Sfoglia per Soggetto "Epidemiology"
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Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Central Greece: The Role of Clinical and Endoscopic Variables in Bleeding Outcome
(2009)The objectives of this work were to portray the incidence of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in central Greece and to define subsets at higher risk of poor outcome or death. Two hundred and sixty-four cases were recorded. ... -
Annual risk of tuberculosis infection in hellenic air force recruits
(2013)Background: The annual risk of Tuberculosis infection (ARTI) is a key indicator in epidemiology, of the extent of transmission in a community. There have been several suggested methods in order to evaluate the prevalence ... -
Assessing the Quality of Reporting of Observational Studies in Cancer
(2010)PURPOSE: The vast majority of epidemiological studies in cancer are observational. However, inadequate reporting of the published observational studies (OS) may restrict the generalizability and credibility of study results. ... -
Descriptive epidemiology of chronic hepatitis B by using data from a hepatitis registry in Central Greece
(2009)Background: In Greece, there are few data on the epidemiological characteristics of HBV. Our aim was to study the epidemiological patterns of HBV in Central Greece and identify the possible differences in HBV prevalence ... -
An early warning indicator for monitoring infectious animal diseases and its application in the case of a sheep pox epidemic
(2017)We describe an early warning indicator for monitoring infectious diseases. The approach is illustrated with data from a major sheep pox epidemic, which occurred in the Evros prefecture of Greece, from August 2013 until the ... -
Epidemiology and importance of renal dysfunction in heart failure patients
(2013)Renal dysfunction (RD) is a frequent comorbid condition and a major determinant of outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF). It is likely that the etiology of RD in patients with HF is much more complex than we first ... -
Intrafamilial spread of hepatitis B virus infection in Greece
(2005)Objective: No study has investigated the intrafamilial spread of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in Greece. We conducted a 9-year prospective study to determine the rate of HBV spread in family members when a member is identified ... -
LIDS - An easy to use and lightweight, infectious disease simulator
(2021)The progression of infectious diseases, biological viruses and quick spreading pathogens is difficult to analyze, forecast and prevent. Many epidemiological compartmental models have been developed over the years to predict ... -
Low back pain psychosocial risk factors
(2008)Introduction: Low back pain is currently a major health problem for the western societies as it usually leads to inability to work, use of health services and sick leaves. Psychosocial work characteristics are considered ... -
On self-organising mechanisms from social, business and economic domains
(2006)This paper discusses examples of socially inspired self-organisation approaches and their use to build socially-aware, self-organising computing systems. The paper presents different mechanisms originating from existing ... -
Phenotypes of comorbidity in OSAS patients: Combining categorical principal component analysis with cluster analysis
(2015)Phenotyping obstructive sleep apnea syndrome's comorbidity has been attempted for the first time only recently. The aim of our study was to determine phenotypes of comorbidity in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome patients ... -
Prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Cyprus: A Population-Based Study
(2012)Background: The prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Cyprus is largely unknown. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of COPD in Cyprus through a spirometry population-based program ... -
Recovery of Salmonella enterica from seropositive finishing pig herds
(2003)The aim of this study was to assess the probability of detecting Salmonella from pen faecal samples in seropositive classified finishing pig herds. The study involved 77 herds from Denmark (20), The Netherlands (20), Greece ... -
Using Combined Diagnostic Test Results to Hindcast Trends of Infection from Cross-Sectional Data
(2016)Infectious disease surveillance is key to limiting the consequences from infectious pathogens and maintaining animal and public health. Following the detection of a disease outbreak, a response in proportion to the severity ...