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A positive or a negative confounding variable? A simple teaching aid for clinicians and students

Mehio-Sibai A.; Feinleib M.; Sibai T.A.; Armenian H.K. (NEW YORK360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA, 2005)

Anticipating the direction of a confounding variable can be problematic especially to introductory students. Using elementary rules of mathematics, we describe below a simple instructional tool for deriving the direction ...
A rapid situation assessment (RSA) study of alcohol and drug use in Lebanon

Karam E.G.; Ghandour L.A.; Maalouf W.E.; Yamout K.; Salamoun M.M. (2010)

BACKGROUND : Research on substance use and misuse in Lebanon is scarce and, when available, focuses on a specific substance or a limited segment of the population. The objective of this Rapid Situation Assessment (RAS) ...
A time-series analysis of mortality and air temperature in Greater Beirut

El-Zein A.; Tewtel-Salem M.; Nehme G. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2004)

The literature on the association between health and weather in the temperate to semi-arid cities of the Eastern Mediterranean is scarce. The quantification of the relationship between temperature and daily mortality can ...
Agreement between husband and wife reports of domestic violence: Evidence from poor refugee communities in Lebanon

Khawaja M.; Tewtel-Salem M. (OXFORDGREAT CLARENDON ST, OXFORD OX2 6DP, ENGLAND, 2004)

Background. This paper compares husband and wife reports of wife beating using household survey data collected from poor Palestinian refugee communities in Lebanon. Methods. The analyses are based on a matched data file ...
Alcohol and illegal drug use behaviors and prescription opioids use: How do nonmedical and medical users compare, and does motive to use really matter?

Ghandour L.A.; El Sayed D.S.; Martins S.S. (BASELALLSCHWILERSTRASSE 10, CH-4009 BASEL, SWITZERLAND, 2013)

Background-Aims: This study compares illegal drug and alcohol use behaviors between medical and nonmedical users of prescription opioids (PO) and nonmedical users with distinct motives to use. Method: An ethically approved ...
Analyses of renal outcome following transplantation adjusting for informative right censoring and demographic factors: A longitudinal study

Jaffa M.A.; Woolson R.F.; Lipsitz S.R.; Baliga P.K.; Lopes-Virella M.; Lackland D.T. (LONDONTELEPHONE HOUSE, 69-77 PAUL STREET, LONDON EC2A 4LQ, ENGLAND, 2010)

Demographic factors such as race, vital status, gender, and age could affect the final renal outcome of patients who undergo renal transplantation. These demographic factors could be assessed at the recipient and donor ...
Argileh smoking among university students: A new tobacco epidemic

Chaaya M.; El Roueiheb Z.; Chemaitelly H.; Azar G.; Nasr J.; Al-Sahab B. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXON, ENGLAND, 2004)

The recent global increase in argileh use represents the modern renaissance of an old public health threat and a new tobacco epidemic. This study examined argileh smoking knowledge and attitudes in a sample of university ...
Can Lebanon conjure a public health phoenix from the ashes?

Sibai A.-M.; Sen K. (LONDONBRITISH MED ASSOC HOUSE, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON WC1H 9JR, ENGLAND, 2006)

[No abstract available]
Cigarette smoking, addiction, and quitting among pregnant women in Lebanon

Jabbour S.; Chaaya M.; El-Roueiheb Z.; Khalik Z.A. (2008)

Aim: Prior studies of smoking among Lebanese pregnant women have not reported on measures of addiction and quitting plans. We aimed to assess measures of cigarette addiction, quitting plans, and behaviors prior to and ...
Complementary feeding patterns in a developing country: A cross-sectional study across Lebanon

Batal M.; Boulghourjian C.; Akik C. (, 2010)

This first, large-scale study on complementary feeding in Lebanon analysed the timing and types of food introduced to infants according to mothers' demographic and socioeconomic and infants' characteristics. A cross-sectional ...
Consanguinity trends and correlates in the Palestinian Territories

Assaf S.; Khawaja M. (NEW YORK32 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY 10013-2473 USA, 2009)

Secondary analysis of the trends and correlates of consanguinity in the Palestinian Territories was conducted using data from two separate surveys in 1995 and 2004. The analysis was conducted on ever-married women aged ...
Coronary angiography in Lebanon: Use and overuse

Sibai A.-M.; Tohme R.A.; Saade G.A. (CLAREELSEVIER HOUSE, BROOKVALE PLAZA, EAST PARK SHANNON, CO, CLARE, 00000, IRELAND, 2008)

Coronary angiography remains the gold standard for coronary artery disease diagnosis. In Lebanon, the density of cardiac catheterization centers is almost three times that of France (9.32 vs. 2.92 per 1,000,000 individuals) ...
Could you have said no? A mixed-methods investigation of consent to HIV tests in four African countries

Obermeyer C.M.; Verhulst C.; Asmar K. (BioMed Central Ltd.; GENEVAAVENUE DE FRANCE 23, GENEVA, 1202, SWITZERLAND, 2014)

Introduction: Although most studies report high frequencies of consent to HIV tests, critics argue that clients are subject to pressure, that acceptors later indicate they could not have refused, and that provider-initiated ...
A cross sectional study of maternal ‘near-miss’ cases in major public hospitals in Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria

Bashour, Hyam; Saad-Haddad, Ghada; DeJong, Jocelyn; Cherine Ramadan, Mohammed; Hassan, Sahar; Breebaart, Miral; Wick, Laura; Hassanein, Nevine; Kharouf, Mayada (Springer Nature, 2015-11-13)

The maternal near-miss approach has been increasingly used as a tool to evaluate and improve the quality of care in maternal health. We report findings from the formative stage of a World Health Organization (WHO) funded ...
Determinants of change in paternal smoking trends during pregnancy in Lebanon.

Mahfoud Z.; Saad S.; Haddad P.; Chaaya M. (, 2010)

For pregnant women and their fetus, secondhand smoking poses major public health effects. This study analyzes the determinants of change in smoking behavior among fathers whose partners were pregnant. The study is a secondary ...
Domestic violence against women in Jordan: Evidence from health clinics

Al-Nsour M.; Khawaja M.; Al-Kayyali G. (NEW YORK233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA, 2009)

To explore women's attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV) and their determinants, as well as to document the prevalence of various types of violence among women attending public health centers in the Balka region, ...
Effect of postnatal home visits on maternal-infant outcomes in Syria: A randomized controlled trial

Bashour H.N.; Kharouf M.H.; AbdulSalam A.A.; El Asmar K.; Tabbaa M.A.; Cheikha S.A. (OXFORD9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND, 2008)

Objective: Early postpartum home visiting is universal in many Western countries. Studies from developing countries on the effects of home visits are rare. In Syria, where the postpartum period is rather ignored, this study ...
Evidence for prostacyclin and cAMP upregulation by bradykinin and insulin-like growth factor 1 in vascular smooth muscle cells

Webb J.G.; Tan Y.; Jaffa M.A.; Jaffa A.A. (PHILADELPHIA325 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 800, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 USA, 2010)

Although bradykinin (BK) and insulin like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) have been shown to modulate the functional and structural integrity of the arterial wall, the cellular mechanisms through which this regulation occurs is ...
Exposure of pre-school children to passive cigarette and narghile smoke in Beirut

Tamim H.; Akkary G.; El-Zein A.; El-Roueiheb Z.; El-Chemaly S. (OXFORDGREAT CLARENDON ST, OXFORD OX2 6DP, ENGLAND, 2006)

Background: Narghile is a resurging smoking device. However, little research has been done to assess passive smoking exposure. The objective of the present study is to evaluate the exposure of pre-school age children in ...
Factor V G1691A, prothrombin G20210A, and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase [MTHFR] C677T gene polymorphism in angiographically documented coronary artery disease

Almawi W.Y.; Ameen G.; Tamim H.; Finan R.R.; Irani-Hakime N. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2004)

Background: Single point mutations in the genes coding for factor V [G1691A; Leiden], prothrombin [PRT; G20210A], and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase [MTHFR, C677T] were shown to be major inherited predisposing factors ...

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