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Factorial validity of an abbreviated Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale for seniors in the Nurses’ Health Study
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Using validated measures of individuals’ perceptions of their neighborhood built environment is important for accurately estimating effects on physical activity. However, no studies to date have examined the ... -
Factors affecting providers’ delivery of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy: a five-country analysis of national service provision assessment surveys
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) delivered during antenatal care (ANC) visits has been shown to be a highly efficacious and cost-effective intervention. Given the high rates of ANC attendance ... -
Factors Affecting the Association between Ambient Concentrations and Personal Exposures to Particles and Gases
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2005)Results from air pollution exposure assessment studies suggest that ambient fine particles [particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 μg (PM2.5)], but not ambient gases, are strong proxies of corresponding personal ... -
Factors associated with compliance to recommended micronutrients uptake for prevention of anemia during pregnancy in urban, peri-urban, and rural communities in Southeast Nigeria
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: The study investigated the factors associated with compliance to the recommended ≥90-day uptake of micronutrients for prevention of iron-deficiency anemia during pregnancy in Nigeria. Methods: A cross-sectional ... -
Factors associated with medication adherence in school-aged children with asthma
(European Respiratory Society, 2016)Adherence to preventive asthma treatment is poor, particularly in children, yet the factors associated with adherence in this age group are not well understood. Adherence was monitored electronically over 6 months in ... -
Factors Associated with Mortality in HIV-Infected and Uninfected Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis
(BioMed Central, 2009)Background: HIV has fuelled the TB epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Mortality in patients co-infected with TB and HIV is high. Managing factors influencing mortality in TB patients might help reducing it. This study ... -
Factors Associated with Non-typhoidal Salmonella Bacteremia versus Typhoidal Salmonella Bacteremia in Patients Presenting for Care in an Urban Diarrheal Disease Hospital in Bangladesh
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Background: Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi bacteremia are the causes of significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. There is a paucity of data regarding NTS bacteremia in South Asia, ... -
Factors associated with persons with disability employment in India: a cross-sectional study
(Springer Nature, 2016)Background: Over twenty million persons with disability in India are increasingly being offered poverty alleviation strategies, including employment programs. This study employs a spatial analytic approach to identify ... -
Factors associated with psychiatric outcomes and coping in Long COVID
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023-05-10)The relationship between Long COVID (LC) and psychiatric outcomes, as well as factors associated with presence and absence of these, has to date been insufficiently studied. To explore this, we evaluated psychiatric symptoms ... -
Factors Associated With Pulmonary Tuberculosis-HIV Co-Infection in Treatment-Naive Adults in Jos, North Central Nigeria
(OMICS Publishing Group, 2013)Background: Co-infection with tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (TB-HIV) remains a major global health problem, with about 1.1 million new cases of TB in HIV-positive persons reported in 2011; 79% of the reported ... -
Factors Associated with Self-Reported Repeat HIV Testing after a Negative Result in Durban, South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Background: Routine screening for HIV infection leads to early detection and treatment. We examined patient characteristics associated with repeated screening in a high prevalence country. Methods: We analyzed data from a ... -
Factors Influencing Elderly Women's Mammography Screening Decisions: Implications for Counseling
(BioMed Central, 2007)Background: Although guidelines recommend that clinicians consider life expectancy before screening older women for breast cancer, many older women with limited life expectancies are screened. We aimed to identify factors ... -
Factors influencing physicians’ choice of workplace: systematic review of drivers of attrition and policy interventions to address them
(Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2016)Objectives: The movement of skilled physicians from the public to the private sector is a key constraint to achieving universal health coverage and is currently affecting health systems worldwide. This systematic review ... -
Factors influencing the decision to participate in medical premarital examinations in Hubei Province, Mid-China
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: To investigate the attitudes of premarital couples towards the premarital screening program after the abolition of compulsory screening in China and to study the factors influencing participation. Methods: ... -
Factors Influencing the Spatial Extent of Mobile Source Air Pollution Impacts: A Meta-Analysis
(BioMed Central, 2007)Background: There has been growing interest among exposure assessors, epidemiologists, and policymakers in the concept of "hot spots", or more broadly, the "spatial extent" of impacts from traffic-related air pollutants. ... -
The Fall and Rise of US Inequities in Premature Mortality: 1960–2002
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-02-26)Background Debates exist as to whether, as overall population health improves, the absolute and relative magnitude of income- and race/ethnicity-related health disparities necessarily increase—or derease. We accordingly ... -
Falls and Fall-Related Injuries among Community-Dwelling Adults in the United States
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Introduction: Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injuries in the U.S.; however, national estimates for all community-dwelling adults are lacking. This study estimated the national incidence of falls and fall-related ... -
False discovery rates in somatic mutation studies of cancer
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2011)The purpose of cancer genome sequencing studies is to determine the nature and types of alterations present in a typical cancer and to discover genes mutated at high frequencies. In this article we discuss statistical ... -
Family Background and Genius
(Canadian Psychiatric Association, 2004)Objective: It is widely believed among professionals and laity that genius is born and not made. However, the early and still-influential statistical studies of Frances Galton on the inheritance of genius have neither been ... -
Family functioning and quality of parent-adolescent relationship: cross-sectional associations with adolescent weight-related behaviors and weight status
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Little is known about how factors within the general family environment are associated with weight and related behaviors among adolescents/young adults. Methods: We studied 3768 females and 2614 males, 14–24 ...