Building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke” is the mission that unites the volunteers and staff of the American Heart Association (AHA). When the AHA established its 2020 Health Impact Goal, “to improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20% while reducing deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20%,”1 it recognized that to reach this goal the AHA ...

The history of informed consent dates back as early as the 16th century (Selek, 2010). The current tenets of informed consent pertaining to the ethical conduct of research on human participants predominately stems from the 1947 Nuremberg Code (National Institutes of Health, 2016), which was created following the Nuremberg trials at the end of World War II. The unethical conduct of research on h...

Abstract Background Osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is a disabling disease, which often involves young patients. Recently, various hip-preserving surgeries were recommended to delay total hip arthroplasty (THA). Questions/purposes This study aimed compare clinical outcomes and survival rate in long-term follow-up between core decompression combined with non-vascularized autologous fibu...

We investigate the characteristics of high harmonics (HHs) unique to nonperturbative nonlinear regime. show that polarization state HHs generated from GaAs changes drastically across crossover weak-field perturbative regime strong-field extreme regime, while linearly polarized infrared excitation field $({E}_{\mathrm{exc}})$ is fixed a particular crystal direction. The dependence on ${E}_{\math...

Public Health Reports / July–August 2011 / Volume 126  621 June 2011 was a banner month for several public healthrelated events. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council released the National Prevention Strategy: America’s Plan for Better Health and Wellness.1 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost of kala-azar (KA) to patients in Bihar, India. METHOD A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect costs of illness--direct (medical; non-medical) and indirect costs (work days lost). After screening the community known to be endemic for visceral leishmaniasis (VL), households (HHs) with VL were recruited which reported a case of KA who received treatmen...

Data from 191 post-mortem cases where post-mortem blood beta-hydroxybutyrate (βHB) and acetone concentrations and vitreous humor glucose concentrations (where available) had been measured were retrospectively investigated to determine the markers required to identify and distinguish between Alcoholic Ketoacidosis (AKA), Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic State (HHS). Blo...

Background: Cross cultural validity is of vital importance for international comparisons. Objective: To investigate the validity of international Dutch-English comparisons when using the Dutch translation of the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities osteoarthritis index (WOMAC). Patients and Methods: The dimensionality, reliability, construct validity, and cross cultural equivalence of the ...