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Estimated burden of aggregate anthropometric failure among Malawian children
The South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2018 Background: The prevalence and trends of undernutrition among children below the age of five in Malawi are well known from a conventional (stunting, wasting and underweight) but not aggregate indicator perspective.
M Ziba, AA Kalimbira, Z Kalumikiza
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African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2019 Background: Body image perception has an impact on modifiable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, lifestyle and psychological health in many populations.
Kufre J. Okop +2 more
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Underestimation of Adolescent Obesity [PDF]
Nursing Research, 2013 Previous studies assessing the validity of adolescent self-reported height and weight for estimating obesity prevalence have not accounted for, potential bias due to nonresponse in self-reports.The aim of this study was to assess the implications of selective nonresponse in self-reports of height and weight for estimates of adolescent obesity.The ...
Alison M, Buttenheim +2 more
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Methodological underestimation of oceanic nitrogen fixation rates. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 The two commonly applied methods to assess dinitrogen (N(2)) fixation rates are the (15)N(2)-tracer addition and the acetylene reduction assay (ARA). Discrepancies between the two methods as well as inconsistencies between N(2) fixation rates and biomass/
Wiebke Mohr +3 more
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Underestimation of COVID-19 mortality during the pandemic
ERJ Open Research, 2021 Background There has been considerable international variation in mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this study was to investigate the differences between mortality registered as due to COVID-19 and the excess all-cause mortality ...
Stacey Kung +7 more
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Dialysis and the Elderly: An Underestimated Problem [PDF]
Kidney and Blood Pressure Research, 2008 In developed countries, the incidence of end-stage renal failure is constantly increasing, and uremia will soon be a disease typically found in mature and elderly adults. Almost invariably, the physical condition of the elderly patient with terminal uremia is extremely poor, and therapeutic approach complex.
BUEMI, Michele +7 more
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Vast (but avoidable) underestimation of global biodiversity.
PLoS Biology, 2021 The number of species on Earth is highly uncertain. A recent study has suggested that there are less than 2 million prokaryotic species on Earth; this Formal Comment suggests instead that there are more likely hundreds of millions or billions of species,
John J Wiens
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Is the Prevalence of Addison’s Disease Underestimated? [PDF]
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1999 Analisi della prevalenza di insufficienza corticosurrenalica primitiva in Umbria. A tutt'oggi unico data epidemiologico su questa malattia in Italia.
Laureti S. +3 more
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Assessing the Precision of Surgery Duration Estimation: A Retrospective Study
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2023 Afnan Aljaffary,1 Fatimah AlAnsari,1 Abdulaleem Alatassi,2 Mohammed AlSuhaibani,3 Ammar Alomran4 1Health Information Management and Technology Department, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia ...
Aljaffary A +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, with an overall survival now surpassing 90% in developed countries. However, treatments are not without adverse effects. In this study, we apply the severe toxicity‐free survival (STFS) framework to determine the prevalence of 21 physician‐defined severe ...
Lane Collier +10 more
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