This study defined a wealth index that was strongly correlated with a health indicator: the survival of children aged less than five years. This index allowed the most vulnerable social groups for health outcomes to be identified. These groups could become the target for focused interventions and in particular for health-insurance schemes. The study was based on a thorough analysis of data coll...

Serologic data on diseases that are preventable by vaccines are necessary to evaluate the success of immunization programs and to identify susceptible subgroups. In the present study, we determined serum IgG levels against diphtheria toxin of military and civilian blood donors (N = 75; 69.3% males and 30.7% females) aged 18-64 years, from the Brazilian Army Biology Institute, Rio de Janeiro, us...

background: high fasting plasma glucose (fpg) is one of the main leading risk factors of ischemic heart disease (ihd), stroke, and chronic kidney diseases (ckds). we estimated population attributable fraction (paf) and attributed death of these fatal outcomes of high fpg at national and subnational levels in 25–64 years old iranian adult. methods: we used national and subnational data of the no...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of renal impairment (RI) (estimated creatinine clearance [Cl(cr)] <60 ml/min per 1.73 m(2)) and low baseline HbA(1c) (<7.5%) on comorbidity in patients with type 2 diabetes, and to assess the efficacy and safety of nateglinide monotherapy in these patients and in subgroups of patients over age 64 years (elderly) and elderly with RI. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS...