In a former cross-sectional study, 203 registered nurses were tested for medication knowledge [ 16].
The results of the present study confirm those of our former cross-sectional study.
Fetuin-A is known to be a negative acute phase reactant [ 26], and in accordance with former cross-sectional studies in dialysis patients demonstrating a negative association between levels of Crp and fetuin-A [ 25, 27], we even found a negative correlation between changes in these parameters.
In the former study, cross-sectional BMD was not related to fracture prevalence, and in the latter, cross-sectional BMD was actually higher in the fracture group.
Clinical measurement, cross sectional.
DESIGN: : Cross sectional surveys.
Cross sectional survey in 2006.
Cross sectional survey carried out in Japan.
As former smokers in the cross-sectional KORA sample are about 8 years older than current smokers, they incur a higher probability of suffering from smoking-related disease with a delayed onset whereas health damage resulting of smoking may not yet have been revealed in current smokers.
In a US cross-sectional study, former smoking was positively associated with the prevalence of asthma among males, whereas no association was observed between current smoking and the prevalence of asthma [ 6].
To understand how abduction and the process of reintegration had affected former LRA combatants we analyzed a cross-sectional survey that was conducted in eight districts of northern Uganda between March and June 2007.
