Retention in Community Health Screening among Taiwanese Adults: A 9-Year Prospective Cohort Study.

Largely conducted in Western developed nations, research on community health screening has mainly been of limited duration. This study aims to ascertain the predictors of retention in a community health screening program, involving multiple admission cohorts over a 9-year period in Taiwan. Retention is defined as the participation in subsequent waves of health screening after being recruited for an initial screening.

Including selective metabolic components in current diagnostic criteria does not improve discriminative validity for metabolic syndrome: a risk score approach.

Objective: To examine whether including additional metabolic components to the current five-marker system can improve the discriminative validity for diagnosing metabolic syndrome (MetS).

Methods: This longitudinal cohort study included data from subjects that had completed at least three health examinations during a 5-year period. The study outcome was the onset of MetS.

Relationship Between Metabolic Syndrome Severity and Kidney Function as Related to Gender: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study.

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the metabolic syndrome severity -score and kidney function by gender. We also examined the estimated glomerular filtration rate in relation to other known risk factors. The study used was a population-based prospective longitudinal research design.

Gender Differences in the Effects of the Frequency of Physical Activity on the Incidence of Metabolic Syndrome: Results from a Middle-Aged Community Cohort in Taiwan.

Background: Little is known about how the frequency of physical activity in adults influences the occurrence of metabolic syndrome (MetS), and whether there are gender differences within these effects.

Methods: In this study, 3368 residents from the established "Landseed Cohort" underwent three waves of health examinations, and those who did not have MetS at baseline were selected and analyzed using a multiple Poisson regression model. By calculating the adjusted relative risk (ARR), the linear and nonlinear relationships between the frequency of physical activity and risk of developing MetS were examined for male and female participants.

Correlations between white blood cell count and metabolic syndrome in middle-age Taiwanese.

Metabolic syndrome was first proposed in 1988 and has been recognized as a powerful predictor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. At the same time, white blood cell count (WBCC) was proposed to have significant correlation with metabolic syndrome (MS). In this study, we attempted to investigate the relationship between WBCC and components of metabolic syndrome in subjects in Taiwan with normal WBCC, no significant medical disease, and no medications known to affect the components of MS.

The effect of combination therapy with propylthiouracil and cholestyramine in the treatment of Graves' hyperthyroidism.

Objective: The study aims to evaluate the efficacy of combination therapy with propylthiouracil (PTU) and cholestyramine in the treatment of Graves' hyperthyroidism.

Background: Thyroxine (T4) is metabolized mainly in the liver by conjugation to glucuronides and sulphates that enter the enterohepatic circulation. Thyrotoxic patients have an abnormal increase in thyroid hormone in their enterohepatic circulation.