BACKGROUND Few studies with a limited number of patients have provided indications that cashew-allergic patients may experience severe allergic reactions to minimal amounts of cashew nut. The objectives of this multicentre study were to assess the clinical relevance of cashew nut sensitisation, to study the clinical reaction patterns in double-blind placebo-controlled food challenge tests and t...

Abstract. In engineering products, a significant part of the connections are formed using threaded connections, functioning which largely determines reliability mechanisms and assemblies. To preserve invariability tightening during operation vehicles, nut is presented, in internal thread divided into two parts with different geometric parameters. Nut profiles made profile heights described. The...

Nuts are often considered beneficial for health, yet few studies have examined determinants of their intake and the associations between nut consumption and various cardiovascular disease risk factors. The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with nut intake in a Mediterranean population, in Croatia, and to investigate the association of nut intake and various cardiovascular ris...

self-reported peanut and tree-nut allergy among the general population of the United States in 2002 and compare it with prevalence rates obtained 5 years earlier. Study Population. A total of 4855 households representing a census of 13 493 participated. Methods. A nationwide, cross-sectional survey was administered by telephone to persons called by a random sampling of telephone numbers in the ...

BACKGROUND Areca nut (commonly known as betel nut) chewing has been shown to be associated with metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The mechanism by which betel nut ingestion could lead to development of CVD is not precisely known; however, dyslipidemia, hyperhomocysteinemia, hypertriglyceridemia and inflammation could be some of the potential risk factors. This study was under...

Background In children without any previous ingestion of nuts multiple sensitization to tree nuts is common. To minimize the risk of accidental reactions, those children are advised to exclude all nuts from their diets. Multiple food challenges would be needed to determine the presence of clinical relevant tree nut allergies, which is practically impossible. A pilot study to determine the feasi...

The betel nut is commonly used as a drug by Asian populations. A high prevalence of adverse pregnancy outcomes has been reported in women who chewed betel quid during gestation. The hypothesis that chronic exposure of the fetus to arecoline (the principal alkaloid of the areca nut) is the cause was investigated in a clinical observational study on six newborns from Asian mothers who chewed bete...

Blight-resistant American chestnut (Castanea dentata) may soon be commercially available, but few studies have tested methods to produce high quality seedlings that will be competitive after planting. This study evaluated the performance of one American, one Chinese (C. mollissima), one second-generation backcross (BC3F2), and 10 third-generation backcross chestnut families (BC3F3). We examine ...

Abstract In this paper, we derive the consistent thermodynamics of four-dimensional Lorentzian Reissner-Nordström-NUT (RN-NUT), Kerr–Newman-NUT (KN-NUT), and RN-NUT-AdS spacetimes in framework ( $$\psi -\mathscr {N}$$ ψ - N )-pair formalism, then invest...

UNLABELLED Areca nut chewing is one of the most prevalent substance abuse habits in the world, and it is associated with the risk of a variety of medical challenges including hypertension, arrhythmia, and coronary artery disease (CAD). However, ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is an extremely rare complication of areca nut chewing. Herein we report two cases where patients suffered fr...