prevalence ratios
A comparison of two methods for estimating prevalence ratios
... The Robust Poisson method solves the standard error problem of its non-robust predecessor [13,14]. In the rare case where the prevalence of interest is about 0.9, it may give less biased estimates than maximum ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC5637670.pdf
... The prevalence ratios in Table 3 are pre- sented to allow evaluation of the extent to which racial and ethnic disparities in ASD prevalence are explained by the association between SES and ASD ...
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Changes in health care inequity in Brazil between 2008 and 2013
... outcome prevalence rates from our combined dataset with those resulting from the PNAD and PNS separately and confirmed that the combined dataset was ...adjusted prevalence ratios for predictors of ...
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Age-Related Associations of Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus with Chronic Kidney Disease
... variable. Prevalence ratios of stage 3 or 4 CKD and albuminuria, separately, associated with non-Hispanic black race-eth- nicity, female gender, cigarette smoking, obesity, hyper- tension, high cholesterol, ...
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Prevalence of Frailty Syndrome in the Elderly and Associated Factors in Brazil
... the prevalence of frailty syndrome and its association with demographic, economic, health, psychological and functional variables in Brazilian ...the prevalence (α = 0.05). The prevalence of frailty ...
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A Danish population based cohort study of newly diagnosed asthmatic children's care pathway – adherence to guidelines
... The prevalence ratios were calculated for associations between provider (general practitioner, primary care specialist, hospital specialist or both GP and specialist) and adherence with guidelines ...
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Alternatives for logistic regression in cross-sectional studies: an empirical comparison of models that directly estimate the prevalence ratio
... and, although not as good as robust estimates, repre- sented a considerable improvement in relation to the uncorrected standard errors. The maximum observed difference relative to the reference confidence intervals ...
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Prevalence and Determinants of Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Middle and High School Students
... adjusted prevalence ratios for self- reported SHS exposure in each individual environment, as well as overall, assessing for age, gender, school level, race/ethnicity, truant behavior, current use of any ...
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Metabolic syndrome in central Brazil: prevalence and correlates in the adult population
... higher prevalence of Table 2 Crude and adjusted prevalence ratios of metabolic syndrome according to diagnostic components among adults aged 18 years or older a , by gender (Federal District, Brazil, ...
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Do smoking habits differ between women and men in contemporary Western populations? Evidence from half a million people in the UK Biobank study
... women-to-men prevalence ratios in smoking status, and the women-minus-men mean differences in age at smoking initiation, number of cigarettes smoked daily, smoking pack-years (cigarettes per day multiplied ...
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Sex Differences in Tuberculosis Burden and Notifications in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
... TB prevalence surveys in nationally representative and sub-national adult populations (age 15 y) in low- and mid- dle-income countries published between 1 January 1993 and 15 March 2016 were identified through ...
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The Effects Of Mergers & Acquisitions On Financial Performance In Banking Sector Of Pakistan
... of ratios such as liquidity ratios, solvency ratios, profitability ratios and investment ratios for two previous years and two next years that show the positive impact of merger and ...
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WHR (waist hip ratio) as risk factor irrespective of body mass index (BMI ) among patients of noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)
... increased insulin resistance even with lesser Body Mass Index (BMI) as compared to western population [6] .Studies in different parts of India has shown that Type 2 DM-lean patients had a marked lower incidence of ...
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Adolescents notice fewer tobacco displays after implementation of the point-of-sale tobacco display ban in Finland
... gender. Prevalence of noticing e-cigarettes on display was separately calculated for each retailer type in ...adjusted prevalence of noticing tobacco products, direct adjustment was used with an equal ...
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The index lift in data mining has a close relationship with the association measure relative risk in epidemiological studies
... The derivation can be found in Additional file 1: Appendix 2. In the following discussion, we focus mainly on the lift-relative risk relationship because of three considerations. First, the characteristics of the ...
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Use of selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors during early pregnancy and risk of congenital malformations: updated analysis
... population-based prevalence study included 216,042 women who had a live birth after the 20th week of ...the prevalence in infants born to women who redeemed no SSRI prescriptions during their ...
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A cross-sectional household cluster serosurvey of hepatitis C virus antibodies in an urban slum of Cairo, Egypt in 2004
... The Egyptian government recently announced a new strategic plan to address the HCV epidemic [14]. While a deal with the pharmaceutical company, Gilead, to pro- vide their revolutionary new treatment at an affordable cost ...
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Diagnostic Performance of BMI Percentiles to Identify Adolescents With Metabolic Syndrome
... the prevalence of meta- bolic risk factors and metabolic syndrome by weight status was calcu- lated, followed by the sensitivity (ability to detect adolescents with metabolic syndrome) and speci fi city (ability to ...
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STI_HIV and incarceration in the United States : modifiable factors of risky sexual partnerships and depression
... high prevalence of incarceration among this sample indicates the population-level importance of incarceration as a potential factor of HIV transmission and highlights the need for more careful investigation of ...
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Screening for Celiac Disease in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
... CD prevalence of 3% there was only a 1% increase in lifetime costs of managing IBS with tTG testing for CD, with the cost per quality adjusted life year falling to $4900 if the prevalence of CD in IBS was ...
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