An epidemiologist’s first lesson would usually be the difference between association and causation. There are too many study results published by the media that used “association” to imply causation, which will always mislead the public. In epidemiology, various types of confounding and bias will...
Cochrane SRs, which accounted for 15% of the sample, had more complete reporting than all other types of SRs. Reporting has generally improved since 2004, but remains suboptimal for many characteristics. CONCLUSIONS: An increasing number of SRs are being published, and many are poorly conducted ...
Many studies of Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus assume that the condition is homogeneous and clearly defined. There are, however, several problems with these assumptions. Thus, definition of Type 2 diabetes is one of exclusion of other types (insulin-dependent, malnutrition-related...
These types of studies integrate the population based approaches of classic epidemiology and the methods enabling the analysis of correlations between relatives sharing both genes and environment. The extent to which such studies are feasible will depend upon population- and disease-specific factors. To...
The epidemiology lecture was included of types of prevention in different categories of diseases, experimental and observational studies in Epidemiology. At the end of each lecture, the students were tested by an exam. The exam consisted of 20 optional questions. Each correct answer was marked as ...
Uric acid calculi can be efficiently disintegrated with all types of intracorporeal lithotripsy including Holmium yttrium-aluminium-garnet (Holmium: YAG) laser, elecrohydrolic, pneumatic and ultrasound [113]. Follow up of patients Patients with uric acid calculi under dissolution with oral chemolysis ...
- 《Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine & Public Health》 被引量: 17发表: 1995年 Multilocus sequence types of clinical Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates from peninsular Malaysia and their associations with disease outcomes Previous studies on theBurkholderia pseudomalleigenetic diversity among ...
Numbers of the common spore types, hyphal ... SM Pady,CL Kramer,R Clary - 《Journal of Allergy》 被引量: 61发表: 1967年 Growth and sporulation of Oidium begoniae: development of a deterministic model Growth and sporulation of Oidium begoniae (begonia powdery mildew) on detached leaves was...
In cross-neutralization studies using human sera from persons vaccinated with human diploid-cell vaccine (HDCV), human antibodies prevented cell infection with ABLV and ELBV types 1 and 2 in a modified fluorescent antibody virus neutralization assay at titers ≥0.5 IU/ml (Fielding & Nayda, 2005...
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