Our results may cautiously suggest that preventing malnutrition by nutritional therapy might exert a positive influence on cause-specific survival.
Identification of confounding factors, evaluation of their influence on cause-effect associations, and the introduction of appropriate ways to account for these factors are important considerations in designing case-control studies.
Final regression model mutually adjusted for all significant covariates; male sex, comorbidity (Charlson index), social class, mean methadone dose (≥60 mg daily), and volume of methadone prescribing by practice were assessed unadjusted but had no significant influence on cause specific mortality (P>0.2) and so were excluded from final model.
The Vlagtwedde/Vlaardingen cohort, which has been followed up for over 40 years, offers us the unique possibility to investigate the presence and severity of respiratory symptoms over lifetime and their influence on all-cause and cause-specific mortality.
The best way to honor the death of a celebrity, or anyone for that matter, is to think of their influence on the causes they supported, and support those ourselves.
Undernutrition and infection in childhood are major determinants of a short life expectancy, while physical activity and diet have greater influence on the causes of morbidity and mortality among ageing populations.
Michael Jordan, likely the most important American athlete since Muhammad Ali, has been criticized for failing to exert his vast influence on any cause greater than footwear.
If a person walks close to one of its mirrors, his or her mass will be sufficient to exert a tiny gravitational influence on it, causing the mirror to shift.
"It is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010," the draft report says.
According to a sentence in a draft of the report, which could still change: "It is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010".
