As one interviewee stated: “I’m presuming that at some point they’re testing the blood so if your blood is fine then I don’t see why it’s relevant who you’re having sex with” (age 23, HIV-negative, Vancouver). When asked about screening questions, one man mentioned, “I thin...
Higher blood Mn levels were also associated with lower blood iron levels, in individuals older than 12 years of age, and we could not examine this relation in youn- ger individuals because the data was not available. Furthermore, pregnant women had higher Mn levels than non-pregnant women. ...
Apart from these questions of technique, it is desirable to discover how fine an analysis is likely to prove profitable. Should it be found, for example, that there is little variation in gene frequencies within large urban areas, then relatively modest samples would suffice. If, on the other...
We have attempted to seek answers to these questions by studying the steroid kinetics in women at term who are undergoing elective cesarean section. Metabolic Clearance Rate of Cortisol and Cortisone The MCR (F) of pregnant women, whether corrected for body surface area or not, was similar to ...
a two-way ANOVA was used to take these influencing factors into account. In case of significant differences based on the two-way ANOVA the Tukey post hoc test for multiple comparisons and adjustment of theplevel was added. Pearson correlation coefficient was determined to investigate the link betw...
Studies showing a high risk of bias in patient selection either applied an age restriction (e.g., only women aged 70+ years) or included participants based on cognitive cut-off scores (e.g., positive answer on at least a subset of questions), both leading to decreased representativeness of...
A general enquiry was then made about their medications, such as whether any changes were made to their medications, if they experienced any side effects or difficulties taking their medications, if they have any concerns with doctors' visits and if they had any questions regarding their health....
including ‘Treatment’, ‘post-treatment time’ and their interaction into a null model (forward selection). Then likelihood ratio test (LRT) was used to identify if the addition of main effects into a null model lead into a statistical significant improvement of the model. If the interaction...
We posed the following questions. 1)What is the chief determinant of fetal cerebral blood flow? 2) To what degree do other variables con- tribute to the regulation of cerebral flow? 3) What are the limits of autoregulation of fetal cerebral blood flow? 4) To what extent do changes in ...
questions relating to physical activity comprised a list of nine common activities in which early primary school-aged children participate: (a) dancing, gymnastics and calisthenics; (b) athletics; (c) swimming; (d) football, soccer, rugby league and Australian football; (e) netball and ...