Fatty acids (FAs) have been postulated to impact adiposity, but few epidemiological studies addressing this hypothesis have been conducted. This study investigated the association between serum phospholipid FAs (S-PLFAs) and indicators of obesity. BMI and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) were collected from 372 healthy Mexican women included as controls in a case-control study. S-PLFA percentages were ...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based health indicators are vital to needs-based programming and epidemiological planning. Agencies frequently make programming funds available to local jurisdictions based on need. The use of objective indicators to determine need is attractive but assumes that selection of communities with the highest indicators reflects something other than random variability from samplin...

Global assays, such as resonance-thrombography (RTG), which measure the interaction between platelets, coagulation and fibrinolysis have been used as summary measures of risk for over two decades but have not been evaluated in epidemiological studies. We examined whether RTG indices are risk indicators for incident coronary heart disease (CHD). RTG indices, related haematological variables and ...

B ased on observational epidemiological research, depression following acute myocardial infarction (MI) is considered an independent risk for subsequent mortality. This is despite the fact that in the only large scale randomised control trial to date, the successful treatment of depression yielded no relative advantage in terms of survival. Furthermore, not all prospective observational studies...

This paper provides an introduction to measures of causal effects and focuses on underlying conceptual models, definitions and drawbacks of special relevance to policy formulation based on epidemiological data. It begins by describing a foundation for critical analysis based on counterfactuals and potential outcomes. It then describes analyses based on hypothetical outcome removal and rejects t...

BACKGROUND The association between dyslipidaemia, obesity and hypertension is well established, and all have been found to be risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). AIM To determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity, plasma lipid profile and atherogenic indices as markers for CVD among civil servants. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Two hundred and five (205) apparently healthy civil se...

Background: Hypertension is a major risk factor to the development of atherothrombosis which health concern today. Neutrophils and platelets play significant role in leading cardiovascular events. Presently, neutrophil lymphocyte ratio platelet can be easily calculated from complete blood count have been identified as novel systemic inflammation based indices predictive risk. This study attempt...

Age and gender are two basic characteristics that may influence the clinical course of Parkinson’s disease (PD). The impact age on phenotype is considered suggestive increased severity PD, especially in older patients. performance found worse both motor indices non-motor symptoms. Some studies demonstratevery clear sex-related differences epidemiological features disease. Parkinson`s affects me...

Peste des petits ruminants virus, which causes a severe disease in sheep and goats, has only recently been officially declared to be present in Tanzania. An epidemiological study was carried out between September 2008 and October 2010 to investigate the incursion, persistence and spread of the virus in Tanzania. The investigation involved serosurveillance, outbreak investigation and computation...