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BACKGROUND: Acne is a common inflammatory skin disease with adolescents being the most affected by this condition; however, acne also occurs frequently in the adult population. Adult acne is defined as late-onset acne or acne that persists beyond age 25 years. In terms of epidemiologic data, reports of adult female acn…

OBJECTIVES: Most of the studies that evaluate the association between red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and mortality assess it on a single occasion instead of doing so through serial measurements. Very few studies have investigated repeated measurements of RDW and its prognostic value, and most of them are focus…

This review briefly discusses processes that have been suggested in the last 25 years as important to the intermediate stages of visual processing of patterns. Five categories of processes are presented: (1) Higher-order processes including FRF structures; (2) Divisive contrast nonlinearities including contrast normali…

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to assess the long-term survival rate in children who have undergone orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) in the last 13 years. METHODS: The records of 198 consecutive patients under 18 years of age who underwent 249 OLTs between 1986 and 1998 were reviewed. Actuarial patient survi…

BACKGROUND: Palliative care focuses on improving the quality of life and comfort of patients in the last stages of their disease by providing relief for pain and other distressing symptoms, and it integrates physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects. The main objective of this study is to assess the impact of pall…

Despite progress made in recent decades, gender bias is still present in scientific publication authorship. The underrepresentation of women and overrepresentation of men has already been reported in the medical fields but little is known in the fields of exercise sciences and rehabilitation. This study examines trends…

Age at the start of breast development and at menarche are important maturity indicators in adolescent females. Breast development is usually the first event of puberty and menarche virtually the last. Irregularities in the age of the subject at their appearance can denote a lack of synchronisation between pubertal eve…

Liver transplantation (LT) is the definitive treatment of end-stage liver disease. The long-term survival following LT spurred more interest in improving the quality of life of patients. This was a cohort study that included 23 pediatric liver transplant recipients who underwent LT due to hereditary or metabolic liver…

BACKGROUND: It has been documented that the parents' highest level of education has an impact on their children's access to oral health services and the frequency of their use.This study aimed to determine the association between time elapsed since peruvian children's last dental care and head of household educational…

PURPOSE: To identify female authorship trends in first author and last author positions in Cornea from 2007 to 2019. METHODS: First and last authors of all Clinical Science and Basic Investigation publications in Cornea over 13 years were sorted by sex. Identification of sex was based on the author's institutional pro…

BACKGROUND: Recent years have seen an increase in the use of social media, by the healthcare sector, including dentistry. Indeed, social media may now be important communication tools for dental practices and patients. This work analyzes the influence of patient (male and female) use of dental practice social media on…

The majority of older people experience progressive disability at the end of their lives and require long-term care as a result. This study analysed patterns of care utilisation during the 5 years prior to death, particularly the effects of age and time to death in relation to the use of public elder care (i.e. ho…

BACKGROUND: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the most common microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus (DM), but no bibliometric studies pertaining to DN have been published within the last 5 years. OBJECTIVES: Most prior studies have focused on specific problems in the DN field. This study attempts to sort…

INTRODUCTION: An increasing aggressiveness in cancer treatment at the end of life (EoL) has been reported in several, but not all, countries. This study aimed to see how aggressive cancer treatment is at the EoL in an oncology center. METHODS: Retrospective study of patients 18 years or older with a solid cancer diagn…

OBJECTIVE: We compared rates of induced abortion among women veterans receiving Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare to rates in the general US population, as current policy prohibits VA provision of abortion counseling or services even when pregnancy endangers a veteran's life. METHODS: We analyzed data from 2298 women v…

To investigate whether hyperventilation (HV) for 5 minutes increases the diagnostic yield of electroencephalography (EEG) compared to 3 minutes HV and to determine whether performing HV for 5 minutes is feasible and safe in children.Data were evaluated from 579 children aged less than 18 years, ref…

Daily fine (PM) and coarse (PM) particle matter (PM) samples collected at Parque O'Higgins station in downtown Santiago de Chile have been studied to find the trends in concentration from 1998 to 2018. Elemental concentration was obtained using X-ray fluorescence (XRF). Regression models from previous studies indicate…

OBJECTIVE: Meningiomas are benign intracranial tumors growing from the arachnoid cap cells. Although their behavior is usually benign, they tend to recur even after total removal, and their recurrence is dependent on different aspects. METHODS: Between 1991 and 2002, 463 patients with an intracranial meningioma were o…