After controlling for age, body mass index, race, smoking and other factors, researchers found that those who got less than seven hours of sleep a night were almost three times as likely to have clinical symptoms as those who got eight or more.
The multivariate linear regression model controlled for confounders (gender, ASA, body mass index, race, smoking status, anesthesia type and comorbidities) previously found to be associated with the outcome (i.e. prolonged LOS).
The purpose of this study was to quantify the risk for anal incontinence and difficult defecation among women with prolapse by comparing them with women without prolapse of similar age, body mass index, race, and hysterectomy status, and to determine whether there are characteristics or findings in women with prolapse that are associated with greater symptom severity.
After controlling for body mass index, race and family income, the results were telling: Girls in junior high reported less body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, thin-ideal internalization, body surveillance and body shame than girls in middle school or extended middle school.
Moreover, neither were any of the covariates of age, charlson comorbidity index, race or gender statistically significant.
2 The multivariable model is adjusted for age, body mass index, race, smoking status, history of diabetes, and height.
As the Nasdaq composite index raced toward a record high that March, Dragon's executives made fateful decisions.
The pound surged and London's blue chip index raced ahead, with the FTSE 100 index up by 150 points, or 2%, at one stage.
The pound surged and London's blue chip index raced ahead following the shock result in the UK general election which returned David Cameron to Downing Street with a majority.
In the past year, the Consumer Price Index went up a mere 2%, but the Forbes Cost of Living Extremely Well Index raced ahead 4%.
The three main indexes raced lower by about 1 percent shortly after the market opened, responding to the Commerce Department's report that gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 1.3 percent in the second quarter, well below analysts' forecasts.
