Household food insufficiency is a significant problem in the United States, and has been associated with poor outcomes on mental health indicators among low-income women. However, it is difficult to disentangle the mental health consequences of household food insufficiency from poverty and other shared risk factors. Drawing on theories of the social production of health and disease, research ev...

BACKGROUND Renal insufficiency after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is associated with increased short-term and long-term mortality. We hypothesized that preoperative patient characteristics could be used to predict the patient-specific risk of developing postoperative renal insufficiency. METHODS AND RESULTS Data were prospectively collected on 11,301 patients in northern New En...

BACKGROUND Renal insufficiency has been associated with cardiovascular disease events and mortality in several prospective studies, but the mechanisms for the elevated risk are not clear. Little is known about the association of renal insufficiency with inflammatory and procoagulant markers, which are potential mediators for the cardiovascular risk of kidney disease. METHODS AND RESULTS The c...

PURPOSE To define the long-term results of accommodation insufficiency and to investigate the correlation between accommodation insufficiency and other factors including near point of convergence (NPC), age, and refractive errors. METHODS From January 2008 to December 2009, 11 patients with acute near vision disturbance and remote near point of accommodation (NPA) were evaluated. Full ophthal...

Background: Adrenal insufficiency, a well recognised complication of treatment with oral corticosteroids, has been described in association with inhaled corticosteroid use in over 60 case reports. The risk of adrenal insufficiency in people prescribed an oral or inhaled corticosteroid in the general population is not known. A study was undertaken to quantify the association between adrenal insu...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency are prevalent worldwide, but relatively few studies have examined vitamin D status in working populations. AIMS To assess the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in Canadian workers and investigate risk factors in this population. METHODS A cross-sectional study using data from a health programme enrolling workers mostly fro...

OBJECTIVE To measure the occurrence and correlates of food insufficiency among HIV-infected crack-cocaine users in Atlanta and Miami, USA. DESIGN Non-probability cross-sectional sample. SETTING Inner-city hospitals in Atlanta and Miami. SUBJECTS Two hundred and eighty-seven HIV-infected crack users. RESULTS One-third (34 %) of respondents experienced food insufficiency within 30 d of in...

Renal insufficiency has been shown to be highly prevalent in patients with cancer. This renal insufficiency has been reported to be associated with reduced overall survival and increased cancer-related mortality. Therefore, it is important to screen patients with cancer for renal insufficiency, using an adequate and reliable method of estimation of the renal function. Renal insufficiency may in...

1. The injection of trypsin into both renal arteries of the dog was found to cause an acute necrosis of large sections of the kidney, an immediate excretory insufficiency, and a transient hypertension. 2. Dogs surviving the acute phase of the trypsin injection, developed a chronic renal excretory insufficiency with no hypertension, despite the severity and duration of the renal excretory insuff...

Insufficiency fracture of the superior part of the acetabulum after hemiarthroplasty has not been reported before. Here we report a case of dislocation after hemiarthroplaty due to insufficiency fracture of the acetabulum. In our patient, insufficiency fracture of the ilium immediately above the acetabulum produced obvious evidence of compression and collapse that led to dislocation of the oute...