Objective: To explore the main risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus in Wuhan, China. Methods: 206 women with gestational diabetes mellitus who were diagnosed in Hubei Maternal and Child Health Hospital between January 2014 and December 2015 were selected as case group. Meanwhile, 286 healthy pregnant women, who were delivered at the same time, were selected as control group. Maternal a...

background higher life expectancy and increased ischemic heart disease (ihd) have resulted in increasing number of the elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgeries. age along with many other comorbidities influence the outcome of major surgeries in the elderly patients; hence, case selection before major surgeries is challenging. objectives the pure effect of age after adjusting for other majo...

In this paper, we use multivariate logistic regression models to incorporate correlation among binary response data. Our objective is to develop a variable subset selection procedure to identify important covariates in predicting correlated binary responses using a Bayesian approach. In order to incorporate available prior information, we propose a class of informative prior distributions on th...

BACKGROUND Exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke is an important health hazard. This study was designed to assess the sociodemographic risk factors related to women's exposure to secondhand smoke. MATERIALS AND METHODS A case-control analysis of data collected as part of a prospective cohort study was conducted. Participants were 340 female Tehran residents exposed to cigarette smoke. Women ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate risk factors for urinary incontinence (UI) in middle-aged (35-64 years) Korean women. METHODS This was a cross-sectional, case-control study using a structured self-administered questionnaire. To identify the unadjusted associations of each potential risk factor with prevalence of UI, univariate logistic regression analyses were used. A multi...