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Socioeconomic considerations in the health of urban areas
(Springer-Verlag; New York Academy of Medicine, 1998-06)
Stress and female reproductive function: A study of daily variations in cortisol, gonadotrophins, and gonadal steroids in a rural Mayan population
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-09)
We report here on a longitudinal study of stress and women's reproduction in a small Kaqchikel Mayan community in rural Guatemala. Current understanding of the effects of stress on the reproductive axis in women is mostly ...
Bias reduction for risk ratio and vaccine effect estimators
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2001-06-15)
We examine the structural bias for established estimators of vaccine effects on susceptibility and for newer estimates of vaccine effects on infectiousness. We then propose and analyse new bias corrections for vaccine ...
Gender- and age-dependent relationships between E-selectin S128R polymorphism and coronary artery calcification
(Springer-Verlag, 2001-07)
Development and progression of atherosclerosis involves recruitment and binding of circulating leukocytes to areas of inflammation within the vascular endothelium mediated by a diverse array of cellular adhesion molecules. ...
The education of one spouse and the fatness of the other spouse
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1989)
As shown in 702 wives with 9–12 years of education and 612 husbands similarly educated, the summed skinfolds of one spouse are influenced by the educational level of the other spouse, considerably so for the husbands. Women ...
Relation between coronary risk and coronary mortality in women of the Renfrew and Paisley survey: comparison with men
(Elsevier, 1992-03-21)
Most epidemiological and intervention studies in patients with coronary artery disease have focused on men, the assumption being that such data can be extrapolated to women. However, there is little evidence to support ...