نتایج جستجو برای: prevalence study

تعداد نتایج: 4110273  

Journal: :The Journal of parasitology 2002
S L P de Souza J S Guimarães F Ferreira J P Dubey S M Gennari

Serum samples from 134 dogs from 22 cattle dairy farms in the northern region of Parana State, Brazil, were tested for antibodies to Neospora caninum in an indirect fluorescent antibody test. Antibodies (> or = 1:50) to N. caninum were found in 29 (21.6%) of the 134 dogs, and seropositive dogs were found on 14 (63.6%) of the 22 dairy cattle farrms. The antibody titers of dogs were 1:50 (3 dogs)...

2013
Rima Abdul Razzak Asma Elmteri Taiba Elkanderi Fareedah Ishaq Munera Eljasem Saja AlDuraie Jenan Al-Boloushi Fatma Elbanay Latifa Eldabos

A relationship between blood pressure (BP) and obesity has been found in young adults, but no data are available for adolescents in Kuwait. 257 adolescent (11-19 years) participants were categorized into two groups according to their BMI; 48 nonobese (21 males: 43.7% and 27 females: 56.3%) with mean age of 15.61 ± 2.40 years and 209 obese (128 males: 61.25% and 81 females: 38.75%) with mean age...

2017
Dessalegn Asmelashe Gelayee Gashaw Binega

Background. The extent, nature, and determinants of medication use of individuals can be known from drug utilization studies. Objectives. This study intended to determine medication consumption, sharing, storage, and disposal practices of university students in Northwest Ethiopia. Methods. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 404 university students selected through stratified r...

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2001
X S Chen W Z Li C Jiang G Y Ye

OBJECTIVE To report the epidemiological trends of leprosy in China from 1949 to 1998. METHOD Data for the study were obtained from the computerized database of the National System of Leprosy Surveillance. FINDINGS A total of 474,774 leprosy patients were detected during this 50-year period. Case detection rates per 100,000 population were highest in the 1950s and 1960s, with peaks appearing...

2007

The prevalence of developmental defects of enamel was assessed in 4805 16-year-old schoolchildren in fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas in Malaysia. In this sample, the mouth prevalence was 56.0%; tooth prevalence was 21.8%. There were significant differences between children in fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas, urban and rural areas as well as between the ethnic groups. However, there ...

2017
Graham Moon Grant Aitken Joanna Taylor Liz Twigg

OBJECTIVES This study aims to address, for the first time, the challenges of constructing small area estimates of health status using linked national surveys. The study also seeks to assess the concordance of these small area estimates with data from national censuses. SETTING Population level health status in England, Scotland and Wales. PARTICIPANTS A linked integrated dataset of 23 374 s...

2013
Kristen S. Marchi Paula A. Braveman Katie Martin Michael Curtis Tonya Stancil Leslie Harrison

The national Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides nutrition education, growth monitoring, breastfeeding promotion and support, and food to low-income pregnant or postpartum women, infants, and children aged <5 years. Several studies have linked WIC services with improved maternal and infant health outcomes. Most population-based studies have lac...

Journal: :Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 2015
Ian G Morgan Kathryn Rose

The article by Pan et al. in the May issue shows that the prevalence of myopia is very low in adults from two ethnic groups—Han Chinese and Yi (one of China’s national minority groups) living in the same rural area in Yunnan Province. The very low prevalence of myopia in both groups shows that myopia is not inevitable in East Asian populations, but requires exposure to environmental risk factor...

Journal: :Central European journal of public health 2003
K Wimmer B Laubereau G Wölke A Döring J Heinrich

BACKGROUND Several epidemiological studies have shown consistently higher prevalence rates of obesity and overweight in East German adults compared to West German adults before German reunification in 1990. If different lifestyle factors after German division contribute to these differences, one might speculate that trends of obesity and overweight in the East and West after German reunificatio...

Journal: :BMC Psychiatry 2006
William W Thompson Irving I Gottesman Christine Zalewski

BACKGROUND Two large independent studies funded by the US government have assessed the impact of the Vietnam War on the prevalence of PTSD in US veterans. The National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) estimated the current PTSD prevalence to be 15.2% while the Vietnam Experience Study (VES) estimated the prevalence to be 2.2%. We compared alternative criteria for estimating the preva...

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