OBJECTIVES This retrospective cohort study aimed to estimate the mean sojourn time (MST) of preclinical gastric cancer in Korean men. METHODS The subjects consisted of voluntary male screenees aged 40 to 69 years who underwent subsequent screening gastroscopies after testing negative at a baseline screening performed between January 2007 and December 2011. A new case was defined if gastric ca...

BACKGROUND Changes in autonomic cardiac function are frequent during menopause, and various methods have been used to understand and minimize them. OBJECTIVE To study the interference of dynamic aerobic physical activity on heart rate variability (HRV) in climacteric women. METHODS Cross-sectional study that analyzed HRV in 15 menopausal women (mean age 56.8+/-4.9 years) who had participate...

background: there are different ways for family planning. however , one of the problems in this field is unintended pregnancy in spite of using contraceptive pills. although the number of unintended pregnancies in women using contraceptive pills is high, there have been limited investigations about the biological risk factors involved in the failure of this method. one of the probable risk fact...

An age-based pattern of human papillomavirus (HPV) was observed among unvaccinated women in Australia, with a second peak occurring when women were in their early 50s. A similar age-based pattern for genital warts was also observed among unvaccinated Australian women, with the first peak (8.4%) occurring at age 15-20 years, which then declined gradually to 4.8% when women were aged 41-45 years;...

OBJECTIVES: To examine in an older population all-cause and cause-specific mortality associated with underweight (body mass index (BMI)o18.5), normal weight (BMI 18.5– 24.9), overweight (BMI 25.0–29.9), and obesity (BMI 30.0). DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: The Health in Men Study and the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women’s Health. PARTICIPANTS: Adults aged 70 to 75, 4,677 men and 4,563 wo...

Objective: To compare ‘quality of life related to eating and exercise’ (QOL ED) in women with and without PCOS who are seeking fertility treatment. Method: Twenty-one women with and 128 women without PCOS aged 20 to 46 years attending IVF clinics in Sydney, Australia participated. Participants completed the QOL ED questionnaire containing six eating disorder subscores and a global score. Multiv...

background coronary heart disease (chd) is one of the most common and life-threatening diseases in both developed and developing countries and a close correlation has been found between different types of obesity and chd. objectives the current study investigated the relationship between central obesity and coronary heart disease risk factors in chd referral outpatients to khatam clinic, zaheda...

BACKGROUND Regular physical activity (PA) confers many positive effects on health and well-being. Sedentary behavior (SB), in turn, is a risk factor for health, regardless of the level of moderate to vigorous PA. The present study describes the levels of objectively measured SB, breaks in SB, standing still and PA among Finnish adults. METHODS This cross-sectional analysis is based on the sub...

BACKGROUND The burden of obesity in Vietnam has not been well defined because there is a lack of reference data for percent body fat (PBF) in Asians. This study sought to define the relationship between PBF and body mass index (BMI) in the Vietnamese population. METHODS The study was designed as a comparative cross-sectional investigation that involved 1217 individuals of Vietnamese backgroun...