This study aimed to validate the effectiveness of the Osteoporosis Self-assessment Tool for Asians (OSTA) in identifying postmenopausal women at increased risk of primary osteoporosis and painful new osteoporotic vertebral fractures in a large selected Han Chinese population in Beijing.
Therefore, the objective of this study was to validate the effectiveness of OSTA as an assessment tool for identifying postmenopausal women at increased risk of primary osteoporosis and recent painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures in a large selected Han Chinese population in Beijing.
36 A short 9-item instrument was developed for use in large surveys, selecting items from the original 24-item Malaise Inventory through principal components analysis, 37 the selected items are also the highest scoring questions reported in a previous factor analysis.
2012b), and because in large-selected line males were generally larger, large-selected females could have released more eggs toward them compared to random line, where fewer females were coupled with a large male.
The prevalence of allodynia in adults approaches the 70% in large migraine populations, selected by mailing questionnaires [10].
Typically, small molecules in large libraries are selected for druglike properties through computational filters.
Two of the study sites were the Health Centres (HCs) in two large purposively selected remote Aboriginal communities in northern Australia, located approximately 500 km from the major urban centre, Darwin.
Data from the present report is drawn from all females in a large, randomly selected cohort of firefighters in an epidemiological study designed to assess health outcomes and health risk behaviors identified as most important to the fire service.
Data from the present report is drawn from all females in a large, randomly selected cohort of firefighters in an epidemiological study designed to assess health outcomes and health risk behaviors identified as most important to the fire service in overall.
We examine the effect of social support on cognitive function in a large sample selected to represent a cross-section of the elderly population in Taiwan.
