Background & Aims: In the western countries, bladder cancer is the fourth and eighth common cancer in males and females, respectively, and like other cancers it has been significantly increasing in last years. The aim of this study was to find out the epidemiology of bladder cancer in Fars province /Iran during 2003-2008 according to cancer registry data system. Methods: In this epidemiological...

BACKGROUND Limited information is available on the contemporary and potentially changing trends in the incidence, management, and outcomes of cardiogenic shock complicating ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). METHODS AND RESULTS We queried the 2003-2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample databases to identify all patients ≥ 40 years of age with STEMI and cardiogenic shock. Overall and age-, ...

BACKGROUND Most studies have examined the outcomes of patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a life-sustaining treatment. It is unclear whether significant social events are associated with the use of life-sustaining treatment. This study aimed to compare the trend of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation use in Taiwan with that in the world, and to examine the influence of ...

background : multiple sclerosis (ms) is an autoimmune disease with unknown factor. the prevalence and incidence rate of this disease had an upward trend in many regions in the world such as middle east and consequently in iran over the recent years. as the risk factors of this increased trend and high-prevalence is unknown in iran, the current study has been designed to evaluate the correlation...

BACKGROUND Studies among children experiencing fractures report an increasing trend toward operative management. In the present study, we examined whether the same trend has occurred for humeral shaft fractures in accordance with increasing interest toward intramedullary nailing and other operative treatments. The number, incidence and treatment of all hospitalised 0- to 16-year-old patients wi...

Background: Cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, among which ovarian cancer has a high incidence and case fatality. Gaining insight into the epidemiology and trends of ovarian cancer can be very influential in cancer screening and treatments programming. This study aimed to investigate the trends in the incidence of ovarian cancer in Iran, because this issue has been neglected so...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the increasing incidence of hydrocephaly at the Hospital CAISM-UNICAMP and to identify its probable causes. METHODS All children with hydrocephaly delivered at CAISM from September 1987 to December 1998 were studied. Those children presenting hydrocephaly due to neural tube defects were excluded. Data were collected from medical records of the Perinatal Genetics Secto...

In their Brief Communication analyzing recent breast cancer incidence rates among US women, Brinton et al. ( 1 ) indicated that their trend results for women younger than 40 years are discrepant with a previous analysis ( 2 ). There is no discrepancy. The purpose of the previous analysis ( 2 ) was to show that trends for invasive breast cancer incidence rates among women younger than 50 years a...

Epidemiologic evidence on the association of antioxidant intake and prostate cancer incidence is inconsistent. Total antioxidant intake and prostate cancer incidence have not previously been examined. Using the ferric-reducing antioxidant potential (FRAP) assay, the total antioxidant content (TAC) of diet and supplements was assessed in relation to prostate cancer incidence. A prospective cohor...