CKD Prevalence Varies across the European General Population

Prevalence of main bronchial diverticula in a general European population

With the technical development of multislice computed tomography (CT), main bronchial diverticula are now a common finding on imaging. Data from three larger studies from Japan and a highly selected patient sample from Europe (lung cancer screening) showed prevalences exceeding 40%. The generalizability to a more general European patient population is unclear. For this purpose a set of 80 thora...

Prevalence of Canine Monocytic Ehrlichiosis in Canine Population across India

Canine ehrlichiosis is a very important emerging disease in India. This study is the first attempt screening a large number of canines in India for the detection of canine monocytic ehrlichiosis. In the present study, 510 blood samples of dogs were screened for the presence of Ehrlichia canis and other variants of Anaplasmataceae family by serological and molecular methods.Out of the 510 serum ...

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

Prevalence of Naps in the General Population

Epidemiological data in the general population on daytime napping are scarce (1-4). This paucity of information reflects a disinterest from epidemiologists probably due to such popular beliefs that napping is a benign lifestyle habit shared mostly by elderly persons or a cultural phenomenon encountered primarily in warm, southern climates. Numerous clinical studies, however, have explored the f...

Tax incidence varies across the price distribution

Traditional treatments of tax pass-through examine the tax incidence, which makes sense when the law of one price holds. However in markets with a price distribution, the tax incidence may vary across the distribution. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.