[PDF] Top 20 Hypertension Prevalence in Portugal: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Population-based Studies on 21th Century

... the studies (see supplementary material, section ...people. In Portugal not everyone have a family doctor or are enrolled in PHC(74) ,thus the studies that used PHC lists could not took ... See full document

... Minnesota studies had different study designs to validate claims-based administrative algorithms similar to the NDSS ...O’Connor and colleagues [39] validated computerized insurance databases ... See full document

... limitations in this meta-analysis should be ...HRs of ALT- related mortality in the older population were mainly obtained from the European populations ...burden of HBV ... See full document

... analysis of countries in the Middle East, endemic for MDR- TB, will provide comprehensive information about MDR-TB which will be useful for stakeholders, such as policy makers, health professionals’ ... See full document

... Although systematic reviews on the prevalence of BD have been previously published, 14,16,17 we have not identified studies that have statistically treated their findings through ...the ... See full document

... number of cryptorchidism cases, controls or non-cases or person years, exposure categories, adjusted or crude relative risk (RR), odds ratio (OR), hazard ratio (HR), or prevalence ratio (PR) with 95% ... See full document

... quality of the included studies we used six criteria based on the STROBE statement [30] to grade the included studies, as seen in Table ...description of the study ... See full document

... one studies included in the meta-analysis, nine different population groups were described in seven out of the 12 South American countries during a period spanning from ... See full document

... Results of the primary analysis were not changed in the sensitivity analysis (Table ...alternative meta-analysis including longitudinal studies and those conducted ... See full document

... A meta-regression was conducted to identify sources of between- study heterogeneity using Stata ...The prevalence of PPH for each study was transformed into an odds before conducting the ... See full document

... definitions and descriptions of hypoglycaemia used bythe 46 studies included in the systematic review are summarised in Table ...All studies were observational, ... See full document

... Definition of barriers. Barriers to HT control in this systematic review were defined as any factor limiting the performance of a required behavior by patients or providers [6] to ... See full document

... articles on the subject in the various data sources and selected the eight ones that were randomized controlled trials, with data ...the meta-analysis of 439 patients involved ... See full document

... error in reference ...study of panitumumab with fluorouracil, leucovorin, and irinotecan(FOLFIRI) compared with FOLFIRI alone as second- line treatment in patients with metastaticcolorectal ... See full document

... This review has some limitations. The PsycINFO and EMBASE databases were not included in the searches; however, the review included the most used and consulted databases in ... See full document

... “general population” as opposed to hospital-based or data- base of death certiicate ...hospital- based stroke registers or incomplete mortality data may dis- tort results because of ... See full document

... pregnancy and childbirth are the leading causes of disability and death among women of reproductive age in developing countries, constituting at least 18% of the global burden ... See full document

... epicondylitis of the elbow, the present study produced dis- couraging results from prospective analysis on two different validated assessment scales, in relation to the increasingly ... See full document

... strengths of this review include the use of internation- ally recommended methods for study identification and selection, quality assessment and ...this meta- analysis ... See full document

... Headings) and key words in PubMed, Scopus and Chocrane: celiac disease, transglutaminase antibody, anti- gliadin antibody, gliadin antibody, deamidated gliadin antibody, endomysial antibody, anti ... See full document