Abstract The emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants is a challenge to the control this pandemic. It therefore important collect and analyze data related infection caused by different variants. We have obtained more than 3,700 COVID-19 patients between April 2020 March 2021 from Tokat, Turkey (roughly 3,100 outpatients close 600 inpatients) where about 30% were infected with Alpha variant (B.1.1.7...

Reappraisal is generally viewed as an adaptive emotion regulation strategy. Reappraisal frequency has been associated with greater well-being, and reappraisal ability is thought to be composed of several crucial cognitive control processes. However, the relationships among reappraisal ability, reappraisal frequency, well-being, and various cognitive control processes have not yet been determine...

Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is a population health measure that combines mortality data with morbidity or health status data to estimate expected years of life in good health for persons at a given age. HLE accounts for quantity and quality of life and can be used to describe and monitor the health status of populations. HLE estimates for countries have been used for predicting future health ...

BACKGROUND Preventive care traditionally aims to prevent diseases or injuries. For older people, different aims of prevention, such as maintenance of independence and wellbeing, are increasingly important. AIM To explore GPs' perspectives on preventive care for older people. DESIGN AND SETTING Qualitative study comprising six focus groups with GPs in the Netherlands. METHOD The focus-gro...

Cancer is a disease associated with aging. As the population ages worldwide, the number of older adults with cancer is dramatically increasing. In both the geriatric and oncology literature, an individual's functional status is one of the strongest predictors of overall survival and resource requirement. However, the measures traditionally used in oncology practice to assess functional status i...

background: the adult cardiac surgery databank (acsd) of tehran heart center was established in 2002 with a view to providing clinical prediction rules for outcomes of cardiac procedures, developing risk score systems, and devising clinical guidelines. this is a general analysis of the collected data. methods: all the patients referred to tehran heart center for any kind of heart surgery betwee...

Generalized additive models (GAMs) with bivariate smoothing functions have been applied to estimate spatial variation in risk for many types of cancers. Only a handful of studies have evaluated the performance of smoothing functions applied in GAMs with regard to different geographical areas of elevated risk and different risk levels. This study evaluates the ability of different smoothing func...