BACKGROUND Policy interventions have been taken to protect households from facing unpredictable economic changes that may cause catastrophe in China. This study aims to estimate the change of overall proportion of households incurring catastrophic health care expenditure (CHE) and its income-related inequality in the rural areas of Shaanxi Province from 2008 to 2013. METHODS The data were dra...

AMA Fernandez S, Verónica A, Treviño N, et al. Satisfaction of dentistry students with virtual education implemented during COVID-19 pandemic. Journal Stomatology. 2023. doi:10.5114/jos.2023.131189. APA Fernandez, S., Verónica, A., Treviño, N., Cruz, X., Guevara, D., & Radilla, V. (2023). https://doi.org/10.5114/jos.2023.131189 Chicago Salvador Reyes, Alicia García Natalia Hernández Xenia Teres...

The CFTR High Expresser (CHE) cells express eightfold higher levels of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) Cl(-) channel compared with neighboring enterocytes and were first identified by our laboratory (Ameen et al., Gastroenterology 108: 1016, 1995). We used double-label immunofluorescence microscopy to further study these enigmatic epithelial cells in rat intestine...

BACKGROUND We assessed change in household catastrophic health care expenditures (CHE) and inequality in facing such expenditures in south-west Tehran. METHODS A cluster-sampled survey was conducted in 2003 using the World Health Survey questionnaire. We repeated the survey on the same sample in 2008 (635 and 603 households, respectively). We estimated the proportion of households facing CHE ...

BACKGROUND Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of neurological disability. In this retrospective study, serum total cholinesterase (ChE) activities were analyzed in 188 patients for diagnostic as well as predictive values for mortality. METHODS AND FINDINGS Within 72 hours after injury, serum ChE activities including both acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase we...

The spectrophotometric method of Ellman was used to determine cholinesterase (ChE) levels in plasma and whole blood in elderly patients and umbilical cord blood of newborn infants. The mean +/- SD for plasma and whole blood ChE levels were 2.24 +/- 0.58 micromol/min/ml and 4.38 +/- 0.65 micromol/min/ml respectively in a group of healthy elderly patients (n = 25). The mean +/- SD for plasma and ...

This paper was aimed to investigate the mixed empirical results on the effect of health insurance in reducing the risk of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). We investigated a wide range of factors affecting the risk of CHE among patients admitted to hospitals in Tehran. We categorized hospitals into five groups from private hospitals to charity ones. The data used herein was extracted from ...

INTENSO A CAUSA DELLE PARTICELLE DI SOSTANZA CHE VENGONO LIBERATE NELL'ARIA, MA PER FORTUNA NON LI PERCEPIAMO TUTTI. CI SONO ODORI CHE L'UOMO NON AVVERTE, COME AD ESEMPIO QUELLI CHE FANNO PARTE DEL PROPRIO BACKGROUND VITALE QUELLI DELL'AZOTO, DELL'OSSIGENO, DELL'IDROGENO, DEL MONOSSIDO DI CARBONIO. ED È GIUSTO CHE SIA COSÌ, "IMMAGINATE DI POTER IMPROVVISAMENTE SENTIRE L'ODORE DELL'OSSIGENO O PE...

We investigated three methods for determination of cholinesterase (ChE) in human blood sera, using reference sera, sera of known ChE content, and serum variously diluted with deactivated sera. The methods were the Du Pont aca analyzer, the Pfizer "ChE-tel" method, and the Michel method with and without direct reagent-blank correction. With respect to precision and reproducibility the methods ra...