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Abstract Background Brachycephalic dogs display sleep‐disordered breathing (SDB). The risk factors for SDB remain unknown. Objectives To identify risk factors for SDB. We hypothesized that brachycephaly, increasing sev...

ABSTRACT Background and Aims Ovarian cancer is a primary contributor to cancer‐related deaths among women and holds a position among the most common gynecological malignancies worldwide. While hypertension has been ide...

Ramp handling acts a vital role in sustainable airport operations. The ramp related services provided to aircraft and their passengers at the airports are related to the landing, take-off, unloading and loading of the ai...

BackgroundHIV infection has been associated with an increased risk of fragility fracture. We explored whether or not this increased risk persisted in HIV infected and uninfected men when controlling for traditional fragi...

Abstract Objectives To investigate risk factors for early childhood caries (ECC) among 1–2-year-old children in Beijing and to assess the effect modification of baseline caries experience on the associations between ot...

Abstract Background Pancreatic portal hypertension (PPH) is a distinct form of sinistral (left-sided) portal hypertension, primarily resulting from pancreatic diseases such as acute or chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic...

Background Short birth interval is an important reproductive health concern in low- and middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, as it may have adverse consequences for both perinatal and maternal health. According...

Background Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has been the standard treatment procedure for clinically node-negative (cN0) breast cancer (BC). Three randomized trials (Z0011, AMAROS and SENOMAC) have shown that patients w...

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometric bone mineral density (DXA BMD) is a strong predictor of fracture risk in untreated patients. However, previous patient-level studies suggest that BMD changes explain little of the fractu...

This study investigates the ecological risk of Halti Beel, one of the significant parts of the largest wetland ecosystem of Bangladesh, following the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ecological risk assessment (E...

Objective: The purpose of the current study was to assess the influence of personality traits on safety attitudes and risk perceptions. Background: The ability to accurately assess risk remains a focal point of aviation ...

Abstract BackgroundMany persons with type 2 diabetes (T2D) lack risk awareness or underestimate their cardiovascular risk. Although health care professionals in primary health care strive to implement risk-aw...

Abstract Urological cancer (UC) is associated with significant adverse outcomes and poses a major global health burden. Although physical activity (PA) may reduce the risk of a single cancer site of UC through multiple p...

Introduction Lung cancer (LC) is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, primarily due to diagnosis at advanced stages. Although low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening reduces lung cancer mortalit...

Background: BK polyomavirus (BKPyV) reactivation is a common complication after kidney transplantation and may result in nephropathy and graft loss. As there is no effective antiviral therapy, management focuses on early...

Gencer Kurt,1 Rune Erichsen1,2 1Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Center for Population Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 2Department of Surgery, Randers Regional Hospital...

The aim of the present research was to build a tool to classify patients according to drug theraphy risk so as to rationalize the use of clinical pharmaceutical resources in hospital settings. Risk factors selected in th...

One of the problems which has plagued those attempting to predict the behavior of capital markets is the absence of a body of positive microeconomic theory dealing with conditions of risk. Although many useful insights c...

In this paper we study both market risks and nonmarket risks, without complete markets assumption, and discuss methods of measurement of these risks. We present and justify a set of four desirable properties for measures...

BACKGROUND: Although more than 80% of the global burden of cardiovascular disease occurs in low-income and middle-income countries, knowledge of the importance of risk factors is largely derived from developed countries....

BACKGROUND: Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors improve the outcome among patients with left ventricular dysfunction, whether or not they have heart failure. We assessed the role of an angiotensin-converting-enzyme ...

BACKGROUND: Rigorous analysis of levels and trends in exposure to leading risk factors and quantification of their effect on human health are important to identify where public health is making progress and in which case...

Studies of risk perception examine the judgements people make when they are asked to characterize and evaluate hazardous activities and technologies. This research aims to aid risk analysis and policy-making by providing...

BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to examine the association of Joint National Committee (JNC-V) blood pressure and National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) cholesterol categories with coronary heart disea...