PURPOSE To compare the morphology of the distal femur between Caucasian and Japanese women. METHODS 30 Caucasian women aged 41 to 84 (mean, 67) years and 70 Japanese women aged 54 to 86 (mean, 70) years who underwent total knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis were randomly selected. Morphologic measurements of the distal femur were compared using lateral radiographs. Both race and height infl...

Research on the roles that C-reactive protein (CRP) and other risk factors such as cortisol and obesity play in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in African and Caucasian women has become increasingly imperative when one considers the prevalence of hypertension in these groups. CRP and cortisol have been associated with an increased prevalence of hypertension and obesity. Cortisol h...

The purpose of this study was to determine the cephalometric norms of typical Chinese young adult subjects with normal occlusions and well-balanced faces and to compare these norms with those derived from a matched Caucasian sample. Lateral cephalograms of 65 untreated Chinese adults (25 males, mean age 19.3 ± 3.0 years and 40 females, mean age 20.3 ± 3.4 years) were compared with a sample of 9...

Laryngeal sarcoidosis is a rare condition, particularly in the pediatric population. Acute airway intervention may be required severe cases, but guidelines to support therapeutic strategy are absent. Moreover, evidence regarding systemic therapy scarce. This encouraged us report result of management and methotrexate at one-year follow-up child with laryngeal sarcoidosis. A 14-year-old Caucasian...

AIMS To provide an overview of the existing data on non-Caucasian dialysis patients within Europe, and to explore whether these data confirm differences between non-Caucasian and Caucasian dialysis patients that were found in other parts of the world. METHOD A query consisting of the combination "dialysis", "ethnicity", and "Europe" was applied in PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, CINAHL, and t...

OBJECTIVE Alarming increases in hypertension and type 2 diabetes among Africans accentuate the need to identify factors that could serve as targets for prevention or treatment. In Caucasian populations, asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), the predominant endogenous nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, is associated with cardiovascular disease and insulin resistance (IR). ADMA's counterpart, symmetr...

BACKGROUND To compare the efficacy of glycemic control and insulin secretion of alpha glucosidase inhibitors (AGI) on type 2 diabetes patients between Asian and Caucasian. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The MEDLINE®, EMBASE®, CENTRAL were searched and qualified studies in Asian and Caucasian population comparing AGI treatment with placebo or other oral anti-diabetic drugs in type 2 diabetic p...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to assess the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of intravenous levosimendan and the metabolites (OR1855 and OR1896) in healthy Chinese male subjects and to post hoc compare with Caucasian subjects. METHODS One single 2 mg dose of levosimendan was infused intravenously over 10 minutes to each of 14 healthy male subjects. Plasma levosimendan was an...

Attitudes towards eating, weight and shape were examined in 479 Caucasian, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British women. The Asian women were found to have significantly more disordered eating attitudes than the Caucasian women, but no difference was found between the three groups in their concern with their body weight and shape. However, while in the Caucasian group disordered eating attitudes were...

The comparative validity of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory—2 (MMPI-2) scores for African American (« = 123) and Caucasian (n = 561) clients from a community mental health center was investigated by contrasting mean MMPI-2 scores and correlations between those scores and conceptually related therapist rating scales for the 2 groups. The African American men scored significantly high...