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BACKGROUND: It has been documented that the parents' highest level of education has an impact on their children's access to oral health services and the frequency of their use.This study aimed to determine the association between time elapsed since peruvian children's last dental care and head of household educational…

OBJECTIVE: Evaluate long-term prevalence of tumor growth and need for further treatment in patients with a vestibular schwannoma treated with conservative management. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective chart review. SETTING: Private neurotologic tertiary referral center. PATIENTS: Vestibular schwannoma patients undergoing…

Aplastic anemia (AA) is a rare, severe disease of mainly unknown origin. Numerous case history reports have incriminated drugs in the etiology of this disease. Because those reports were questionable, a case-control study was conducted in France between 1985 and 1988. Cases selected from the national register were elig…

PURPOSE: Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a histologic subtype of lung cancer with a distinct biology and clinical course. It has been observed that the incidence of SCLC has been decreasing over the last several years. METHODS: We used the Surveillance, Epidemiologic, and End Results (SEER) database to determine the…

BACKGROUND: No previous study has provided national estimates of the prevalence of primary and secondary infertility in sizeable areas of sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: Primary infertility is measured by the proportion childless among women who entered their first marriage at least 7 years before date of censoring. Seco…

This study uses sets of historical family reconstitutions from all of Quebec and from four villages of the Haut-Jura, France--first marriages of 2226 and 994 women, respectively--to investigate the physiological and social factors affecting age of mother at last birth before and during fertility transition. Age remaine…

OBJECTIVES: Each case of a continuous series of invasive cervical cancer cases was studied with a structured review procedure conducted by an expert panel to assess the reason that it was not detected before it became invasive. METHODS: All cases of invasive cervical cancer diagnosed in a 5-year period among Connectic…

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Because infections subsequent to influenza may play a role in promoting the complications of atherosclerotic disease and may also induce hypercoagulation, we hypothesized that influenza vaccination may protect against brain infarction. METHODS: During the influenza epidemic period we studied 27…

BACKGROUND: The protocol in this manuscript was designed to help graduate students publish. It is the result of a challenge from our provost in 2013. I developed this protocol over the last 6 years and have exercised the protocol for the last 5 years. The current version of the protocol has remained mostly static for t…

OBJECTIVE: Introduction: During last year's, Ukraine and other European countries are facing outbreaks of well-known and emergency infections. Particularly alarming is the increase in the incidence of measles, which may be the result of a sharp decline of immunization that leads to the accumulation of susceptible indiv…

BACKGROUND: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) pose a substantial public health concern, ranking among the primary contributors to maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality, impacting around 5-10% of pregnancies. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of HDP and its associated factors among mothers ag…

The approximately 10,000-year-long Last Glacial Maximum, before the termination of the last ice age, was the coldest period in Earth's recent climate history. Relative to the Holocene epoch, atmospheric carbon dioxide was about 100 parts per million lower and tropical sea surface temperatures were about 3 to 5 degrees…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the vaccination coverage rate of patients with JIA followed at a paediatric tertiary care centre and to determine the coverage rate for individual vaccines required as per the Quebec Immunization Protocol. METHODS: Consecutive JIA patients coming for their scheduled visit were included if they w…

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic lung diseases frequently have depressive and anxiety symptoms, but there are very few studies looking at this in patients with bronchiectasis. AIM: This study aimed to investigate depression and anxiety and related factors among patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronc…

OBJECTIVE: To assess if multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) with and MMN without conduction block (CB) are similar or distinct diseases. METHODS: The authors reviewed the clinical features and responses to IV immunoglobulin (IVIg) treatment of patients with MMN with and without CB at diagnosis, after 4 years of follow-u…

BACKGROUND: Cup arthroplasty was used in the initial attempts to preserve the bone stock of the femoral head and neck for hip reconstruction. However, little conclusive data are available regarding its long-term survivorship. METHODS: We present a long-term survivorship analysis (mean follow-up, 19.3 years; range, 5-3…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether time since birth of last child was of prognostic importance in women with primary breast cancer. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study based on a population based database of breast cancer diagnoses with detailed information on tumour characteristics, treatment regimens, reproductive fac…

INTRODUCTION: This is a review of the epidemiology and trends of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Singapore from 1994 to 2003. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data collated for both notifiable and non-notifiable STIs from 1994 to 2003 were analysed. This data consisted of STI notifications from medical practitioners i…