Hypertension is an increasing problem in Southeast Asia, particularly Bangladesh. Although some epidemiological studies on hypertension have been conducted Bangladesh, the factors associated with this nation remain unclear. We aimed to determine among adults Bangladesh.We a cross-sectional study using data from nationally representative 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS). A total of 7,839 (3,964 women 3,875 men) aged 35 years older who participated survey was included....

Abstract Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression (BKMR) is widely used in environmental health research to model complex, nonlinear, and interactive relationships high-dimensional datasets. However, using a fixed posterior inclusion probability (PIP) threshold can lead inconsistent test size control, influenced by the coefficient of variation (CV) sample size. This study introduces dynamic thresholding approach that adapts these dataset characteristics, improving sensitivity reliability BKMR...

Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) occurs more frequently in males. Reasons behind sex differences childhood ALL risk are unknown. In the present genome-wide association study (GWAS), we explored genetic basis of by comparing genotype frequencies between male and female cases a case-only to assess effect-modification sex. The design included 236 incident consecutively recruited at Texas Children's Cancer Center Houston, from 2007 2012. All were non-Hispanic whites, aged 1 10 years,...

Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) is strongly associated with infant birthweight and the risk differs in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes (GDM).To examine of large for age (LGA) (≥97th percentile) singleton births at early term, full term late relation to maternal BMI status mediated through GDM.We analysed data from 2018 U.S. National Vital Statistics Natality File restricted (N = 3,229,783). In counterfactual models causal inference, we estimated total effect...

Abstract Objective To assess factors influencing Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS) risk, incorporating maternal demographics, behaviors, medical conditions, pregnancy-related factors, and PM2.5 speciation pollutants exposures. Methods Using Florida de-identified birth records, logistic regression analyses were conducted to associations between exposure metals during pregnancy the risk of RDS, adjusting for various covariates. Results Our findings highlight multifaceted nature RDS...

The aim of this study was to assess relationship between exposure particulate matter (PM) chemicals during pregnancy and the odd having placental abruption.The 2004 2007 Florida linked birth certificate records Environmental Protection Agency PM speciation data were used. We interested in abruption. computed adjusted odds ratios (ORs) 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs).The for abruption increased per interquartile range (IQR) increase aluminum first trimester (OR = 1.10; CI 1.02 1.18)...

Abstract Aim: To examine the association between infant mortality, day of birth and sociodemographic factors. Methods: This population‐based retrospective study analyzed all singleton live births in state Missouri during period 1989 to 1997. The main outcome interest was survival after birth. Hazard ratios (HR) 95% confidence intervals (CI) for mortality were obtained through parametric time event models. Results: neonatal rate higher on weekends (3.25/1000) compared weekdays (2.87/1000) ( P...

To determine whether maternal exposure to particulate matter (PM₂.₅) speciation chemicals during pregnancy is associated with the risk of preeclampsia.We allocated average daily values for 36 ambient mothers their first trimester and entire pregnancy. The main outcome interest was preeclampsia occurrence. Adjusted odd ratios 95% confidence intervals were computed.The odds increased per interquartile range increase in pollutants elemental carbon (odds ratio = 1.08; interval 1.01 1.16) period...

. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are the most commonly used tobacco product among adolescents. We aimed to identify factors associated with e-cigarette susceptibility and curiosity adolescents who not susceptible cigarette smoking.

Measuring Quality-of-life (QOL) and determining its correlates for hemodialysis (HD) patients is important interventions' design clinical decision-making. Three hundred thirty-six with end-stage-renal-disease (ESRD) from six centers provided data using SF-36. Descriptive analysis of QOL was conducted linear regression used to model the relationship between several covariates.Patients have mean (SD) age 55.3 (13.4) years, mainly females (56.5%), 41 60 years (47.9%), Married (61.6%), retired...

Abstract Background A telomere is a nucleoprotein structure that located at the end of chromosome. Reduced length manifests as physical ailments such increased risk age-related illnesses. These illnesses include heart disease and failure. Telomere has been studied extensively in adults; however, limited information exists regarding maternal dietary influences on fetal length. Objectives The objective this study to investigate relationship between vitamin C intake Methods Data for analysis...

Our study examines the association of presence mildew, cockroaches, and pets in homes as well household dust allergens with prevalence and/or severity allergic diseases. No has concurrently assessed home environment exposures relation to conditions general US population. Data from 5409 participants 2005–2006 National Health Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) living their current for ≥one year were analyzed. Multivariate logistic regression analyses between diseases performed. In adjusted...

Background Prior evidence of region-level differences in health outcomes and specialized healthcare services the US poses questions whether there are utilization that may account for regional outcomes. This study aimed to examine individuals with poor cardiovascular (CVH) compared those ideal/intermediate CVH. Methods In this cross-sectional analytical study, two 3-year periods (2008-2010 2018-2020) were pooled analyzed using multivariate Poisson's regression region on counts utilization,...

Community-based prevention marketing (CBPM) combines a powerful planning framework, social marketing, with community organization principles to design behavior change programs. In southwest Florida, coalition comprised of citrus workers and their employers, health providers, academic researchers is using CBPM identify occupational issues among agricultural laborers, conduct community-based participatory research, culturally appropriate interventions. This article describes how this was able...

Abstract The purpose of our investigation was to provide insight into the service domains that most heavily influenced self-reported resident satisfaction among residents in assisted living facilities. Data gathered from 2008 Press Ganey Assisted Living Survey. Satisfaction with measured using 7 subscales addressing areas activities, staff attentiveness, meals, apartment space, facility attractiveness, personal issues, and management. Generalized linear mixed models were specified assess...

In this paper, the asymptotic distribution of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived and a new confidence interval for SNR introduced. An evaluation performance compared to Sharma Krishna (S–K) (1994) using Monte Carlo simulations conducted. Data were randomly generated from normal, log-normal, χ2, Gamma, Weibull distributions. Simulations revealed that S–K totally dependent on amount noise introduced it has constant width given sample size. The performs poorly in four distributions unless...

The assessment of heavy metals' effects on human health is frequently limited to investigating one metal or a group related metals. effect metals mixture heart attack unknown.

Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression (BKMR) has emerged as a powerful tool to detect negative health effects from exposure complex multi-pollutant mixtures. However, its performance is degraded when data deviate normality. In this comprehensive simulation analysis, we show that BKMR's power and test size vary under different distributions covariance matrix structures. Our results demonstrate specifically robustness influenced by the response's coefficient of variation (CV), resulting in...

Despite significant investment, childhood malnutrition continues to be a public health problem especially in least developed countries. The aim of this study was find association between household biomass fuel (BMF) use and Bangladesh using data from Demographic Health Survey 2011. We included total 6891 children under 5 years age the analysis. prevalence wasting, underweight, stunting BMF 16.1% (n = 997; 95%CI, 15.1-17.3), 39.0% 2399; 37.1-40.9), 43.3% 2620; 41.6-45.1), respectively....

Background: Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) and cannabis (marijuana) use is rapidly increasing. Objectives: To report percentage prevalence changes over time in current (past 30 days) e-cigarette, cannabis, dual (concurrent) the population of reproductive age women (18–44 years old) United States. Methods: Our cross-sectional analysis involved data 11, 004 from Waves 1 to 3 Population Assessment Tobacco Health (PATH) Study (2013–2016). We estimated weighted 95% confidence intervals (CIs)...