... food market, including agriculture and trade policy, and the prevailing availability, price and labelling of food Interventions in production, distribution and pricing in Finland and Norway have ... on education and physical activity, andof involving parents and students in developing policy, can improve dietary patterns Interventions providing information and offering price incentives have ... education and improving labelling schemes; promoting breastfeeding; improving nutrition profiles of foods by reducing their content of sugar, salt and saturated fat; avoiding production incentives...
... lie in measuring QoL in children, including (1) lack of consensus on suitable instruments, (2) the need for different instruments in different age groups and (3) the need of proxy reporting by ... essential in order to meet basic needs, to fulfill usual roles, and to maintain health and wellbeing [5]Quality of life (QoL) is defined as an individual's perception of their position in life, in the ... mediator of this process is response shift Response shift means that the experience changes the internal standard of patients, resulting in changes in the meaning of self-evaluation and hence in a...
... examined for distribution of responses, frequency of nonresponse, ceiling and floor effects Childrenandadolescents between and 16 years of age and their parents were asked to participate in ... basis of duplication and low item-domain correlations, including the two extra clinical items The cumulative proportion of the variance explained by the first two domains was 53% and the internal ... LippincottRaven; 1996:107-115 Bullinger M, Power MJ, Aaronson NK, Cella DF, Anderson RT: Creating and Evaluating Cross-Cultural Instruments In Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics inClinical Trials Volume...
... Measuring health-related quality of life inchildren with cancer living in mainland China: feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and ... The findings support the feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese Mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and 3.0 Cancer Module inchildren with cancer living in mainland ... reliability, and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and 3.0 Cancer Module inchildren with cancer living in mainland China With regard to obtention of result,...
... dilution (1:50) in the serum of 64% of RA patients but not in control individuals However, a number of other investigators did not find increased levels of α-G6PI antibodies in the serum of patients ... preparation used in the initial study was found to be contaminated with other proteins, and RA sera contained antibodies against some of these other proteins [81] Taken together, these findings indicate ... obtained from a different colony [76] Similarly, and again in contrast to previous findings in other murine models of arthritis [77], IL-6 deficiency had no influence on the development of K/B×N...
... anti-inflammatory drug Clinical ulcers and bleeds Clinical ulcers and bleeds in the company clinical trial reports were as reported by investigators, and were not subjected to independent, blinded ... co-workers [29] examined 15,000 patients in nine of the earlier trials of celecoxib, and Edwards and co-workers [30] examined some 5,700 patients in nine trials of valdecoxib Reviews looking at adverse ... combining the absolute proportions of patients experiencing an adverse event, using the intention-totreat population (randomised, at least one dose of drug) as the denominator Those examining...
... 58:691-697 Ainola MM, Mandelin JA, Liljestrom MP, Li TF, Hukkanen MV, Konttinen YT: Pannus invasion and cartilage degradation in rheumatoid arthritis: involvement of MMP-3 and interleukin1beta Clin Exp ... are leucine-rich proteoglycans, including decorin, fibromodulin and biglycan [32] Cartilage and bone turnover is a complex process in which proteinases play a prominent role in health and disease ... Proteinases in joint destruction Shown are the proteinases that are involved in the joint destruction that occurs in (a) osteoarthritis and (b) rheumatoid arthritis ADAM, a disintegrin and metalloproteinase-like;...
... King J, Soldin SJ: IMMULITE 2000 age and sex-specific reference intervals for alpha fetoprotein, homocysteine, insulin, insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3, ... Hyperglycemic children had significantly higher insulin and C-peptide levels in comparison with normoglycemic children HOMA showed a predominance of insulin resistance in hyperglycemic children, ... resulting in a hypoinsulinemic response resulted in hyperglycemia Insulin resistance, caused by high levels of counter-regulatory hormones and cytokines, oxidative stress, and therapeutic interventions...
... appropriate aim in preventing obesityinchildrenand promoting a healthy lifestyle (ii)Determinants of behaviours A variety of family and social determinants affecting children s eating and activity ... The Intervention Mapping process increased risk of weight gain or obesityin consumers of sugar-rich drinks A single carbonated drink per day can add 10% to a child’s energy intake [12] According ... temptation 36 Increases in availability of healthy snacks/ drinks and active pursuits Increases in availability and accessibility of healthy snacks and drinks at home 29 Increases in active leisure...
... males in management or leadership roles because of the low profileof women in management at this time, and it can be assumed that the profileof women in management would not have been advanced in ... prominence in the 1960s at a time when the number of women in positions of power or authority in organisations were still low In fact, the proportion of women in management roles in the USA in ... theories which would have had the effect of raising the profileof women in management In fact, Schein’s ongoing studies (Schein, 1973, 1975, 1992, 1994, 1996; Schein et al., 1989) have highlighted...
... Brouwer et al., 2000) In a randomized clinical trial, Corry and colleagues compared serial casting with injection of botulinum toxin in the management of dynamic equinus inchildren with cerebral ... dynamic and static joint range of motion Measuring spasticity in children: clinical The Ashworth scale There are few useful clinical measures of spasticity and none validated for use inchildren ... muscular relaxation in the target area, providing a ‘window of opportunity’ for a focused programme of splinting, casting, gait training and strengthening of antagonist muscles Children with mild...
... to diagnose TB inchildren Careful history (including history of TB contact and symptoms consistent with TB) Clinical examination (including growth assessment) Tuberculin skin testing (TST) Bacteriological ... formulations and dosing of first- and second-line TB drugs inchildren DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS INCHILDREN The diagnosis of TB inchildren relies on careful and thorough assessment of all the evidence ... standardised approaches need to be incorporated into existing guidelines and strategies that have been developed by NTPs Reducing the burden of TB inchildren will require changing and improving...
... understandings of the prevention of mental illnesses remain in a relatively nascent state, especially in terms of how prevention can be incorporated into routine clinical practice Yet, this book, Clinical ... psychiatrists and other mental healthcare providers with a useful guide on becoming prevention-minded in routine clinical settings Although much of the work of prevention is accomplished in nonclinical ... During that critical training period, and since, she has been an advocate and mentor, pushing me to aim high and think big in my endeavor to bring together my two medical discixxxi xxxii Clinical...
... curve of profiles, and the profiles reflect better variation characteristics of temperature at different depths (Fig 1) Fig shows the computed profiles at some other points in the sea in winter ... solution of the problem is assumed to be exist and unique The main difficulty in setting up the interpolation problem using spline function is to find the right boundary conditions In the interpolation ... the vertical profileof temperature at the point of latitude 13oN and longitude 110oE, the computed coefficients of the polynomial for each of the 16 depth intervals are listed in Table From...
... than in developed countries Within the countries of Asia, the ageing process in proportion to the older populations is more rapid in eastern Asia than in western Asiaand much slower in South- East ... in South- EastAsia Increased life expectancy and changes in lifestyle and the environment have led to changes in the pattern of diseases among the elderly in South- East Asia, especially the increase ... Bangladesh, India and Thailand, and increased in DPR Korea and Myanmar In all countries there is a rise in the dependency ratio because of increasing numbers of older people The highest rate of hospitalization...
... to increase with rising obesity levels Several studies offer retrospective or prospective estimates of the degree of disease incidence that can be linked to obesity, andof the magnitude of associated ... Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy is an international, peer-reviewed open-access journal committed to the rapid publication of the latest laboratory andclinical findings in the fields of diabetes, ... controlling for a list of covariates and endogeneity of weight, the authors find a significant and large effect ofobesity on receipt of disability insurance More research is needed to determine...
... version in addition The findings of the current study underline the importance of combining self- and proxy rating, not only in Germany Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and ... different stages of life andin this way to explore the impact of CF in the course of a lifetime In comparison to other studies investigating HRQoL inchildren with CF, the number of patients in this ... of HRQoL need further investigation Both self-rating and proxy rating provide important complementary sources of information, and these should be assessed in combination Use of the CFQ-R in clinical...
... coordination of the study, gathering and processing of data (questionnaires), performed the statistical analyses and drafting of manuscript RL: coordination of the study, gathering and processing of data ... monitoring and counselling of both child and family during the whole of treatment In HR children, reported scores on cognitive functioning were considerable lower than in NHR children, regardless of ... drafting and revising of manuscript JH: participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript MG: participated in the coordination of the study, acquisition of data and helped...
... time index of the digital recording of the vibration signal Methods Representation of swallowing activity Based on the clinical appeal of cervical auscultation and the recent success of swallowing ... swallowing in determining the risk of aspiration in acute stroke patients Dysphagia 2001, 16:1-6 Sellars C, Dunnet C, Carter R: A preliminary comparison of videofluoroscopy of swallow and pulse ... Improving the accuracy of classifiers for the prediction of translation initiation sites in genomic sequences In Advances in Informatics, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3746 Springer-Verlag;...