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Electrical Burn Injuries. An Eight-year Review.

Electrical injuries are very aggressive pathological lesions with heavy functional and aesthetic consequences. The primary cause of their gravity is the progressive tissue necrosis that occurs with the continuous extension of wound necrosis, even leading to loss of the entire injured extremity. The goal of this study is to analyse the role of the inefficiency of the electric energy system in th...

Rash in an eight-year-old boy.

Volume 86, Number 12 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 1141 An eight-year-old boy presented with blisters on his lower lip and tongue that had appeared two days earlier. One day after the blisters appeared, a nonpruritic, bilateral rash developed on his palms and soles. The patient recently had swum at a community pool, after which he reported fatigue. He had no fever, chills, nausea, ...

Pounds & Inches - a New Approach to Obesity

Tight Pounds on Oblivious Chaining

The chaining problem is deened as follows. = maxfj j a j = 1; j < ig. (Deene maxfg = 0) The chaining problem appears as a subproblem in many contexts. There are algorithms known that solve the chaining problem on CRCW PRAMs in O((n)) time, where (n) is the inverse of Ackerman's function, and is a very slowly growing function. We study a class of algorithms (called oblivious algorithms) for this...

PCSK7 Genotype Modifies Effect of a Weight-Loss Diet on 2-Year Changes of Insulin Resistance: The POUNDS LOST Trial

OBJECTIVE A common variant rs236918 in the PCSK7 gene has the strongest association with iron homeostasis and is related to insulin resistance. Dietary carbohydrate (CHO) modulates the genetic effect on insulin resistance. We examined whether 2-year weight-loss diets modify the effect of PCSK7 genetic variants on changes in fasting insulin levels and insulin resistance in a randomized, controll...