OBJECTIVES Polypharmacy is one of the main management issues in public health policies because of its financial impact and the increasing number of people involved. The polymedicated population according to their demographic and therapeutic profile and the cost for the public healthcare system were characterised. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Primary healthcare in Barcelona Health R...

BACKGROUND European lactose tolerance genotype (LCT -13910 C>T, rs4988234) has been positively associated to body mass indexes (BMI) in a meta-analysis of 31,720 individuals of northern and central European descent. A strong association of lactase persistence (LP) with BMI and obesity has also been traced in a Spanish Mediterranean population. The aim of this study was to analyze a potential as...

Study was made on the significance of urinary cadmium concentration as an indicator of internal dose in a general environment polluted by cadmium. As an index of external dose, the mean rice cadmium concentration in each of 23 villages was employed. Morning urine samples were collected from 3,178 inhabitants of 23 cadmium-polluted villages of Kakehashi River basin in Ishikawa Prefecture and 294...

OBJECTIVE To establish a statistical diagnostic method to identify patients with Minamata disease (MD) considering factors of aging and sex, we analyzed the neurological findings in MD patients, inhabitants in a methylmercury polluted (MP) area, and inhabitants in a non-MP area. MATERIALS AND METHODS We compared the neurological findings in MD patients and inhabitants aged more than 40 years ...

BACKGROUND The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease is increasing in Europe and in Spain. However, there is no recent data from Southern Spain. OBJECTIVES To determine the evolution of the hospital incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in Southern Spain. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective study was performed in two hospitals in Southern Spain. Data was collected from inflammatory bow...

This influential opinion by famed jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes [5], Jr. was copied by courts throughout the United States. For over sixty years, courts refused to recognize a cause of action on behalf of a child who died before or after birth as a result of injuries suffered in the womb [6] because the fetus [7] was considered legally a part of its mother and thus did not possess personhood [8]...

Rural inhabitants are exposed to considerable amounts of pesticides from water, soil and air. There are indications that exposure to pesticides may trigger production of antinuclear antibodies (ANA). Therefore, the question arises about the prevalence of ANA in this group. In 90 eastern-Polish rural inhabitants (RI) and 50 urban blood donors (BD), the presence of ANA in serum was tested using E...

BAPTIST, Edward E.. <em>A metade que nunca foi contada: a escravidão e construção do capitalismo norte-americano</em>. Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo: Paz Terra, 2019. Tradução Fernanda Miguens. 551 p.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to compare the state of health of the inhabitants of the countryside and city dwellers in the Łódź province, measured with the real and standardized death rate and years of life lost, as well as the analysis of causes of deaths distinguishing these two populations. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study material included a database containing infor...