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PubMed1981

Brazil.

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PubMed1983

Scandinavia.

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PubMed1997

Urinary 1-hydroxypyrene as a marker of exposure to pyrene: an epidemiological survey on a general population group.

Urinary levels of 1-hydroxypyrene in a general adult population group are studied. Experimental data are not normally distributed; statistical analysis required a base 10 logarithmic transformation of data. The concentrations of urinary 1-hydroxypyrene measured were expressed as microgram g-1 urinary creatinine and are comparable with those reported by other authors, both for smoker and non-smoker subgroups. Multiple regression analysis shows that, for smokers, the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the body mass index (BMI) significantly influence the levels of urinary 1-hydroxypyrene expressed as microgram g-1 urinary creatinine, whereas no personal or behavioural variable (age, sex, alcohol consumption, dietary intake of pyrene, BMI) modified the 1-hydroxypyrene levels for non-smokers.

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PubMed1983

Birthweights in Goroka and Kainantu Hospitals.

Birthweight data for 4474 live, healthy, singleton, full-term births of 2000g or over were analysed. The mean birthweights were 3136 +/- 445g at Goroka, and 3106 +/- 473g at Kainantu. Birthweights varied with sex, region of maternal origin, season and birth order, but not with year. Significant influences on Goroka birthweight values were, in order of importance, birth order, sex and season.

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PubMed1985

[Magnesium, calcium, zinc, potassium, total and HDL cholesterol and total creatine kinase in 37 cases of instable angina: a correlation study].

Plasma and erythrocyte magnesium (P-Mg, E-Mg), zinc (P-Zn, E-Zn) and potassium (P-K, E-K), plasma calcium (P-Ca), HDL-cholesterol and total cholesterol and total creatine kinase (TCK) were determined in 37 cases (26 men, 11 women) of unstable angina pectoris (UAP) on the first day of hospitalization. The same variables, except P-K and TCK, were measured in 58 male and 53 female reference subjects. The methods of measurement were emission spectrometry for K, atomic absorption spectrometry for Mg, Ca and Zn, and the R CK NAC-activated Merckotest for TCK. According to the normality of distributions, statistical analysis of results was performed either by parametric or nonparametric tests. Multiple (R), simple (r) and Spearman (rs) correlation coefficients were calculated, and only significant correlations (p less than or equal to 0.05) were accepted. There was no significant R for UAP patients. For UAP men, r was negative and significant between P-Mg and E-K, but positive between P-Ca and P-Zn, as for reference subjects; and rs was negative and significant between P-Zn and TCK. For UAP women, only rs was positive and significant, between P-Mg and TCK. In the UAP population, contrary to the reference population, there were no significant differences relative to sex. In comparison with reference men, UAP men presented a significant (p less than 0.005) increase in E-Mg and significant (p less than 0.001) decreases in P-Ca and P-Zn.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed2000

Estimating age-related trends in cross-sectional studies using S-distributions.

Growth trends in children are often based on cross-sectional studies, in which a sample of the population is investigated at one given point in time. Estimating age-related percentiles in such studies involves fitting data distributions, each of which is specific for one age group, and a subsequent smoothing of the percentile curves. The first requirement for this process is the selection of a distributional form that is expected to be consistent with the observed data. If a goodness-of-fit test reveals significant discrepancies between the data and the best-fitting member of this distributional form, an alternative distribution must be found. In practice, there is seldom an objective argument for selecting any particular distribution. Also, different distributions can yield very similar fits, so that any selection is somewhat arbitrary. Finally, the shapes of the observed distributions may change throughout the age range so drastically that no single traditional distribution can fit them all in a satisfactory manner. To overcome these difficulties in population studies, non-parametric smoothing techniques and normalizing transformations have been used to derive percentile curves. In this paper we present an alternative strategy in the form of a flexible parametric family of statistical distributions: the S-distribution. We suggest a method that guides the search for well-fitting S-distributions for groups of observed distributions. The method is first tested with simulated data sets and subsequently applied to actual weight distributions of girls of different ages. As far as the results can be tested, they are consistent with observations and with results from other methods.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Unemployment and marital dissolution.

"This paper analyses the effects of unemployment on the probability of marital dissolution. Based on panel data for a sample of Danish married couples, we estimate a dynamic model for the probability of marital dissolution where we take into account the possible effects of unemployment for both spouses. We also control for other factors such as education, age, presence of children, place of residence, health and economic factors. The empirical results show that unemployment seems to be an important factor behind marital instability. However, only unemployment of the husband has an effect, and this effect is immediate."

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PubMed1986

Normative and reliability data for the Children's Depression Inventory.

The present study was undertaken to examine some of the psychometric properties of the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), a self-report inventory devised by Kovacs and Beck (1977) to measure depression in children and adolescents. Normative and reliability data were obtained from three independent samples taken from eight public schools in central Pennsylvania. Age- and gender-related differences in reported characteristics of depression were also investigated. The subjects were 594 males and 658 females whose ages ranged from 8 to 16 years and whose combined mean age was 11.67 years (SD = 1.91). The CDI was group-administered to all 1,252 subjects; 155 fifth-grade subjects (77 males and 78 females) were retested after 3 weeks, and 107 seventh- and eight-grade subjects (45 males and 62 females) were retested after 1 year. The distribution statistics for the combined samples yielded an overall CDI mean of 9.09, a standard deviation of 7.04, and a cutoff score of 19 for the upper 10% of the distribution. Reliability assessed through coefficient alpha, item-total score product-moment correlations, and test-retest coefficients proved acceptable. Gender differences were obtained for several item-total score correlations and for test-retest reliability of CDI scores.

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PubMed1986

Factor analysis of some socio-economic and demographic variables for Bangladesh.

The author carries out an exploratory factor analysis of some socioeconomic and demographic variables for Bangladesh using the classical or common factor approach with the varimax rotation method. The socioeconomic and demographic indicators used in this study include literacy, rate of growth, female employment, economic development, urbanization, population density, childlessness, sex ratio, proportion of women ever married, and fertility. The 18 administrative districts of Bangladesh constitute the unit of analysis. 3 common factors--modernization, fertility, and social progress--are identified in this study to explain the correlations among the set of selected socioeconomic and demographic variables.

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PubMed1987

[[Recent life expectancy of Koreans in Japan, 1980 and 1985]].

Two abridged life tables for Koreans living in Japan for 1980 and 1985 are constructed using vital statistics and census data. Among the findings are that "the expectations of life at birth of Korean males in Japan are 68.4 in 1980 and 70.3 in 1985, whereas those values of Korean females in Japan are 78.3 in 1980 and 78.7 in 1985, respectively. Recent life expectancies of Koreans in Japan have come to resemble those of Japanese more than those of Koreans in Korea." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

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