[PDF] Top 20 Health-related behavior and quality of life among the elderly: a population-based study

... A population-based cross-sectional study was carried out using data from the Multi-Center Health Survey in the State of São Paulo (ISA-SP), 2001–2002 in four areas ... See full document

... to the international context, the United States of America (USA) a population-based stu- dy indicated that the presence of social support in searchable elderly is ... See full document

... age of 72 years, in accordance with previous elderly studies performed in Brazil ...Regarding the marital status, a high self-perception was expected from divorced, single and widower subjects ... See full document

... Materials and methods: Eighty-one individuals with chronic hepatitis C virus infection receiv- ing care at a Brazilian public university-based outpatient service for infectious diseases were enrolled in ... See full document

... composed of two interviewers and two clinical examiners. The team was previously trained by the study coordinator in order to standardize ...supervision and security provided by ... See full document

... disease and retinopathy), were included in the ...history of diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, lung disease (including asthma), cancer, musculoskeletal illness, ... See full document

... variety of forms of extension of gingivitis [gingival bleeding on probing, normative treatment needs, sextants], recorded by CPI, found worse OHRQoL in a wide age-range of population ... See full document

... oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) may be affected by the sense of coherence (SOC), but there are no epidemiological studies investigating this association in ... See full document

... that the perception of health, psychological and physical domains in association with environmental conditions strongly marked by the residential context and lifestyle, in ... See full document

... issues related to positive and negative feelings, concentration, self-esteem, appearance, spirituality and personal ...Although the study revealed higher scores in the ... See full document

... with the indicator related to soft tissue abnormalities. The majority of individuals who lived in residences with less than ...prevalence of injuries. This association could be ... See full document

... conclusions of this study are: 1) There is a considerate prevalence of caffeine consumption among adolescents: ...19.8% and 19.0% of the adolescents drink coffee ... See full document

... part of the DOVE project ( http:// ...evaluate the frequency of IPV and health- related associated ...In the present study, participants were ... See full document

... carrying the same mutation, most subjects experience neuropathic pain and autonomic symptoms, such as gastrointestinal, urinary and erectile dysfunction, and orthostatic hypotension ...As ... See full document

... this study reveals and independent and significant association with OHIP scores for total and all ...than the non-seropositive group, which present a DMFt index of ...positive ... See full document

... that the common ground for a better or worse Health-related Quality of Life is the underlying personality, a study [67] was conducted among IBD patients ... See full document

... HRQoL and QoL have been assessed through various instruments over the ...as the Short-Form 36 (SF-36) or the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) were the most widely used to assess ... See full document

... taste and smell well’, ‘access to food at low prices’, and ‘being able to get around on ...taste and smell well’, ‘a good appetite’, and ‘access to food at low ...terms of ‘good cooking ... See full document

... This study aims to characterize the HRQoL of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and other precapillary forms of PH (pcPH) and to explore its clinical ... See full document

... municipality of Bambuí has 20 573 inhabitants, with 73% of them living in the urban area of the munici- pality, that is, the town of ...1996, life expectancy was 70 ... See full document