... 2Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, 3Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore and 4Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School ... (SF) Nepean Dyspepsia Index is a 10-itemquestionnaire with 5 sub-scales each examining the influ-ence of dyspepsia on domains of health in patients,namely tension/anxiety, interference with daily ... Dyspepsia Index Sanjiv Mahadeva*1, Hwee-Lin Wee2,3, Khean-Lee Goh1 and Julian Thumboo2,4Address: 1Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of...
... status index or profile. An index is characterized by a single score representing healthstatus. On the other hand, a health status profile providesa multidimensional evaluation of all aspects of ... health.Health profiles are popular in situations where the inter-action of the physical, social, mental and emotional deter-minants of health are of interest. Health indices are useful in health ... HRQOL in elementary school children. Theimpact of being overweight appears to affect both thephysical and psychosocial health of children as young as5 years of age. In fact, our findings suggest...
... quality of life in adults 65 years and older. Obesity Res 2004, 12:69-76.50. Borowiak E, Kostka T: Predictors of quality of life in older peo-ple living at home and in institutions. Aging Clin Exp ... perception of physical health in male subjects, except in the realm of physical functioning,a finding also borne out by other authors [36,41-45].However, assessment of quality of life in the female ... [15,16].Accordingly, evaluation of the quality of life has becomea focus of interest not only in population studies, but also in clinical medicine [17], particularly in patients sufferingwith chronic illnesses...
... need for integration of quality of life impactinto clinical outcome evaluations in the future especially in developing countries like India where it is oftenignored. The possibility of further ... ona wide range of potentially relevant issues) and allowseasy administration of general instructions in any lan-guage. It has the inherent advantage of determining andrating comments which ... Corresponding author †Equal contributorsAbstractBackground: Given the postulated advantages of mother generated index (MGI) in incorporatingthe patients' viewpoint and in the absence of a...
... likely due to an increase in muscle forcesresulting from a decrease in ergometer cadence [35]. Thesignificant increase observed in HPO is consistent withEricson's findings involving able-bodied ... no factors defineHPO at fatigue and an indexof hip fatigue cannot bedeveloped.DiscussionOverviewThe main findings of this study were: (1) APO and KPOdecreased with increasing resistance ... elec-trically induced cycle training of paralyzed limbs in spinalcord injured man. Calcif Tissue Int 1997, 61(1):22-25.8. Hangartner TN, Rodgers MM, Glaser RM, Barre PS: Tibial bonedensity loss in spinal...
... testing, andquality of life in patients with sinusitis. Otolaryngol Head NeckSurg 2000, 123:389-392.Additional file 1The Rhinosinusitis Disability Index (RSDI) Domains and ItemsThe Rhinosinusitis ... purposes)Health and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearchEvaluating change in health-related quality of life in adult rhinitis: Responsiveness of the Rhinosinusitis Disability Index Hubert Chen*1,2, ... evidence sup-porting an SEM-based criterion for identifying meaningfulintra-individual changes in health-related quality of life. J ClinEpidemiol 1999, 52:861-873.17. Linder JA, Singer DE, Ancker...
... excretion in swine manure to be reduced. Effect of Feeding DDGS on Gut Health of Growing Pigs Whitney et al. (2006a, b) conducted two experiments to determine if including DDGS in the diet of ... DDGS in the diet of young growing pigs reduces the incidence or severity of clinical signs, fecal shedding, intestinal lesions and/or cellular infection indicating porcine proliferative enteropathy ... 05 - Use of DDGS in Swine Diets 1Use of U.S. DDGS in Swine Diets Historical Use of DDGS in Swine Diets Historically, limited amounts (less than 3% of total production) of distiller’s...
... vanishing pointlying in the centre of the horizon. This createsan illusion, on the flat surface of a picture, of objects shrinking uniformly in scale as theyrecede in space and helps to convince ... blue with a bit of purple in it and paint in the areas of thebuildings that are in shadow. Leave a few strokes of white paper where anything catches the light.A few fine lines of shadow can ... pink, brown over grey and brown over red.3 In order to get a gentler variety of tone in your colour, do the outlines in ink lines and then use another medium to produceareas of tone within...
... should disappear in England as it has in France, alldistinctions would thereby be lost. Here Burke avows the central role of masculine heterosexual discipline in creating and maintaining social,political, ... writing exactly the way Pitt’s government wanted it, in effect playing off oneinterest against another so as to keep all elements in a perpetual state of internecine crisis.²² Securing ‘‘the joint ... to the main lines of development of the novel, we shouldfollow the lead of Ina Ferris and Katie Trumpener by investigating thecentral role of ‘‘the regional’’ in the construction of English...
... reform in the public sphere, and moral reform in theprivate. It is in terms of this growing sense of a wider social obli- The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s16broader project of rethinking ... they in ected in startlingly new ways. To forget this is tomake the mistake of simply reproducing the Romantic myth of the originality of the creative act. The point of concluding withone of ... recognized as beingsingularly dependent on technical advances in the print industry.22 In Letters on Education (1790), Catherine Macaulay argued that the‘advantages of printing, by rendering easy...