By questionnaire we studied the occurrence of acute respiratory infections (ARI) in 1961 children between 0 and 5 years old from a total of 3225 families in Cikutra, Bandung. In 38.7% of them 200.000 IU vitamin A supplement had been given at least once during the preceding year. Mild or moderate ARI occurred in 54.7% of the children during the previous month and in 87.9% during the previous yea...

Use of activation-recovery interval (ARI) in surface ECG leads as possible indicator of changed repolarization in the underlying myocardium was studied. Model ECG data representing normal and pathological myocardium repolarization were simulated on surface of realistic inhomogeneous torso. Results of simulations suggest that shortening and prolongation of action potentials in anterior myocardia...

Previously studied inhibitors of aldose reductase were largely from two chemical classes, spirosuccinamide/hydantoins and carboxylic acids. Each class has its own drawbacks regarding selectivity, in vivo potency, and human safety; as a result, the pathogenic role of aldose reductase in diabetic retinopathy remains controversial. ARI-809 is a recently discovered aldose reductase inhibitor (ARI) ...

BACKGROUND In the last 10 years, dopamine replacement therapy (DRT) has become a well-known risk factor for developing an impulse control disorder, such as gambling disorder (GD). Another medication, aripiprazole (ARI), has been more recently identified as another risk factor. Dopamine replacement therapy and ARI share a dopamine agonist action. Our work aimed at comparing patients with PG acco...

BACKGROUND The household has traditionally been the site for studying acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs). Most studies were conducted many years ago, and more broadly sensitive laboratory methods to determine ARI etiology are now available. METHODS We recruited and followed households with children over 3 annual surveillance periods and collected respiratory tract specimens from subjects with...

Exposing unmasked US Army recruits to elevated levels of o-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile (CS tear gas) during Mask Confidence Training (MCT) increases the risk of Acute Respiratory Illness (ARI) diagnosis in the period following CS exposure when compared to the period before exposure. All Army Activities Message (ALARACT) 051/2013 was implemented in March 2013 to reduce CS exposure concentrat...

Acute respiratory infections (ARI) cause significant morbidity in infancy. We sought to quantify the relationship between ARI and development of respiratory morbidity in early childhood. Population-based longitudinal hospitalisation data were linked to perinatal, birth and death records for 145,580 Western Australian children from 1997 to 2002. We conducted Cox regression with sensitivity analy...

BACKGROUND Understanding viral etiology and age-specific incidence of acute respiratory infections in infants can help identify risk groups and inform vaccine delivery, but community-based data is lacking from tropical settings. METHODS One thousand four hundred and seventy-eight infants in urban Ho Chi Minh City and 981 infants in a semi-rural district in southern Vietnam were enrolled at bi...

BACKGROUNDS Over 50% of antibiotics prescriptions are for outpatients with acute respiratory infections (ARI). Many of them are not needed and thus contribute both avoidable adverse events and pressures toward the development of bacterial resistance. Could a clinical decision support system (CDSS), interposed at the time of electronic prescription, adjust antibiotics utilization toward consensu...

Substantial reduction of the still unacceptable infant and child mortality rates in the developing world will be difficult to achieve without a strategy to avert deaths due to acute respiratory infections (ARI). An estimated 2 to 5 million infant and childhood deaths each year are due to ARI; up to 98% might be pre­ vented if case-fatality ratios could be reduced to those observed in the indust...