BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine whether metabolic syndrome (MetS) or chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with hearing thresholds in the general Korean population. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 16,554 participants were included in this study. MetS was defined using the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines, and CKD was defined as...

Abstract Background Headache is one of the most common neurological symptoms reported in adolescence. The value electroencephalography (EEG) diagnostics patients with headache controversial; however, quantitative EEG (QEEG) can clarify pathophysiology headache. Aim study was to assess QEEG and daily habits adolescents or without a clinical history (according answers screening questionnaire), id...

Background: Given the association between metabolic disturbance and sarcopenia, sarcopenia may be intrinsically associated with the prevalence of HL. However, few studies describe the association between sarcopenia and HL. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical association between sarcopenia and HL in postmenopausal Korean women. Patients and Methods: A total of 4,038 women were ult...

The I-290 / Illinois Route 53 corridor in the west and northwest suburban areas of Chicago suffers from heavy congestion throughout and beyond peak travel periods. Traffic management strategies, particularly ramp access strategies prioritizing high occupancy vehicle (HOV) travel, have been recommended as a means of mitigating and even reducing congestion in this corridor. The FREQ model develop...

quaternary ammonium compounds (qacs) are employed both as disinfectants for manual processing lines and surfaces in the food industry, and in human medicine area. qacs also cause cell death by protein denaturation . one of the qac is cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (ctab) that appears to rapture the cell membrane. the primary site of action of ctab has been suggested to be the lipid components...

INTRODUCTION The viability of hearing protection device (HPD) verification (i.e., fit-testing) on a large scale was investigated to address this gap in a military accession environment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Personal Attenuation Ratings (PARs) following self-fitted (SELF-Fit) HPDs were acquired from 320 US Marine Corps training recruits (87.5% male, 12.5% female) across four test protocols (1...

Medial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) is a system-level disease characterized by aberrant neuronal synchronization and widespread alterations in function. Previous studies have focused on the amplitude analysis of the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signals to reveal the aberrant alterations in mTLE. However, these methods did not work well in the cases where the amplitudes of two oscil...

We present nine methods to compute an adjusted relative risk (RR). These methods evolved over the past 25 years (1985–2010) via SAS/STAT® procedures: FREQ, GENMOD, LOGISTIC, and PHREG. We also compare the strengths and limitations of these methods, using an observational cohort study for illustration. INTRODUCTION The relative risk (RR) is a common measure of the effect of treatment or exposure...

OBJECTIVES As adults with cerebral palsy (CP) are surviving longer, interventions are needed to reduce spasticity and increase strength to improve mobility and life quality. Adults with CP are lacking a form of independent exercise that allows them to maintain or improve their ambulation skills. A new approach to increase muscle strength and flexibility called whole-body vibration (WBV) was ass...

Dichotomous responses from matched pairs of data at different timepoints are often displayed in 2 by 2 tables, and McNemar's test is performed to test the hypothesis that the proportion of subjects with a certain response is equivalent at both timepoints. A kappa statistic can determine the level of agreement in these responses. The SAS procedure FREQ can perform a large sample approximation to...