Clinical validity of detecting ...
The diagnostic utility of detecting K-ras mutations for the diagnosis of exocrine pancreatic cancer (EPC) has not been properly studied, and few rep ...
Shortening of gestational lengt ...
During the last decade there have been significant socio-demographic changes in Spain with potential impact on gestational length. The aim of the st ...
Lifelong socioeconomic position ...
Socioeconomic position (SEP) across life is found to be related to adult physical performance, but the underlying pathways are not well characterize ...
Higher education delays and sho ...
Improved health may extend or shorten the duration of cognitive impairment by postponing incidence or death. We assess the duration of cognitive imp ...
Maternal smoking during pregnan ...
Maternal smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of obesity in the offspring. Not much is known about the associations with other measures of bo ...
Association of CRP and IL-6 wit ...
To assess whether two inflammatory markers, C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6), and change in their concentrations over 12 years, are ...
GEIRA: gene-environment and gen ...
The GEIRA (Gene-Environment and Gene– Gene Interaction Research Application) algorithm and subsequent program is dedicated to genome-wide geneenviro ...
Influence of common variants in ...
Recent genome-wide association (GWA) studies identified several common variants for obesity: rs9939609 in FTO, rs7566605 near INSIG2 and both rs177 ...
Mortality after myocardial infa ...
We have shown previously that smoking causes a first myocardial infarction (MI) to occur significantly more prematurely in women than in men. The ai ...
Effect of coffee consumption on ...
Coffee consumption is known to be related to various health conditions. Recently, its antioxidant effects have been suggested to be associated with ...
Surveillance of perceptions, kn ...
Monitoring perceptions, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of populations during pandemic flu outbreaks is important as it allows communication stra ...
Nationwide rates of conversion ...
The aim of this study was to provide populationbased German-wide hysterectomy rates based on the national hospitalization file and to estimate the r ...
Parkinson’s disease risk from a ...
Due to the heavy and expanding agricultural use of neurotoxic pesticides suspected to affect dopaminergic neurons, it is imperative to closely exami ...
Informativeness of indices of b ...
The informativeness of blood pressure, obesity and serum lipids associated with cardiovascular events may depend on how the indices are expressed, a ...
Long-term impact of secondary p ...
Zolta´n Voko´ , Sophie de Brouwer , Jacobus Lubsen ,Nicolas Danchin , Jan-Erik Otterstad ,Peter H. J. M. Dunselman , Bridget-Anne Kirwan
Trust in medical organizations ...
Following the recent avian influenza and pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreaks, public trust in medical and political authorities is emerging as a new pred ...
Early postural blood pressure r ...
Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is associated with increased total mortality but contribution of specific death causes has not been thoroughly explored ...
Inflammation-sensitive proteins ...
Low-grade inflammation has been repeatedly associated with cardiovascular diseases but the relationship with incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF) r ...
Age-specific trends in cardiova ...
Recent analyses suggest the decline in coronary heart disease mortality rates is slowing in younger age groups in countries such as the US and the U ...
Ethnic variations in mortality ...
The objective of the study was to describe ethnic differences in under-five-years mortality in Denmark according to maternal country of origin. We c ...
PredictABEL: an R package for t ...
The rapid identification of genetic markers for multifactorial diseases from genome-wide association studies is fuelling interest in investigating t ...
Reliability of hypothalamic–pit ...
Population-based studies have been hampered in exploring hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis (HPA) activity as a potential explanatory link between ...
Identification of operating med ...
The assessment of mediation and mechanism is one way to more deeply explore cause-effect relationships, providing a stronger test and explanation of ...
Strengthening the reporting of ...
The rapid and continuing progress in gene discovery for complex diseases is fueling interest in the potential application of genetic risk models for ...
Epidemiology and etiology of Pa ...
The etiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is not well understood but likely to involve both genetic and environmental factors. Incidence and prevalen ...