We examined preserved medical charts of 470 Spanish influenza patients (8 with fatal cases) hospitalized at former army hospitals in Japan during 1919-1920. The following factors were associated with longer periods of hospitalization: adventitious discontinuous lung sounds, maximum respiration rate, continuation of high fever after hospital admission, and diphasic fever.

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess user acceptability and effectiveness of implant contraception in Singaporean women. METHODS A prospective study was carried out on 553 patients who received Norplant implant in our hospital from 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2000, and followed-up till 15 July 2003. The patients' profile, side-effects, satisfaction and continuation rate of Norpl...

OBJECTIVE To compare real-life clinical outcomes with the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) and conventional medical therapies (CMTs), including combined oral contraceptives and oral progestins in the treatment of idiopathic heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) in South Korea. METHODS This prospective, observational cohort study recruited a total of 647 women aged 18 to 45 year...

BACKGROUND Anecdotal evidence suggests that metformin titration instructions are not being updated and refill requests are approved without modification of the titration instructions such that the titration instructions is continued for patients newly initiated on metformin. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort analysis of adult patients who received newly initiated metformin pharmacothera...

We propose and analyze a pseudo-transient continuation algorithm for dynamics on subsets of R . Examples include certain flows on manifolds and the dynamic formulation of bound-constrained optimization problems. The method gets its global convergence properties from the dynamics and inherits its local convergence properties from any fast locally convergent iteration.

PURPOSE To evaluate factors associated with hypertension in Brazilian women of 50 years of age or more. METHODS A cross-sectional population based study using self-reports. A total of 622 women were included. The association between sociodemographic, clinical and behavioral factors and the woman's age at the onset of hypertension was evaluated. Data were analyzed according to cumulative conti...

(63) Continuation of application No. 09/812,044, filed on Mar. 19, 2001, now Pat. No. 6,914,893, which is a continuation-in-part of application No. 091704,150, filed on Nov. 1,2000, now Pat. No. 6,891,838, and a continuation-in-part of application No. 09/439,059, filed on Nov. 12, 1999, now Pat. No. 6,437,692, and a continuation-in-part of application No. 09/412,895, filed on Oct. 5, 1999, now ...