SAT-021 Epidemiologic Trend Changes In Acute Kidney Injury Over The Past Four Decades – An Indian Centre Experience

Explaining Changes in Child Poverty Over the Past Four Decades

Acute Kidney Injury in Lymphoma: A Single Centre Experience

Background. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common but least studied complication of lymphoma. Objective. To determine the frequency and predictors of AKI in lymphoma and to study the impact of AKI on hospital stay and mortality. Methods. Retrospective review of medical records of hospitalized lymphoma patients aged ≥14 years between January 2008 and December 2011 was done. Results. Out of 365 p...

Breast cancer in the Arctic – changes over the past decades

The purpose of this study is to review the current literatures on breast cancer (BC) in the Arctic, especially the trends in incidence during the last decades and the possible explanations. The design of this study is a literature review. The scientific literature concerning BC were reviewed, especially focusing on the Arctic and the special conditions that exist in this region. Breast cancer i...

Changes in Earth's reflectance over the past two decades.

We correlate an overlapping period of earthshine measurements of Earth's reflectance (from 1999 through mid-2001) with satellite observations of global cloud properties to construct from the latter a proxy measure of Earth's global shortwave reflectance. This proxy shows a steady decrease in Earth's reflectance from 1984 to 2000, with a strong climatologically significant drop after 1995. From ...

Drug Holidays From ADHD Medication: International Experience Over the Past Four Decades.

OBJECTIVE ADHD is managed by stimulants that are effective but can cause growth retardation. Prescribers should ideally monitor children and trial a "drug holiday" to enable catch-up growth. Our aim was to map the experience of drug holidays from ADHD medication in children and adolescents. METHOD A comprehensive search of the literature identified 22 studies published during the period 1972 ...