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Characteristics of Hypertension in the Chinese Population

Current Hypertension Reports, 2012
In China, the prevalence of hypertension is currently 18.8 %, and a major risk factor for hypertension is unbalanced dietary sodium and potassium intakes. High dietary sodium intake may change the circadian rhythm of 24-h blood pressure, which is characterized by a higher nighttime blood pressure.
Ji-Guang, Wang, Yan, Li
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Characteristics of the Child Amputee Population

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, 1984
The characteristics and number of children with limb amputations in North America are not known. In an effort to secure information concerning the nature of the child amputee population (to 21 years of age) in the United States and Canada, a census of patients treated at member clinics of the Association of Children's Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics (ACPOC)
D E, Krebs, S, Fishman
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Understanding Population Characteristics

1985
To understand a phenomenon we must break it down into simple elements and then put these elements together again in such a way as to reconstruct the phenomenon. This was the method Descartes proposed for study of the physical world, and it can be used to make intelligible the population characteristics presented as census and other data.
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Population Characteristics

AbstractChapter 2 analyses the demographic characteristics of the population of the province under study focusing on key aspects such as fertility, mortality, and life expectancy. The chapter draws on a tradition of demographic studies in Spain and other Roman provinces, and aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the population ...
Alejandro Sinner, Cèsar Carreras, Pieter Houten   +2 more
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Characteristics of Undertreatment in COPD in the General Population

Chest, 2013
We wished to characterize undertreatment in COPD.Among 5,812 individuals with COPD defined by FEV1/FVC < 0.7 participating in the Copenhagen General Population Study, we identified 920 individuals with FEV1 < 60% predicted. Prescriptions were identified in an all-inclusive nationwide registry.
Ingebrigtsen, Truls S., Marott, Jacob L., Vestbo, Jorgen, Hallas, Jesper, Nordestgaard, Borge G., Dahl, Morten, Lange, Peter   +6 more
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POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS AND TRENDS

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1958
About a year ago I participated in a conference here in Chicago which was organized by the National Fund for Medical Education. The task assigned to me was to summarize the financial status of American medical education and, in broad strokes, to anticipate its future financial needs.
J W, CLINE, V W, LIPPARD
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Characteristics of the Australian Population

1989
Population characteristics change over time, and with these changes come, sometimes willingly and sometimes reluctantly, social policy initiatives and responses. As outlined in the previous chapter, the issues and problems for social policy have intensified over the past two decades and are likely to continue to do so into the foreseeable future ...
Adam Graycar, Adam Jamrozik
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Characteristics of perniosis in an Australian population

Australasian Journal of Dermatology, 2021
Joshua Farrell, Thomas Jonathan Stewart, Robert Rosen   +2 more
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[Characteristics of the global population].

Chirurgia italiana, 1997
We analyse clinical characteristics, presurgical investigations, surgical procedures and outcome of 137 patients operated-on for a drug-resistant partial epilepsy, in Grenoble from January 1990 to December 1993. Moreover we present data of 63 patients suffering from a "pure" temporal lobe epilepsy selected using the following criteria: 1.
L, Tassi, P, Kahane, S, Francione, L, Minotti, D, Hoffmann, S, Grand, B, Pasquier, A L, Benabid, S, Garrel, J, Perret, C, Munari   +10 more
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Characteristics of the Mobile Population

2016
This chapter explores current trends in household mobility by describing correlates of moving and individuals’ reasons for moving, exploring answers to the question, “Who moves and why?” While the research presented in Chap. 2 described household mobility trends in a large, demographic context, this chapter describes sociodemographic variations in ...
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