BACKGROUND Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a musculoskeletal condition that often impairs the fitness to work. Our aim is to retrospectively evaluate the association between physical exposures in meat processing industry in Northern Italy and the CTS, taking into account non-occupational factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed to include 434 workers (236 males, 198...

Introduction: We intended to assess the accuracy of re-expressed Modification of Diet for Renal Disease (MDRD) and Cockcroft-Gault (CG) equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in chronic kidney disease in two different etiologies of acute renal failure (ARF): acute tubular necrosis (ATN) and acute glomerulonephritis (AGN). Methods: Patients admitted for ARF or the patients compl...

The measurement of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TDT) activity in leukaemic blasts of 26 cases of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) (13 children less than 14 years, 13 adults greater than 14 years) demonstrated significantly greater activities of the enzyme on a proportion of the adults. The predominant cytological sub-type in the adult patients was L2 (FAB classification) whereas L1...

BACKGROUND Curriculum evaluation is key to continuous assurance of quality of education. OBJECTIVES To assess the teachers' perceptions on how well student teaching and learning activities were conducted at an institution that had practiced PBL for five years. METHODS A cross sectional descriptive study. 150 teachers from 23 departments at the College of Health Sciences participated in the ...

Soccer players are required to anticipate and react continuously in a changing, relatively unpredictable situation in the field. Cognitive functions might be important to be successful in soccer. The current study investigated the relationship between cognitive functions and performance level in elite and sub-elite youth soccer players aged 13-17 years. A total of 47 elite youth soccer players ...

Roman Hossein Khonsari,* Gentiane Monsel, Marc Thellier, and Éric Caumes Service de Chirurgie Maxillofaciale, Hôpital Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Sorbonne Univer...

The purpose of the survey is to investigate the relationship between anxiety statuses and suboptimal health status among students from south of Anhui in china. Our study was a population-based, cluster sampling method survey with a sample consisting of 5249 students, who come from a university, four high schools and four middle schools in Wannan Area in China. Sub-health status was measured by ...

The negative impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been a major challenge to sub-Saharan Africa. Although the rate of new HIV infections in sub-continent has decreased, the total number of people living with HIV continues to rise. Most of the people infected with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are within the age bracket of 15 to 35 years. It has been estimated that about 80% of the infected group...