98,289 papers found

PURPOSE: To assess utilization of eye care services in an older Australian population. METHODS: The Blue Mountains Eye Study examined 3654 permanent residents aged 49 years or older from two New South Wales postcode areas. At interview, we collected information about past attendance to eye care practitioners, demograp…

The authors are presenting a review on the prevalence of bronchial asthma (AB) worldwide and in this country in the child and adult population. The cumulative prevalence of AB in children in Europe is 2.8-19.5%, most frequently 5-10%. The highest prevalence is in Australia (as high as 30%). The cumulative and present p…

BACKGROUND: Energy Drinks (ED) are caffeinated beverages marketed as attention and endurance enhancers. The main purpose of this study is to provide national estimates of the prevalence of alcohol mixed with energy drink (AmED) and ED use among school-aged adolescents. A secondary objective is to examine the difference…

To examine the characteristics of male breast cancer in Japan, time trends and geographical distribution of the mortality of male breast cancer were analyzed by using " Vital Statistics " over the last four decades, compared with female breast cancer mortality. The male to female sex ratio of the number of deaths from…

Pollen analysis of pond deposits in the upper reaches of a stream from northeastern Iowa, an area beyond the last glacial margin, provides a nearly complete record of vegetational changes during the last 12.5 thousand years. Sixty-one radiocarbon dates provide good chronological control. Spruce forest was replaced by d…

The relationship between oral contraceptives (OC) and breast-cancer risk was analysed using data from a case-control study conducted between June 1991 and February 1994 in 6 Italian centres on 1,991 patients below age 65 with histologically confirmed incident breast cancer and 1,899 controls admitted to hospital for a…

BACKGROUND: As a pivotal reproductive factor, age at last live birth (ALLB) plays a critical role in a woman's health trajectory, including the risk of cardiovascular diseases. METHODS: In this prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB), 148,456 parous postmenopausal women were included. ALLB was f…

PURPOSE OF THE PAPER. The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between religiosity and psychosocial adjustment in a group of Asian refugees from Laos. SUMMARY OF METHODS UTILIZED. Subjects consisted of 100 adult Hmong refugees from Laos who had relocated one decade earlier to Minnesota. At the time of the…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the percentage of men who have paid for heterosexual sex in Spain and the percentage who used condoms. To identify the main factors associated with these behaviours and to describe opinions about condoms. METHODS: Sexual behaviour probability sample survey in men aged 18-49 years resident in Spa…

The records of 1,710 patients with adenocarcinoma of the stomach treated at Charity Hospital over a 35-year period were reviewed to note any trends which might help in understanding the decreasing incidence and poor prognosis of the disease. The yearly number of gastric cancer patients has dropped from 234/100,000 in t…

During the past 40 years (1951-1990), 7,663 patients with peptic ulcer disease underwent surgical treatment at the National Taiwan University Hospital. A great change in patient characteristics and operative procedures was noted between the last 10 years and the previous three decades. There were 7,105 patients (92.7%)…

A cross sectional survey of 3321 school going children (5-15 years) using modified ISAAC questionnaire in Jaipur city showed 7.59% children to have asthma (in last 12 months) and 8.4% wheezing in last 12 months. Only 5.3% children had physician diagnosed asthma ever suggesting under diagnoses.

BACKGROUND: There is an apparent increase in pediatric sports and recreation (SR)-related injuries in the United States in the last decade. The aim of this study was to compare injuries in 2000 to injuries sustained in 2005 and 2010 to determine the trend in 8 most common pediatric SR-related injuries in the United Sta…

AIM: Dental research, especially in the field of oral surgery, showed a strong and significant increase during the last years. This was probably determined by the introduction among the clinicians of different therapeutic protocols through biomaterials engineering, and by the large broadcasting of scientific knowledge…

We report the incidence of neonatal seizures in the last 10 years. Between 1981-1990, 28,925 infants were born in the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center. Very low-birth-weight infants (< 1,500 g) were excluded in this study. Seizures were identified in 67 infants (0.23%) during the first 7 days of life. Seizures occurre…

OBJECTIVE: To find out the long term outcome of deformity correction by hemivertebra resection in congenital thoracolumbar spinal deformities by a single posterior approach. METHODS: This is a retrospective study carried out at the Department of Spine Surgery, Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan from Apri…

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…

Uranium-series dating of corals from marine deposits of the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain coupled with paleoclimatic reconstructions based on ostracode (marine) and pollen (continent) data document at least five relatively warm intervals during the last 500,000 years. On the basis of multiple paleoenvironmental criteria,…

Clinical observations were made on patients with urethritis, syphilis, chancroid, genital herpes and venereal warts for the last eight years at Gifu City Hospital. The patients with urethritis, genital herpes and venereal warts tended to increase yearly, and the number of the cases with urethritis increased about 2.5 t…

BACKGROUND: Congenital scoliosis is one of the most common spinal deformities, often leading to underdevelopment of cardiopulmonary function in children, and may even result in severe cardiopulmonary damage, including respiratory failure and cor pulmonale. Most hemivertebral deformity scoliosis progresses rapidly, and…