BACKGROUND For many developing countries undergoing rapid economic growth and urbanization, trends in nutritional status indicate a decrease in malnutrition with an associated rise in the prevalence of obesity. An understanding of the situation among children in Malaysia is lacking. OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence, trends and sociodemographic factors described for underweight and overweig...

Background: Poor sleep tends to be patterned by sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors. The aim of this study was to examine the associations of sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors with sleep duration and insomniarelated symptoms across life course. Methods: We used cross-sectional Health 2000 Survey (2000-2001) among a total of 5,578 adult Finns, aged 30-79 years, representative of ...

Objectives: To investigate the impact of sociodemographic factors on prevalence of dental caries among children. Methodology: This study included 400 children with dental caries (i.e., DMFT/deft >0) and 400 controls, who were free from the disease under study (i.e., DMFT/deft=0). Participants with fluorosis or discernable enamel hypoplasia were excluded. Patients and their parents were intervie...

OBJECTIVE To identify sociodemographic and behavioral factors associated with abdominal obesity (AO) and high body fat percentage (high BF%) in adolescents from the city of Curitiba-PR. METHODS The sample consisted of 1,732 adolescents, aged 11 to 19 years, of both genders. The triceps and calf skinfolds were measured for the calculation of BF%, as well as the waist circumference. A questionn...

PURPOSE To evaluate factors behind the delay in diagnosis and treatment among Egyptian patients who present with complicated diabetic retinopathy. METHODS Observational cross-sectional study of diabetic patients with advanced diabetic retinopathy. Patients were asked to answer a questionnaire to assess the impact of several sociodemographic factors. RESULTS A total of 397 patients agreed to...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the effect of different social and demographic characteristics on low birth weight (LBW) (less than 2500 g) in Spain, in both preterm (less than 37 weeks' gestation) and term infants (between 37 and 42 weeks' gestation). DESIGN The study used data obtained from the Spanish birth registry. SETTING The study was based on those live born infants registered in 1988 f...

BACKGROUND To assess the prevalence of clustering of risk indicators for periodontal disease and association of clustering of the risk indicators with sociodemographic factors and the prevalence of moderate/severe periodontal disease in rural Indian 35-54 year-olds. BASIC RESEARCH DESIGN A multi-stage cluster random sampling design was used for this population-based cross-sectional study. M...

BACKGROUND Clinical risk models use recognized risk factors to identify patients at risk for future asthma morbidity. However, the low predictive values of these models suggest an important need to re-evaluate risk assessment strategies. OBJECTIVE To use exploratory factor analysis to define underlying factors operative in asthma treatment and morbidity, and characterize their interrelationsh...

Background: This paper investigates the extent to which sociodemographic factors are associated with knowledge of cardiac procedures in a sample of study participants treated for coronary heart disease (CHD). Research indicates the importance of knowledge of CHD and its associated risks in order to prevent CHD. However, quantification of knowledge levels among individuals undergoing cardiac pro...

OBJECTIVE Childhood obesity has increased rapidly in Mexico, along with changes in the food environment. However, little is known about the dietary patterns (DP) of Mexican children. We aimed to characterize the DP of schoolchildren and to analyse their associations with sociodemographic factors. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis. Dietary and sociodemographic information was obtained, including...