Is urinary incontinence associated with sedentary behaviour in older women? Analysis of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Urinary incontinence (UI) is a common geriatric syndrome associated with physical and cognitive impairments. The association between type of UI and sedentary behaviour (SB) has not been explored. AIM: To determine association between moderate-
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Lipids and Pulmonary Function in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [PDF]
Studies considering the association between total cholesterol and noncardiovascular mortality, particularly from respiratory disease, yield inconclusive findings. To explore this question, the relation of lipids to pulmonary function, specifically forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV(1)), was investigated in the Third National Health and Nutrition
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BackgroundDiabetes is a major health problem and cause of death worldwide. It is predicted that the prevalence of diabetes will increase from 415 million in 2015 to 642 million in 2040.
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Trends in Self‐Reported Oral Health of US Adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999‐2014 [PDF]
Objective Single‐item self‐reported oral health (SROH) is a convenient and reliable measure for the assessment of population‐based oral health. However, little is known about trends and its associations among US adults.
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Calibration of Cystatin C in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) [PDF]
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) are one of the most important sources of data for evaluating the burden and trends in chronic kidney disease in the U.S. Cystatin C is a useful marker of kidney function and was recently proposed as a confirmatory test for chronic kidney disease (1).
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Background Obesity has been confirmed to be associated with infertility. However, the association between metabolically healthy obesity (MHO), a subset of obesity with no metabolic abnormalities, and female infertility has not yet been investigated. This
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The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey as a Primary Data Source [PDF]
The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) is a population-based cross-sectional survey designed to assess the health related behavior, health condition, and nutritional state of Koreans (http://knhanes.cdc.go.kr/). It was conducted as a tri-annual survey for the first 3 cycles, implemented in 1998, 2001, and 2005.
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Volunteer Participation in the Health eHeart Study: A Comparison with the US Population. [PDF]
Direct volunteer "eCohort" recruitment can be an efficient way of recruiting large numbers of participants, but there is potential for volunteer bias.
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Cox regression survival analysis with compositional covariates: application to modelling mortality risk from 24-h physical activity patterns [PDF]
Survival analysis is commonly conducted in medical and public health research to assess the association of an exposure or intervention with a hard end outcome such as mortality. The Cox (proportional hazards) regression model is probably the most popular
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Purpose National big data pertaining to the status of common respiratory diseases is essential to devising appropriate policies to promote proper treatment and prevention of respiratory diseases amid the prolonged coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19 ...
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