side-effects,unintended consequences, to name but a few,4it is suggesting that when you are about 75 years old, you have a 2% risk of developing AD by the time you reach 80. But if you take a lot5of statins, your risk for developing AD is 1.5%. Your odds go from 2-in-100 to ...
Obesity is another major global health concern; in South Korea, >60% women aged >40 years are overweight or obese.5Obesity is an important risk factor for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease; it has also been recently recognised as a risk factor for breast cancer.6Although horm...
Is there or is there not such a thing a pyschological health (ignoring for the time being issues on measuring it)? If man has a distinct nature (he is after all distinct from other animals) then it is possible certain social environments are more, or possibly less, conducive to his py...
And because I'm a nobody, even the smallest words of kindness are meaningful. Today, I get more joy from a nice response tomy private newsletterthan I would if I was a public personality being lauded with praise all the time. I also developed the ability to ignore or instantly forget an...
The risk of a merger not being completed — combined with the expected time to complete the transaction — creates a difference in prices, or spread, between the price of the acquiring company and the price of the target company. The factors affecting a deal’s outcome are primarily functions...
The purpose of the analysis using the logistic regression is to identify risk factors that are associated with the response variable of interests and the variables (confounder) that influence the effect of exposure on disease and the risk factors. For instance, if the primary goal is to measure...