Excerpts

This heralds a worrying trend in Malaysia since at present more than a quarter of its population is aged 15 and below [ 35 ].

Among those with CCI<3, there was a positive trend between the mortality score and all-cause mortality as well as circulatory disease-specific death.

Participants with a high school education or greater were more likely to hold this belief and, while only marginally significant, we observed several other effects of higher levels of education on beliefs targeted by the text4baby messages, as noted above.

First, there may be significant variation in HP attention and impact.

Three studies [ 27 , 29 , 31 ] reported on the effect of a combined intervention on the incidence of caesarean section, and all showed a trend toward decreased prevalence but this was not large enough to be statistically significant.

In fact, two out of three men are overweight and one of every six is obese, with a clear trend to increase in the forthcoming years [ 3 ].

On the other hand, prevalence of undernutrition showed an increasing trend between 6 to 18 months of age, decreasing thereafter at 24 months (Figure 2 B).

Together, these findings suggest a decreasing trend in the burden of childhood diseases over the years in this region, possibly due to better access to health care, although the overall disease burden still remains high.

Across age groups, there was a decreasing trend with age in overweight and obesity but this trend was only significant for overweight (p<0.001).

There was an increasing trend in overweight and obesity from poorest to richest families and the trend was significant for overweight (p<0.001).

The OR of susceptibility showed a decreasing trend (0.93-fold) with each quartile of increased perception of social risks; in multiple analysis, the trend was 0.95-fold (Table 3 ).

A two-tailed p < 0.05 was considered significant, with p < 0.10 considered marginally significant.

As there is an increasing trend in both obesity and atopic disease in China [ 1 , 9 ], further understanding the underlying mechanism is important for planning intervention strategies for both obesity and atopic disorders.

A negative trend in self-rated health with gradually poorer self-ratings observed in later years of investigation was recently reported, based on data from the same study population [ 29 ].

In a recent systematic review about interventions to prevent obesity among children aged 0–5 years, seven of twenty-five studies had included younger than 2 years of age, but just two had reported anthropometric measurements, one of them finding a positive trend towards overweight prevention [ 41 ].

Cuzick’s non-parametric test for trend was used to assess whether a significant trend was evident for LTPA across increasing environment score categories and across increasing psychosocial score categories.

Because the onset date of implementation did not have a clear trend, and no relationship was detected between the explanatory factors and the onset of the implementation (data not shown), only rapid implementation was analyzed as the outcome in the present study.

There was no indication of excess risk when analysing ever/never exposure status, and there were no clear dose–response patterns, although the top category of duration to diesel exhaust emissions did manifest a borderline significant OR of 1.3 (95% CI: 1.0-1.8).

The multivariate logistic regression analyses in Table 5 reveal that the level of action planning at baseline only predicted smoking cessation for smokers motivated to quit within a month at the first follow-up, and had only a borderline significant effect on smoking cessation for the total population at the first follow-up.

which may be significant is I use the voice recognition software and I find that I can pace or walk and talk like I can think about what I’m saying.

For male lung SCC, the townships where Cr>1.23 mg/kg have highly significant RR values (RR=1.49, 95% CI=1.37–1.61).

As to SES-obesity distributions, we found that along with the progress of education level, obesity proportions were drastically decreasing only in women, and by contrast, a positive trend was found between income and obesity proportions only in men.

Importance of HIT policy for public health Despite their different disciplines, the informants were largely in agreement that HIT policy was highly significant for public health practice and that HIT policy should improve public health outcomes.

A meta-analysis from 1991 showed that the effect sizes were on a decreasing trend as divorce became more common [ 2 ] but still this problem seems to have increased in the 1990s as some social forces have operated more strongly to disadvantage children from divorced families [ 1 ].

The rates showed an increasing trend with age for both diabetes incidence (from 405 per 100,000 in the 25–34 year age group to 5085 per 100,000 in the ≥75 year age group), and diabetes mortality rate (from 0 to 1120 per 100,000 in the 25–34 year and the ≥75 year age groups, respectively).