Previous epidemiological surveys for chronic pain noted that the most prevalent location of is lower back. It known in low back patients, quality life, especially mental health, poor. In addition, group which a discrepancy arose between disability and severity found some associated factors, such as feeling stress, less satisfaction their job relationship with coworkers. Social psychological fac...

OBJECTIVE To identify desirable characteristics, including different sample sizes and dental caries prevalences, in virtual samples that allow, at the same time, higher values of general agreement percentage (GPA) and Kappa coefficient (κ), under a low confidence interval (CI), in reproducibility studies. METHOD A total of 384 statistical simulations of inter-examiner calibration, varying sam...

OBJECTIVE to develop and validate a questionnaire on severe maternal morbidity and to evaluate the maternal recall of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. DESIGN validity of a questionnaire as diagnostic instrument. SETTING a third level referral maternity in Campinas, Brazil. POPULATION 386 survivors of severe maternal complications and 123 women that delivered without majo...

Introduction The surveys and other evidence which are drawn upon are part of the general scheme of surveillance of nutrition in Britain. Before 1968 this was by means of running indices (Berry & Hollingsworth, 1963), helped out by small-scale surveys and other work aimed to throw light on specific points. In 1968-1971, under the aegis of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy, more det...

The human impact on natural habitats is increasing the complexity of human-wildlife interactions and leading to the emergence of infectious diseases worldwide. Highly successful synanthropic wildlife species, such as rodents, will undoubtedly play an increasingly important role in transmitting zoonotic diseases. We investigated the potential for recent developments in 16S rRNA amplicon sequenci...

The epidemiological characteristics of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) in mainland China are not completely understood. We performed this meta-analysis to assess the prevalence of BPH from 1989 through 2014. A total of 14 articles and 19 datasets were included. The pooled overall prevalence of BPH among men aged 40 years and older was 36.6% [95% CI, 32.3-44.8]. The occurrence rate of BPH in t...

A network of laboratories designated Centres for Molecular Diagnosis was funded in 2000 by Belgian National Health Insurance to provide clinically relevant molecular diagnostic tests. These included typing of nosocomial pathogens as a service to local hospital infection control programs. Two external quality assessment (EQA) surveys were performed in 2001 and 2003 to evaluate the proficiencies ...

Several population-based surveys on stroke were conducted from different parts of India. During the last decade, the age-adjusted prevalence rate of stroke was between 250-350/100,000. Recent studies showed that the age-adjusted annual incidence rate was 105/100,000 in the urban community of Kolkata and 262/100,000 in a rural community of Bengal. The ratio of cerebral infarct to hemorrhage was ...

conclusions the findings of the current study will be beneficial in prevention of rtcs and its associated complications and hence will be vital for policy makers, health service managers and stakeholders. context despite considerable attention given to health statistics of road traffic crashes (rtcs), the epidemiological aspects of injuries resulting from rtcs are not fully understood in iran a...

AIM To analyze the frequency and distribution of human brucellosis in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 2001-2008, and measures and activities undertaken for prevention and control of the disease. METHOD In this descriptive, retrospective study, we used official reports on infectious diseases from public health institutes at the federal and cantonal level, as well as epid...