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OBJECTIVES: Despite the recognized impact of intrinsic capacity (IC) impairment on healthy aging, international comparisons in different sociocultural contexts are scarce. This study aimed to compare IC impairment among community-dwelling older adults in Japan and Taiwan to explore the context of healthy aging in diffe…

OBJECT: in this paper, the authors' goal was to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of apical segment resection osteotomy with dual axial rotation correction for severe focal kyphosis by examining outcomes. METHODS: between May 2004 and December 2006, the authors treated 23 patients with severe focal kyphos…

PURPOSE: To study postoperative Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) after instrumented fusion for fresh subaxial cervical trauma and the effect of spinal cord injury (SCI). METHODS: From a total of 65 patients, 17 (26%) patients suffered on admission from SCI. Twenty-five patients underwent anterior, 25 posterior,…

Background: Personal beliefs about sexual attitudes and rights likely affect reproductive health behaviors. We examined the prevalence and predictors of low sexual assertiveness (SA) among sexually active females across three age groups (14-17 yo, 18-21 yo, and 22-26 yo).Methods: 904 white, black, and Mexican-American…

The elongated semi-enclosed Bay of Izmit, which receives both domestic and industrial wastes, has been monitored by measuring its physical and biochemical parameters for 2 years, 1994-1995. It is clear that there are two distinct water masses. The upper layer has been occupied by the less saline (22-26 ppt) waters of t…

The article analyses the results of treatment of 4,430 patients with gastrointestinal bleeding in the last four decades. Two periods, from 1950 to 1969 and from 1970 to 1990, are compared from the standpoint of change of the disease structure, the methods of diagnosis and hemostasis. The number of hemorrhages of ulcer…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the short-term effectiveness of percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy (PELD) in treatment of buttock pain associated with lumbar disc herniation. METHODS: Between June 2015 and May 2016, 36 patients with buttock pain associated with lumbar disc herniation were treated with PELD. Of 36 cases,…

CONTEXT: The population is aging and life expectancy is increasing, but whether morbidity and disability late in life also increase is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To examine whether the use of health care services, disability and cognitive function, and overall quality of life in the year before death among older adults has c…

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Expanding violence may necessitate treatment of explosion victims, requiring a broadening of existing medical skills and knowlegde of injury mechanisms. The aim of the study was to assess the number, nature and injury pattern of fatal explosion incidents in Finland. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospec…

Abdominal aortic aneurysm resections were performed on 298 patients between January, 1966 and December, 1973. The results were compared with 186 resections previously reported between 1955-1965. Hospital mortality rates for elective resections were 13% in 1955-1965, 8.4% in 1966-1973, and 4.2% in the 113 patients treat…

Bronchiolitis affects one third of babies in their first year of life. We investigated all bronchiolitis admissions to Tallaght Hospital in the last five years, with the hope of providing an insight into the epidemic in an Irish population. We analysed these 1,202 admissions on the basis of time of year (busiest being…

BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to identify characteristics of lapsed donors 4 years after the initial donation as well as self-reported barriers to return for further blood donations. METHODS: A random number of 8,000 blood donors, donating for the German Red Cross Blood Service Baden-Württemberg - Hessen, w…

A retrospective study was conducted in a large population presenting with infertility to determine whether sperm quality has changed in Korea in the last 10 years. We reviewed sperm concentration, motility and semen volume in 22,249 men from whom semen was collected in our laboratory between January 1989 and April 1998…

The data in the present paper consider, for a longer period, the secondary and the initial drug resistance in pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The paper studies mainly the period of the last 9 years (1979-1987) in comparison with a previous period of 6 years (1973-1978). The 2,194 antibiograms performed for 7…

In summary, the recent findings of my personal experience with the B technique have been quite helpful and rewarding. I found that drawing a lateral angle when planning the procedure obtains a more circular areola contour and avoids last moment modifications. Also, upper pole undermining allows for an upper pole horizo…

During the last 5 years six cases of mycetoma have been referred to the Razi Hospital, Thehran. Nocardia Asteroides was found to be the causative agent in one case only. Five of the patients were males, all being rice farmers, and one was a female. All of them belonged to Northern Iran which has a mediterranean climate…

OBJECTIVES: Monomelic amyotrophy of a single upper limb termed "brachial monomelic amyotrophy" (BMMA) is a benign lower motor neuron disorder in the young, with male preponderance, insidious onset of atrophy and weakness, electromyographic evidence of neurogenic pattern without conduction block, slow progression for 2-…