BACKGROUND Women of African descent are disproportionately affected by intimate partner abuse; yet, limited data exist on whether the prevalence varies for women of African descent in the United States and those in the US territories. OBJECTIVE In this multisite study, we estimated lifetime and 2-year prevalence of physical, sexual, and psychological intimate partner abuse (IPA) among 1,545 w...

Brainstem A2/C2 neurons are catecholamine (CA) neurons within the solitary tract nucleus (NTS) that influence many homeostatic functions, including cardiovascular reflexes, food intake, and stress. Because NTS is a major interface between sensory visceral afferents and the CNS, NTS CA neurons are ideally suited to coordinate complex responses by their projections to multiple brain regions. To t...

BACKGROUND The use of elderly donors (ED) and dual kidney transplantation (DKT) procedures have become common in clinical practice. A correct evaluation of kidneys from ED is crucial to avoid unsuccessful transplantation or the use of DKT when a single transplant (ST) would be equally successful. The aim of this investigation was to assess the role of renal biopsy (RB) in the assessment of kidn...

STUDY OBJECTIVES We sought to assess the incidence of transient U-wave inversion during vasospasm of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) with ST-segment depression as opposed to that with ST-segment elevation. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Cardiology division of acute-care hospitals. PATIENTS We studied 49 patients with vasospastic angina whose vasospasm was induced i...

background: introduction: enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (etec) is the most important bacterial cause of watery  travelers' diarrhea  in  developing countries. watery diarrhea is can cause serious life-threatening dehydration. etec was caused diarrhea by the secretion of two heat-labile enterotoxins (lts) and the heat-stable enterotoxins (sts) which increase intestinal secretion. routine labo...

One important determinant of the speed and success of transition will be the efficiency of transformation and development of the infrastructure sectors. A great deal of attention has been paid to issues such as privatisation, restructuring, user prices, and terms of access in these sectors, regarding both developed and developing countries. Some issues regarding vertical restructuring are notab...