Blood Over Texas

Characteristics of Hurricane Ike During Its Passage over Houston, Texas

Association between blood pressure changes and obesity in over-18

Introduction: Overweight and obesity are risk factors for developing many diseases such as hypertension. Furthermore, obesity indicators such as abdominal height, waist circumference and hip circumference can independently and sometimes more severely lead to blood pressure changes. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between blood pressure changes and anthropometric in...

Development of chagas cardiac manifestations among Texas blood donors.

Chagas disease, infection with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, has recently been identified as an important emerging parasitic disease in the United States. To describe the cardiac abnormalities in T. cruzi-positive blood donors in southeastern Texas, a pilot study of donors who had screened positive from 2007 to 2012 was performed. This one-time assessment included (1) a questionnaire to evalu...

Trypanosoma cruzi screening in Texas blood donors, 2008-2012.

Chagas disease is an important emerging disease in Texas that results in cardiomyopathy in about 30% of those infected with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Between the years 2008 and 2012, about 1/6500 blood donors were T. cruzi antibody-confirmed positive. We found older persons and minority populations, particularly Hispanic, at highest risk for screening positive for T. cruzi antibodies duri...

comparison of atmospheric aerosols between two sites over golden triangle of texas

speciated samples of pm2.5 were collected at the hamshire and orange sites in golden triangle of texas by us epa (environmental protection agency) from july of 2003 to august of 2005. a total of 269 samples for the hamshire site and 293 samples for the orange site with 52 species were measured; however, 22 species were excluded because of too many below-detectionlimit data. among the 22 species...