BACKGROUND High body mass index (BMI) is an important contributor to the global burden of ill-health and health inequality. Lower socioeconomic position (SEP) in both childhood and adulthood is associated with higher adult BMI, but how these associations have changed across time is poorly understood. We used longitudinal data to examine how childhood and adult SEP relates to BMI across adulthoo...

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New Zealand Maori, Pacific, and Asian people develop melanoma less frequently than New Zealand Europeans, but little is known about melanomas that develop in these people. We examined the characteristics of melanoma in these minority ethnic groups in New Zealand. In 2007, all first primary melanomas diagnosed from January 1996 to December 2006 were extracted from the New Zealand Cancer Registry...

Objective: To determine the proportion of Hodgkins lymphoma in cervical lymphadenopathy. Methodology: This is a prospective study conducted at Isra University Hospital, Hyderabad between January 2002 to December 2006. The data was collected for all patients presenting with cervical lymphadenopathy during the above mentioned period. All the patients with cervical lymphadenopathy were subjected t...

Vol. 29, No. 3, 2017 349 Received April 11, 2016, Revised May 1, 2016, Accepted for publication May 24, 2016 Corresponding author: Dong Soo Yu, Department of Dermatology, The Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, 271 Cheonbo-ro, Uijeongbu 11765, Korea. Tel: 82-31-820-3509, Fax: 82-31-846-4799, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under...

DESCRIPTION A 43-year-old female patient presented with a swelling of 6-weeks duration on the lower lip (Fig 1). The swelling had grown progressively, and it was associated with bleeding while eating. She was concerned about the cosmetic disfigurement and requested for a removal of the lesion.

Four trials were conducted to determine the effect of different levels of nodular worm (Oesophagostomum spp.) infection on the performance of growing-finishing swine and on digestion and absorption of nutrients by the growing pig. In each of two growing-finishing trials, 48 crossbred pigs (average body weight 26.6 kg in trial 1 and 24.4 kg in trial 2) were individually housed and given a single...

BACKGROUND Reports of sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation in the pediatric population are rare. CASE CHARACTERISTICS The 3-year-old child was injured in a car accident and then diagnosed with sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation. The patient underwent exploratory surgery with partial splenectomy including total excision of the tumor mass. OUTCOME Neither recurrence nor me...

ownloade pose: Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is associated with the presence of EBV in Reed-Sternberg (RS) n ∼40% of cases. Here, we studied the presence of human herpesvirus type 6 (HHV-6) variant S cells of HL patients and correlated results with clinical parameters. We then examined the ation of HHV-6 DR7B protein in cell deregulation. erimental Design: HHV-6 DR7B protein was produced in a Semliki...

BACKGROUND Discordant lymphoma is defined by the simultaneous presence of two or more distinct types of lymphomas at different anatomic sites. With fewer than 20 studies reporting cases of discordant lymphoma to date, the incidence of this condition is believed to be very low. CASE PRESENTATION Here, we report a case of discordant lymphoma in a 34-year-old female patient that involved mediast...