Meningococcal carriage is a prerequisite for invasive infection. This cross-sectional study assessed the pharyngeal carriage prevalence in healthy subjects aged 1-24 years in Embu das Artes city, São Paulo, Brazil. Pharyngeal swabs were examined for the presence of Neisseria meningitidis. The isolates were tested for different serogroups using agglutination and polymerase chain reaction. A logi...

Our series included 51 consecutive patients with JIA, 16 males and 35 females (age range 4 – 19 years), that were evaluated through a rheumatologic and dentist examination. Clinically suspected cases were studied with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Our results showed that 19/51 patients (37%) (age range 9 – 19 years) had TMJ alterations, 10/19 (19,6%) concerning the left one while 7/19 (13,7...

Background: There is sparse information to describe the clinical features and outcomes of patients infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).     Methods: In a single-center retrospective observational study, 50 patients infected with COVID-19 were studied. Epidemiological, demographic, clinical, laboratory, radiological, and treatment data were collected and analyzed. Outcomes of crit...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of and associated factors for cognitive impairment and dementia in community dwelling Chinese from Singapore. METHODS This study includes Chinese subjects from the Epidemiology of Dementia in Singapore (EDIS) study, aged ≥60 years, who underwent comprehensive examinations, including cognitive screening with the locally validated Abbreviated Mental Test and Pr...

A retrospective review of medical records of 80 children with thyroid dysgenesis (TD) was conducted to determine the association of gender and maternal age with TD. The study subjects were attending the Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic of our hospital which is a large tertiary care Multispecialty Pediatric Center located in Chandigarh, Northwest India. There were no gender differences (boys to gi...

background: interleukin-19, a member of the interleukin-10 family of cytokines, contributes to breast cancer pathogenesis. high interleukin-19 expression in breast tumor tissues is associated with poor clinical outcome. this study aimed to assess the changes in serum level of interleukin-19 in breast cancer patients in comparison with normal women and its association with the clinicopathologica...

Normative information is available on the expected performance of hearing-impaired individuals on the revised version of the Speech Perception in Noise (SPIN) test. This normative sample includes individuals with sensorineural hearing loss drawn from an age range of 19 to 69 years, with 79 percent of the sample being less than 65 years of age. In the present study, SPIN scores were obtained fro...

BACKGROUND in a previous study, we showed that the ability to detect a rise in airflow resistance at rest was reduced in some non-asthmatic subjects in old age. OBJECTIVE to determine whether airflow resistance detection is attenuated in elderly subjects with asthma. METHODS we studied 60 adult subjects with stable asthma (age range 20-88). Progressive external airflow resistance loading wa...

UNLABELLED This study evaluated the reference range and reproducibility of the gastric emptying study with oatmeal as a function of age and sex. METHODS Twenty-four healthy subjects, 12 men and 12 women, categorized into 3 age groups, 20-40, 40-60, and 60-80 y, were studied twice, 1 d apart, with instant oatmeal labeled with (99m)Tc-sulfur colloid. Imaging was performed in the upright positio...