AIM To document over-time per capita alcohol consumption and connection between per capita alcohol consumption and indicators of short and long term alcohol-related harm. METHODS Registered alcohol consumption was calculated from the data on production and trade of alcoholic beverages, using World Health Organization recommended methodology for the 1981-2002 period. The indicators of alcohol-...

This study aimed to investigate differences between ears in performance on a monaural word recognition in noise test among individuals across a broad range of ages assessed for (C)APD. Word recognition scores in quiet and in speech noise were collected retrospectively from the medical files of 107 individuals between the ages of 7 and 30 years who were diagnosed with (C)APD. No ear advantage wa...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Other. Main source(s): Pfizer Research Grant (ID#57165999) Background Misfolding transthyretin (TTR) is the source two distinct forms amyloidosis (ATTR): acquired or wild-type (ATTRwt) and hereditary (ATTRm), which transmitted in an autosomal dominant inheritance with a variable penetrance. Types gene mutations display genetic ethnic va...

INTRODUCTION Radiation dose to patients undergoing invasive coronary angiography (ICA) is relatively high. Guidelines suggest that a local benchmark or diagnostic reference level (DRL) be established for these procedures. This study sought to create a DRL for ICA procedures in Queensland public hospitals. METHODS Data were collected for all Cardiac Catheter Laboratories in Queensland public h...

Mahfoud F, Bohm M. Improvements of left-ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic function following renal denervation—effects beyond blood pressure and heart rate reduction. J Am Coll Cardiol 2013;in press. 11. Mahfoud F, Urban D, Teller D, Linz D, Stawowy P, Hassel JH, Fries P, Dreysse S, Wellnhofer E, Schneider G, Buecker A, Schneeweis C, Doltra A, Schlaich MP, Esler MD, Fleck E, Böhm M, Kelle S...

The nucleotide sequence of a 2224 bp region of the Escherichia co l i chromosome that c a r r i e s the LexA regulated recN gene has been determined. A region of 1701 nucleot ides encoding a polypeptide of 567 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 63,599 was iden t i f i ed as the most probable sequence for the recN s t r u c t u r a l gene. The proposed i n i t i a t i o n codon i s...

Recently malfunctions of telecommunication installations caused by switching noises of electric equipment or devices have been increasing. The switching noises usually have low frequency components less than 50Hz and also more than 9kHz or 150 kHz. It is useful to detect power spectrum of noises in order to solve EMC problems. The LPC (Linear Prediction Code) method is known as a powerful frequ...

BACKGROUND Ischemic stroke is the second most common cause of death and the primary cause of disability throughout the world. Acupuncture is frequently advocated as an adjunct treatment during stroke rehabilitation. The aim of this study was to update the clinical efficacy and safety of acupuncture for cerebral infarction. METHODS Randomized controlled trials (RCT) on acupuncture treating cer...