Results According to the analysis of the DATASUS databank, 30,163 death certificates from 2008 to 2012 revealed that the deceased had the diagnosis of DM. More than half of them were women (56.33%) and Caucasians (53.58%). Regarding their marital status, more than a third of them were married (39.65%). Most deaths happened in type 2 diabetics (66.82%), achieving a proportion of 2.01 deaths of p...

Incidence of STEMI in the young population has been rising US. Little is known about effect race and gender on prevalence, localization, predictors among population. We queried patients (age < 50 yrs) with primary diagnosis from National Inpatient Sample database (2017-2019) studied prevalence localization men women. also evaluated using logistic regression. A total 69,950 (mean age 43 yrs, 78%...

Group 2 &3 Posterior Instrumentation (PI): 91 patients, average age 14.2 yrs. The posterior group was divided into all Hook/ hybrid (Group 2, n=45) and all Pedicle screw construct (Group 3, n=46), for evaluation of radiological outcomes. The groups were compared for various surgical and radiological outcomes at immediate post-op, 2 and 5 year intervals. Average follow-up 6.6 years (5-12 yrs). R...

Clinics and pathology Disease ALL or ANLL. Phenotype / cell stem origin ALL cases are mostly pre B ALL; AML cases are M0, M1 or M2 AML, with, in most cases, a CD7+, CD33+ phenotype. Epidemiology Only 6 (poorly described) ALL cases and 9 ANLL cases, herein reviewed; incidence of +10: less than 1% of ANLL; sex ratio in ANLL cases is, so far, 1M/2F, and median age is 60 yrs (37-80 yrs), while ALL ...

Background Systolic circumferential and longitudinal strain(CSt%, LSt %) are widely used to assess myocardial performance, but their afterload dependence has not been well characterized. Using geometric estimates of left ventricular (LV) circumferential and meridional wall stress(CWS, MWS) as indices of afterload at the myocardial level, we compared LV CSt and LSt to estimates of CWS and MWS in...

I n the current issue of the European Respiratory Journal, ZHANG et al. [1] present the results of their study on functional polymorphisms of the b2-adrenoceptor (ADRB2) gene in relation to passive smoking on lung function and exhaled nitric oxide fraction (FeNO) in children 11 yrs of age. They gathered 147 children with contrasted exposure to passive smoking, taking into account exposures reco...

The aim of our study was to investigate age-related changes in sleepiness symptoms associated with sleep disordered breathing (SDB). Wisconsin Sleep Cohort participants were assessed using polysomnography, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT). SDB was defined as an apnoea/hypopnoea index ≥15 events·h(-1), and sleepiness as ESS ≥10 and MSLT ≤5 min. Odds r...