The association of various personal, occupational, and environmental factors with climatic droplet keratopathy and pterygium was examined in a group of Australian Aborigines. Climatic droplet keratopathy was seen especially in aboriginal males who had worked as stockmen for more than 20 years. Although no definite association with a single causal factor could be made, there is circumstantial ev...

The association of various personal, occupational, and environmental factors with cataracts and pseudoexfoliation of the lens (PXF) was examined in a group of Australian Aborigines. Cataracts occurred more commonly in the elderly but were also associated with high levels of ultraviolet radiation and sunlight and were more commonly seen in lower latitudes. PXF was also seen more commonly in the ...

In this graphite-furnace atomic-absorption spectrometric method for measuring manganese in whole blood, we use a pyrolytic platform to minimize interference by sample matrix. For optimal sample ashing we denature the sample within the furnace with nitric acid and use oxygen as the purge gas at low temperatures. The mean manganese concentration found in blood from 15 unexposed city dwellers was ...

Restriction fragment length polymorphisms at the renin and factor 13B loci located at chromosome 1q32-1q42 were studied in 14 ethnic groups in the west Pacific region. The allele frequencies were combined with previously described beta-globin and albumin-vitamin D binding protein haplotype frequencies and used to assess genetic affinities among eight major ethnic-geographic groups in this regio...

From the end of 19th century to 1962, Algerian presence in France became part more than a centenary history. The early and significant migration flow colonists metropolis began second half century. Until Algerians were not called foreigners, but first “aborigines,” then “French subjects,” Muslims Algeria.” Close relationship between Algeria France, colony, oppressors oppressed, can be traced cu...

Between 1988 and 1993 the International Union of Nutritional Sciences Committee 'Nutrition and Ageing' established the international 'Food Habits in Later Life' (FHILL) Program.1,2 The FHILL program documented current and distant past food habits of more than 2000 Caucasian and Asian elderly people, which also included 54 older Aboriginal Australians in a community called Junjuwa in the Fitzroy...