This study has identified all persons in the population of Rochester, Minnesota, who had a diagnosis of cerebral infarction during the period Jan. 1, 1970, through Dec. 31, 1974, and has confirmed the continuing decline in the incidence rate previously reported. The decline in the rate has been accelerating, with a relatively greater reduction occurring in women and in the more elderly age grou...

Fetal hydrops (hydrops fetalis) remains a significant cause of fetal and neonatal mortality. The decreased incidence of rhesus iso-immunisation due to prophylaxis with rhesus immune globulin (anti-D), improved antenatal ultrasound screening, and advances in neonatal intensive care have greatly altered the clinical outlook in this condition. A retrospective review of all 27 liveborn cases of hyd...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe changes over time in the indications and outcomes of cataract surgery and to discuss optimal timing for the surgery. Design: Database study. Participants: Patients who had undergone cataract extraction in the Netherlands, Sweden, or Malaysia from 2008 through 2012. Methods: We analyzed preoperative, surgical, and postoperative data from 2 databases...

Although the Department of Census and Statistics has recorded and analysed the causes of death in South Africa for many years, it is only since 1949 that detailed figures on deaths from cancer have become available. Since then, 5 issues of Report on Dearh have been published periodically' giving the age and sex of persons who died from certain major diseases, which included J6 cancer groups. Th...

This study compares the incidence rates of histologically confirmed gastric carcinoma in Oxfordshire in two five year periods (1960-64, 1984-88). Data were available for 215 patients in the first period, and 200 in the second. The overall incidence fell from 18/100,000 to 15/100,000 but when analysed for site, the incidence of antral tumours fell from 10 to 4.5/100,000. In contrast, there was a...

Hysterectomy is the most frequently performed major surgical procedure in gynaecology and is associated with a 4% risk of severe complications. Hysterectomy rates for benign conditions are decreasing in the United States,1 Canada,2 and Australia,3 though a similar trend is not evident in Hong Kong. According to a recent Territorywide O&G Audit Report,4 there was a nearly 50% increase in the num...

D raw a line down the Shannon, bend and extend it to the north east to include Longford and the Ulster counties, add Kerry and perhaps West Cork, and one obtains the traditional dividing line of Ireland. "The West", the counties to the west and north of the line, are poor, if one is thinking in social terms, or under­ developed, if one is thinking in economic terms. B y implication, the countie...

Study of mortality from pulmonary tuberculosis in Ontario between 1881 and 1961 reveals a steady decline in rates since the beginning of this century, affecting both sexes and all age groups. This decline has been much faster in the younger than in the older age groups. When the mortality rates are studied for groups of men and women born within 10-year periods (10-year cohorts) an orderly patt...

356 ADICCIONES, 2013 · VOL. 25 NÚM. 4 · PÁGS. 356-357 Enviar correspondencia a: Sergei V. Jargin, Clementovski per 6-82, Moscow 115184, Russia. E-mail: [email protected]. Telephone and fax: +7 495 9516788 Discussion of a changing pattern of alcohol consumption in the former Soviet Union (SU) would not provide much insight without an overview of its social transformations since the 1990s; that is,...

Gradually the pattern of use of antihypertensive drug agents has changed, from prime use of diuretics and beta-blockers, to preference for the inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system and the calcium channel blockers. In assessing the value of potentially conflicting evidence, attention should be paid to the hierarchy of evidence, which works its way up through 10 steps from isolated case rep...