Study Design: A descriptive predictive design was used to guide this study. Objectives: This study (1) identify the association between teachers’ age, body mass index, years of employment, and their intention undergo colorectal cancer screening, (2) investigate difference in health beliefs about screening groups gender, educational qualification, marital status, family history having cancer. Se...

In potentially inherited cardiac diseases, the family history is of great importance. We looked at the way cardiologists take a family history in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) or long QT syndrome (LQTS) and whether this led to screening of relatives or other follow-up. We performed retrospective cross-sectional analyses of adult index patients with DCM or LQTS in a gener...

We set out to evaluate a clinical foot-screening programme in terms of primary outcomes (reductions in the incidence of ulcers and lower limb amputation) and process outcomes (compliance with screening, the number of patients not completing the programme and the use of chiropody services and prescribed footwear and cost). All but 4 of 2001 patients attending a general diabetic out-patient clini...

Amblyopia screening during childhood is critical for early detection and successful treatment. In the current study, we develop and evaluate a screening method that exploits the imbalanced interocular inhibition between amblyopic and fellow eyes. In nineteen subjects with anisometropic amblyopia and twenty-two age-matched subjects with myopia, we measured the area under the contrast sensitivity...

AIM The objective of the present study was to evaluate the significance of pre-treatment screening for patients with esophageal cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective evaluation of the clinical significance of total colonoscopy in 136 patients with primary esophageal cancer was performed. RESULTS Twenty-three patients (16.9%) had diverticula, and five (3.7%) had colon cancer. Benign p...

We propose both a penalized quantile regression and an independence screening procedure to identify important covariates and to exclude unimportant ones for a general class of ultrahigh dimensional single-index models, in which the conditional distribution of the response depends on the covariates via a single-index structure. We observe that the linear quantile regression yields a consistent e...

Objective Antenatal anxiety or maternal stress is a prevalent chronic mental disorder in pregnant women. We assessed the effect of maternal stress because of positive aneuploidy screening results on the alteration of uterine artery’s blood flow. MaterialsAndMethods A prospective cohort (one sample) study as a pilot study was done at a hospital in Tehran. Sixty pregnant women who were candidates...

This prospective study examined the influence of perceived susceptibility to breast cancer on nonadherence to recommended mammography screening guidelines. The study population included 1,229 African American and White women ages 40 to 79 years who obtained an index mammography screening examination at one of five urban hospitals in Connecticut between October 1996 and January 1998. Information...

DESCRIPTION Update of the 2003 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation statement on screening for obesity and overweight in adults. METHODS The USPSTF reviewed new evidence on the benefits and harms of screening and primary care–feasible or referable nonsurgical weight-loss interventions. RECOMMENDATION The USPSTF recommends screening all adults for obesity. Clinicians s...