To our knowledge, this is one of the first population-based studies to examine the prevalence of depression and to systematically explore gender-specific correlates of depression in a high prevalence HIV setting in sub-Saharan Africa.
This is one of the first population-based studies to examine mental health of adolescents with Type 1 diabetes.
With a lack of extensive data sets to track responses to climate change, we focus on laboratory-based studies to examine the potential for species to respond via evolutionary or plastic processes.
In summary, our findings indicate a novel role for CD36 in host response to mycobacterial infection and suggest that future population-based studies to examine the relationship between CD36 deficiency and susceptibility to tuberculosis would be of interest.
European and American researchers conducted several cohort-based studies to examine the potential relationship between PM and lung cancer and found a positive association between PM and lung cancer mortality.
To our knowledge, this is one of the first population-based studies to examine the association between socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods across the spectrum of diabetes phenotypes in U.S. youth.
To the best of our knowledge, this is among the first population-based studies to examine racial/ethnic disparities in diabetes treatment after implementation of the MA Healthcare Reform Act in 2006.
As a consequence, echocardiography has been used in several population-based studies to examine the prevalence and determinants of systolic and diastolic dysfunction in the community [ 3, 5– 9] and to investigate the predictive value of echocardiographic parameters for heart failure, cardiovascular disease and mortality [ 3, 7, 10– 13].
One of the few population-based studies to examine this issue directly, the Canadian Study of Health and Aging [ 18] reported a prevalence of 20.9% for those aged 65 and over according to clinical consensus compared with 13.7% according to DSM-IV criterion.
The Edenfield Centre Medium secure unit in the North of England has adopted this instrument into routine clinical practice following a series of research based validation studies to examine its utility as part of its ongoing risk assessment research program.
