No obesity paradox was observed with WHtR and especially ABSI, which predicted mortality risk associated with central adiposity better than WC. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT00715481, 15 July, 2008Background In the general population, higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with ...
A 58 year old Qatari female referred to gynecology clinic at Hamad General Hospital in Doha, Qatar, with intermittent vaginal bleeding for 5 days, fresh red blood, minimal in amount. The patient denied abdominal pain, bowel habit changes or vomiting. This was her first attack since menopause ...
US National Center for Health Statistics vital statistics (birth registration) data: These publicly available datasets are anonymised and therefore patient consent and ethical approval were not required. Welsh linked data: Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank: Governance of the SAIL Data...
GED, General Educational Development Bivariate Analyses Inadequate physical activity was associated with sleep deficiency (p<0.05); working as a patient care associate (p<0.01); less decision latitude (p<0.01); less job flexibility (p<0.01); lower coworker support (p<0.01); and reporting lower...
registration-based cohort data, and there may be an effect of cachexia by HCC on BMI measurement, but there is a disadvantage in that this effect cannot be accurately evaluated. Third, due to the insufficient data related to patient comorbidities in the KCCR database, we could not evaluate ...
Despite occasional bottlenecks in the registration areas, the team had reduced patient registration times from an average of 6.7 minutes to an average of 2.6 minutes. In the vaccination area, we recommended two people to fill syringes and a decluttered layout for the syringe-filling tables, change...
diagnoses (International Classification for Diseases, 10th revision [ICD-10]), sociodemographic and lifestyle information, among others. SIDIAP can be linked to the Minimum Basic Dataset (CMBD), a national population-based registry that includes hospital discharge information of mandatory registration29...
Payment by the patient may be another reason for the low attendance rate for colonoscopies in our study. Mass screening in large-scale populations usually results in low attendance rates for colonoscopy. A nationwide study in Germany showed that the cumulative participation rate was 17.2% of ...
Height and body mass index (BMI) are associated with higher ovarian cancer risk in the general population, but whether such associations exist among BRCA1/2 mutation carriers is unknown. We applied a Mendelian randomisation approach to examine height/BMI
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