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OBJECTIVE: To know and analyze the main causes of death in an Internal Medicine Department (MI), as well as the impact of AIDS on admissions and mortality rate in such a Department. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 275 patients out of the 35,521 attended patients from 1990 to 1995 had positive serology to HIV (HIV+).…

Secular changes in growth and development vary over past decades in intensity and in trend. The purpose of this paper is to present changes in growth patterns of Zagreb schoolchildren aged 7-19 years over the past four decades. Surveys were performed in 1951, 1964, 1973, 1982 and 1991. The mean height of boys and girls…

OBJECTIVE: To study the clinical application of Mobi-C prosthesis in treatment of anterior cervical discectomy and artificial disc replacement (ADR). METHODS: Between January 2009 and June 2009, 20 cases of degenerative cervical disease were treated with anterior discectomy and ADR by Mobi-C prosthesis, including 13 c…

The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of PET/CT on patient management and outcomes of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) after the first 6 months following treatment.We retrospectively identified patients with OPSCC who underwent chemoradiation therapy and had at least 2 years of posttrea…

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.

BACKGROUND: Different types of marital status are associated with different levels of suicidal risk. AIMS: To study marital status change and the effect of its recency in relation to suicidal behavior. METHODS: Suicide victims (1614) in Slovenia and matched controls (4617) were compared for incidence and recency of m…

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…

Although three-fifths of adolescent males aged 15-19 say they have had sexual intercourse, analyses of data from the 1988 National Survey of Adolescent Males indicate that their level of sexual activity is relatively moderate. The data show that among sexually experienced young men the mean number of partners in the la…

Venous thromboembolic disease (VTED) is the most common and potentially the most serious immediate postoperative complication of hip surgery. Prophylaxis of VTED remains controversial and its practice is widely variable. Since the last survey of VTED prophylaxis as practiced by American orthopedists, published in 1974,…

In the Immunology Department of the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw we have used lymphocyte blastic transformation test (LETT) over 30 years to study lymphocyte function. During the last 10 years we have noticed progressive elevation of lymphocyte percentage undergoing spontaneous blast transformation (autotran…

BACKGROUND: Psychological features associated with execution are not fully understood. AIMS: To analyse demographics of individuals executed in Texas and investigate whether there has been any change in common themes and psychological factors evident in last statements before execution between 2002 and 2017. DESIGN:…

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…

INTRODUCTION AND METHODS: This article summarizes the general characteristics of heart transplantation in Spain and the results achieved, once data for 2005 have been included. RESULTS: In the course of the last year, 287 heart transplantations were performed, which brings the total to 4967 since 1984. Clinically, the…

The results of treatment of 341 consecutive cases of esophageal atresia/tracheoesophageal fistula over an 11-year period have been analyzed to determine the factors resulting in a poorer prognosis of these cases in a developing country; 121 neonates in the first 6-year period are compared with 220 in the last 5 years.…

The results of treatment of hemorrhagic portal hypertension with selective shunts over a 21-year period in a selected patient population are reported. Patients selected for surgical treatment had good cardiopulmonary and renal function, and most also had adequate liver function (141 Child-Pugh class A, 59 class B). Amo…

AIM: To gain more knowledge of caregiver strain in the Life After Stroke Trial (LAST) population. METHODS: This is a substudy of the LAST study, including all caregivers' reports of perceived Caregiver Strain Index (CSI) at inclusion and 18-month follow-up irrespective of group allocation. The checklist "STROBE Statem…

BACKGROUND: Mastoiditis used to be the most common complication of acute otitis media. However, once antibiotics became widely available, it was rarely reported. Recently, this complication has become more frequent. OBJECTIVES: To determine the frequency of acute mastoiditis in our center in the last few years and to…

Jack, aged 66 years, presented to his general practitioner with a foreign body sensation in his throat and altered voice, which developed over 30 minutes. He was otherwise well, having no other new symptoms or recent alterations to medication. He had not eaten anything unusual. He had hypertension, type 2 diabetes, sta…

OBJECTIVE: To reanalyze data that were used in a linear model to predict that mean sperm counts have been reduced globally by approximately 50% in the last 50 years. DESIGN: The mean sperm counts and their temporal distribution were reanalyzed via several different statistical models (quadratic, spline fit, and stairs…

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…