PURPOSE This study was conducted to develop and test a hypothetical model to predict health outcomes in young people with type 2 diabetes. METHODS Data were collected from 190 adults aged 23-45 with type 2 diabetes mellitus who visited the endocrinology outpatient department of the two university hospitals in South Korea from November 2, 2012 to March 7, 2013. Data collection used the structu...

OBJECTIVE To explore the role of behavioral and psychosocial factors in explaining the social gradient in self-rated health as defined either by an individual or a neighborhood deprivation index. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Data were from the baseline survey of the UK Flexible Sigmoidoscopy trial. Recruitment through general practices was stratified to generate a socioeconomically diverse sample...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to construct and validate a behavioral risk index scale to determine if the scaled variable could be used to study possible latent dimensions of risk behaviour. DESIGN Data from the Minnesota Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) were used to construct and validate a behavioral risk index using item response theory methods. PARTICIP...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: BCM: Body Cell Mass; BED: Binge Eating Disorder; BES: Binge Eating Scalel; BIA: Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis; BMI: Body Mass Index; BT: Behavioral Therapy; CBT: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy; FFM: Total Fat-Free Body Mass in Kg; FM: Fat Body Mass in Kg; MetS: Metabolic Syndrome; NBED: Non Binge Eating Disorder; WC: Waist Circumference

Objective(s):Acrylamide (ACR) has broad applications in different industries. It also forms in food during heating process. Oxidative stress has a critical role in ACR-induced neurotoxicity in both in vitro and in vivo models; therefore, the aim of the current study was the evaluation of effects of thymoquinone, the main constituent of volatile oil from Nigella sativa seeds in ACR-induced neuro...

in order to quantify of schooling behavioral responses of rosy barb (puntius barbus) subjected to acute decreasing temperature stress monitored by computer- vision system. four aquaria as duplicate with a density of 30 fish per unit were used for rearing of fish in normal and stress conditions. some geometric schooling parameters such as average location of center gravity school and distance of...

The swimming behavior of the calanoid copepod Centropages hamatus is used as a very sensitive real-time screening tool to assess hydrocarbon contamination in marine waters. A behavioral stress index based on the complexity of swimming sequences is suggested as a potential tool to critically assess behavioral responses to natural and anthropogenic forcing in the marine environment.

AIM The aim of this study was to describe and evaluate the effect of an individually tailored behavioral medicine treatment in physical therapy, based on a functional behavioral analysis (FBA), for tension-type headache (TTH). PATIENTS AND METHODS Two case studies with A1-A2-B-A3 design of two patients with TTH was conducted. Outcome variables were headache frequency, headache index (mean int...

Notation Definition and Comments i Index for advertisers j Index for users n Number of advertisers pi Probability that advertiser i’s most targeted user clicks on his advertisement xij Distance between advertiser i and user j along the circle γ Decay factor, which also measures the heterogeneity of users’ preferences qij Decay in the probability that user j clicks on advertiser i vi Unit value ...