This article presents trends of breastfeeding in Spain from the 1960s to the end of the century, analyzing the relationship between level of education and breastfeeding duration. A sample of 666 adult women provided data about breastfeeding practices for children born between 1958 and 2002. Joinpoint regression models for breastfeeding duration for the firstborn child throughout these years sho...

ObjectivesTo evaluate the impact of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) on public awareness antimicrobial resistance using Google Trends analysis.MethodsThe WAAW ‘antimicrobial resistance’ (AMR), ‘antibacterial’, and ‘antibiotics’ in Japan, UK, United States, worldwide from 2015 to 2020 was analyzed, relative search volume (RSV) as a surrogate. A joinpoint regression analysis performed id...

Malaria has declined in recent years in countries of the American continents. In 2011, 12 of 21 endemic countries had already met their 2015 Millennium Development Goal. However, this declining trend has not been adequately evaluated. An analysis of the number of cases per 100,000 people (annual parasite index [API]) and the percentage of positive blood slides (slide positivity rate [SPR]) duri...

OBJECTIVES This report presents total sex ratios at birth from 1940 to 2002, for race starting in 1970, for Hispanic origin groups starting in 1989, for live birth order starting in 1943, and for age of mother for the full time period. METHODS Descriptive tabulations of sex ratios using the birth data set are presented and interpreted. Joinpoint regression analysis is used to detect changes i...

Standard descriptive methods for the analysis of cancer surveillance data include canonical plots based on the lexis diagram, directly age-standardized rates (ASR), estimated annual percentage change (EAPC), and joinpoint regression. The age-period-cohort (APC) model has been used less often. Here, we argue that it merits much broader use. First, we describe close connections between estimable ...

The main objective of this study was to analyze the mortality trends of female breast cancer in Turkey between the years 1987-2008. The rates per 100,000 age-standardized to the European standard population were assessed and time trends presented using joinpoint regression analysis. Average annual percent change (AAPC), anual percent change (APC) and 95% confidence interval (CI) was calculated....

We analyzed the trends in the age-standardized incidence rates of 10,460 cases of primary intracranial tumors diagnosed during 1975 and 2004, Osaka, Japan using the Joinpoint regression analysis. During the period 1975-2004, the age-standardized incidence rates of total intracranial tumors increased until 1987 at 3.1% per year and then decreased significantly at -1.8% per year. The time trends ...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has developed as the dominant paradigm of assessment of evidence that is used in clinical practice. Since its development, EBM has been applied to integrate the best available research into diagnosis and treatment with the purpose of improving patient care. In the EBM era, a hierarchy of evidence has been proposed, including various types of research met...

BACKGROUND Although prostate cancer-related incidence and mortality have declined recently, striking racial/ethnic differences persist in the United States. Visualizing and modelling temporal trends of prostate cancer late-stage incidence, and how they vary according to geographic locations and race, should help explaining such disparities. Joinpoint regression is increasingly used to identify ...