BACKGROUND The Latin American Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC) has performed an epidemiological surveillance of congenital malformations since 1967. This allows to detect any unexpected change in the incidence of malformations, possibly caused by a new environmental teratogenic agent. AIM To report a summary of the results thus far obtained in this study. MATERIAL AND METHODS The ...

The household sector consumes a large amount of goods and services and is therefore a major source of global carbon emissions. This study aims to analyze per person household carbon emission (HCEs) patterns of urban and rural China over the period from 1995 to 2011. Annual macroeconomic data for the study were obtained from authentic Chinese government sources. Direct HCE estimates for each fos...

The genetic polymorphism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated in Seville, Spain, was studied by using computer-assisted analysis of the IS6110 fingerprint in order to determine the current situation and to evaluate the human-to-human transmission of this pathogen. One hundred seventy-six isolates from 175 patients among the 205 patients diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) during a 3-year...

The Swedish patient register details all psychiatric inpatient treatments since 1 January 1971. Data on residents of Stockholm County (population 1.8 million) whose first admission to hospital with a diagnosis of schizophrenia had occurred between 1976 and 1995 were linked to the national causes of death register, and the date and underlying cause of death were determined in those who had died....

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to estimate the research productivity of different world regions in the field of Parasitology. METHODS Using the PubMed database we retrieved articles from journals included in the "Parasitology" category of the "Journal Citation Reports" database of the Institute for Scientific Information for the period 1995-2003. Research productivity was evaluate...

The Oslo Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Registry was established in 1990, and this is the first report on the prevalence and incidence of MS in the city of Oslo, Norway. The prevalence rate of definite MS on 1 January 1995 was 120.4/10(5). Inclusion of patients of native Norwegian ancestry only and exclusion of non-Norwegian immigrants yielded a prevalence rate of 136.0/10(5). A similar prevalence rat...

Births According to provisional reports, an estimated 320,000 births occurred in the United States during January 1996. This was a 9-percent decrease from the provisional number of births reported for January 1995 (350,000). The birth rate, 14.3 live births per 1,000 population, was 9 percent lower than the rate of 15.8 for January 1995. The fertility rate, 63.5 live births per 1,000 women 15–4...

This study was carried out using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 1 km × resolution records on board Terra and Aqua satellites in-situ measurements during the period (2003–2019). In spite of presence increasing atmospheric warming, in summer when evaporation is maximal, fresh-water Lake Kinneret, satellite data revealed absence surface water temperature (SWT) trends. The SW...