Study population and baseline characteristics
The Northern Finland Birth Cohort Eye Study: Design and baseline characteristics
... Eye Study. Methods: The NFBC Eye Study is a randomised prospective cohort ...NFBC study population consists of 12058 subjects born in the region of Lapland and the Province of ...eye ...
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Natural history of dental caries: Baseline characteristics of the VicGen birth cohort study
... Although most children had undergone a mouth exam- ination in the first three months of life by some healthcare professional, none of the children had been seen by a den- tist or other trained oral healthcare ...
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Recruitment and participant baseline characteristics in the dialysis outcomes in those aged 65 years or older study
... the population had previously smoked (52%) though there were very few current smokers ...The population was less well educated than the general NZ population of the same age with 48% of the ...
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Population based cohort study of outpatients with pneumonia: rationale, design and baseline characteristics
... not apply to patients evaluated in the primary care set- ting and discharged home. Second, statistical power for characteristics or events that are rare (<2-3 %) could be an issue. For example, the evaluation of ...
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Cohort profile: LifeLines DEEP, a prospective, general population cohort study in the northern Netherlands: study design and baseline characteristics
... other population-based ...other population cohorts that have similar molecular ...to study exposures in detail whereas data on disease heterogeneity Figure 4 Change in abundance of Actinobacteria on ...
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Indirect comparisons of second-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors in CML: case study using baseline population characteristics
... restrictive study assumptions and ...risk, baseline mutation status, and other variables that might help predict treatment success or failure in patients with ...
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The Rivas Cohort Study: design and baseline characteristics of a Nicaraguan cohort
... a population of 156,283 and has an area of approxi- mately 2100 km 2 ...The study was done with minimal cost by using volunteer research associates and longitudinal follow up was en- hanced through the use ...
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Living With Diabetes: Rationale, study design and baseline characteristics for an Australian prospective cohort study
... general population are not ...Lifestyle Study (AusDiab) con- ducted in1999 -2000 which found that ...AusDiab study [71] found that approxi- mately four out of five diabetic patients are overweight or ...
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A Prospective Study of Pravastatin in the Elderly at Risk (PROSPER): Screening Experience and Baseline Characteristics
... PROSPER population is charac- terised by an average age of 75 years and includes 52% ...of baseline cholesterol levels, thus providing a wealth of new infor- mation on the benefits of statin treatment in a ...
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Evaluating selection bias in a population-based cohort study with low baseline participation: the LIFE-Adult-Study
... the population and labour market conducted annually in Germany ...socio-demographic characteristics is assessed each year using mainly computer-assisted inter- views in the ...
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Baseline clinical characteristics, comorbidities and prescribed medication in a real-world population of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: the PROOF registry
... a population of patients with a high burden of comorbidity, the majority of patients in the PROOF registry were prescribed one or more medications at ...to study the relationship between prescribed ...
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Baseline characteristics and comorbidities in the CAnadian REgistry for Pulmonary Fibrosis
... Our study has several limitations. First, CARE-PF is a prospective multicenter cohort of patients seen at special- ized ILD centers and may not be representative of a gen- eral ILD population. While each ...
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The Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Registry and Patient Survey: study design, methods and patient baseline characteristics
... trial, which evaluates efficacy, a disease registry evaluates the effectiveness of management practices. Although a clinical trial provides data that can be useful for evidence-based recommendations on patient care, a ...
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Characteristics of patients with depression initiating or switching antidepressant treatment: baseline analyses of the PERFORM cohort study
... this study include the large sample size and its international ...collected baseline data com- prise such a wealth of naturalistic information, including detailed individual medical histories and both ...
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Baseline characteristics of depressive disorders in Thai outpatients: findings from the Thai Study of Affective Disorders
... This study highlights the association between depression and interpersonal prob- lems, that is commonly found and which, in turn, may make them vulnerable to ...this study than for the normal and ...
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The LIFE Cognition Study: design and baseline characteristics
... Keywords: exercise, physical activity, older adults, dementia Introduction Evidence is rapidly accumulating to support the benefits of exercise for the brain and cognitive function. In human and animal studies, exercise ...
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Korea HIV/AIDS Cohort Study: study design and baseline characteristics.
... Cohort study was conducted The number of persons infected by HIV/AIDS has consistently increased in Korea since the first case of HIV/AIDS infection in 1985 and reached 15,208 by ...Cohort Study was ...
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The Million Women Study: design and characteristics of the study population
... those cancers in the analyses of the relation between use of HRT and breast cancer. Because the entire cohort is being followed up for deaths, it will also be possible to look at the relationship between use of HRT and ...
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China suboptimal health cohort study: rationale, design and baseline characteristics
... follow‑up study Follow‑up The study participants will be followed up via face- to-face interviews once every year in a routine medi- cal examination up to December 31, 2024, or up to the occurrence of a ...
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Pubertal Assessment Method and Baseline Characteristics in a Mixed Longitudinal Study of Girls
... tive study, therefore, should allow us to pool data for detecting associations between specific factors, including diet and environmental chemicals, with variations in patterns of pubertal ...
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