The aim of this study was to investigate whether surfactant-associated protein B (SP-B) mRNA deficiency is involved in the pathogenesis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). A total of 60 unrelated neonates who died of RDS were recruited as the RDS group and subgrouped into a ≤32-, a 32-36(+6)- and a ≥37-week group (n=20 per group) on the basis of gestational age. In addition, 60 neo...

BACKGROUND Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is an increasingly used peer chain-recruitment method to sample "hard-to-reach" populations for whom there are no reliable sampling frames. Implementation success of RDS varies; one potential negative factor being the number of seeds used. METHODS We conducted a sensitivity analysis on estimates produced using data from an RDS study of gay, bisexual...

BACKGROUND Respondent driven sampling (RDS) was designed for sampling "hidden" populations and intended as a means of generating unbiased population estimates. Its widespread use has been accompanied by increasing scrutiny as researchers attempt to understand the extent to which the population estimates produced by RDS are, in fact, generalizable to the actual population of interest. In this st...

Rumah Desa Sehat (RDS) adalah salah satu program Kementerian Desa, Pembangunan Daerah Tertinggal dan Transmigrasi. Direktorat Jenderal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat telah mengeluarkan Pedoman Teknis RDS pada tahun 2018. Kecamatan Gubug mengambil langkah strategis berani, dengan menetapakan kebijakan bagi seluruh desa yang berada di wilayahnya untuk mengalokasikan 10% anggaran Dana menangani permasala...

BACKGROUND Respondent-driven sampling(RDS) is an increasingly widely used variant of a link tracing design for recruiting hidden populations. The role of the spatial distribution of the target population has not been robustly examined for RDS. We examine patterns of recruitment by location, and how they may have biased an RDS study findings. METHODS Total-population data were available on a r...

BACKGROUND Prematurity is still a major problem for health care services throughout the world. Before the late 1980s, respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) was the primary cause of morbidity and mortality in preterm new-borns. Frequency of RDS and ensuing mortality in infants treated with antenatal steroid is less than those delivered without this therapy. Many pregnant females deliver before ter...

OBJECTIVES The aim of our study was to evaluate whether mild to moderate infant respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) treated with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) might affect the pulmonary function in school-aged children. MATERIAL AND METHODS 50 children, aged 10.2 +/- 2.8 years, with a history of RDS and 90 controls without a neonatal history of lung diseases, matched for a...

The brainstem of the adult rat is relatively resistant to spreading depolarization (SD) but after enhancement of excitability SD can be evoked by local application of KCl. In the present experiments, we observed that the enhanced excitability even triggers prolonged periods of repetitive depolarizations (RDs), which elicit significant cardiovascular changes. In contrast to KCl-evoked SDs with a...