Most current studies have focused on the prevalence and disease burden of stroke and its attributing risk factors [12]. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the relationship between risk factors and stroke-related inpatient costs. The economic burden of stroke patients is very heavy. In urban ...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia, with its incidence and prevalence rising worldwide [1]. Over the past 50 years, AF incidence has increased four to fivefold [2], and its prevalence is projected to double between 2010 and 2030 [3]. The lifetime risk of AF...
In SPSS (v. 28.0.0.0), Fisher’s exact test was utilized to determine any difference in sex between groups (two-tailed, p < 0.05), independent samples t-tests were conducted to determine groupwise differences in age and clinical scores (two-tailed, p < 0.05), and a spearman’s rank or...
1. Asking students to generate multiple means of goal attainment 2. The importance of perceived goal attainability in education 3. The “Availability” heuristic and Difficulty-in-Generation (DIG) 4. “Think of Many Ways” and inconsistent mediation 5. Moderation of the effects of DIG and “Th...
109). In an earlier study, McAdams (2001) distinguished between different types of coherence in narratives, addressing temporal, biographical, causal and thematic coherence. Creating coherence is often seen as the key function of narratives, yet some authors point out that the mission to find ...
In that case, you could do a test of proportions, see the following link for a step-by-step explanation how to do this manuallyhttp://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/B71928.html. For help to do this in SPSS see the following link (binomial test):http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/whatst...
7 ⅐ No. 2 review How frequent is altered gene expression among susceptibility genes to human complex disorders? Philippe H. Jais, MD, PhD It is regularly thought that human complex disorder susceptibility genes show differences in gene expression between normal and pathologic tissues. Thus, ...
For this question, we also included ratings of treatment 6 months before admission for both groups combined to indicate the prevalence in mental health care more broadly (Table 8). This instrument is a three-item measure of shared decision-making. CollaboRATE assesses three core shared decision-...
The Security-Oriented Benevolent profile group had the highest percentage of women, but otherwise it did not differ from participants in other profiles greatly. This profile group had the lowest percentage of those who never consume plant-based meat alternatives or who find meatiness important. ...
Finally, education also plays a significant role in smoking behavior, with an inverse relationship between educational accomplishments and smoking prevalence [37,38,39]. Interestingly, light or intermittent smoking is reported to be common in the higher-education population [10,40,41]. Understanding ...