نتایج جستجو برای: demographic characteristics and ethnic

تعداد نتایج: 16906686  

Extended Abstract Introduction: Today cities are the main place of human life in the world. In addition to creating opportunities, they have confronted modern human beings with numerous threats. In many metropolises, quantitative growth has surpassed the quality of people’s lives. This has made an increasing number of social problems in general, and resulted in the emergence of crimes in parti...

2009
Carlos Gradín

The two largest minorities in the United States, African Americans and people of Hispanic origin, show official poverty rates that are at least twice as high as those among non-Hispanic Whites. These similarly high poverty rates among minorities are, however, the result of different combinations of factors, due to the specific characteristics of these two groups. In this paper, we analyze the r...

Journal: :journal of reproduction and infertility 0

background: sexual function is affected by personal and interpersonal factors, familial and social traditions, culture, religion, menopause, and aging. so, ethnicity is a determining factor in sexual function. the present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of sexual dysfunction and attitudes towards sexuality in postmenopausal women among three different ethnic groups in iran. methods: t...

2013
Anna K. Coussens Robert J. Wilkinson Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy Paul T. Elkington Yasmeen Hanifa Kamrul Islam Peter M. Timms Graham H. Bothamley Alleyna P. Claxton Geoffrey E. Packe Mathina Darmalingam Robert N. Davidson Heather J. Milburn Lucy V. Baker Richard D. Barker Francis A. Drobniewski Charles A. Mein Leena Bhaw-Rosun Rosamond A. Nuamah Christopher J. Griffiths Adrian R. Martineau

Distinct phylogenetic lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) cause disease in patients of particular genetic ancestry, and elicit different patterns of cytokine and chemokine secretion when cultured with human macrophages in vitro. Circulating and antigen-stimulated concentrations of these inflammatory mediators might therefore be expected to vary significantly between tuberculosis patien...

Journal: :Child abuse & neglect 1999
G E Wyatt T B Loeb B Solis J V Carmona

OBJECTIVE This study reports the prevalence of child sexual abuse of African American and European American women and compares the circumstances of these incidents to data collected a decade ago. METHOD Stratified probability sampling was used to recruit comparable samples of African American and European American women in Los Angeles County for a larger study of women's sexual decision makin...

2010
Ulrich Reininghaus Helen L. Fisher Gerard Hutchinson Paul Fearon Kevin Morgan Paola Dazzan Gillian A. Doody Peter B. Jones Robin M. Murray Craig Morgan

Article history: Received 8 June 2010 Received in revised form 19 August 2010 Accepted 25 August 2010 Available online 19 September 2010 Many studies have shown that rates of psychosis are elevated in the Black and minority ethnic (BME) population in the UK. One important, but relatively less researched explanation of these high rates may be social adversity associated with acculturation proces...

Journal: :Muscle & nerve 2016
Sue-Yng Fong Khean-Jin Goh Nortina Shahrizaila Kum-Thong Wong Chong-Tin Tan

INTRODUCTION We investigated the effects of demographic and physical factors on nerve conduction studies (NCS) in a multi-ethnic Asian population. METHODS One hundred sixty-six healthy Malaysians of different ethnicities (51.2% women, aged 21-77 years) underwent NCS using a standard protocol. Correlations of various factors to NCS were determined, and multiple linear regression analysis was u...

Journal: :iranian red crescent medical journal 0
afshin borhani haghighi ^ewwo~ooyceotertoo~ttommcmlhotitsmnsgenic technology, shiraz university of medical sciences, ir iran +98-7116121065, [email protected]; department of neurology, shiraz university of medical sciences, ir iran; ^ewwo~ooyceotertoo~ttommcmlhotitsmnsgenic technology, shiraz university of medical sciences, ir iran +98-7116121065, [email protected] nahid ashjazadeh department of neurology, shiraz university of medical sciences, ir iran anahid safari research center for traditional medicine and history of medicine, shiraz university of medical sciences, ir iran salvador cruz-flores department of neurology, saint louis university, saint louis, u.s.a.

background cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (cvst) is a frequent cause of cerebrovascular disease in iran. objectives in this study, we report cumulative data of published iranian studies in a systematic manner with critically appraisal and presenting future directions. materials and methods the authors systematically searched the isi web of knowledge, pubmed, scopus, ebesco and iranmedex for k...

2015
Tomoki Fujii Heng Yan Denis LEUNG Denis H.Y. Leung

Objective To find lower and upper bounds of HIV prevalence in Malawi under mild and intuitive assumptions to assess the importance of the refusal issue in the estimation of HIV prevalence. Methods We derive bounds based on the following two key assumptions: (i) Among those who have never taken an HIV test before, those who refuse to take an HIV test (hereafter “refusers”) have at least as much ...

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