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Family Talk for substance use prevention
(2019)Family Talk is an intervention to prevent substance use initiation and progression among teen and young adult children of adults with substance use disorders. It has not yet been piloted or tested. This manual was developed ... -
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease during the Post-Partum Year
(Taylor & Francis, 2005)OBJECTIVE: To investigate the occurrence of, and risk factors for, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) occurring during the post-partum year. METHODS: Demographic and clinical data for women who delivered a term infant with ... -
Implications for Registry-Based Vaccine Effectiveness Studies from an Evaluation of an Immunization Registry: A Cross-Sectional Study
(BioMed Central, 2008-5-14)BACKGROUND. Population-based electronic immunization registries create the possibility of using registry data to conduct vaccine effectiveness studies which could have methodological advantages over traditional observational ... -
An Obesity Dietary Quality Index Predicts Abdominal Obesity in Women: Potential Opportunity for New Prevention and Treatment Paradigms
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2010-1-5)Background. Links between dietary quality and abdominal obesity are poorly understood. Objective. To examine the association between an obesity-specific dietary quality index and abdominal obesity risk in women. Methods. ... -
Association Between Air Pollution and Low Birth Weight: A Community-Based Study
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1997-05)The relationship between maternal exposure to air pollution during periods of pregnancy (entire and specific periods) and birth weight was investigated in a well-defined cohort. Between 1988 and 1991, all pregnant women ... -
Community Case Management of Fever Due to Malaria and Pneumonia in Children Under Five in Zambia: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
(Public Library of Science, 2010-9-21)In a cluster randomized trial, Kojo Yeboah-Antwi and colleagues find that integrated management of malaria and pneumonia in children under five by community health workers is both feasible and effective. BACKGROUND. ... -
Detection of Multiple Strains of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Using Miru-Vntr in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda
(BioMed Central, 2010-12-10)BACKGROUND: Many studies using DNA fingerprinting to differentiate Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) strains reveal single strains in cultures, suggesting that most disease is caused by infection with a single strain. ... -
Sialic Acid Mediated Transcriptional Modulation of a Highly Conserved Sialometabolism Gene Cluster in Haemophilus Influenzae and Its Effect on Virulence
(BioMed Central, 2010-2-16)BACKGROUND: Sialic acid has been shown to be a major virulence determinant in the pathogenesis of otitis media caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae. This study aimed to characterise the expression of genes required ...
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