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Thyroid cancer is the second most common neoplasm among women in Kuwait and several other countries in the Middle East. Most of these countries also have relatively high birth and total fertility rates. To examine potential relationships between reproductive and hormonal factors and thyroid cancer, we conducted a popul…

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis viruses and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection is a major cause of liver diseases worldwide. High prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Asia makes it important to understand HBV and HCV coinfection with HIV in this part of the globe. This study was done w…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In Algeria, the incidence of hematologic malignancies has been difficult to estimate for many years. Today, many hematological centers, including 14 university hospitals, have been developed in the entire north and have useful epidemiological data pertinent to acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We…

OBJECTIVES: To assess changes in prevalence of malnutrition and its associated factors among people living in Dutch nursing homes in 2009, 2013 and 2018. DESIGN: Secondary data analysis of the International Prevalence Measurement of Care Quality (LPZ) study. SETTING: Dutch nursing homes. PARTICIPANTS: Residents livi…

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether varus-valgus laxity of cruciate-retaining (CR) total knee arthroplasty (TKA) changes between 1 year and >5 years after surgery based on postoperative limb alignment. METHODS: One hundred twenty-one varus osteoarthritic knees that underwent CR TKA were inc…

A program of platelet cryopreservation has been developed at the Baltimore Cancer Research Center which now provides substantial proportion of the platelet transfusion requirements of alloimmunized patients. The program has gradually grown in size during the last eight years and in 1979 approximately 1600 units of froz…

Without antidepressant therapy, episodes of clinical depression last from 2 months to several years, with an average of around 5 to 6 months. One-third of the patients recover within a year; probably one out of four untreated episodes may last more than 2 years. Depressive episodes occur, on the average, every 2 to 3 y…

BACKGROUND: Malaria is a serious public health concern in the world, and it causes a major socioeconomic problem in Ethiopia. Malaria data trend analysis of health facilities is useful to understand the prevalence and incidence of malaria cases and implementing evidence-based malaria control strategies. Hence, the main…

PURPOSE: We aimed to investigate the effect of altered metabolic syndrome (MetS) status on cancer risk. METHODS: From 2002 through 2008 of the Taiwan MJ cohort, there were 111,616 adults who had repeated MetS measurements performed 3.3 years apart and were followed up for cancer incidence over 11.8 years. Cancer was c…

PURPOSE: To determine whether military men report different prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening rates than civilian men and if shared decision-making (SDM) is associated with PSA screening. METHODS: We used data from the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and included 101,901 men (26,363 military an…

The goal of this study was to compare the clinical and radiologic results of posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) partial release and PCL nonrelease in performing cruciate-retaining total knee arthroplasty (CR-TKA) for a long-term follow-up period of greater than 15 years. A total of 224 patients underwent CR-TKA in our h…

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) to the nucleus accumbens (NAcc-DBS) was associated with antidepressant, anxiolytic, and procognitive effects in a small sample of patients suffering from treatment-resistant depression (TRD), followed over 1 year. Results of long-term follow-up of up to 4 years of NAcc-DBS are described in…

The Mason gastric bypass as performed over 8 years on 171 patients for the treatment of massive exogenous obesity. The first 26 patients had a large pouch constructed, and poor long-term weight loss occurred. In the last 6 years, 145 patients had a smaller pouch with a 5.5 percent immediate postoperative complications…

BACKGROUND: Plastic surgery training has undergone tremendous change and transitioned through many models over the years, including independent, combined, and integrated. This study evaluates how these changes and others have affected plastic surgery applicants' demographics and academic qualifications over the last 30…

BACKGROUND: This study examined the impact of Mobidisc implant on spinopelvic parameters, with particular focus on the preservation of the lumbar lordosis (LL) and on the segmental lordosis (SL) of the treated and adjacent segments. METHODS: A prospective study was conducted on 63 consecutive patients with symptomatic…

We estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech, https://www.pfizer.com) booster dose against SARS-CoV-2 infection and reduction of complications (hospitalization, severe disease, and death) among breakthrough cases in persons in Israel >16 years of age for <20 weeks. VE estimates reached 96.8%…

To elucidate the clinical features of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and post-MI silent myocardial ischemia (SMI) in the elderly, and efficacy of therapy in an era of coronary intervention, a total of 10,607 patients with AMI who were enrolled in a multicenter survey between 1982 and 1992 were examined. The elderly…

We report a 40-year-old male who self-administered sildenafil for 10 years, in progressively increasing doses from 100 mg per occasion in the 1(st) year to 1300 mg per occasion in the 9(th)-10(th) years of (ab)use. The frequency of abuse was 2-3/week. The only adverse effect of concern that was reported was transient (…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate features during the first 6 months of disease that may be associated with a poor outcome as measured principally by extension to a polyarticular disease course in patients with oligoarticular-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (oligo-JRA). METHODS: This study was a retrospective review of patie…

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: Dislocation is a well-known complication of total hip arthroplasty. The risk can be reduced to one or two cases per thousand using a double mobility cup. The survival rate achieved with the Bousquet implant is 95% at 10 years. The complications with this implant are early mobilization and inguinal…