BACKGROUND In order to provide smoking cessation support to their patients in line with clinical practice guidelines, general practitioners must first ascertain whether their patients' use tobacco. This study examined (i) the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of general practitioner detection of smoking, and (ii) the general practitioner and patie...

Atherosclerosis that occurs in the heart arteries is called coronary disease, which narrowing and hardening of heart. influenced by several factors, one smoking behavior, as risk factors can worsen atherosclerosis. However, there are no studies link behavior to severity atherosclerosis invasive diagnostic space intervention blood vessels RSUD dr. Doris Sylvanus Palangka Raya. The study was dete...

conclusions in japan, 8% lidocaine pump spray contains menthol and ethanol as additives. these additives, particularly menthol, might have led to excessive mucus production, although we did not analyze the mucus secretion. introduction pulmonary collapse after intubation is common, and it is caused by a variety of factors. case presentation a 21-year-old man presented at our operation room to u...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with smoking and misclassification in pregnant women from INMA (INfancia y Medio Ambiente, Environment and Childhood) project, Spain, and to assess the optimal cut-offs for urinary cotinine (UC) that best distinguish daily and occasional smokers with varying levels of second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure. DESIGN We used logistic regress...

47 Abstract: To investigate the influence of air pollution on birth weight, information on maternal and infant characteristics was collected from 458 mothers of infants less than one year of age born in 1995 and under observation at a mother and child health center in Ankara. In addition, the obstetrical histories of 520 infants born in 1990 were collected from the delivery room records of a ma...

Carbamazepine has been found to crystallize as a new polymorph that is stable at room temperature. We report the crystal structure of this C-centered monoclinic form (space group C2/c, cell parameters: a = 26.609, b = 6.9269, c = 13.957, beta = 109.702), which consists of hydrogen bonded dimers with an anti-disposition. This represents the third modification of carbamazepine that has been cryst...

Since the introduction of nominative signature in 1996, there have been only a few schemes proposed and all of them have already been found flawed. In addition, there is no formal security model defined. Even more problematic, there is no convincing application proposed. Due to these problems, the research of nominative signature has almost stalled and it is unknown if a secure nominative signa...

OBJECTIVE To assess associations between nose-throat (NT) diseases and passive smoking prevalence among school children. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was carried out on a randomized multistage sample of 381 school children (50.9% males, aged 9.8 ± 3.5 years) from Kinshasa town. Parents and children were asked to fill in a questionnaire detailing their smoking habits. The NT symptoms and d...

BACKGROUND Chalazia, or meibomian cysts, are often seen in general practice. While most can be resolved with a minor operation in a designated procedure room, there is a lack of published literature on the details of the incision and curettage used to treat this condition. OBJECTIVE This article outlines the management and treatment of chalazia in the general practice setting. DISCUSSION Ch...

hypersensitivity reactions to natural rubber latex have increased recently, especially among people with high exposure to latex allergens. hypersensitivity reactions to latex are related to many conditions like occupational asthma. our study was performed to determine the prevalence of hypersensitivity to natural rubber latex and potential food cross reactions in operation room personnel in shi...