The distribution of study designs was as follows: cross-sectional surveys (33.7%), cohort studies (26.8%), case-control studies (16.5%), intervention studies including clinical trials (16.7%), reliability and diagnostic studies (4.7%) and basic science studies (1.6%).
The following cross-sectional fat areas (centimeters squared) were measured at baseline and 5-year follow-up: subcutaneous thoracic fat, subcutaneous abdominal fat, IAF (within the confines of the transversalis fascia), and left thigh SCF (14).
Methods: This survey followed a cross sectional study design.
Finally, it should be noted that this study followed a cross sectional design.
The majority of the studies (80 %) followed a cross sectional design.
The effect of the different waiting periods was expected to be a key component of potential psychosocial difference and would not be captured in the two week follow-up cross sectional comparison.
Following a cross-sectional study design, H. pylori infection was measured by 13C-urea breath test among 857 pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics.
Following a cross-sectional design, 164 children aged from 2 to 6 years old, divided into four age groups, were observed during outdoor free play at nursery school.
Following a cross-sectional design, the children (n = 164: 82 boys), ranging in age from 29 to 74 months, were divided into four age groups corresponding to the four French school grades: 2 3 year olds, 3 4 year olds, 4 5 year olds, and 5 6 year olds (see Table 1 for age and sex composition of the sample).
Following these cross-sectional findings, some prospective studies have observed that some organochlorine pesticides and PCBs predicted the future risk of type 2 diabetes in the general population, although the specific kinds of POPs that predict type 2 diabetes and the shapes of the dose-response curves varied across studies (6– 8).
This explorative study followed a cross-sectional survey design, recruiting adult patients at a psychiatric department at a university hospital in Sweden.
