Current knowledge of the impact of cardiovascular risk factors in Latin America is limited.As part of the INTERHEART study, 1237 cases of first acute myocardial infarction and 1888 age-, sex-, and center-matched controls were enrolled from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala, and ...
Since the reformation, Evangelical-Lutheran Christianity has been the dominating religion in the five countries, and continues to be so today, even though the number of members of the national churches is decreasing. Denmark, Finland, and Iceland still have national Evangelical Lutheran churches ...
leading to a decline in religious affiliation in some parts of the world, particularly in Western Europe and North America. According to the Pew Research Center, the percentage of Americans who identify as Christian has been steadily decreasing, while the number of those who describe...
and as America became divided on political issues, they also became divided on their interpretation of theBibleand how it should relate to the fate of the country. Because of the importance of religion in the American conscience, in issues of race andslavery, both groups that favored racial eq...
Four potential scenarios were considered: a stable rate of people moving in and out of Christianity; an increasing share of Christians leaving their religion as a decreasing number of people with no religious affiliation switching in; the same as the former but with no more than 50% of Christia...
when religiosity was entered as a single multilevel variable to test for a linear trend across groups, there was a dose–response relationship between decreasing religiosity and increasing PD risk (P < 0.001 for trend). These associations were also significant in both cohort-specific analyses ...
Results: In decreasing order of strength, fertility (TFR) correlates negatively with education, CPR, and GDP per capita, and positively with religiosity. Europe deviates from other regions in several ways, e.g. TFR increases with education and decreases with religiosity in W Europe. TFR decreases...
First, circumcised males may have less difficulty maintaining penile hygiene, which may reduce the acquisition of STIs by decreasing inflammation and the carriage time of pathogens in the foreskin [19, 45]. Secondly, the non-keratinized epidermis of the prepuce in uncircumcised males may provide ...
Petersen AM, Tenenbaum JN, Havlin S, Stanley HE and Perc M (2012) Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words.Scientic Reports2: 943 Quillian L (1999) Migration patterns and the growth of high-poverty neighborhoods, 1970–1990.American Journal of ...
How much of a role does, for instance, prosperity play in the decreasing numbers of believers? How much is affected by our open society, our accelerating communications and technologies, our distractions and inundation with information overload, our material obsessions? How do we actually define dy...