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INTRODUCTION: Poor dental health is linked to poor physical and mental health. This study was aimed to examine the characteristics of U.S. adults that are associated with having seen a dentist in the past year. METHODS: A cross-section of adults aged 18-64 years (N=19,975) from the 2023 National Health Interview Surve…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to report on our last nine years' experience in the diagnosis and treatment of retrocaval ureter. METHODS: Eight patients with retrocaval ureter were reviewed. Intravenous urography and retrograde pyelography were used for confirming the diagnosis. All of the patients had undergone…

Anomalous pulmonary venous connection of the entire left lung into the left innominate vein is very rare. 5 patients with this anomaly were managed in the authors' institution over the last 12 years. Clinically they were diagnosed as cases of pretricuspid left-to-right shunt at atrial level. Cardiac catheterisation and…

Twenty-six patients, mean age 20.5 years (range 11-33 years) at last assessment or death, attended an adult cystic fibrosis clinic between 1975 and 1983. Twenty-one presented in infancy, and 5 later (3-17 years). Most morbidity was due to recurrent respiratory infection and 5 of the 7 deaths were from respiratory failu…

OBJECTIVE: To determine how well the American College of Rheumatology (ACR; formerly, the American Rheumatism Association) 1987 classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), when used at study inclusion in a cohort of 270 patients with early (<1 year) arthritis, predicted a diagnosis of RA 2 years later and ho…

An analysis of the research topics in the last twenty years made it clear that Italian research in the field of hygiene and public health has moved from the traditional fields of infectious diseases and environmental pollution to include also chronic diseases, organization and evaluation of health services, genomics in…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the changes in living donor liver transplantations (LDLTs) over the last 10 years, we analyzed our experience of performing LDLT in a single center. METHODS: We performed 73 LDLTs over the 10 years between 1997 and 2007 in Nagasaki University Hospital, Japan. RESULTS: Initially, from 1997 to 2003…

The rate of enrichment of the Tula region flora with adventive species was quantitatively estimated taking into account the changes of their degree of naturalization during the last 200 years. Numerical score of degree of the naturalization for each species was used to compile the initial database: "0", species absent…

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a multifactorial disease that may have a psychosomatic component. In this study, the authors aimed to measure the effect of hypnosis on AD in a clinical setting. Patients with AD who never had systemic treatment were offered hypnosis sessions. Twenty-seven patients with AD and a mean age of 34…

Leprosy, which was known to ancient India as "Kustha Roga" is thought to be its origin from India also. It is, still, a major public health problem in India affecting many people every year. India is, now, having maximum numbers of leprosy cases worldwide and accounts for 67% of total prevalence and 73% of total new ca…

In our breeding conditions (without artificial hormonal stimulation) two years after metamorphosis are necessary for a Xenopus laevis female to produce mature oocytes. Four periods of different growth rates can be distinguished into this first wave of oogenesis: 1) oocytes reach 120 &#x3bc;m in diameter (early stage I…

Death certificates for all deaths in Iceland are available since 1911. In this report on maternal deaths, all women who died after the 28th week of pregnancy, during delivery and during the first eight weeks after delivery are included, irrespective of the cause of death. Out of 225 891 women who delivered during the 6…

INTRODUCTION: Overweight and obesity are severe public health issues in Mexico, affecting 72.4% of adults, 42.9% of adolescents, 37.4% of school-aged children, and 7.8% of children under 5. Efforts to control this trend have been insufficient. METHODS: Data from the Food and Agriculture Organizartion of the United Nat…

PURPOSE: To explain the concepts that radiation oncologists should understand to manage patients with optic nerve sheath meningioma (ONSM). To accomplish this goal we first describe our institution's experience with the treatment of ONSM with radiation therapy and then use this data set as a framework for explaining th…

OBJECTIVES: To analyze trends in antibiotic use among the pediatric population of Castile and Le&#xf3;n from 2001 to 2005. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The antibiotics prescribed to the pediatric population in primary care were processed using the CONCYLIA database. The technical unit of measurement was the defined daily dos…

PURPOSE: To evaluate long-term outcomes after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK). METHODS: A retrospective follow-up study of patients who received PRK at 5.0- to 6.5-mm optical zones, using the Summit broad beam excimer laser (Summit Technology, Inc., Waltham, MA) at Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, betwee…

AIM: To analyze the surgical burden of UC care in the last two decades, analyzing the characteristics of the patients, surgical indications along with the short and long-term results. METHOD: Single-center retrospective cohort analysis of UC patients undergoing abdominal and anorectal surgery between January 2000 and…

The present study quantifies the magnitude of Arctic sea-ice loss in the boreal summer (July-September), especially in September at different timescales (daily, monthly, annual and decadal). The investigation on the accelerated decline in the Arctic sea-ice was performed using different datasets of passive microwave sa…

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine the long-term treatment efficacy of glycerine-preserved human amniotic membrane transplantation in patients suffering from corneal ulcers. METHODS: This was a retrospective, non-controlled, monocentric analysis. Included were patients with corneal ulcers that were non-re…

In primates and other mammals, weaning is an equivocal concept, as is reflected in the numerous ways it is measured: a) first intake of solid food, b) conflict over access to the nipple, c) ability to survive without mother, d) maternal resumption of cycling, or e) the cessation of nipple contact. The lack of a consist…