OBJECTIVE Individualization of therapy choices requires the prediction of likely response. Predictor and explanatory factors of change in HbA1c were studied using data from a large observational study of starting insulin analog therapy (the A1chieve study). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Univariate analyses were performed for insulin-naive people and prior insulin users in the A1chieve study. St...

OBJECTIVES To identify the associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and the explanatory contribution of disease, patient and healthcare factors among patients with prostate cancer. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS In all, 246 patients from 2 hospitals in Hamburg/Germany who underwent radical prostatectomy completed a...

Purpose – The aim of this article is to specify the determining factors behind decision adopt either an internal or external means household waste management service in Moroccan local authorities (LAs), particularly “communes”. Research methodology applied quantitative, based on a questionnaire addressed by e-mail 115 “Communes”. SPSS 25 software was used analyze result logistic regression. Res...

Since long the argument has been that both bank specific and macroeconomic factors affect the nonperforming loans and the existing literature on macroeconomic variables suggests that many macroeconomic variables do strongly influence them. Over the last few years the literature that examines NPLs has expanded in line with the interest afforded to understanding the factors responsible for financ...