Men Who Have Sex With Men and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Sexually Transmitted Disease Control in China To address the role of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted disease (STD) epidemic in China. To explore the prevalence of risky sex...
It can also estimate the prevalence of diseases in a community by assigning a single exposure level for each unique group. An elegant example of a SEER-based ecological study involved a description of incidence trends and disparities in cancers related to Helicobacter pylori reported by Lai et al...
In epidemiologic studies, we use a measure of disease frequency to determine how often the disease or other health outcome of interest occurs in various subgroups of interest. We describe two basic types of measures of disease frequency in this chapter, namely, measures of incidence and measures ...
This is a relevant aspect as no single consensus definition of frailty has been developed yet. In addition, the FI and the Frailty Phenotype, albeit complementary to each other, do not measure the same constructs. The Biological Basis: Sarcopenia and Immune Senescence (and Their Bidirectional ...
Finally, it is important to consider the optimal way to measure AD in clinical trials and population-based studies. Measurement of AD outcomes can be difficult because of the multiple definitions of AD112 and measures of AD severity.113,114 Ideally, interventions should prevent the most severe an...
The need to address the growing prevalence of non-communicable diseases through changing the lifestyle behaviours that contribute to them has become a global priority. Settings-based health promotion strategies such as workplace health promotion programmes are growing in an attempt to start meeting th...
Such variability has important implications, because those who are frail are at risk of complications and mortality from most diseases, including cardiovascular illnesses. Therefore, researchers have developed clinical tools to measure frailty. Two of these, known as the “frailty phenotype” and the ...
Digital solutions in healthcare can facilitate and improve care. However, the experiences and the usefulness of using either digital foot examinations or traditional foot examinations need to be evaluated. The aims of the study were to evaluate: 1) The d
However, the prevalence of axial involvement in PsA is not well known. This is largely due to the lack of a validated definition for axial disease in PsA [2], and the fact that the prevalence depends on the disease duration, ranging from 5% to 28% [3] in early PsA to 25–70% [4...
S3 (see ESM), where we see higher prevalence of most diseases in the population who were cared for before they died. Figure 1 presents the ATT for the SF-6D for each period before and after the event, where the event is bereavement (Appendix Fig. S4 in the ESM presents the full ...