Association between BMI and Dental Caries among School Children and Adolescents in Jiangsu Province, China.

Obesity and dental caries are increasing epidemics, especially among children and adolescents. This epidemiological observational cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the possible association between body mass index (BMI) and dental caries among 111,792 school children and adolescents in Jiangsu Province. We found that 13.

Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among Students Aged 7-22 Years in Jiangsu Province, China.

Objective: To report the prevalence and trend of overweight and obesity among students aged 7-22 years in Jiangsu, 2010 to 2013.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out as part of students physical fitness and health survey in Jiangsu province. A total of 255,581 subjects (50.

B-cell lymphoma 2 rs17757541 C>G polymorphism was associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease in a Chinese population.

The goal of our study was to evaluate the genetic effects of sixteen single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in apoptosis-related genes on the development of coronary artery disease (CAD) through a case-control study. A total of 1979 individuals, including 826 CAD cases (aged 67.27 ± 10.

[A research on the construction of an assessment index system to evaluate the implementation of health promotion in enterprises].

Objective: To establish an assessment index system to objectively evaluate the implementation of health promotion in enterprises.

Methods: Multi-methods, which include the reviewing references, the summarizing results of preliminary studies, the interview with experts and employers, were used in developing attentative index framework and working out the consultative questionnaires. Then the improved Delphi Method was adopted in collecting ideas from 20 experts in China, and they scored the importance of every single index by two rounds of consultation.

Survey and analysis of dental caries in students at a deaf-mute high school.

The present cross-sectional study was conducted to assess and compare the prevalence of dental caries of 229 deaf adolescents in a special senior high school and to identify factors related to dental caries, with a match group of 196 healthy adolescents in a normal senior high school, in Jiangsu province of East China. In this study the prevalence of dental caries was 55.9%, Decayed, Missing and Filled Teeth (DMFT) index in deaf students was 1.

Vitamin D receptor genetic polymorphisms and tuberculosis among Chinese Han ethnic group.

Background: In epidemiological studies, tuberculosis (TB) appears intimately with vitamin D insufficiency whereas its relationship with vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphism caused by radical difference remains unspecified. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between vitamin D genetic polymorphism and tuberculosis in Han ethnic group.

Methods: Meta-analysis was adopted in the synthetic quantitative analysis of documents home and abroad on the relationship between vitamin D genetic polymorphisms and tuberculosis, which were openly published during June 2000 to January 2010.