The Military Environment: Risk Factors for Women???s Non-Fatal Assaults

P-71: Risk Factors Associated with Womens

Prevalence of Behavioral Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases and Related Socio-Economic Factors in Iranian Military Households

Background and Aim: Understanding the prevalence of risk factors for non-communicable diseases and the extent of socio-economic factors affecting their occurrence is very important in order to plan to reduce the burden of disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of socio-economic factors on exposure to behavioral risk factors for non-communicable diseases in Military Househo...

Risk factors associated with non-fatal adolescent firearm injuries.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To identify behavioral, environmental, and sociodemographic risk factors associated with non-fatal firearm injuries among inner city adolescents in the United States. DESIGN A case-control study in which patients with firearm injury serve as cases and those with medical conditions serve as controls. SETTING A level I trauma center in a metropolitan area serving a predominat...

Military risk factors for Alzheimer's disease.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are signature injuries of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and have been linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias. A meeting hosted by the Alzheimer's Association and the Veterans' Health Research Institute (NCIRE) in May 2012 brought together experts from the U.S. military and academic med...

Risk factors for near-fatal asthma.

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of lung function data in patients, both before and after episodes of near-fatal asthma (NFA), requiring transient endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. METHODS Lung function was initially measured in 43 asthmatic patients (age range, 16 to 49 years), who were observed and treated in a tertiary referral asthma clinic and were clinically stable at the...