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This study was designed to evaluate the serologic response to Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. A total of 589 children < or =18 years (190 in the year 2004; 399 in 2005) and 2,073 adults > or = 18 years of age (980 in the year 2004; 1,093 in 2005) with respiratory symptoms underwent serological testing for M. pneumoniae infection. The tests included passive particle agglutination (PA) and enzym...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between change in daily step count and both adiposity and insulin sensitivity and the extent to which the association between change in daily step count and insulin sensitivity may be mediated by adiposity. DESIGN Population based cohort study. SETTING Tasmania, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 592 adults (men (n=267), mean age 51.4 (SD 12.2) years; women ...

OBJECTIVE To assess in a single cohort whether annual weight and waist circumference (WC) change has varied over time. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study with three surveys (1) 1999/2000; (2) 2004/2005 and (3) 2011/2012. Generalised linear mixed models with random effects were used to compare annualised weight and WC change between surveys 1 and 2 (period 1) with that between surveys 2 and 3 (p...

Study Title: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, MultiCenter Human Clinical Feasibility Trial to Evaluate the Preliminary Safety and Effectiveness of GEM OS1 Bone Graft Compared to Autologous Bone Graft as a Bone Regeneration Device Study Number: BMTI-2005-04 Study Phase: Pilot (Feasibility) Study Design: Prospective, randomized, controlled, multi-center trial Product Name: GEM OS1TM Formula...

One of the factors which influence individual's decision for presence or absence in the labor force is their personal features. In order to take appropriate policies to create employment and remove its obstacles in the countries labor market, we need to know the factors mentioned above and determine the amount and direction in which each factor influences the probability of individual's presenc...

BACKGROUND Several school fruit programs are initiated with the aim to improve diet and thereby contribute to reduce the prevalence of overweight. To date, no published studies have demonstrated that school fruit schemes do prevent overweight. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to assess if increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, due to free school fruit, have an impact on fut...

This study investigated the impact of variation in mortality by age group and cause of death on gains in life expectancy at birth in the city of Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, in 1991, 2000, and 2005. Life tables were constructed. Pollard's method was used to estimate the contributions by age group and cause of death on gains in life expectancy. In 1991-2000, the age group that most contrib...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Concern has emerged that erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) may decrease survival for cancer patients; many patients beginning dialysis have previous cancer diagnoses. As ESA doses have more than tripled in the USA since ESAs were introduced, we aimed to compare annual trends in cancer-specific mortality rates among incident maintenance hemodialysis patients. METHODS Thi...