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Clustering of Lifestyle Risk Factors among Algerian Adolescents : Comparison between Urban and Rural Areas: GSHS Data.
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MDPI
, 2021 , Article)
Compare the clustering of LBRs between urban and rural Algerian adolescents. Data of this cross-sectional study was derived from the Global School-based Health Survey (GSHS). A self-administered, anonymous questionnaire ...
Thrombotic and Hypercoagulability Complications of COVID-19: An Update
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Dovepress
, 2021 , Article)
The current COVID-19 pandemic emerged in December 2019, in China, affecting millions of people worldwide. COVID-19 is mainly a disease of the respiratory system, yet systematic complications have also been reported among ...
Dementia caregiving in the Middle East and North Africa: A scoping review
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SAGE
, 2021 , Article)
Care for persons with dementia in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is undertaken predominantly by family members, domestic workers, and private nurses within the home. Domestic caregivers possess different understandings ...
Evaluation of Gender Inequity in Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis: Differences by Sex in US Thyroid Cancer Incidence Compared with a Meta-analysis of Subclinical Thyroid Cancer Rates at Autopsy
(2021 , Article)
Importance: Thyroid cancer is more common in women than in men, but the associated causes of these differences are not fully understood. Objective: To compare sex-specific thyroid cancer rates in the US to the prevalence ...
Unifying the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus: Introducing the NPRP criteria
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
AimsDisagreement about the appropriate criteria for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) persists. This study examines an alternative approach which combines information from all time-points on the glucose ...
The odds ratio is “portable” but not the relative risk: Time to do away with the log link in binomial regression
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Objectives: In a recent paper we suggest that the relative risk (RR) be replaced with the odds ratio (OR) as the effect measure of choice in clinical epidemiology. In response, Chu, and colleagues raise several points that ...
Rapid evidence synthesis approach for limits on the search date: how rapid could it be?
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John Wiley and Sons
, 2021 , Article)
Rapid reviews have been widely employed to support timely decision-making, and limiting the search date is the most popular approach in published rapid reviews. We assessed the accuracy and workload of search date limits ...
Empirical Comparisons of 12 Meta-analysis Methods for Synthesizing Proportions of Binary Outcomes
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Springer
, 2021 , Article)
Background: Meta-analysis is increasingly used to synthesize proportions (e.g., disease prevalence). It can be implemented with widely used two-step methods or one-step methods, such as generalized linear mixed models ...
المنهج النبوي في التعامل مع الشباب وقضاياه – دراسة تحليلية
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Qatar University Press
, 2021 , Article)
أهداف البحث: يهدف البحث إلى معرفة الأسلوب الذي توخّاه النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في تعامله مع الشباب، وسِرّ نجاحه في التوفيق بين الطبيعة الاندفاعية الحماسيّة لهذه الفئة، وبين حُسن توجيهِها وتربيتِها وإرشادِها واستفادة المجتمعات ...