[PDF] Top 20 Prevalence and determinants of prehypertension status in the Taiwanese general population

... prehypertension and to compare the differences in demographic factors, anthropometric measurements, lifestyles and metabolic profiles between normotensive and prehypertensive ... See full document

... OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence rate of prehypertension and to compare the differences in demographic factors, ... See full document

... In univariable logistic analysis, sex, age group, age, waist-hip ratio (WHR) group, body mass index (BMI) group, waist circumference, blood sugar, triglyceride, high-density lipoprotei[r] ... See full document

... on the Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (NAHSIT), a cross-sectional survey that adopted a multi-stage, stratified clustering sampling ...scheme. The data collection period was from 1 ... See full document

... Discussions The present study presents the information of geographic differences in disability prevalence and its overtime change in ...that the average ... See full document

... Conclusion The study identified the risk factors such as socioeconomic, demographic, disease and lifestyle factors related to hypertension in ...This population-based study was larger ... See full document

... sets of CT images were screened initially based on the CT examination of paranasal sinuses in Otorhinolaryngology section of Taipei Tzu-Chi General Hospital in 2005 ... See full document

... occurred in recent times, prevalence data in elderly populations involve mostly Western or Caucasian ...probably the first to report high iron stores in an Asian elderly ...pares ... See full document

... blood and serum biochemical parameters obtained from the survey were first checked for their correlation with plasma α-tocopherol by Pear- son’s correlation using the SAS ...significant and ... See full document

... mortality, and low quality-of-life scores. 2-3 Previous population-based studies have pointed out that the prevalence of sarcopenia ranges between 8% and 50% in ... See full document

... association of RLS with many chronic diseases is striking and highlights the importance of appropri- ate diagnosis and treatment of ...Because of the association ... See full document

... surprise, the prevalence of VDRL seroreactivity was only ...Although the frequency of blood transmission exposures was high, with more than ...procedure, the prevalence ... See full document

... intake of magnesium is below recommended dietary allowances in many affluent Western ...result in hypomagnesaemia which might increase the risk of chronic diseases in elderly ... See full document

... becoming the most important mutation- scanning methodology that allows mutation scanning and genotyping without the need for costly labeled ...fication and subsequent analysis are sequentially ... See full document

... screening, and as a result would raise the ...issue in this population for serum urate, as only a few people reported having a history of gout and only ...2.7% of ... See full document

... with the recruited participants had been identified with proteinuria or glucouria positive in the urinary screening ...Thus, the findings may not be generalized to all young ...healthy ... See full document

... identify the location of the schools. Second, while the sample size is large and a great majority of schools participated (83 %) it is possible that children from less affluent ... See full document

... point of view, it is valuable to identify women at high risk for cervical cancer from the general ...94.2% of abnormal cytology smears were HR-HPV ...37.9% of specimens infected with ... See full document

... trends in myopia over a 20-year period in Taiwan, we conducted 5 nationwide surveys pertaining to the ocular refraction of schoolchildren in 1983, 1986, 1990, 1995 and ... See full document

... independently of BMD. FRAX estimates the 10-year probability of major osteoporotic fracture (MOF) using risk factors that act independently of femoral neck ... See full document