AFRICA 37 with medical therapy and referred for coronary artery bypass grafting. discussion KD is a febrile disorder of unknown cause with multiple systemic manifestations, affecting primarily infants and young children. 4 First described in Japan by Kawasaki in 1967 as acute mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, it has been reported with increasing frequency around the world. Involvement of the h...

Introduction: Although coronary endarterectomy is not an ideal procedure, it is the only available option for cardiac surgeons in some patients with diffuse coronary artery disease. Based on the majority of conducted studies, the results of coronary endarterectomy (including survival, graft patency, and recurrence of the symptoms of myocardial ischemia) are less prevalent than standard coronary...

introduction: although coronary endarterectomy is not an ideal procedure, it is the only available option for cardiac surgeons in some patients with diffuse coronary artery disease. based on the majority of conducted studies, the results of coronary endarterectomy (including survival, graft patency, and recurrence of the symptoms of myocardial ischemia) are less prevalent than standard coronary...

RECENTLY a number of epidemiologic studies1-6 have been published concerning the possible causes of the relative immunity of various classes and groups of non-American men against overt coronary artery disease. Since a low-fat intake was thought to be a trait common to all of these groups, it was concluded that this dietary habit was chiefly responsible for the observed relative infrequency of ...

objective(s): apolipoprotein e genotype (apoe) polymorphism affects lipid levels and coronary artery disease (cad) risk. the aim of this study was to study the association of the apolipoprotein e genotypes with coronary artery disease in the iranian population.   materials and methods: the apolipoprotein e genotype in dna samples extracted from 66 cad+ patients and 61 control subjects by restri...

BACKGROUND Chinese women's reproductive patterns have changed significantly over the past several decades. However, relatively little is known about the pace and characteristics of these changes either overall or by region and socioeconomic status. METHODS We examined the cross-sectional data from the China Kadoorie Biobank cohort study that recruited 300 000 women born between 1930 and 1974 ...

In occupational epidemiology, exposure-response analyses play an important role in the evaluation of the etiologic relevance of chemical and physical exposures. The standardized mortality or morbidity ratio (SMR) has been commonly used in occupational cohort studies. Statistical approaches to evaluate exposure-response patterns using SMRs have mostly been limited to analyses in which the exposu...

AIMS To investigate the association between intelligence in childhood and later risk of alcohol-related disease and death by examining (1) the mediating effect of social position as an adult and (2) gender as a possible moderator. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS 21 809 Swedish men and women, born in 1948 and 1953, from the Swedish "Evaluation Through Follow-up" database were f...

Associations between unemployment, work, and disability have been researched in many studies. The findings are often based on cross-sectional data and single outcomes. The present study analysed multiple outcomes over a period of 15 years among long-term unemployed individuals. Based on all individuals aged 20-40 living in Sweden in 1995, prospective cohort analyses were conducted. Individual a...