In the asthma study, we found increased
odds among asthma patients
of asthma
hospitalizations, emergency department visits and a medication used for mild asthma attacks with higher unconventional natural gas development activity, compared to those with lower activity.
Administration
of chemotherapy to patients hospitalized with diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) was associated with lower
odds of death during
hospitalization, according to the results
of a study published in Cancer Epidemiology.
Other variables (maternal parity, housing stability,
hospitalization, perceived health status, employment, use
of the Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program, and cigarette smoking; whether the mother was living with a partner; and infant gestational age, birth weight, need for transfer to an intensive care nursery, health insurance, special needs, health status as perceived by the mother, and age at the time
of the survey) were included if the adjusted
odds ratio differed from the crude
odds ratio by at least 10 %, which is a well - accepted method
of confounder selection when the decision
of whether to adjust is unclear.42, 43 Any variable associated with both the predictor (depression) and the outcome (infant health services use, parenting practices, or injury - prevention measures) at P <.25, as suggested by Mickey and Greenland, 42 was also included.