BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of disorders of the heart and circulatory system, as well as related molecular and cell biology, genetics, pathophysiology, epidemiology, and controlle...
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders BioMed Central Research article Open Access Functional claudication distance: a reliable and valid measurement to assess functional limitation in patients with intermittent claudication Lotte M Kruidenier1, Saskia PA Nicolaï1, Edith M Willigendael1, Rob A de Bie2, Martin ...
For BMI, significant differences existed between all quartiles compared to the lowest quartile. In line with our hypothesis and prior work in sub-Saharan Africa, this study suggests that increased material needs security is associated with increased cardiovascular risk in South Africa. This manuscript...
For baseline characteristics, categorical variables will be described as frequencies and proportions; continuous variables will be described as means and standard deviations, or medians and interquartile ranges where appropriate. Differences in baseline characteristics between the control and intervention groups...
Median [25-75% quartiles] values are reported in text and tables. Mann–Whitney U-test was used to compare the effects of gender on the following independent variables: age, BMI, number of hours/week working with a computer, work ability, ability to fulfil the company requirements on produc...
(48.0%) new cases of MetS were ascertained. In the multivariable-adjusted model, the risk of MetS was decreased across quartiles of CQI (HR = 0.83;95%CI:0.69–1.00, Ptrend=0.025) and protein score (HR = 0.75; 95% CI:0.60–0.94, Ptrend=0.041). Also, Of CQI components, ...
quartiles (first quartile is the worst and fourth quartile is the best). Physical multimorbidity was assessed by asking students to report whether they had ever been diagnosed by a doctor with any of the following 13 diseases: brain or nervous system disorders, eye problems, ear-nose-throat ...
Statistical AnalysisSPSS 28 (IBM) will facilitate database management and statistics. Continuous variables expressed as mean, standard deviation (SD) if normally distributed, and as median, inter-quartile range (IQR) if skewed. Two-sample t-test and ANOVA will compare continuous data. Count and ...
Because of the relatively small sample size, the analyses were adjusted for only a small number of potentially important covariates and the analysis of CRP and fibrinogen was restricted to above and below the median (while quartiles would have been more sensitive). To adjust for variables that ...
The bone turnover markers s-CTX and s-PINP had median values of 0.93 (interquartile range [IQR]: 0.52, 1.22) µmol/L and 64.50 (IQR: 38.18, 78.64) µmol/L, respectively. The median level of 1,25(OH)2D3 was 19.10 (IQR: 13.50, 23.60) µmol/L. The lipid profile showed ...