INTRODUCTION Whether fi nal height is associated with quality of life and mental health is a matter of epidemiological and medical concern. Both social and biological explanations have been previously proposed. This study aims to assess the associations in ethnic Chinese in Singapore. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study of 4414 respondents aged at least 21 years seen at a major poly...

Objective: It was intended to analyze the change in social utility loss 2020, when pandemic showed its first shock, caused by inter-provincial distribution of health personnel elderly compared 2019 and other indicators based on this (rate utility, SHW, IHW, SHW/IHW per thousand people).
 Method: The method used study is Atkinson inequality index. data application are for 2020 at NUTS-3 lev...

background: thalassemia is a chronic, inherited blood disorder, which in its most severe form, causes life-threatening anemia. thalassemia patients not only engage with difficulties of blood transfusion and iron chelating therapy but also have some social challenges and health threatening factors. there are some reports on quality of life in thalassemia patients around the world from southeast ...

Design: This cross-sectional, prospective, observational, multicenter study was performed in France, Germany, and Italy. Patients were stratified into 4 severity groups (BEVA, 20/40; WEVA, 20/200). Patients completed the National Eye Institute 25-Item Visual Function Questionnaire, the Macular Disease Quality of Life Scale, and the Health Utility Index 3. Analysis of variance was used to adjust...

BACKGROUND To determine if the EuroQol Health Related Quality of Life survey produces equivalent results when administered by phone interview or patient-completed forms. METHODS People awaiting hip or knee arthroplasty at a major metropolitan hospital participated. They were randomly assigned to receive the EuroQol Health Related Quality of Life survey via telephone, followed by a patient com...

Recent large trials with eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in the cardiovascular field did not demonstrate a beneficial effect in terms of reductions of clinical endpoints like total mortality, sudden cardiac arrest or other major adverse cardiac events. Pertinent guidelines do not uniformly recommend EPA + DHA for cardiac patients. In contrast, in epidemiologic finding...