OBJECTIVE To examine associations between sociodemographic factors (single parenthood, family income, education level, race), stress, and psychological distress among pediatric cancer patients and their mothers. METHODS Participants completed measures assessing sociodemographic variables, depressive symptoms, posttraumatic stress symptoms, general stress, and cancer-related stress within the ...

INTRODUCTION Frailty is one of the greatest challenges facing our aging population, as it can lead to adverse outcomes such as institutionalization, hospitalization, and mortality. However, the factors that are associated with frailty are poorly understood. We performed a systematic review of longitudinal studies in order to identify the sociodemographic, physical, biological, lifestyle-related...

BACKGROUND Poor sleep tends to be patterned by sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors. The aim of this study was to examine the associations of sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors with sleep duration and insomnia-related symptoms across life course. METHODS We used cross-sectional Health 2000 Survey (2000-2001) among a total of 5,578 adult Finns, aged 30-79 years, representative of...

PURPOSE To evaluate the risk of stroke after ranibizumab treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration. METHODS National registry data for 1,025,340 random subjects in the year 2002 were used. The ranibizumab group comprised patients diagnosed with neovascular age-related macular degeneration and treated with ranibizumab between 2009 and 2013 (n = 467). The two types of compariso...

Background: Deficiency of Vitamin D or 25(OH) cholecalciferol is a severe health problem worldwide. essential for calcium and bone metabolism protects against various autoimmune disorders, cardiovascular diseases, chronic infections, cancers, infertility. It also plays vital role in pregnancy. During pregnancy, the fetus acquires their vitamin from mother r first few months life after delivery,...