McArdle (1951) first described a syndrome characterized by muscle cramps and stiffness after exercise and suggested that this may have been due to defective breakdown of glycogen in skeletal muscle. Deficiency of musclephosphorylase was subsequently demonstrated in two patients with the same syndrome (Schmid and Mahler, 1959; Mommaerts, Illingworth, Pearson, Guillory, and Seraydarian, 1959). Pa...

The aim of the study was to determine the level of anxiety and depression in patients with and without burning mouth syndrome, and to assess the possible association between the intensity of burning mouth and incidence of depression and anxiety. The study was conducted in a sample of 120 randomly chosen adult patients from two dentist offices in Nova Gradiska (Croatia). Patient data were collec...

Antibiotic consumption and population density as a measure of crowding in the community were related to the prevalence of antibiotic resistance of three cities in three different countries: St Johns in Newfoundland (Canada), Athens in Greece and Groningen in The Netherlands. Antibiotic consumption was expressed in DDD (defined daily dose), as DID (DDD/1000 inhabitants/day) and as DSD (DDD/km(2)...

The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient is being used to evaluate the similarity of the high-performance liquid chromatographic fingerprints of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in China. It is confirmed that a large range of peak areas produced the wrong results. A new algorithm concerning weighted Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient is proposed in this article. The resu...