OBJECTIVE To study the association between adherence to several a priori-defined healthy food patterns and the risk of hypertension. DESIGN Prospective, multipurpose, dynamic cohort study (recruitment permanently open). We followed up 10 800 men and women (all of them university graduates), who were initially free of hypertension, for a variable period (range 2-6 years, median 4.6 years). Dur...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate an early home-supported discharge service for stroke patients. DESIGN We carried out a prospective, randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint trial (allocation ratio of 1:1) with patients assigned to either an early home-supported discharge service or usual care. SETTING The study was undertaken in Aveiro, Portugal, between April 2009 and April 2013. SUBJECTS We inclu...

OBJECTIVE The Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) questionnaire is a global scale evaluating the impact of upper-extremity disorders. We sought to validate or challenge the unidimensional factor structure of the DASH. METHOD Secondary analysis was performed on data collected from outpatient clinics. Factor analysis was performed in two steps, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) f...

OBJECTIVE to compare the SALSA and risk awareness scales with the DASH scale in assessments on leprosy surgery. METHOD before the operation and 90 days afterwards, we applied the tests to 14 patients (11 females and three males) of ages from 28 to 67 years, who were operated between November 2011 and May 2012. RESULTS the patients were evaluated after the operation using the SALSA and DASH ...

Sufficient conditions are established ensuring oscillation of all solutions of the odd-order neutral delay differential equation (x(t)− px(t− τ )) + m ∑ i=1 pix(t− σi) = 0, where p ∈ (−∞,∞), σi, pi, τ ∈ (0,∞). The present result improves some recent results.

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to evaluate the correlation between the PRWE score with other measurements that are already widely used. METHODS This was a prospective, cross-sectional, single-center study. Sixty-eight consecutive patients underwent surgical treatment for distal radius fractures (internal fixation by locked volar plate or transarticular external fixation). They were evaluated indep...

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We describe the design, fabrication and laboratory tests of a Doppler Asymmetric Spatial Heterodyne (DASH) interferometer for upper atmospheric wind and temperature observations of the O[1D] 630 nm emission. The monolithic interferometer has no moving parts, a large étendue, relaxed fabrication and alignment tolerances and can measure multiple emission lines simultaneously. Laboratory measureme...

objectives: the value of the client-centered approach for treating patients with various disabilities has been increasingly acknowledged. the aim of this study was to determine the test-retest reliability of the persian version of the canadian occupational performance measure (copm) as an individual outcome measure among iranian elderly population. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 60 old...