BACKGROUND Controversial results on hyperhomocysteinemia and cardiovascular risk in hemodialysis (HD) could be due in part to the methodology used for homocysteine (Hcy) determination. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the influence of the method used for Hcy determination (chromatography or immunoassay) with regard to the association of Hcy with cardiovascular mortality rate in ...

BACKGROUND Immigrants to Norway from South Asia and Former Yugoslavia have high levels of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Yet, the incidence of CVD among immigrants in Norway has never been studied. Our aim was to study the burden of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke among ethnic groups in Norway. METHODS We studied the whole Norwegian population (n = 2,637,057) aged 35-...

BACKGROUND Serious safety concerns related to the use of antipsychotics have not decreased the prescribing of these agents to nursing home (NH) residents. We assessed the extent to which resident clinical characteristics and institutional prescribing practice were associated with antipsychotic prescribing. METHODS Antipsychotic prescribing was assessed for a nationwide, cross-sectional popula...

RESULTSdAfter adjustment for age, parity, nondietary and dietary factors, and BMI, multivariable RRs (95% CIs) comparing the highest with lowest quintiles were 1.49 (1.03–2.17) for animal protein intake and 0.69 (0.50–0.97) for vegetable protein intake. The substitution of 5% energy from vegetable protein for animal protein was associated with a 51% lower risk of GDM (RR (95%CI), 0.49 (0.29–0.8...

The first nontrivial zeroes of the Riemann ζ function are ≈ 1 2 ± 14.13472i. We investigate the question of whether or not any other Lfunction has a higher lowest zero. To do so we try to quantify the notion that the L-function of a “small” automorphic representation (i.e. one with small level and archimedean type) does not have small zeroes, and vice-versa. We prove that many types of automorp...

Several epidemiological studies have investigated the association between dietary flavonoid intake and digestive tract cancers risk; however, the results remain inconclusive. The aim of our study was to evaluate this association. PubMed and the Web of Knowledge were searched for relevant publications from inception to October 2015. The risk ratio (RR) or odds ratio (OR) with the 95% confidence ...

AIMS To investigate the differences in perinatal death and child mortality between different ethnic groups in the Netherlands. METHODS Retrospective analysis of data collected between 1990 and 1993 in the national obstetric registry comprising 569 743 births. Retrospective analysis of all death certificates of 0 to 15 year old children routinely collected between 1979 and 1993, comprising 20 ...