Methods Subjects without known psychiatric diseases were consecutively recruited from pulmonary and allergy outpatient clinics at the third level hospitals. Diagnosis of asthma and AR was based on GINA and ARIA guideline, respectively. Only patients without asthma were chosen for AR group in order to compare with asthma. Depression and anxiety symptoms were evaluated using Beck Depression Inven...

We examined stool specimens of 148 returning travelers from an outpatient department for tropical diseases for the appearance of microsporidia using light microscopy and PCR. Intestinal microsporidiosis was diagnosed for five patients by light microscopy and for nine patients by PCR. Some cases were diagnosed only by PCR, indicating that the true prevalence has to be determined by highly sensit...

Three thousand seven hundred and ninety seven skin cases were studied in Dermatology outpatient Department of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi over one year. The incidence of various diseases is compared with those from Bangkok, Shiraz, London and Ibadan. Scabies, eczema, pyogenic and fungus infections were the most common problems encountered (JPMA 35: 73, 1985).

a Immunodeficiency Clinic, Karl Bremer Hospital, Room 12, Outpatient building, Bellville, 7530, South Africa b Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada and Epidemiology for Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Division of Dermatology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Hospital, Parow, South Africa Division of Anatomical ...

FunctionalEatingGuidanceandFood Awareness Georg Waltner, Michael Schwarz, Stefan Ladstätter, Anna Weber, Patrick Luley, Horst Bischof, Meinrad Lindschinger, Irene Schmid and Lucas Paletta 1 Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, {waltner,bischof}@icg.tugraz.at 2 JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz, Austria, {michael.schwarz,stefan.ladstaetter,anna.weber,patrick.luley,lucas...

Objective The goal of this analysis is to compare the results of influenza-likeillness (ILI) text and International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code classifiers applied to the Louisiana Office of Public Health’s (OPH) syndromic surveillance data reported by New Orleans area emergency departments and the Greater New Orleans Health Information Exchange’s (GNOHIE) data reported by New Orleans...

From the Laboratory of Clinical Znuestigation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Znstitutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20205, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-lsrael Institute of Technology, P.O.B. 9649, Haifa, Israel, and Connective Tissue-Aging Research Laboratory, Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic, Boston, Massachusetts 02108, a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of onsite screening with a nonmydriatic, digital fundus camera for diabetic retinopathy (DR) at a diabetes outpatient clinic. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This cross-sectional study included 502 patients, 112 with type 1 and 390 with type 2 diabetes. Patients attended screenings for microvascular complications, including diabetic nephropathy (DN), diabetic poly...