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... on SES and depression 155 4. 4.3 The mediation effect of recent life events on SES and depression 158 4.4 .4 The mediation effects of social support on SES and depression 162 4. 4.5 The indirect ... depression 41 2.9.3 Conceptualising mastery 42 2.9 .4 Theassociationbetween mastery and depression 44 2.10 Theassociationbetween SES and stress, social support and psychological ... 146 4.4 Estimating the size and significance of the indirect or mediated effects 150 4. 4.1 The mediated effect of lifetime trauma on SES and depression 151 4. 4.2 The mediated effect...
... participated in the development of the study and in the drafting of the manuscript SØ participated in the data collection andthe drafting of the manuscript PM gave statistical advice and helped in the drafting ... have been transformed from the log value All other variables were entered untransformed, and all analyses were adjusted for age and gender The baseline cross-sectional associations between demographic, ... a significant predictor in the final model (Table 4) NT-proBNP levels increased between each follow-up visit andthe interactions between age and gender and gender and time of follow-up were...
... 2002, 70 :44 3 -44 9 30 Wong SY, Kwok T, Woo J, Lynn H, Griffith JF, Leung J, Tang YY, Leung PC: Bone mineral density andthe risk of peripheral arterial disease in men and women: results from Mr and ... atherosclerosis and increased cardiovascular risk and considered useful in identifying subjects with increased risk [44 ] An associationbetween IMT and BMD was studied intensively and most of the studies ... analysis of the data and drafted the manuscript LT participated in interpretation and analysis of the data and helped to draft the manuscript WL conceived of the Page 15 of 19 hypothesis of the manuscript...
... (1 .4) 73.7 (8.7) 27.8 (1 .4) 88.8 (7.9) 34. 3 (3.9) 109.6 (15.0) 31.0 (4. 7) 99.0 (16.9) Weight loss (kg) 2.3 (2.3) 4. 2 (4. 7) 7.1 (7.6) 5.6 (6.5) Percentage weight loss 3.0 (3.2) 4. 7 (5 .4) 6 .4 (6 .4) ... analyzed the data and drafted the article in collaboration at all stages with JW Both authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests Jane Wardle and Fiona Johnson declare they ... Communication and marketing as tools to cultivate thepublic s health: a proposed “people and places” framework BMC PublicHealth 2007, 7:88 Dansinger ML, Gleason JA, Griffith JL, Selker HP, Schaefer EJ:...
... 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 Brown GW, Andrews B, Harris T, Adler Z and Bridge L Social support, self-esteem and depression Psychol Med 1986, 16:813-831 ... performed Among these factors, thefactors of presence of psychiatric disorder and age had the strongest effect with both the JF scale (p < 0.001) and Rosenberg scale (p < 0.001) On the basis of their ... developments and future directions J Sch Health 1986, 56 :369 -3 74 Allendorf S, Sunseri AJ, Cullinan Jand Oman JK Student heart health knowledge, smoking attitudes and self-esteem J Sch Health 1985,...
... tissue disease Am JMed 1976, 61 :48 5 -49 2 44 Afifi AK, Bergman RA, Harvey JC: Steroid myopathy Clinical, histologic and cytologic observations Johns Hopkins MedJ 1968, 123:158-173 45 Rall LC, Roubenoff ... rheumatoid arthritis The Arthritis and Rheumatism Council Low-Dose Glucocorticoid Study Group N Engl JMed 1995, 333: 142 - 146 Bijlsma JW, Van Everdingen AA, Huisman M, De Nijs RN, Jacobs JW: Glucocorticoids ... to the acquisition of data HRG contributed to the revision of the draft of the manuscript GDK contributed substantially to the conception and design of the project and to the revision of the...
... sulcus and through the patella, and measured the distance betweenthe lateral border of the patella and this vertical line (a) andbetweenthe medial border of the patella and this vertical line ... rheumatologist (DTF) The presence of osteophytes in the medial and lateral parts of the patella and femur as well as joint space narrowing in the medial and lateral parts of the PF joint were each ... 1 14 119 1.00 Range of LPTA LPTA 98–113 OR (95% CI) 1.00 0 .46 (0.21–0.97) 0.32 (0. 14 0.73) 0.10 (0. 04 0.27) Linear, 0.0 136; U-shaped, 0.1630 No of knees 49 49 51 38 .46 – 54. 55 54. 76–60 .42 60 .47 –66.67...
... volume and bone size in healthy women Rheumatology 20 04, 43 :311-3 14 Sharma L, Hurwitz DE, Thonar EJ, Sum JA, Lenz ME, Dunlop DD, Page 10 of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) 42 43 44 45 46 ... examined the relationship between obesity and knee OA and found that joint alignment mediated the effect of obesity on knee OA These studies not only highlight the effect of knee alignment on the ... 1993, 20:7 04- 709 Kujala UM, Sarna S, Kaprio J, Koskenvuo M, Karjalainen J: Heart attacks and lower-limb function in master endurance athletes Med Sci Sports Exerc 1999, 31:1 041 -1 046 Sutton AJ, Muir...
... of the knee joint during gait andthe perpendicular distance of this force from the centre of the knee joint, is a major determinant of 70% of the total knee joint load passing through the medial ... to the foot vector andthe ankle flexion axis It is defined as the angle betweenthe foot vector andthe sagittal axis of the shank, projected into the foot transverse plane This differs from the ... line joining the heel and toe markers andthe line joining the ankle centre and toe marker as previously described [12,19] and according to the protocol stipulated by the Vicon technology in the...
... tissue disease Am JMed 1976, 61 :48 5 -49 2 44 Afifi AK, Bergman RA, Harvey JC: Steroid myopathy Clinical, histologic and cytologic observations Johns Hopkins MedJ 1968, 123:158-173 45 Rall LC, Roubenoff ... rheumatoid arthritis The Arthritis and Rheumatism Council Low-Dose Glucocorticoid Study Group N Engl JMed 1995, 333: 142 - 146 Bijlsma JW, Van Everdingen AA, Huisman M, De Nijs RN, Jacobs JW: Glucocorticoids ... to the acquisition of data HRG contributed to the revision of the draft of the manuscript GDK contributed substantially to the conception and design of the project and to the revision of the...
... analysis of the results In this way, the variability in the number of active regions andthe specific activity of the enzyme, as parameters, were analysed within andbetweenthe Amy and Amy genotypes ... responsible for the synthesis and expression of cr-amylase In the work by Doane [4] , a clear absence of dependence was found betweenthe total amylase activity andthe distribution of the active regions ... of either genotype (H 5.727, P > 0.05) Analyses of theassociationbetweenthe number of active regions andthe enzyme-specific activity through compensation of the enzyme quantity in S/S and...
... performed the statistical analysis and interpreted the results; EB prepared the first draft of the paper; EB and JG-A had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the ... DL: The assessment of health status among patients with COPD Eur Respir J 2003, 21 (Suppl 41 ) :36- 45 Osman LM, Godden DJ, Friend JA, Legge JS, Douglas JG: Quality of life and hospital re-admission ... (21.3) 54. 4 (23.6) 71.2 (21 .4) < 0.001‡ Impact m (SD) 26.5 (18.6) 13 .4 (10.3) 22.0 (16 .4) 30.5 (18.3) 43 .2 (21.2) < 0.001‡ Total m (SD) 36. 5 (17.8) 23.5 (11.5) 31 .4 (15.1) 41 .0 (17.5) 54. 2 (18.8)...
... Landells JW: The bone cysts of osteoarthritis J Bone Joint Surg Br 1953, 35-B: 643 - 649 Rhaney K, Lamb DW: The cysts of osteoarthritis of the hip; a radiological and pathological study J Bone Joint ... closest to the knee joint, which were reformatted in the axial plane The area was directly measured from these images The CVs for the medial and lateral tibial plateau area were 2.3% and 2 .4% , respectively ... prevalence of subjects was found with cyst scores >3 for the medial and >1 for the lateral compartment, we collapsed the scores to give a range of to for the medial and to for the lateral compartment...
... women and both sexes combined The interaction term for sex and IL-6 on JSN was significant (P < 0.01), so the analyses of associations between IL-6 and JSN were performed separately for women and ... pain, % 54 63 45 0.013 Superior joint-space narrowing, % 41 38 45 0.286 Axial joint-space narrowing, % 30 22 40 0.008 Any joint-space narrowing, % 48 43 52 0.212 Any osteophytes, % 25 28 23 0 .41 9 ... 0. 136) 0.5 24 -0.062 (-0.270 to 0. 146 ) 0.556 Female 0.257 (0.115 to 0 .40 0)
... GD: The endothelium and its role in regulating vascular tone Open Cardiovasc MedJ 2010, 4: 302-312 41 Corretti MC, Anderson TJ, Benjamin EJ, Celermajer D, Charbonneau F, Creager MA, Deanfield J, ... in the design of the study, recruited patients, performed the vascular assessments, conducted data analysis and drafted the manuscript DC, GK and JVVZ participated in the design of the study and ... (shear stress) [48 ] stimuli activate different endothelial receptors [49 ], and consequently there may be differences in the vasodilatory response betweenthe two assessments In the current work,...