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Comparison of health estimates between Victorian Population Health Surveys and National Health Surveys

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2003
Objective: The computer‐assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) method has grown rapidly in recent years as an epidemiological tool for obtaining data on health issues.
Adrian Serraglio, Norman Carson, Zahid Ansari   +2 more
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Longitudinal association of sarcopenia and mild cognitive impairment among older Mexican adults

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2021
Background Recent evidence from cross‐sectional and longitudinal studies supports the hypothesis that sarcopenia is associated with worsening cognitive function.
Aarón Salinas‐Rodríguez, Rosa Palazuelos‐González, Ana Rivera‐Almaraz, Betty Manrique‐Espinoza   +3 more
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Is there an association between inflammatory markers and lower physical performance in older adults?

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Maintenance of physical performance is essential for achievement of healthy aging. A few studies have explored the association between inflammatory markers and physical performance in older adults with inconclusive results.
Betty Manrique-Espinoza, Rosa Palazuelos-González, Victoria Pando-Robles, Oscar Rosas-Carrasco, Aarón Salinas-Rodríguez   +4 more
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Westernized and Diverse Dietary Patterns Are Associated With Overweight-Obesity and Abdominal Obesity in Mexican Adult Men

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
IntroductionThe prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican adults is very high. To identify the dietary characteristics related with this disorder is necessary to design intervention.
Sonia Rodríguez-Ramírez, Brenda Martinez-Tapia, Dinorah González-Castell, Lucía Cuevas-Nasu, Teresa Shamah-Levy   +4 more
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Pre-emptive oral cholera vaccine (OCV) mass vaccination campaign in Cuamba District, Niassa Province, Mozambique: feasibility, vaccination coverage and delivery costs using CholTool

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Mozambique suffers from regular floods along its principal river basins and periodic cyclones that resulted in several cholera epidemics during the last decades.
Se Eun Park, Florian Marks, Vittal Mogasale, Jucunú J Elias Chitio, Cynthia S Baltazar, José Paulo Langa, Liliana Dengo Baloi, Ramos B J Mboane, José Alberto Manuel, Sadate Assane, Alide Omar, Mariana Manso, Igor Capitine, Craig Van Rensburg, Naira Luiz, Namseon S Beck   +15 more
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Sleep duration and incident frailty: The Rural Frailty Study

BMC Geriatrics, 2021
Background The association between sleep duration and frailty remains unconclusive since most of the studies have been cross-sectional. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the association between sleep duration, sleep complaints, and incident frailty.
Karla Moreno-Tamayo, Betty Manrique-Espinoza, Evangelina Morales-Carmona, Aarón Salinas-Rodríguez   +3 more
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Severity Levels of Disability Among Older Adults in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Results From the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE)

Frontiers in Medicine, 2020
Background: Recent studies suggest the importance of distinguishing the severity levels of disability in the older adult population. However, there is still no consensus regarding an optimal classification.
Aarón Salinas-Rodríguez, Ana Rivera-Almaraz, Ashley Scott, Betty Manrique-Espinoza   +3 more
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Patients’ satisfaction with long-acting injectable somatostatin analog therapy for neuroendocrine tumors

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2021
Background Long-acting somatostatin analogs (LA SSAs) are approved and recommended for the treatment of patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).
Christina Darden, Mark Price, David Ray, Grace Goldstein, Diana Goss, Lee Bennett, Diana Garbinsky, Ramya Thota   +7 more
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Quality of care in family planning services in Senegal and their outcomes

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background High quality of care in family planning (FP) services has been found to be associated with increased and continued use of contraceptive methods. The interpersonal skills and technical competence of the provider is one of the main components of
Shireen Assaf, Wenjuan Wang, Lindsay Mallick   +2 more
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Implementation and validation of a probabilistic linkage method for population databases without identification variables

Heliyon, 2022
Linking records of the same person from different sources makes it possible to build administrative cohorts and perform longitudinal analyzes, as an alternative to traditional cohort studies, and have important practical implications in producing ...
Amado D. Quezada-Sánchez, Iván Espín-Arellano, Evangelina Morales-Carmona, Diana Molina-Vélez, Lina Sofía Palacio-Mejía, Edgar Leonel González-González, Mariana Alvarez Aceves, Juan Eugenio Hernández-Ávila   +7 more
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