Children's fractures: a population based study [PDF]
Objective—To measure the incidence of childhood fractures in a defined population. Setting—Accident and emergency (A&E) departments covering the Swansea and Neath Port Talbot areas of South Wales in 1996.
R A, Lyons +6 more
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Population-Based Birth Cohort Studies in Epidemiology [PDF]
Birth cohort studies are the most appropriate type of design to determine the causal relationship between potential risk factors during the prenatal or postnatal period and the health status of the newborn up to childhood and potentially adulthood. To date, there has been a growth in interest regarding observational population-based studies which are ...
Canova C., Cantarutti A.
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Migraine and vascular disease biomarkers: A population-based case-control study. [PDF]
Background The underpinnings of the migraine-stroke association remain uncertain, but endothelial activation is a potential mechanism. We evaluated the association of migraine and vascular disease biomarkers in a community-based population.
Ferrari, Michel D. +9 more
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An international prospective general population-based study of respiratory work disability [PDF]
Background: Previous cross-sectional studies have shown that job change due to breathing problems at the workplace (respiratory work disability) is common among adults of working age.
Antó, J.M. +11 more
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Advances in Population-Based Studies [PDF]
In 2009, population-based studies have continued to generate many new results about stroke occurrence and interesting hypotheses about the relation between risk factors and stroke occurrence. High levels of C-reactive protein have been associated with the risk of myocardial infarction, whereas the association with stroke remains controversial.1 The ...
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Cancers of unknown primary diagnosed during hospitalization: a population-based study [PDF]
Background: Cancers of Unknown Primary (CUP) are the 3-4th most common causes of cancer death and recent clinical guidelines recommend that patients should be directed to a team dedicated to their care.
Allardice, Gwen +5 more
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Early Life Socioeconomic Circumstance and Late Life Brain Hyperintensities : A Population Based Cohort Study [PDF]
Funding: Image acquisition and image analysis for this study was funded by the Alzheimer's Research Trust (now Alzheimer's Research UK). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the ...
A Forsdahl +38 more
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Febrile seizures: a population‐based study
To determine the prevalence of benign febrile seizures of childhood and describe the clinical and epidemiological profile of this population.This was a population-based, cross-sectional study, carried out in the city of Barra do Bugres, MT, Brazil, from August 2012 to August 2013. Data were collected in two phases.
Juliane S. Dalbem +3 more
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Undertreatment of hypercholesterolaemia: a population‐based study [PDF]
Aims To assess the level of undertreatment of hypercholesterolaemia in the general population, taking intra‐person variability in serum cholesterol concentrations into account, and to identify determinants of undertreatment of hypercholesterolaemia.Methods In this cross‐sectional study, data from two population‐based surveys on cardiovascular disease
Mantel-Teeuwisse, AK +7 more
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Carpal tunnel syndrome associated with oral bisphosphonates. A population-based cohort study [PDF]
© 2016 Carvajal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
Arias, LHM +7 more
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