Objectives: To describe trends in hospital admissions and mortality from congestive heart failure in the elderly population aged 65 years and over in Singapore, 1991 to 1998. Design: Analysis of trends and population subgroup differences in rates of hospital admission and mortality for a primary diagnosis of congestive heart failure, classified as ICD-9, codes 428, 402.0, 402.11, and 402.91. Se...

Ehrlenbach et al. found a linear relationship between baseline relative telomere length (RTL) and the decrease of RTL over 10 years (r1⁄4 0.674; P < 0.001). Similarly, others have reported on this relationship between the telomere attrition rate and the baseline telomere length and found largely similar associations. Likewise, when we correlated the RTL and delta RTL during 7 years of follow-up...

Dermatoglyphjc features of 50 ICD-9 diagnosed female catatonic schizophrenic patients in the age range of 15-60 years were compared with those ethnically matched controls of the same sex. Patients were found to differ from controls in qualitative as well as quantitative features. Most of the differences matched well with the previous studies.