Sentences with phrase «status at baseline»

In the study by Muratori et al. [24] involving children with disruptive behaviour disorder, a higher level of socio - economic status at baseline was related to lower level of CU traits.

The study also found that only a subgroup of men was at increased risk of prostate cancer from taking vitamin E. Among men with low selenium status at baseline, vitamin E supplementation increased their total risk of prostate cancer by 63 percent and increased the risk of high - grade cancer by 111 percent.

For that reason, researchers measured the concentration of selenium in participants» toenails and planned to test whether selenium supplementation would benefit only the subset of men with low selenium status at baseline.

Instead, they found that taking selenium supplements increased the risk of high - grade cancer by 91 percent among men with high selenium status at baseline.

«Intuitively, many had thought that men with «poor» nutritional status at baseline may benefit more from long - term multivitamin use on cardiovascular outcomes; however, we did not see any evidence for this in our recent analysis,» said corresponding author Howard Sesso, ScD, MPH, of the Division of Preventive Medicine and the Division of Aging at BWH.

Not exact matches

At the time of recruitment, all participants were invited to complete a baseline questionnaire that contained demographic information that included age, marital status, occupation, educational level and nationality.

Trained health workers administered a laptop - based questionnaire at baseline that covered demographic and socioeconomic status, lifestyle factors, and medical history.

Patient clinical characteristics, including age, sex, ethnicity, college and work status, body mass index (BMI), smoking, comorbidities, level of back and leg pain, self - assessment of general health and treatment preference, were reviewed at baseline.

Despite the worse status of the intervention group at baseline, the study showed a trend for improvement in quality of life at three months and clinically meaningful improvement at four months.

It also accelerates an upward - sloping population trend in agreeableness for students from low socioeconomic status, boosting agreeableness scores from the lowest levels observed at baseline to the highest levels at the eight - year follow up.

In analyses adjusting for known risk factors for diabetes, including age, sex, body mass index, neck circumference, smoking, income status and comorbidities at baseline, patients with an AHI > 30 had a 30 % higher risk of developing diabetes than those with an AHI < 5.

Baseline characteristics and factors associated with nutritional and pulmonary status at enrollment in the cystic fibrosis EPIC observational cohort.

The Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) and Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes (CDR - SB) were administered at baseline and then annually for up to five years.

Similarly, among men (1523 with 111 cases), significant risk reductions were still seen with fruit fiber [HRs (95 % CI): 0.94 (0.61, 1.44) and 0.47 (0.28, 0.80), respectively; P for trend: 0.004, adjusted for age, current smoking, underweight status, and use of corticosteroids at baseline], and fruit consumption [multivariate HRs (95 % CI): 0.90 (0.58, 1.39) and 0.59 (0.36, 0.98), respectively; P for trend: 0.04].

Smoking was assessed at baseline and the following 4 visits through self report and categorized as current and noncurrent smoking status.

In addition, we controlled for minority status in our model, which should further alleviate concerns that the groups were different at baseline.

Consistent with a hypothesis that data are missing at random, several baseline demographic, but not outcome, variables predicted missingness including marital status (odds ratio [OR] = 3.4), parent age (OR = 0.92), child age (OR = 1.96), and non-white or Hispanic race / ethnicity (OR = 2.6).

These analyses will take into account maternal baseline and child characteristics identified a priori, for example, child's gender and age (at assessment), and maternal age, parity, antenatal risk, self - efficacy, mental health, education and socioeconomic status.

Table 1 presents the general characteristics of study participants at baseline by employment status.

The findings reported herein suggest that remission of maternal depression over 3 months is statistically significantly associated with reduction in children's current symptoms and diagnoses after controlling for the child's age and sex, baseline symptoms, socioeconomic status (annual household income), as well as severity of maternal depression at baseline, mother's treatment setting, and the child's treatment status over the 3 - month follow - up.

However, there were no differences based on race / ethnicity, maternal education, smoking status, low birth weight, or maternal IPV at baseline between those who completed the 36 - month assessment and those who did not.

Formal tests to determine if the above rates of changes in children's diagnoses varied with mothers» remission status were statistically significant (P =.02), and remained significant after further adjusting for maternal depression severity at baseline, maternal treatment setting, annual household income, and child treatment status during the 3 - month follow - up interval (P =.01).

At 12 months, after controlling for baseline, when comparing perceptions of monitoring and communication between FOK plus ImPACT (only) and FOK plus ImPACT plus boosters, perceptions of parental monitoring and open communication did not differ by intervention status.

Depressive status, physical and mental health, functional status and quality of life were measured at baseline, 10 weeks and six months using established, validated tools.

Baseline covariates included in regression models were site of enrollment (hospital or office), age of child at interview, and characteristics of the mother (age, education, race / ethnicity, employment), father (employment), family (marital status / father in household, number of siblings, owned home, income), and infant (low birth weight, source of payment for care).

Baseline drinking status (ever vs never tried alcohol) did not predict attrition, but to account for attrition bias related to other variables, estimation was carried out after multiple imputation using the standard missing at random assumption (ie, missing data are assumed missing at random conditional on observed predictors included in the model).27 The imputation model included all the predictors in the alcohol models plus a number of auxiliary variables that were not of direct theoretical interest but were nonetheless predictive of missingness so as to improve the quality of the imputations and make the missing at random assumption more plausible.28

Couple marital status had a slight association (borderline probability, p = 0.07): among fathers who were not married to the child's mother at the 10 month baseline, 17 % had a poor father - child relationship at age 10, compared to 14 % of married fathers.

Parental history of smoking, drinking and illicit drug use, occupation and marital status, comorbidities of parents and children, and household income will be recorded at baseline and follow - ups.

Responder status was determined in 2 different ways: independent evaluator score of 2 or lower on the CGI and self - reported improvement of at least 20 points (2 SDs above baseline mean) on the ICG.

This study employs prospective longitudinal data (N = 189) to investigate the effects of foster care on the development of child behavior and psychological functioning taking into account baseline adaptation prior to placement and socioeconomic status at the time of placement.