Charles Enrique Dent

Dent Associates White Papers 11 - 01 David Dent , Dent Associates Ltd Brian Pettit , Chilworth Consultants Ltd

TRLs have the benefit of providing a common understanding of the status of a technology in its development pathway, a means of assessing and managing risk, and decision making concerning funding and implementation of technology. As with any management tool, there are certain limitations and disadvantages to its use. These include the creation of extra reporting, paperwork, reviews, lengthy adop...

2 Dent ’ s Disease

Dent’s disease (MIM #300009) is a rare X-linked disorder characterized by various degrees of proximal tubular (PT) dysfunction, nephrocalcinosis and nephrolithiasis. The exact prevalence is unknown. The disease was first reported by Dent and Friedman, who described two males with vitamin D resistant rickets, hypercalciuria and low molecular weight proteinuria (LMWP) (Dent & Friedman, 1964). Bas...

HIV / AIDS : Vertical Transmission Enrique

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Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy in men worldwide. Chemotherapy response is very poor and resistance to hormone-based treatments is frequent in advances stages. Recently, tumor-initiating cells or cancer stem cells (CSCs) have been identifi ed in several cancers, including PCa. These cells are thought to be responsible for therapy resistance, relapse and metasta...

GLOSSARY Measures of health inequalities : part 2 Enrique Regidor

Absolute difference in frequencies This measure can be calculated as the difference between the observed frequency of the health event in each category of the socioeconomic variable and the reference category, based on data in simple contingency tables, or by using the estimated frequency based on log-linear regression models. As is the case with frequency ratios, when we obtain a single estima...