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1. Ability to alter blood pressure (BP) acutely with continuous systolic (SBP) BP biofeedback was assessed in volunteers using a new non-invasive finger BP monitor. 2. Reliability of finger BP measurement was demonstrated in six hypertensive subjects (21-60 years), by beat-to-beat comparison with brachial intra-arteria…

The irregular eating patterns of both shift workers and evening chronotypes adversely affect cardiometabolic health. A tool that conveniently captures temporal patterns of eating alongside an indicator of circadian rhythm such as chronotype will enable researchers to explore relationships with diverse health outcome me…

IMPORTANCE: Few studies have investigated whether the associations between pregnancy-related factors and breast cancer (BC) risk differ by underlying BC susceptibility. Evidence regarding variation in BC risk is critical to understanding BC causes and for developing effective risk-based screening guidelines. OBJECTIVE…

Although diabetes is not an absolute contraindication for kidney donation, donor kidneys with severe diabetic nephropathy (DN) are frequently discarded. Current experience with the use of donor kidneys with severe DN is limited. Herein, we report a case of deceased donor kidney with Renal Pathology Society (RPS) classi…

The balance-scale task, proposed by Inhelder and Piaget, illustrates children understanding of weight-distance relationships. Piaget used the clinical interview method in order to investigate children's reasoning. Over the last five decades, Siegler's Rule-Assessment Approach has been used to explain children reasoning…

The study aimed to assess the prevalence and correlates of sexual risk behaviours among adolescents in Mozambique. In the cross-sectional 'Global School-Based Health Survey (GSHS)', 1918 students aged 11-18 years from Mozambique responded to a questionnaire in 2015. More than half (57.4%) of the students ever had sex,…

AIM: The aim of the study was to investigate oral health and oral care habits among older immigrants to Sweden from countries outside the Nordic region. METHOD: Participants ≥60 years of age from senior social centers for immigrants were invited to attend oral examinations. Data was collected on the number of t…

Acceptance of elderly living kidney donors remains controversial due to the higher incidence of comorbidity and greater risk of postoperative complications. This is a review of publications in the English language between 2000 and 2013 about renal transplantation from elderly living donors to determine trends and effec…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the characteristics of enhanced brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with gadolinium-DTPA (GD) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS: Brain enhanced MRI were studied in 186 patients with clinically definite multiple sclerosis. 298 MRI enhanced lesions were followed every 4 weeks…

Age has been considered to contribute to the severity of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS). To evaluate the relationship between age and the severity of the AWS, we examined 723 alcoholics [518 males, 205 females, mean age (+/- SD): 42.8 +/- 10.5 years, mean duration of alcohol dependence: 11.0 +/- 8.0 years] conse…

Rehn-Delorme's procedure was introduced as one of a couple of methods to remove rectal prolapse with insufficiency of the pelvic floor. Rehn-Delorme's procedure wasn't well accepted until the last twenty years, when some authors reported good results with low recurrence rate of the prolapse, especially for old people w…

Three institutions worked together in order to combat early weaning in a peripheric district of Belo Horizonte (Brazil): the Department of Pediatrics of the Faculty of Medicine (Federal University of Minas Gerais), the Secretary of Health of Belo Horizonte and a Brazilian assistential institution ("LBA"). One initial s…

During 1973 to 1983, Livaditis myotomy was performed on 12 esophageal atresia patients in whom anastomosis otherwise would have been impossible. Ten patients had the usual malformation with a distal fistula, while two had an isolated atresia. Four patients belonged to Waterston's risk group A, 4 to group B, and 4 to gr…

Eighty-six asphyxiated full-term neonates with CNS complications such as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, admitted during a 10-year period (1972-81), were studied. Sixty-three (73%) of the infants survived the neonatal period, and 55 of these, excluding one who died at 7 months, were followed for 3 to 13 years. Thirtee…

BACKGROUND: We compared patient- and family-reported overall and stool-related quality of life (QoL) before and after an antegrade continence enema (ACE) procedure (cecostomy tube insertion) for refractory chronic constipation or fecal incontinence (CCFI). We hypothesized that patients with functional diagnoses experie…

BACKGROUND: Nasal septum perforations from surgical submucous resection, septoplasty, blunt trauma, and substance abuse may cause epistaxis, nasal obstruction, discharge, crusting, dryness, pain, and whistling. While small symptomatic perforations are closed with local mucosal flaps, options for closure of large sympto…

BACKGROUND: In elderly patients with diabetic nephropathy, clinical information aiming at preventing a decline of the renal function is limited. OBJECTIVE: To clarify factors that could be related to changes in renal function in elderly diabetic patients with persistent albuminuria. METHODS: We studied the relationsh…

PURPOSE: To report the results of plication augmentation of the augmented Anderson procedure in patients with infantile nystagmus syndrome and face turn. METHODS: In this retrospective study, all patients who underwent plication augmentation of the augmented Anderson procedure between August 2015 and November 2018 wer…

BACKGROUND: This study was conducted in Yazd Province, Central Iran aimed to investigate the relationship between adverse events and breast cancer during 2012-2014. METHODS: Hospital-based case-control study of 150 women with breast cancer and 150 healthy women (did not have breast cancer) was conducted. Sampling was…

OBJECTIVE: To determine immunity to tetanus in male blood donors with previous diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT)/tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccination. DESIGN: A cross sectional study, conducted in September 1999. SETTING: Blood bank, Muhimbili Medical Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. METHODS: Using an antigen competitio…