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For children, two of the anthropometric indices used to assess nutritional status, weight-for-age and height-for-age, depend on the accurate estimation of the child's age. The effect of using age as either last attained year or as last attained year rounded up with half a year in the calculation of prevalence of malnut…

Faunal and lithologic evidence is used to reconstruct paleoceanographic events over the last 4.5 million years. The inception of perennial sea-ice cover is dated at about 0.7 million years.

Neuromyelitis optical (NMO) and neuromyelitis optical spectrum disorder (NMOSD) are inflammatory autoimmune demyelination diseases affecting the central nervous system. We investigated the efficiency of low-dose rituximab treatment in 31 Chinese patients with NMO/NMOSD across a median period of 2.29 ± 0.…

The state of Punjab comprising 1.5% area of the country has been contributing 40-50% rice and 60-65% wheat to the central pool since last three decades. During last 35 years The area under foodgrains has increased from 39,200 sq km ha to 63,400 sq km and the production of rice and wheat has increased from 0.18 to 0.32…

At the end of life goals of care change from disease prevention to symptomatic control, however, little is known about the patterns of medication prescribing at this stage.To explore changes in prescribing of symptomatic and preventive medication in the last year of life in older nursing home residents.A retrospective…

Pacing strategy has been investigated in elite 100 km and elite 161 km (100 mile) ultra-marathoners, but not in age group ultra-marathoners. This study investigated changes in running speed over segments in male elite and age group 100 km ultra-marathoners with the assumption that running speed would decrease over segm…

The Lead Abatement Strike Team (LAST) was developed in 2002 by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) in response to community concern about management of children with elevated blood lead levels (EBLLs). Fourteen hundred backlog properties (housing at least one child with EBLLs) were identified through in…

AIM: In the last few years we noted an increasing number of children with celiac disease with negative serum anti-gliadin antibodies (AGA) a useful serologic test to monitor compliance to gluten-free diet. The aim of this study was to verify diagnostic accuracy of AGA and compare clinical characteristics of AGA-negativ…

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%)…

During the last 30 years community psychiatric nursing (CPN) services have become an established feature of mental health provision throughout the United Kingdom. The creation of new services peaked in the mid 1970s; however, the rate of individual service growth during the last 5 years has been variable. In 1980, the…

Of 91 limb-salvage procedures using prosthetic reconstructions because of primary or metastatic bone and soft-tissue tumors 26 revisions were performed in 16 patients. Revision was due to polyethylene wear (9 cases), aseptic loosening (8 cases), recurrent hip dislocation (3 cases), prosthetic stem fracture (2 cases), i…

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…

In the last 30 years the leprosy burden has been dramatically reduced but over the last 5 years still more than 200,000 new cases were detected each year. Advances in immunology, pathogenesis, and genetics of leprosy have been reported. A deeper understanding of the mechanisms of infection will ultimately improve our a…

BACKGROUND: Tobacco use in Spain is still high, with many smoking related deaths. However, a decrease in smoking prevalence in men has been observed in recent years, with a stabilisation or an increase among women. This paper studies the evolution of cancer mortality in Barcelona city (Catalonia, Spain) according to ag…

BACKGROUND: Age at first and last birth and the number of children are known to influence the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers. However, it remains unknown whether the difference in years between first and last childbirth plays a role. The Swedish Family-Cancer Database allowed us to carry out the largest study…

PURPOSE: With the increased use of genetic testing for arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C), this disease is being increasingly recognised among elderly patients. However, elderly ARVD/C patients were underrepresented in prior cohorts. We aimed to describe the phenotypical characteristics…

UNLABELLED: The evolution of serological tests for syphilis (STSs) after therapy in HIV+ patients is a major point of controversy, with possible seroreactivation and illicit seroreversion in these patients. The aim of our study was to evaluate the long-term outcome of STSs in a cohort of HIV+ male homosexuals with a hi…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is the analysis of osteoarticular problems (OAP) occurring in a group of computer users (CU) in search of correlation between symptoms and different etiological factors. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Questionnaire of 31 items dealing with personal data, the activity of the CU, stress, the occurr…

The objective of this study was to describe the association between self-reported compliance with last malaria treatment (CMT) and occurrence of malaria during follow-up, controlling for current risk factors. We conducted a prospective open cohort study in Leonislândia, a rural area of Peixoto de Azevedo City, in…

OBJECTIVES: In this research we analyzed the results of surgical treatment of cauda equina syndrome (CES) caused by acute lumbar disc herniation. We emphasize the early treatment for good neurological recovery. METHODS: A retrospective-prospective, non randomized, clinical study was performed between Jan 2010 and Dec…