OBJECTIVE To describe factors associated with HIV infection in men aged 15-26 years. SETTING Rural Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. SAMPLE A total of 1277 sexually experienced Xhosa male volunteers from 70 villages participating in a cluster randomized controlled trial of an HIV behavioural intervention. Xhosas circumcise during manhood initiation rituals. DESIGN Cross-sectional, anal...

BACKGROUND The tumor spectrum in the Lynch syndrome is well defined, comprising an increased risk of developing colonic and extracolonic malignancies. Muir-Torre syndrome is a variant with a higher risk of skin disease. Patients have been described carrying mutations in the mismatch repair genes and presenting tumors with unusual histology or affected organ not part of the Lynch syndrome spectr...

BACKGROUND Parkinson disease (PD) is a clinically well-documented neurodegenerative disorder. However, the mechanism or mechanisms of its phenotypic expressions are still unknown. OBJECTIVE To compare phenotypes by examining demographic and clinical features of patients with familial PD and sporadic PD and with or without a family history of PD. DESIGN Historical review of patients with spo...

Presented is a cohort study to assess the nature and frequency of thyroid peroxidase (TPO) mutations in 45 patients (35 families) with congenital hypothyroidism due to a total iodide organification defect; incidence is 1:66,000 in The Netherlands. The presentation is consistently similar with a severe form of congenital hypothyroidism and also characterized by a complete and immediate release o...

The Sport Emotion Questionnaire (SEQ) (Jones, M. V., Lane, A. M., Bray, S. R., Uphill, M., & Catlin, J. (2005). Development and validation of the SEQ. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 27, 407-431) was developed and initially validated to assess sport performers’ precompetitive emotions. The purpose of this study was to test the factor structure of the SEQ in a different environment (vi...

The five most cited NDT articles from 1993 through 1999 Parfrey PS, Foley RN, Harnett JD et al. Outcome and risk factors for left ventricular disorders in chronic uraemia Nephrol Dial Transplant 1996; 11 (7): 1277–1285 (269 citations, end 2009) Maiorca R, Brunori G, Zubani R et al. Predictive value of dialysis adequacy and nutritional indices for mortality and morbidity in CAPD and HD patients....

We aimed to comprehensively study sex differences in disease and patients' characteristics, treatment and outcomes in patients with follicular lymphoma (FL) in the United States (USA) utilizing the National LymphoCare Study registry (2004-2014). Among evaluable males (n = 1277) and females (n = 1375) with FL, females less commonly received anthracyclines and were more likely to receive rituxima...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the factors associated with a positive intake of folic acid (FA) during the periconceptional period among Korean women. DESIGN In a cross-sectional study of demographic, obstetric and socio-economic data, history of periconceptional intake of FA and awareness of the benefits of FA supplementation in pregnancy were obtained and analysed using the chi2 test, fo...

ATM Forum Document Number: ATM Forum/98-0408 ************************************************************************************** Title: Overload based Explicit Rate Switch Schemes with MCR guarantees ************************************************************************************** Abstract: In this contribution, we present four overload based switch schemes which provide MCR guarantees....

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