1 Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2 African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 3 School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, Australia, 4 Department of Dermatology, Watford General Hospital, Watford, United Kingdom, 5 Human Development Network, The World Bank, Washingt...

Computer-based Feedback in Linear Algebra: Effects on Transfer Performance and Motivation Gemma Corbalan*, Fred Paas , and Hans Cuypers c a Department of Research and Advice, The Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development, Enschede, The Netherlands b Department of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands c Department of Mathematics and Computing Science Eindhov...

1Clinical Chemistry, Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), Rotterdam; 2Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Erasmus MC–Sophia, Rotterdam; 3Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Beatrix Children’s Hospital, University of Groningen and University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen; 4Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Vrije Universiteit (VU) University Medical Center, Amsterdam; 5Rheumatology, VU Univer...

METHODS. A cross-sectional study was performed among subjects ranging in age from 55 to 74 years who participated in the population-based Rotterdam Study. Perifoveal vessels were counted in a masked way by two observers within 1500 )Ltm from the foveola on fundus transparencies of 34 cases with hypertension, 55 with lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD), 27 with hypertension and LEAD, and 194...

Background: The diagnosis of hepatocellular adenoma (HA) has a great impact on the lives of young women and may pose clinical dilemmas to the clinician since there are no standardized protocols to follow. We aimed to establish expert opinions on diagnosis and treatment of HA by collecting data from a nationwide questionnaire in the Netherlands. Methods: A questionnaire was sent to 20 Dutch hosp...

BACKGROUND This research investigated the response of vascular active factors, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and angiotensin-II (AT-II) to ovarian stimulation during 24 hours in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). MATERIALS AND METHODS In this clinical trial study, 52 patients with PCOS and 8 control cases were stimulated with human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) on the ...

OBJECTIVE Clinical manifestations and metabolic risk factors may differ in ethnic subgroups of patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). DESIGN Retrospective trans-sectional study. PATIENTS One thousand and two premenopausal women with the diagnoses hirsutism or PCOS were divided according to ethnicity: Caucasian (CA, n = 784), Middle East (ME, n = 190), Asian (n = 14) and others (n =...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Dutch public health services are charged with collective preventive care for the population--care that should, by law, be based on epidemiological data. General practices potentially offer important data for this purpose, particularly since more and more use a computer. This study aimed to assess whether it is possible to obtain useful epidemiological data from this source. DE...

‘University Hospital of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; ‘Herlev University Hospital of Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark; University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K.; ‘Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; 5Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece; ‘Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano, Italy; “Instituto Regina Elena, Rome, Italy; ‘Medizinische Klinik,...