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BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate the morphology (atrophy and fibrosis), apopto-sis, and cell proliferation in the uterine wall. The research material came from postmenopausal women who had undergone hysterectomy due to uterine myomas or prolapse of the reproductive organ and were not taking menopausal…

BACKGROUND: Paternal age association with sperm parameters has been previously studied, demonstrating a decrease in semen volume, sperm motility, and sperm morphology, but not in sperm concentration. However, scarce data exists on the individual intra-personal changes in semen parameters with time. STUDY DESIGN: Retro…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Human papillomavirus (HPV) antibody responses to the 9-valent human papillomavirus (9vHPV) vaccine among girls and boys (aged 9-14 years) receiving 2-dose regimens (months 0, 6 or 0, 12) were noninferior to a 3-dose regimen (months 0, 2, 6) in young women (aged 16-26 years) 4 weeks after last…

BACKGROUND: The practice of cancer diagnosis disclosure to children has been changed with the times. The regulations of clinical trials in the 2000s might change the practice in Japan. However, the perspective of this topic among children and adults has not been investigated in detail. METHODS: We studied changes in t…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Nearly 50% of adults in Germany have no measurable antibody protection against diphtheria, even though most of them will have been vaccinated against it in their childhood. We investigated how vaccination should be performed in this situation to provide lasting protection. MATERIAL AND METHOD…

OBJECTIVE: To study the classification criteria of adult cuboid fracture and its guidance feasibility and effect of treatment. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was made on the clinical data of 415 adult patients (416 feet) with cuboid fractures who had complete CT data treated between May 2009 and April 2014. There w…

OBJECTIVES: The United States (US) population is aging with an increasing number of older adults over 90 years old. The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate trends in orthopaedic surgeries in patients 90 years old and greater over the past decade from 2014-2023. METHODS: Patients ≥90 years old at the ti…

AIM: To know the epidemiology and outcome of Crohn's disease at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and to compare the results from other world institutions. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of patients seen for 20 years (between 1983 and 2002). Individual case records were reviewed with regard to h…

Given significant advances in the treatment of viral hepatitis and the growing epidemic of obesity, the burden of the different types of chronic liver diseases in Bangladesh may be changing. Our aim was to assess the shift in the prevalence of different chronic liver disease etiologies in a tertiary level hospital of B…

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has been established as a very successful and commonly performed procedure for primary and secondary osteoarthritis, and also for inflammatory arthropathies of the knee in all age groups and both genders. It has predominantly been used as a procedure in the age group of patients 65 ye…

Two deep ice cores from central Greenland, drilled in the 1990s, have played a key role in climate reconstructions of the Northern Hemisphere, but the oldest sections of the cores were disturbed in chronology owing to ice folding near the bedrock. Here we present an undisturbed climate record from a North Greenland ice…

BACKGROUND/AIMS: The aim of the study was to determine the epidemiological shift that may have occurred in the last 11 years of Hepatitis A virus (HAV) seroprevalence. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In 1998, we reported the anti-HAV seroprevalence in 711 children aged between 2 and 16 years children in Adana city center. Elev…

PURPOSE: To perform a multimodal assessment of refractive outcomes and quality of vision (QoV) in patients with high myopia submitted to multifocal intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. METHODS: Retrospective study that included consecutive eyes with high myopia (axial length [AL] >26.00mm) submitted to multifocal IOL…

In many countries obesity has increased dramatically during the last decades, while there has been a parallel decrease in smoking. The objective of the present study was to estimate the net effect on premature mortality of these trends. A simulation model was developed to estimate the expected number of deaths between…

The secular changes in growth of the Spanish male population throughout the current century are presented. Data are adult mean height: 163.4 cm in 1910 and 174.5 cm in 1995. The increase was produced after 1950 and specially after 1965. From this last date, the increase by decade was between 2 and 2.9 cm. Lately the in…