The ability to consolidate procedural memories declines with increasing age. Prior knowledge enhances learning and memory consolidation of novel but related information in various domains. Here, we present evidence that prior motor experience-in our case piano skills-increases procedural learning and has a protective effect against age-related decline for the consolidation of novel but related ...

AIMS To identify any association between sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) and maltreatment within local families. METHODS Retrospective enquiry and subsequent follow up of all siblings and later births within the families. Full investigation of the circumstances of all unexpected deaths. SETTING Scarborough and Bridlington Health Districts and Trusts, North and East Yorkshire. SU...

INTRODUCTION This study is part of a longitudinal cohort undertaken in both women and men to describe live birth outcome after undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment in a clinical setting. Another objective was to follow women and men living with children from other alternatives after ART, such as adoption. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 439 (80.5%) women and 423 (77.6%)...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the relative risk (RR) of mortality for people who reported poor health or had low educational level. SETTING Sweden. DESIGN A random sample of 39156 people was interviewed face to face by Statistics Sweden from 1979-85. The dependent variable was total mortality. Independent variables were sex, age, marital status, and socioeconomic position, defined as educational lev...

SETTING Thyolo District Hospital, rural Malawi. OBJECTIVES In a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme, to determine: the acceptability of offering 'opt-out' voluntary counselling and HIV-testing (VCT); the progressive loss to follow up of HIV-positive mothers during the antenatal period, at delivery and to the 6-month postnatal visit; and the proportion of missed de...

Background: During last decades, many otologists attempted to make a long standing dry ear, resulting in better hearing after cholesteatoma surgery. This study evaluated the prognosis of two common methods of cholesteatoma ear surgery considering ten years follow-up. Methods: This retrospective analysis was done using medical records of 108 adult patients with cholesteatoma. After ten years of ...

Dear Editor, I was greatly interested in the article "Surgery in cholesteatoma: Ten years Follow-up" by Dr. M. Ajalloueyan published in your journal in March 2006; Vol 31, No 1: 37-40.I think there are grave misconceptions and many doubts about this article. That article has some misleading data that should be clarified by the author. The descriptions of table 1, "Statistical characteristics of...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The treatment of asthmatic patients is particularly focused on the control of symptoms as well as functional and inflammatory parameters. In our study, we investigated the relationship between the asthma control test (ACT) which evaluates symptoms and airway inflammation and functional parameters. MATERIALS AND METHODS Stable asthmatic patients admitted to our pulmonary ou...

Introduction: Inadequate adherence to medication and follow up visits were proposed correlated with cardiovascular mortality and complications. This study was planned to evaluate medication and follow up adherence and risk factor control in patients with coronary artery disease 5 years after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, adult patients who ...