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During follow-up of 485 adult patients with mainly mild head injury 27% of the patients were unemployed after an observation period of 3-5 years (mean 4.0 years). The length of sick leave during the last 3 years was longer than for a control group. Reduced physical capacity and time of sick leave during the last 3 year…

BACKGROUND: The North Karelia Project, a major demonstration programme for coronary heart disease (CHD) prevention, began in the eastern province of North Karelia in Finland in 1972. A number of other national CHD prevention activities have also been undertaken particularly since 1977. In the 1980s, a national strategy…

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…

BACKGROUND: Between 1990 and 1996, more than 110,000 cases and 2900 deaths from diphtheria were reported in the Russian Federation. In 1994, because disease rates were high among children aged 7-10 years, the age of administration of the second booster dose of diphtheria vaccine was lowered from 9 years to 6 years, the…

PURPOSE: We report the experience of a community based urologist with anatomical retropubic radical prostatectomy. We compared outcome data with that reported experience at several well-known academic institutions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between May 1986 and December 2000, 382 consecutive patients underwent anatomical…

Background. Malaria is a major public health problem in Ethiopia. The trend of malaria occurrence remains unknown in the study area. This study is aimed at determining the last five years' trend of malaria occurrence from 2008/09 to 2012/13 in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Methods. A health facility-based retrospect…

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there is an ongoing risk of developing bladder cancer in a previously studied cohort of workers exposed to both benzidine and dichlorobenzidine or dichlorobenzidine only in the last benzidine manufacturing plant in the USA. METHODS: Workers (n=488) were identified from the quarterly 941…

BACKGROUND: Most cigarette smokers take up their habit during adolescence. The aim of this study was to compare the age at which the students of a metropolitan high school and those of a non-metropolitan high school start smoking. METHODS: Nine hundred and seventy-eight students (55.6% males, mean age 15.8 +/- 1.5 yea…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical course of children with primary distal renal tubular acidosis and to determine parameters correlated with the outcomes. MATERIAL AND METHOD: A retrospective review of medical records was carried out. The parameters at initial diagnosis and the last visit were collected including hei…

PURPOSE: To investigate the 2-year healing rate of macular edema (ME) secondary to branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) treated initially with intravitreal ranibizumab (IVR) and later combined with other treatment as needed, and the characteristics of refractory cases. METHODS: 130 patients (130 eyes) with BRVO-ME who…

INTRODUCTION: In Mexico, as in other countries, studies do not distinguish between attempted suicide and suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). The aim of this study was to investigate self-injury and its prevalence using several definitions, in addition to studying the frequency of the proposed DSM-5 criteria fo…

On the occasion of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Robert Koch, in 1982, it could be stated that in GDR, like in other developed countries, tuberculosis is not any more a serious problem of public health but has changed to a much reduced endemic disease. After eva…

BACKGROUND: In the last 6 months of life, many older adults will experience a hospitalization, followed by a transfer to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) for additional care. We sought to examine patterns of Medicare posthospitalization SNF use in the last 6 months of life. METHODS: We used data from the Health and Re…

The problem of drug addicts has increased over the past 3-4 years. A retrospective descriptive study of inpatient drug addicts at Thanyarak Hospital was done. Data from the record pool from October 1989 to September 1998 was reviewed for demographic information, diagnosis, HIV infection and the outcome of treatment. Th…

For a five-year period, 131 bipolar patients were followed every 6 months; for the next 5 years, they were followed yearly. Each patient was interviewed in a systematic way that gave information about episodes, hospitalizations, cycle lengths and the presence of alcoholism. Women and men were not significantly differen…

The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term stability of the occlusion after correction of posterior cross-bite with either a removable expansion plate or a quad-helix appliance and to compare the transversal development of the jaws in the plate group, the quad-helix group and a control group. At the start of t…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the mid- and long-term effectiveness of external fixator distraction arthroplasty in the treatment of moderate to severe ankle arthritis. METHODS: The clinical data of 23 patients with moderate to severe ankle arthritis treated with external fixation distraction arthroplasty who met the selec…

Ten magnetic profiles across the mid-Atlantic ridge near 27 degrees N show trends that are parallel to the ridge axis and symmetrical about the ridge axis. The configuration of magnetic bodies that could account for the pattern supports the Vine and Matthews hypothesis for the origin of magnetic anomalies over oceanic…

This follow-up study evaluated cognitive and language development in Asperger's disorder (AD) patients diagnosed at the age of 5 to 6 years, with initial complaints of delays in motor or language development in infancy. We evaluated 12 patients (10 males and 2 females) using two intelligence tests:Kyoto Scale of Psycho…

796 Thai women who stopped using the long-acting injectable contraceptive 'Depo-Provera' (medroxyprogesterone acetate) and 125 women who had an intra-uterine device removed to have a planned pregnancy were followed-up to ascertain the delay between conception and the end of contraception, and to determine the proportio…