Sökning: "absolute risk"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 214 avhandlingar innehållade orden absolute risk.
1. Early arterial disease of the lower extremities in diabetes : diagnostic evaluation and risk markers
Sammanfattning : The aim of the present thesis was to assess the occurrence of early lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD) in patients with diabetes and to assess novel potential risk markers for development or worsening of LEAD in the same patients. In parallel different measures of impaired peripheral circulation were evaluated. LÄS MER
2. Risk, Relative Standing and Property Rights: Rural Household Decision-Making in China
Sammanfattning : Paper 1 examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We used a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about their relative income and found that the respondents cared to a high degree. LÄS MER
3. Essays on Income Risk and Inequality
Sammanfattning : Consumption Dynamics under Time-Varying Unemployment Risk We study the response of households' demand for durable goods to fluctuations in unemployment risk. First, using survey data, we document that household durable expenditures react strongly to unemployment risk, while the effect on nondurable expenditures is indistinguishable from zero. LÄS MER
4. Dispersion and risk assessment of airborne contaminants in pharmaceutical clean rooms
Sammanfattning : In many of today's industries, particularly in the healthcare field, special protection is required against airbornemicrobiological contamination. Clean rooms and clean zones areused to separate the ambient environment from contaminationcontrolled areas. LÄS MER
5. Treatment of cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetes : time trends and clinical practice
Sammanfattning : Objectives Patients with type 2 diabetes are at much greater risk of developing cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including coronary heart disease (CHD), compared to non-diabetics. The lowering of glucose, blood pressure, and plasma lipid levels has been shown to reduce CHD risk, and treatment goals for these risk factors are now part of clinical practice guidelines. LÄS MER