We study a general equilibrium model with a housing market to understand the role of credit access among borrowers and show that an adverse financial shock can increase the asymmetry in the housing wealth distribution of subprime and prime borrowers. Households with better credit access can take advantage of the low housing prices during recessions, especially when the subprimers are previously...

There are two clinical situations in which establishing the diagnosis of a toxic adenoma or toxic multinodular goiter is more difficult. First, the autonomously functioning tissue may be sufficiently diffuse that it is difficult to differentiate a toxic multinodular goiter from Graves' disease by thyroid scintigraphy alone. When it is important to distinguish these disorders, a high serum conce...

Toxic epidermal necrolysis-like lesions have been described in the setting of lupus erythematosus, and have been considered as a specific hyperacute variant of cutaneous lupus erythematosus, with features different from classical drug-related toxic epidermal necrolysis. We report here a series of three patients with lupus erythematosus who presented with severe worsening of their cutaneous dise...

BACKGROUND Many authors have claimed that hyperthyroidism protects against thyroid cancer and believed that the incidence of malignancy is lower in patients with toxic multinodular goiter (TMG) than in those with non-toxic multinodular goiter. But in recent studies, it was reported that the incidence of malignancy with TMG is not as low as previously thought. AIM To compare the thyroid cancer...

it is obvious that lead intake is of concern not for its beneficial/essential effects on metabolism, but rather for its toxic actions, which can be especially damaging to children. the objective of this study was to analyze the concentration of lead in milk of mothers during prolonged lactation. milk samples from 43 mothers were collected at 2 months postpartum. lead was analyzed using atomic a...

the data of this study was collected from 252 teachers, principals and vice-principals offemales’ high schools in district one through one researcher-administered questionnaire, and was then analyzed. the validity of the questionnaire was approved by seven university professors. cronbach’s alpha was used in order to measure the reliability of the questionnaire. the total calculated alpha was 0....

this article present the result from a study of two sediment cores collected from theenvironmentally distinct zones of ces. accumulation status of five toxic metals: cadmium (cd), chromium(cr), cobalt (co), copper (cu) and lead (pb) were analyzed. besides texture and chns were determined tounderstand the composition of the sediment. enrichment factor (ef) and anthropogenic factor (af) wereused ...

1Division of Bacteriology, Department of Infectious Disease Control and International Medicine, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata 951-8510, Japan; 2Russia-Japan Center of Microbiology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University, Krasnoyarsk 660022; and 3Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after professor Voyno-Yasen...

Toxic leucoencephalopathy (TLE) is a rare neurological complication of heroin abuse. 'Chasing the dragon' is an inhalational mode of heroin abuse that originated in Southeast Asia. Intriguingly, no cases of TLE have been reported from this region, although the inhalational mode of heroin abuse is common. We herein report the case of a middle-aged man with a history of polysubstance abuse who pr...