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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In low- and middle-income countries, the total burden of cardiovascular diseases is expected to increase due to demographic and epidemiological transitions. However, data on cause-specific mortality are lacking in sub-Saharan Africa. Seychelles is one of the few countries in the region where all deaths are registered and medically certified. In this study, we examine tren...

OBJECTIVES This report shows trends and group differences in current marital status, with a focus on first marriages among women and men aged 15-44 years in the United States. Trends and group differences in the timing and duration of first marriages are also discussed. These data are based on the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). National estimates of probabilities of first ma...

Like Paleoindian populations elsewhere in North America, Pre-Archaic groups in the Great Basin are assumed to have been highly mobile and far ranging. This view is commonly based on analyses of lithic technology and source provenance studies. While these approaches have added to our knowledge of PreArchaic lifeways, they have rarely focused on occupation span e an aspect of hunteregatherer beha...

Background: Conventional echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging have been highlighted to diagnose diastolic and systolic heart dysfunction. We aimed to compare tissue Doppler imaging with conventional echocardiography to diagnose heart dysfunctions in diabetes mellitus type 1 (DMT1) patients. <s...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this report is to present the results obtained with heart transplantation since this therapeutic modality first began to be used in Spain in May 1984. METHODS A descriptive analysis was performed of all heart transplantation performed until December 31, 2010. RESULTS The total number of transplants is 6291. The average clinical profile of the Spani...

In this paper we will show in detail that the performed attempts aimed at the detection of the general relativistic Lense-Thirring effect in the gravitational field of the Earth with the existing LAGEOS satellites are always presented in an unrealistically optimistic and misleading way which is inadequate for such an important test of fundamental physics. E.g., in the latest reported measuremen...

Methods Thirty-seven consecutive patients with low EF (≤30%) who underwent CABG in our department between February 2010 and April 2012 were analyzed retrospectively (8 women and 29 men, mean age 62,32±10,86 years, range 40 to 78 years). Short and mid term results of CABG on functional capacity and angina were evaluated. Functional capacity and angina were ranked according to the New York Heart ...