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Markle G E, Pasco S·Population studies
Summary This paper shows that the Indiana Amish, a high-fertility Anabaptist population, regulate their marital fertility according to their family finances. We linked demographic data from the Indiana Amish Directory with personal property tax records at 5, 15 and 25 years after marriage and found fertility difference…
Ziylan Sule, Yabas Ozge, Zorlutuna Nilufer, +1 more·Acta ophthalmologica Scandinavica
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the visual outcome and associated findings in isoametropic amblyopia due to high hyperopia. METHODS: Children with > or = 5 D spherical equivalent hyperopia and < or = 1.5 D anisometropia and < or = 1.5 D cylinder in both eyes were selected. Data were collected on the…
Tisch M, Münch P, Maier H·HNO
Blue collar workers in the rubber industry are exposed to a number of toxic and potentially carcinogenic substances. In the last years an increased incidence of laryngeal cancer has been found in this group of workers. Besides naphthylamine, asbestos, vulcanization fumes and especially nitrosamines have been considered…
Bundgaard H, Christensen H, Frederiksen K, +1 more·Cahiers de sociologie et de demographie medicales
BACKGROUND: Whereas supply prognoses is mainly a matter of establishing mathematical scenarios with ongoing adjustments of variables, reliable demand prognoses are more difficult and complex to establish. However, optimum use of human and educational resources and--on the other hand--sufficient supply of medical doctor…
Olcay I, Zorludemir U·Zeitschrift fur Kinderchirurgie : organ der Deutschen, der Schweizerischen und der Osterreichischen Gesellschaft fur Kinderchirurgie = Surgery in infancy and childhood
During the last 11 years idiopathic postoperative intussusception developed in ten children. The incidence was 5.5% of all the intussusceptions. The age ranged from three months to ten years and the interval between two surgical procedures differed from three to eight days. Only one of the patients presented the classi…
Goess Ruediger, Friess Helmut·Expert review of anticancer therapy
Pancreatic cancer is known to be the deadliest of all common cancers. Despite all efforts in pancreatic cancer treatment, the five-year survival rates at diagnosis over the past 20 years have only increased from 5% to 8%. Assuming that pancreatic cancer is going to become the second most frequent cause of cancer r…
Peñaranda Augusto, Aristizabal Gustavo, García Elizabeth, +2 more·International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology
OBJECTIVE: Allergic rhinitis is one of the most frequent chronic diseases among children. The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence of rhinoconjunctivitis and determine clinical, social and environmental associated factors, among school children aged 6-7 years and adolescents aged 13-14 years in Bogot…
Hayashi Hiroyuki, Murakami Hideki, Demura Satoru, +3 more·Indian journal of orthopaedics
BACKGROUND: Posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) has become the standard in the treatment for degenerative spondylolisthesis since improvement of spinal instrumentation However, few published studies have reported long term outcomes of PLIF using a same surgical procedure. The purpose of this study is to evaluate a…
Cordeiro González Patricia, Pérez Fentes Daniel Adolfo, Carrera Álvarez Juan Jose, +1 more·Archivos espanoles de urologia
OBJECTIVE: To report 5 cases of adenomatoid tumor of the epididymis that have been diagnosed in the last 11 years at our hospital. We performed a bibliographic review with discussion of diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment of this rare type of lesion. METHOD: We have performed a retrospective analysis of ep…
Mingarro-de-León Ana, Chaveli-López Begonya·Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry
INTRODUCTION: For over 50 years, vitamin K antagonists such as warfarin (Aldocumar®) and acenocoumarol (Sintrom®) have been the gold standard for reducing the risk of cerebrovascular events. In the last 5 years alternative anticoagulants have been evaluated that act directly upon a concrete target within the…
Rahman Mosfequr, Sasagawa Toshiyuki, Fujii Ryota, +2 more·Journal of interpersonal violence
This study examined the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and unintended pregnancy using data from women reporting IPV in the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey. The analysis included 4,695 married women, aged 15 to 40 years, who had at least one birth in the last 5 years. Bivariate and multip…
Debrie J C, Lavigne F·Dakar medical
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Li Mingqing, Hu Yihe, Li Kanghua, +3 more·Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery
OBJECTIVE: To discuss the clinical application of total hip arthroplasty (THA) with collum femoris preserving (CFP) prosthesis and to analyze the mid-term effectiveness. METHODS: Between January 2004 and February 2007, 45 patients (48 hips) underwent THA with CFP prosthesis. There were 29 males (31 hips) and 16 female…
Whiteman Maura K, Hillis Susan D, Curtis Kathryn M, +3 more·Obstetrics and gynecology
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether reproductive factors are associated with mortality after breast cancer diagnosis. METHODS: We followed up 4,299 U.S. women enrolled between 1980 and 1982 at ages 20-54 years as incident breast cancer cases in a population-based, case-control study, the Cancer and Steroid Hormone Study. Vit…
Holmgren D, Aberg N, Lindberg U, +1 more·Allergy
As part of a questionnaire study of allergic diseases in Swedish children, information about asthma reported in a rural county was evaluated. Of a total population of approx. 9,000 children 4, 7, 10 and 14 years of age, 5.1% reported a history of asthma and 2.4% reported symptoms during the last year. The incidence was…
Kamradt Thomas·Discovery medicine
Extract: In western countries the prevalence and incidence of allergic and autoimmune diseases have been increasing dramatically over the last 50 years. In the last two decades, significant progress has been made towards understanding the genetic basis for susceptibility to autoimmunity or allergy. Genetic factors, how…
Mardones-Restat F·Revista chilena de pediatria
The dynamics of the health policies of the last 30 years in Chile have been strongly influenced by the following issues: the achieved consciousness of the population that the access to health care is a human right; the important increase of the coverage of the health sector; the development of the human resources for h…
París F, Borro J M, Tarrazona V, +4 more·European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
From January 1973 to August 1989, 112 patients with non-tumoral tracheal strictures were treated in our unit. In 102 patients, the stenosis followed respiratory support. Eighty-one patients were treated surgically; the rest required only endoscopic therapy. In 28 patients, surgical treatment followed failure of endosco…
Luyendyk B P, Fisher D E·Science (New York, N.Y.)
A portion of basaltic glass retrieved from an abyssal hill in the northeast Pacific has been dated by the fission track method. The sample location corresponds to magnetic anomaly 10 believed to have resulted from sea-floor spreading. The age of this sample is 35 +/- 5 million years, which is in agreement with the prev…
Alevizaki Maria, Papageorgiou George, Rentziou Gianna, +5 more·Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association
BACKGROUND: New cases of well-differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) are diagnosed more frequently worldwide. We investigated trends and differences in clinical and histological characteristics of new DTC cases presenting in one large center. METHODS: During the last 34 years 852 follicular cell-derived DTC cases (83% pa…