BACKGROUND Coronary heart disease (CHD) causes an estimated 7 million deaths worldwide each year. In the last few decades, mortality from CHD has been decreasing in many countries. The aim of this study was to analyze the trends of mortality from CHD and myocardial infarction (MI) in the population of Belgrade during the period 1990-2010. METHODS Mortality data for CHD and MI were obtained fr...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to evaluate the response rate of hyperthyroidism to radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment, optimum effective dose, effect of pretreatment with thyrostatic medications, etiology, ophthalmopathy, mortality and cancer incidence post RAI treatment. METHODS Retrospective study analysis of 360 patients records who received RAI treatment (dose 5-15 mCi) for hyperthyro...

PURPOSE The operative report is the official documentation of an operation and a key form of surgical communication. The objective of this study is to assess completeness of operative reports for neck dissections. METHODS This is a retrospective review of narrative operative reports for neck dissections for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Forty-nine operative reports were provided by t...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis and treatment decisions of cervical instability are made, in part, based on the clinician's assessment of sagittal rotation on flexion and extension radiographs. The objective of this study is to evaluate the intraobserver and interobserver reliability of three measurement techniques in assessing cervical sagittal rotation. METHODS Fifty lateral radiographs of patients wi...

in 1974, the world health organization (who) established the expanded program on immunization (epi) to ensure that all children have access to routinely recommended vaccines. since then, global coverage with the four core vaccines (bacille calmette guérin vaccine [for protection against tuberculosis], diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine [dtp], polio vaccine, and measles vaccine) has increased ...

KEY FINDINGS Data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey. In 2010, adults aged 85 and over accounted for only 2% of the U.S. population but 9% of hospital discharges. From 2000 through 2010, the rate of hospitalizations for adults aged 85 and over declined from 605 to 553 hospitalizations per 1,000 population, a 9% decrease. The rate of fractures and other injuries was higher for adults ag...

The effects of hexosamines and their acetyl derivatives on the aggregation of 4-dimethylaminoazobenzene-induced rat hepatoma cells, dRLa-74 and dRLh-84, which have a low and high tumor-producing activity, respectively, were examined in rotation-mediated cell culture. D-Glucosamine, D-galactosamine, and D-mannosamine had relatively little effect on aggregation of either strain of hepatoma cells ...

The effects of hexosamines and their acetyl derivatives on the aggregation of 4-dimethylaminoazobenzene-induced rat hepatoma cells, dRLa-74 and dRLh-84, which have a low and high tumor-producing activity, respectively, were examined in rotation-mediated cell culture. D-Glucosamine, D-galactosamine, and D-mannosamine had relatively little effect on aggregation of either strain of hepatoma cells ...

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