BACKGROUND Back pain accounts for more than $100 billion in annual US health care costs and is the second leading cause of physician visits and hospitalizations. This study ascertains the effect of systematic access to chiropractic care on the overall and neuromusculoskeletal-specific consumption of health care resources within a large managed-care system. METHODS A 4-year retrospective claim...

BACKGROUND The natural history of surgically treated intracranial meningiomas can be quite variable. Recurrence and patient outcome cannot currently be predicted with accuracy. OBJECTIVE To explore the potential roles of tumor hypoxia-regulated biological markers, preoperative imaging, measures of proliferation, and angiogenesis in predicting patient outcome. METHODS Tissue from 263 patient...

BACKGROUND Recent data indicate that young patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) have a poor long-term prognosis. Although the benefits of formal cardiac rehabilitation and exercise training programs are well established, most of these data come from middle-aged and older patients. METHODS We assessed baseline behavioral data, quality of life, and risk profiles in 635 consecutive patien...

Separation anxiety has been studied in children and young adults but little is known about this form of anxiety in older people. This study aimed to examine socio-demographic, psychological and physical health correlates of separation anxiety in the elderly. Eighty-six ambulatory subjects aged 62-87 years were recruited from primary medical care practices to participate in this study. The prese...

BACKGROUND The fact that patient satisfaction with primary care clinical practices and physician-patient communications has decreased gradually has brought a new opportunity to the online channel as a supplementary service to provide additional information. OBJECTIVE In this study, our objectives were to examine the process of cognitive knowledge expectation-confirmation from eHealth users an...

Abstract:
 
 Objective:
 To find effectiveness between online and traditional classroom teaching methods among final year class of MBBS.
 Methods:
 An observational study conducted at King Edward Medical University Lahore in April 2020 the MBBS. Two Likert-scale questionnaires generated on Google Docs after taking approval from university’s ethical committee. Informed c...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To update the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and associated coronary risk in Spain, using the harmonized definition and the new World Health Organization proposal (metabolic premorbid syndrome), which excludes diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. METHODS Individual data pooled analysis study of 24,670 individuals from 10 autonomous communities aged 35 to...

The present study aimed to investigate socio-economic disparities in food and nutrient intakes among young Irish women. A total of 221 disadvantaged and seventy-four non-disadvantaged women aged 18-35 years were recruited. Diet was assessed using a diet history protocol. Of the total population, 153 disadvantaged and sixty-three non-disadvantaged women were classified as plausible dietary repor...

BACKGROUND Bedtime routines has shown important associations with areas associated with child wellbeing and development. Research into bedtime routines is limited with studies mainly focusing on quality of sleep. The objectives of the present study were to examine the relationship between bedtime routines and a variety of factors associated with child wellbeing and to examine possible determina...