Epidemiologic Study of Food Poisoning in Japan

An Epidemiologic Study on Methyl Alcohol Poisoning in Tehran, Iran

Background: In Iran, methyl alcohol poisoning rarely occurs accidentally and usually occurs through abuse of contaminated ethanol. However, with proper and timely treatment complications and mortality of methanol poisoning can be prevented. In this study, the epidemiological profile of methanol poisoning in the Iranian society was investigated. Methods: In this prospective cross-sectional study...

The Suicide Pandemic of Hydrogen Sulfide Poisoning in Japan

Background: Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) suicides have been frequent in Japan in recent years. This study was performed to describe the epidemiologic profile of an outbreak of H2S suicides in Japan. Methods: In September 2008, questionnaires about patients involved in H2S suicides were sent to 250 hospitals in Japan. Data collected from each patient included gender, age, clinical manifestations, date...

Food poisoning outbreaks associated with spray-dried milk; an epidemiologic study.

A methanol poisoning outbreak in Kentucky. A clinical epidemiologic study.

therapy. Since Ben nett's work , in the epidemic of methanol poisoning in Atlanta in 1953, the major therapeutic advance In the treatment of methanol poisoning has been the application of dialysis therapy with special attention focused on extracorporeal treatment. In none of the 11 patients studied here was hemodialysis used. Peritoneal dialysis was U1 evaluated and attempts were made to follow...

Clinico-epidemiologic study of stroke in Akita, Japan.

An analysis was performed of 2,168 consecutive stroke patients who were examined by computed tomography and entered into a hospital-based stroke registry in Akita Prefecture, Japan. The occurrence of cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, and subarachnoid hemorrhage was 30, 55, and 14%, respectively. Age-specific rates of subarachnoid hemorrhage were higher in women than men; other types of ...