OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among farmers and to establish the most common regional MSDs reported. METHODS Comprehensive electronic searches of Pubmed, Web of Science, CINAHL, SCOPUS, EMBASE, Agris Database, and Cochrane Library were carried out using keywords for MSDs and farmers. Pooled estimates of prevalence with 95% confidence intervals were ...

The overall aim of the Global Enteric Multicenter Study-1 (GEMS-1) is to identify the etiologic agents associated with moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) among children <5 years of age, and thereby the attributable pathogen-specific population-based incidence of MSD, to guide investments in research and public health interventions against diarrheal disease. To accomplish this, 9 core assumptions...

Financial Disclosure: Dr. Berthold has no conflicts of interest to declare. Dr. Gouni-Berthold has received honoraria for speaking engagements from Pfizer and Eli Lilly. Dr. Böhm has received speakers’ honoraria from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, MSD Sharp & Dohme, Essex Pharma, Pfizer, Servier and Sanofi-Aventis. He has been on an advisory panel for AstraZeneca, Boeh...

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal rehabilitative care and research have traditionally been guided by a structural pathology paradigm and directed their resources towards the structural, functional, and biological abnormalities located locally within the musculoskeletal system to understand and treat Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD). However the structural pathology model does not adequately explain man...

Workrelated musculoskeletal disorders among the IT professional is a common area of concern worldwide. This study was taken up to analyze the prevalence of risk factors, clinical features and outcome of treatment in onsite clinics in vaious information technology companies in India. Result revealed poor office ergonomics (54%), lack of keyboard tray (25%), lack of mouse tray (35%), lack of foot...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken at a major UK airport in response to management concerns about levels of sickness absence and impaired work capacity in the security department in order to investigate the possibility of achieving reductions through changes in pre-employment screening procedures. AIMS To determine the predictive capacity of a declared musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) at pre-...

BACKGROUND Synsepalum dulcificum is a plant indigenous to West Africa. The fruit is used to modify taste of foods to sweetness. OBJECTIVES This study aims to investigate the antidiabetic potentials of both methanolic and flavonoid-rich leaf extracts of S. dulcificum (MSD and FSD respectively) in type 2 diabetic Wistar albino rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty three rats were randomly distrib...

In recent years, recursive least-squares (RLS) algorithms and fast-transversal-.lters (FTF) algorithms have been introduced for multichannel active sound cancellation (ASC) systems and multichannel sound deconvolution (MSD) systems. It was reported that these algorithms can greatly improve the convergence speed of the ASC=MSD systems using adaptive FIR .lters. However, numerical instability of ...

We used video microscopy and particle tracking to study the dynamics of confined hard-sphere suspensions. Our fluids consisted of 1.1-microm-diameter silica spheres suspended at volume fractions of 0.33-0.42 in water-dimethyl sulfoxide. Suspensions were confined in a quasiparallel geometry between two glass surfaces: a millimeter-sized rough sphere and a smooth flat wall. First, as the separati...

OBJECTIVES Compare rates of medical insurance claims for musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) between workers in a construction trade and a general worker population to determine if higher physical exposures in construction lead to higher rates of claims on personal medical insurance. METHODS Health insurance claims between 2006 and 2010 from floor layers were frequency matched by age, gender, eli...