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In year 1995 the European Society of Cardiology started an epidemiological study EUROASPIRE to evaluate the results of secondary prevention in some European countries. The first study period was in 1995, the second in 1999-2000 and the third in 2007. From Hungary the same study centers participated in EUROASPIRE I-II-I…

BACKGROUND: In the last 15 years, an increase in U.S. female dermatologists from 41 to 52.2% and a surge in female authorship (FAP) have been noted. Authorship is a pivotal objective measurement of academic productivity and, contribution as first or senior author, plays a major role in the promotion process of active p…

OBJECTIVES: To study the changes in the mortality rate and cause of death of hospitalized neonates in grade A tertiary hospitals in Weifang City of Shandong Province during a 10-year period. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed on 461 neonates who died in three grade A tertiary hospitals in Weifang City of…

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…

BACKGROUND: As a pivotal reproductive factor, age at last live birth (ALLB) plays a critical role in a woman's health trajectory, including the risk of cardiovascular diseases. METHODS: In this prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB), 148,456 parous postmenopausal women were included. ALLB was f…

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…

This text is part of the chapter 7 of a special issue supplement called "Death and Dying in PICU" having Christopher S. Parshuram and Karen Dryden-Palmer as the guest editors. I present my personal perception regarding the modes of death and the dying process in Brazilian PICU over the last 30 years. A big change in th…

OBJECTIVE: Although restless legs syndrome (RLS)/Willis-Ekbom disease (WED) is a common neurological disorder, data on the long-term course and management of the disease are scarce. The aim of the current study was to extend the knowledge on the long-term clinical course and treatment outcome of RLS/WED. METHODS: In t…

OBJECTIVE: To assess recent trends in prostate cancer incidence, survival and mortality in Spain using updated data. SUBJECTS AND METHOD: Prostate cancer mortality data have been obtained from the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Incidence cases have been obtained from the databases Cancer Incidence in Five Con…

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…

Objective To determine the natural course of cluster headache. Methods We screened patients with cluster headache who were diagnosed at Samsung Medical Center and lost to follow-up for ≥5 years. Eligible patients were interviewed by phone about the longitudinal changes in headache characteristics and disease cou…

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine fertility (live births) in the last 3 years and its associated factors among women living with HIV (WLHIV) in western Ethiopia . DESIGN: Participants were recruited into a cross-sectional survey using systematic sampling. SETTINGS: Four healthcare facilities in western Ethiopia…

AIM: To analyze changes in the lumbosacral angle in children with tethered cord syndrome before and after spinal cord untethering surgery, and to determine the clinical value of such changes at the last follow-up. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed 23 children over 5 years old who were treated with spin…

STUDY QUESTION: Is it possible to construct an age curve denoting the ages above which women are biologically too old to reproduce? SUMMARY ANSWER: We constructed a curve based on the distribution of female age at last birth in natural fertility populations reflecting the ages above which women have become biologicall…

Operative indications and type of resection represent a crucial issue of minimally invasive liver surgery (MILS), and they should not be modified by the increased experience of laparoscopic liver surgeons. The aim of this study was to define the indications for MILS and the learning curve in a high-volume hepatobiliary…

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…

Long-term decline in lung function is generally considered to be progressive in individuals with established chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), despite the presence of intersubject variation. We hypothesized that the annualized rate of decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV) would not be consta…

The Birmingham Burns Centre has been regularly presenting its mortality estimates since its pioneering work in 1949 on the use of probit analysis. The last of these estimates that showed a significant improvement in survival was presented in 1971. This improvement was attributed to the introduction of topical 0.5% silv…

AIM OF THE STUDY: The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical, epidemiological, therapeutic and prognostic changes observed in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) during the last two decades. METHODS: Two cohorts of 200 patients with UGIB consecutively recruited during the period 1984-1987 (c…

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…