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This article was initially published in the Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health 2013;46(3):127-133, with a misspelled word in the Abstract.
This article was initially published in the Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health 2012;45(6):335-343, with an error in the footnote of Table 2.
OBJECTIVES: In Korea, the proportion of deaths due to alcohol is estimated at 8.9%, far exceeding the global estimate of 3.8%. Therefore, this study was performed to examine the factors...
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the most important causes of premature mortality and disability-adjusted life years in Korea. NCDs are also the main contributor to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and life...
A noncommunicable disease (NCD) is a medical condition or disease that is by definition non-infectious and non-transmissible among people. Currently, NCDs are the leading causes of death and disease burden...
Obesity during childhood is a dominant risk factor for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and is itself considered a disease that needs to be treated. Recently, the growth in childhood obesity in...
OBJECTIVES: To measure the prevalence of behavioural risk factors for obesity among urban adolescent school children in Chennai, India.
METHODS: This study was performed as a cross-sectional study using a World...
OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study was to perform an economic analysis of a primary stenting with drug-eluting stents (DES) compared with bare-metal stents (BMS) in patients with acute myocardial...