Design Cross-sectional analysis was carried out using the first wave data from MELoR which is a longitudinal study. Setting Urban community dwellers in a middle-income South East Asian country.

"When" and "how" the dentist intervenes have repercussions on children's physical and emotional patterns. The objective of the present study was to conduct a longitudinal behavioral analysis during ...

DISCUSSION This study showed that the supraspinatus tendon shear modulus varies with advancing age. In fact, younger patients, between 20 and 35 years of age, presented a mean shear modulus of 23.28 ± ...

Upon qualitative analysis of characteristics with data not suitable for pooling, 5 additional positive predictors and 4 additional negative predictors of warfarin use were identified.

Objectives Increasing access to skilled birth attendance, usually via childbirth in health facilities, is a key intervention to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Yet, in some ...

Analysis of the EV71 incidence data by age group revealed that age Group 1 have the highest incidence (3.13 ×10 −7 –2.31 ×10 −4) while age group 3 had the lowest incidence (0–3.54 ×10 −5).

Background Over the past three decades, significant disparities in the global burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been observed, particularly CVD attributed to secondhand smoke. However, a ...

Development of simple, fast, and non-invasive tests for lung cancer diagnostics is essential for clinical practice. In this paper, exhaled breath and skin were studied as potential objects to diagnose ...

Results: The Grounded Theory results found that factors influencing the childcare needs of parents of infants and toddlers aged 0–3 years include Childcare Center Management, Teacher Professionalism, ...

The papers in this special section focus on skin image analysis using deep learning applications. Skin is the largest organ of the human body, and is the first area of a patient assessed by clinical ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls could be older than once thought, a new study suggests. According to Mladen Popović, lead author of the report published in PLOS One, the analysis used both ...