Background Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is considered as a safe and effective procedure for treatment of carotid artery stenosis. Evaluation of this procedure's complications is essential for proper clinical decision-making. Objective This study aimed to evaluate the cardiovascular events after CAS among our patients in Isfahan, Iran. Methods This case-series study was conducted on fifty p...

With new nationwide longitudinal survey data now available from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we study the level, distribution, and composition of household wealth in contemporary China. We find that the wealth Gini coefficient of China was 0.73 in 2012. The richest 1 percent owned more than one-third of the total national household wealth, while the poorest 25 percent owned less than ...

Higher health care prices in the United States are a key reason that the nation's health spending is so much higher than that of other countries. Our study compared physicians' fees paid by public and private payers for primary care office visits and hip replacements in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We also compared physicians' incomes net of pra...

Obesity is the major risk factor for the development of many diseases. BMI is widely used as a deputy measure of obesity, but underestimates the prevalence of obesity, defined as an excess of body fat. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and body fat percentage (BF%) in females. The study was a cross-sectional design. A selected sample of 70 f...

■ Many urban counties are shouldering vastly more of their state’s welfare cases than their share of the state’s total population. Fifty-four counties out of 88, or 61 percent, have more than their “fair share” of their state's caseload relative to their share of the total state population, while 34 counties, or 39 percent, have an equivalent or smaller share of the state caseload than of the t...