dealt with one drug, then it can charge a substantial fee. Often these papers will be set pieces by, to be crude for a moment, “paid industry hacks” and will have been published many times. If, however, the journal wants to peer review every study and take only those that are original and pass review then the fee will be smaller. Studies have shown that papers published in supplements are of po...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to examine associations between unhealthy behaviours among the Finnish adult population. METHODS Data from a series of cross-sectional health behaviour surveys from the years 1991-1998 were pooled. Associations between smoking, alcohol consumption, lack of regular physical activity and unhealthy diet were examined among 22,745 respondents. The associations ...

BACKGROUND Because unhealthy behaviors have been shown to predict premature mortality and quality of life is linked to chronic disease, it is plausible that there is a relationship between unhealthy behaviors and a patient's overall well-being. METHODS Baseline data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Prescription for Health initiative were used. Using various methods, 9 practice-based ...

BACKGROUND This study was designed to evaluate whether changes in lifestyle behaviors are correlated with the incidence of chronic kidney disease (CKD). METHODS The subjects consisted of 316 men without a history of cardiovascular disease, stroke, or renal dysfunction or dialysis treatment. The following lifestyle behaviors were evaluated using a standardized self-administered questionnaire: ...

Healthy systems are important for us, but unhealthy systems exist everywhere. Healthy systems behave the manner they are designed, but not the unhealthy ones. It is a meaningful thing for us to turn an unhealthy system into a healthy one. We propose a process algebra with chaos executing policy to specify the behavior of unhealthy systems. For unhealthy systems, we also propose the equivalent r...

OBJECTIVES To study the determinants of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Irish patients with diabetes using the Centres for Disease Controls' (CDC's) 'Unhealthy Days' summary measure and to assesses the agreement between this generic HRQoL measure and the disease-specific Audit of Diabetes Dependant Quality of Life (ADDQoL) measure. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data were analysed from...