BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major cause of cancer morbidity and mortality. In previous epidemiologic studies, the respective correlation between lifestyle factors and comorbidity and CRC has been extensively studied. However, little is known about their joint effects on CRC. METHODS We conducted a retrospective case-control study of 1,144 diagnosed CRC patients and 60,549 communit...

BACKGROUND Associations between certain environmental and lifestyle factors and Parkinson's disease (PD) have been reported in several studies, but information on these factors and Parkinson's Disease (PD) in South Asia, is limited. OBJECTIVE To determine associations between lifestyle factors and PD in an urban clinic-based study in Sri Lanka. METHODS In this case-control study, demographi...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to investigate whether lifestyle-related factors are associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS) in community-dwelling Korean adults. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects comprised 590 men and 1,138 women aged 20 years and above. The subjects visited a public health promotion center in Seoul, Republic of Korea to participate in a survey regarding sleep duration,...

BACKGROUND Fatigue contributes a significant burden of disease for people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). Modifiable lifestyle factors have been recognized as having a role in a range of morbidity outcomes in PwMS. There is significant potential to prevent and treat fatigue in PwMS by addressing modifiable risk factors. OBJECTIVES To explore the associations between clinically significant fat...

health lifestyle is known pattern of collective behaviors that engage in risky health problems and their causes and reasons of health to ensure. accomplished explanations mainly have considered on determinatives such as structural and social factors individual choices. this survey, as a similar approach, focused on discovers the capital causes that influencing on individual choices, which affec...

patients and methods in the double-blind placebo study, 33 obese children with nafld from 2008 to 2009 were included. lifestyle intervention (balanced calorie diet, 1300-1800 kcal/d and physical activity) was prescribed to all. the patients were concurrently randomized to receive vitamin e 400 mg/d (n = 17)] or placebo (n = 16). results at the end of six months of therapy there was significant ...

background and purpose: health related quality of life (hqol) has different dimensions and many factors affect it. the aim of this study was to investigate the association between lifestyle satisfaction and health- related quality of life in the population aged 40 year old and over. the question is, if there is not lifestyle satisfaction, how should be the pattern of tendency to behavioral chan...

The prevalence of depression appears to have increased over the past three decades. While this may be an artefact of diagnostic practices, it is likely that there are factors about modernity that are contributing to this rise. There is now compelling evidence that a range of lifestyle factors are involved in the pathogenesis of depression. Many of these factors can potentially be modified, yet ...