Globally, stroke is a significant public health concern affecting more than 33 million individuals. Of growing importance are the differences between males and females in the predictors and overall risk of stroke. Given that women have a higher lifetime risk for stoke and account for more than half of all stroke deaths, sex-specific stroke risk factors merit investigation and may help target pu...

Authors A.H. Cardy1§, S. Barker2, D. Chesney3, L. Sharp4, N. Maffulli5, Z. Miedzybrodzka6 Author affiliations 1Department of Public Health, University of Aberdeen, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, Scotland; 2Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Aberdeen University School of Medicine, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, Scotland; 3Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road, ...

Stroke is a major cause of disability and mortality in most economically developed countries that increasing global importance. Up till now, there is uncertainty regarding the effect of weather conditions on stoke occurrence. This paper is offering a comparative study of exploring associations between changes in ambient temperature and stroke occurrence using global and personalised modelling m...

Radiographs are important for assessing structural damage in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS); this technology was selected by the international ASsessment in Ankylosing Spondylitis (ASAS) Working Group as an important domain for assessing outcome in clinical trials. The selection of a preferred scoring method based on the OMERACT filter still needs to be undertaken. This article descr...

The lead values in maternal and infant blood, in placental tissue, and in stillbirth liver, kidney, and rib- and skull-bones have been determined in samples from the Stoke-on-Trent area. The lead values in antenatal blood and placenta increase with occupational exposure; liver and kidney stillbirth lead values are lower than those of much older children and rib-bone lead values from stillbirths...

Neil M Renwick1, Lev G Goldfarb2*, Nyamkhishig Sambuughin3, Jenny E Hinshaw4, Camilo Toro5 and Fyodor A Platonov6 1Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen1s University, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada 2National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stoke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA 3Consortium for Health and Military Performanc...

1Department of Endocrinology, University College Hospital, London, UK 2National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK 3Physicians’ Clinic, London, UK 4Department of Endocrinology, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK 5Endocrinology/General Medicine, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 6The Lister Hospital, London, UK 7Roya...

1 School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2 Geography, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 4 Arctic Technology Centre, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, Lyngby, Denmark, 5 Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 Ge...

Peter Wildeblood is a homosexual. He may rest assured that few envy him that diagnosis. There are those?as this book well demonstrates?who have conceived a hatred against him and his kind nevertheless. Mr. Wildeblood takes Machiavelli's advice. He writes in this book as one of our politicians is said to speak "with a tongue of silver and a belly of fire." Twelve months is a long time to stoke a...

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vicenza Hospital, Italy Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Liège, Belgium Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, North Staffordshire Hospital, Stoke-on-trent, UK Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Dep...