablation. This case-control prospective study aimed to 1) examine predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and symptoms of anxiety, and depression in ICD recipients following VT ablation and 2) evaluate whether VT ablation is associated with greater …
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A prospective study of potentially traumatic events: associations between types and dimensions of events and outcomes.
The purposes of this study were to assess lifetime and recent exposure to potentially traumatic life events (PTE) among undergraduate and community college students, to assess the relation between event exposure and a broad range of outcomes (i.e., mental and physical health, life satisfaction, …
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A prospective study of the role of hope in predicting adjustment in new lower limb amputees
… (e.g., the absence of depression). The current study aims to build on previous research by examining prospectively demographic, amputation-related and psychosocial variables. Adjustment is conceptualized as subjective and is positively framed. Furthermore, the role of hope, a cognitive model …
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Type II diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular markers in humans: a prospective study in hellenic homogeneous population
… prominent only in Groups C and D. The present study indicates that different biochemical parameters may be used for assessment of CVD risk in T2DM patients of variable age.
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