[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1155/2013/607935.].

BACKGROUND A National Spina Bifida Patient Registry (NSBPR) was begun in 2009 to help understand the natural history of spina bifida (SB) and the effects of treatments provided by SB clinics. We used the NSBPR to explore the relationship of sociodemographic characteristics with SB outcomes. METHODS Using NSBPR data collected in 2009 to 2012, we examined the unadjusted association between demo...

OBJECTIVE To examine the sociodemographic correlates of obesity among Ghanaian women. DESIGN The 2003 and 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey data sets were used to examine the sociodemographic characteristics and the BMI of women aged 15-49 years using descriptive statistics, bivariate and multivariate analyses. SETTING Ghana is a West African country which is divided into ten adminis...

Maxime Lenormand, Thomas Louail, 3 Oliva G. Cantú-Ros, Miguel Picornell, Ricardo Herranz, Juan Murillo Arias, Marc Barthelemy, 6 Maxi San Miguel, and José J. Ramasco Instituto de F́ısica Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Campus UIB, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-CNRS (URA 2306), F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Géographie-Cités, CNRS-Pari...

OBJECTIVE To assess prevalence of dyspepsia and distribution of dyspepsia and frequent dyspepsia in subgroups of adults (20 years and older) according to their demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. METHODS A cross-sectional population-based study was carried out comprising 3,934 subjects living in Pelotas, Southern Brazil, from October 1999 to January 2000. Data was collected through...