BACKGROUND Despite multiple randomized trials demonstrating their efficacy for the secondary prevention of coronary disease, lipid-lowering agents remain underused. Few studies have examined the relationship between predischarge initiation of lipid-lowering therapy and long-term use. METHODS Using data from patients at 69 centers from the United States and Canada enrolled in the Evaluation in...

Background: Patients need peace of mind to disclose their information to medical staff and with the lack of trust or in specific health status, they may avoid providing sensitive information for their care or might change the information. This research aims to examine the impact of perceived health status and trust propensity on privacy calculus. Methods: This research was analytical-study. 3 ...

This study evaluates the impacts of work stress, risk-taking propensity, and resilience on psychological wellbeing in Nigeria’s Police Force. Its sample was extracted from four (4) police stations Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria. They are Iyaganku, Eleyele, Orita Challenge, Iwo Road testing ground stations. has adopted a cross-sectional survey method, where current scholar randomly distributed study’...

One hundred thirty seven adolescents (M=15.3 yrs, SD=1.0 yr, n=72 girls) were recruited into temperament groups when they were 4 months of age based on reactivity to novel auditory/visual stimuli (Fox, Henderson, Rubin, Calkins, & Schmidt, 2001). Behavioral inhibition was observed across infancy (14 and 24 months). Additionally, self-reported substance-related problems and behavioral risk-takin...

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By comparing 401(k) eligible and ineligible households’ wealth, this paper estimates that, on average, about one half of 401(k) balances represent new private savings, and about one quarter of 401(k) balances represent new national savings. Responses to eligibility vary considerably, however, with households who normally save the most largely contributing funds they would have saved anyway. Thi...

Copy Abstract: The present work analyses the predictive validity of measures provided by several available self-report and indirect measurement instruments to assess risk propensity (RP) and proposes a measurement instrument using the Implicit Association Test: the IAT of Risk Propensity Self-Concept (IAT-RPSC), an adaptation of the prior IAT-RP of Dislich et al. Study 1 analysed the relationsh...

aim: this study aimed to assess the relationship of screen time and metabolic syndrome (mets) among iranian adolescents. materials and methods  in this nationwide study, the propensity score (ps) was used in a matched case-control study design. the data was obtained from 5,625 students aged 10-18 years, who participated in a national school-based surveillance program. mets was defined according...

BACKGROUND Mortality in allograft kidney transplant recipients is high, and cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in these patients. They have heightened activity of sympathetic and renin-angiotensin systems. We tested the hypothesis that blockade of sympathetic and renin-angiotensin systems in these patients may offer a survival benefit using a large cohort of patients with long...