There have been no prior large population-based studies focusing on cutaneous lymphomas (CL) in the United States. Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program data, we analyzed age-adjusted CL incidence rates (IRs) and survival rates by sex and race/ethnicity. There were 3884 CLs diagnosed during 2001-2005. Cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCLs) accounted for 71% (age-adjust...

BACKGROUND Absolute poverty and gross income inequity can foment violence through various and multiple mechanisms. Poor people are highly prone to exploitation and manipulation by those who are wealthy and more powerful. The poor are as susceptible to being victims as being perpetrators of crime. OBJECTIVE To study the trends in homicides in the Mthatha area. METHOD A review of records of 5...

BACKGROUND The American Heart Association (AHA) 2020 Strategic Impact Goal proposes a 20% improvement in cardiovascular health of all Americans. We aimed to estimate the potential reduction in coronary heart disease (CHD) deaths. METHODS AND RESULTS We used data on 40 373 adults free of cardiovascular disease from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES; 1988-2010). We qu...

CONTEXT Currently, little is known about rates of death by cause and country among US travellers. Understanding the risk by cause and country is imperative to risk communication and the development of risk reduction strategies. METHODS Publicly available data on non-natural deaths of US citizens abroad were gathered from January 2003 to December 2009 from the US Department of State's Departme...

Fig. 1. Sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis study of the urinary proteins of eight diabetic patients The first two gels on the left were used to separate reference proteins. Ingel C we separated several ptxifled proteins of known molecular weiits: 1gM(1 000 000), igG(153 000), transfenin (17?.76 000), senan albumin (ALB, 66 000), egg albumin (OVA,46 000), thymotrypsinogen ...

It has been previously reported that a higher erythropoiesis stimulating agent (ESA) dose in hemodialysis patients is associated with adverse outcomes including mortality; however the causal relationship between ESA and mortality is still hotly debated. We hypothesize ESA dose indeed exhibits a direct linear relationship with mortality in models of association implementing the use of a marginal...

In these two regions, the total number of people living with HIV continues to increase, in great part due to the life-prolonging effects of antiretroviral therapy, a relatively steady number of new HIV infections each year in North America and an increase in the number of new HIV diagnoses in Western Europe since 20026. Overall, approximately 2.1 million [1.5 million–3.0 million] people were li...

Analysis of urine proteins of some individuals with proteinuria by SDS-PAGE and silver staining revealed protein bands in urine which did not appear to be present in plasma. The bands migrated with apparent molecular weights of 260 000, 180 000, 110 000, 45 000, 40 000, 30 000, 24 000, 18 000 and 11 000. These bands were shown to be albumin polymer and fragments by using a polyclonal antibody t...