BACKGROUND Little information is available from community-based long-term VTE cohort studies to compare the absolute thrombosis risk of established clinical and genetic risk factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS The occurrence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) was observed during a 10-year observation period in the BAvarian ThromboEmbolic Risk (BATER) study, a cohort study of 4337 women (age 18-55 yea...

BACKGROUND Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis abnormalities have been reported in bipolar disorder and also in suicidal behavior, but few studies have examined the relationship between suicidal behaviors and the HPA axis function in bipolar disorder, attending to and minimizing confounding factors. We compare HPA axis activity in bipolar individuals with and without suicidal behavior and...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE An individual with a positive family history of a disease may be at increased risk for the disease. We sought to examine whether parental history of stroke is associated with subclinical or clinical stroke in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, and whether any observed association is independent of established stroke risk factors. METHODS Parental hist...

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a viral disease of small that highly contagious, severe, reportable, and economically important. The present study was conducted to detect the PPR virus (PPRV) circulating in sheep Bangladesh determine its association with epidemiological risk factors degree relationship between F H genes PPRV those other goat isolates. A cross-sectional five selected distric...

asthma is the most common chronic disease in children. the natural history of asthma is often  characterized by periods  of  remission and  relapse. the  aim of  this study was to determine the remission rate of asthmatic children after entering the second decade of life and remission related factors in a hospital–based cohort. the  study  population  was  asthmatic  children  who  were  diagno...