Armando Márcio Coimbra (1949 -1998)

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Primary lung cancer remains a leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States and most Western countries, with mortality rates exceeding the rates of breast, colon and prostate cancers combined. Only a minority of patients with lung cancer can be offered potentially curative treatment and only half of those will actually be cured. Clearly there is a need to reduce mortality a...

Leprosy in China: epidemiological trends between 1949 and 1998.

OBJECTIVE To report the epidemiological trends of leprosy in China from 1949 to 1998. METHOD Data for the study were obtained from the computerized database of the National System of Leprosy Surveillance. FINDINGS A total of 474,774 leprosy patients were detected during this 50-year period. Case detection rates per 100,000 population were highest in the 1950s and 1960s, with peaks appearing...

Analysis of climate trends in North Carolina (1949-1998).

North Carolina has one of the most complex climates in the United States (U.S.). Analysis of the climate in this state is critical for agricultural and planning purposes. Climate patterns and trends in North Carolina are analyzed for the period 1949-1998. Precipitation, minimum temperature, and maximum temperature are analyzed on seasonal and annual time scales using data collected from the Nat...

Changes in forest biomass carbon storage in China between 1949 and 1998.

The location and mechanisms responsible for the carbon sink in northern mid-latitude lands are uncertain. Here, we used an improved estimation method of forest biomass and a 50-year national forest resource inventory in China to estimate changes in the storage of living biomass between 1949 and 1998. Our results suggest that Chinese forests released about 0.68 petagram of carbon between 1949 an...