Thirty-nine cases of military tuberculosis treated between 1978-1993 in a district with a high incidence of tuberculosis are reported. Twenty-eight patients were of Indian Subcontinent (ISC) ethnic origin, 10 patients were Caucasian and one patient was Chinese. Mortality at 10% in both Caucasian (chi2 4.94; 0.05 > P > 0.01) and ISC patients (chi2 10.22; 0.001 > P) were significantly lower than ...

BACKGROUND
 Internal nasal valve (INV) is widely discussed because it believed to have a role in structural obstruction. Caucasian has rather acute angle of INV due the known geometric their nose. Whilst Asian generally broader, thicker, and bigger anthropometric proportion nose than Caucasian. Asia vastly diverse ethnicity, one can only assume that may be differ shape larger angles compar...

INTRODUCTION Cutaneous melanoma is rare in Asia and the clinical presentation and outcome of melanoma is not well described in Southeast Asia. In addition, it is unclear if ethnic variations exist between the various racial groups. The objective of our study is to present the clinical characteristics of melanoma in Singapore and to highlight ethnical differences between Asians and Caucasians li...

Purpose To report a rare presentation of the pericentral pattern of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) retinal toxicity in a Caucasian female. Observations The patient presented with 20 years of exposure to HCQ, at a daily dose of 5.2mg/kg of actual body weight, and manifested a pericentral-only phenotype of HCQ toxicity, as demonstrated with detailed structural and functional testing. Conclusions an...

A robust finding in the cross-cultural research is that people's memories for faces of their own race are superior to their memories for other-race faces. However, the mechanisms underlying the own-race effect have not been well defined. In this study, a holistic explanation was examined in which Caucasian and Asian participants were asked to recognize features of Caucasian and Asian faces pres...

Previous studies have shown that, in person-recognition tasks, people perform better for faces belonging to their own race than for those belonging to another race. Recently, however, this 'other-race' effect has also been found in a sex-discrimination task (O'Toole et al, 1996 Perception 25 669-676). In the present study, we investigated whether this finding extends to age perception. Caucasia...

With the emergence of new media technologies, being literate and able to critically analyze information are important young adults, a group individuals that particularly active on social media. However, since development literacy, no study date examined demographic characteristics, personality factors, network site (SNS) use related it. More importantly, research relationship between literacy p...

Background: The Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 gene 4G/5G (PAI-1 4G/5G) polymorphism has been suggestedto be associated with osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) susceptibility; however, the results are conflicting andinconclusive. We have carried out a comprehensive meta-analysis to derive a more precise estimation of the association.Methods: A comprehensive search in PubMed, EMBASE, Go...

Variations in the Glutathione S-transferase (GST) supergene family have been reported to influence cancer susceptibility in Caucasian. However the genetic backgrounds and skin types are quite different between Caucasian and non-Caucasian. We therefore investigated the distribution of GST gene polymorphism in non-Caucasian population to ascertain the role of this polymorphism in skin carcinogene...

The large number of extant Dental Panoramic Tomographs of Afro-Trinidadian subjects were collected and Tooth Development Stages (TDSs) were assessed for each of the 878 radiographs to provide a Reference Dataset (RDS) of Afro-Trinidadian children and adolescents. The values for each of the 256 TDSs present were statistically significantly different from the values for the same TDSs in the UK Ca...