A frequently used study design within epidemiology is large cohort studies. In some situations additional information which is not included in the cohort, for instance biological material stored in biobanks, is required. The availability of such material is usually limited and might be very expensive to analyze for the entire cohort. A reasonable strategy is therefore to restrict the study samp...

background: cholecystitis is one of the major digestive diseases. its prevalence is particularly high in some populations. significant risk factors associated with cholecystitis include age, sex, obesity, diet, parity and type 2 diabetes. objective: to determine the association between hla-drb1 and cholecystitis. methods: this casecontrol study included forty iraqi arab patients who had cholecy...

Childhood tuberculosis in Indonesia is the third most common world, 2020 number of new child Tuberculosis cases decreased by 32.4%, this still far from government's target 2024, which 90%. Bandung Regency has 62 health centers, highest TB at Linggar Health Center, namely 42 children with due to family factors that have smoking habits. The aim study was determine relationship between habits and ...

Identity is seen as a cultural and social construct, which indicates how we have been embodied and how we might represent ourselves. The knowledge that identities are the outputs of discourses is a familiar characteristic of some societal concepts. Gender, as an identity or a sense of our identity we build for ourselves, rather than something we are born with, is a constructed cultural category...

Background: Conflicting results have been reported regarding the correlation of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T polymorphism and the risk of lung cancer as well as response to chemotherapy. Objective: To estimate the correlations of the MTHFR C677T polymorphism and risk of lung cancer as well as response to chemotherapy by conducting a meta-analysis. Methods: A comprehensi...

Introduction Low-energy distal radius fractures normally occur earlier in life than hip and spine fractures and may be the first presentation of osteoporosis. Few studies have addressed the association between distal radius fracture and osteoporosis. Vitamin D inadequacy is associated with an increased risk of hip fractures, but the association with distal radius fractures has not been explored...

More researchers started using real-time traffic surveillance data, collected from loop/radar detectors (LDs), for proactive crash risk assessment. However, there is a lack of prior studies that investigated the link between real-time traffic data and crash risk of reduced visibility related (VR) crashes. Two issues that have not explicitly been addressed in prior studies are; (1) the possibili...