Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular diseases consistently contribute to most morbid and mortal events in most parts of the world. Many of these cardiovascular events are premature in nature, especially in the developing world [2]. These premature deaths of individuals who should be productive to society will in turn confer additional burden to...

I was one of the 3000 doctors who descended on Vancouver, BC, in mid-October 2010 for Family Medicine Forum. My first trip to Vancouver meant there were many sights to see: Stanley Park, Chinatown, the waterfront, and Robson Street were all on my list. On planning my sightseeing, I asked the receptionist at the front desk of our hotel for directions to Chinatown. “Straight up Granville and then...

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-world war II era. It is argued that previous work was excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an overestimation of the East Germ...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing dramatically in the Middle East and North Africa region. However, there are few trials that have determined the effect of antidiabetic treatment in an observational setting in these countries. METHODS This was a noninterventional study performed in Morocco in 2006-2007 and in the Middle East in 2005-2006 to observe the efficacy and sa...

There is mixed evidence regarding the effectiveness of pro-natalist policies in developed countries (McDonald 2007), particularly in lowest-low fertility countries (including Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan in East Asia, and Italy, Spain and Portugal in Europe). Since demographic transitions were generally completed much earlier in Europe, East Asian policy responses to the problem of ...

BACKGROUND The German East-West mortality difference narrowed rapidly after the 1990 unification, particularly for women. We analyse recent trends for women aged 50-89 years and document for the first time lower mortality in the East. We study how smoking contributes to this cross-over. METHODS We analyse mortality by cause for women aged 50-89 over the years 1992-2009 for the East and West G...

Helicobacter pylori infection is a risk factor for the development of gastric adenocarcinoma, a disease that has a high incidence in East Asia. Genes that are highly divergent in East Asian H. pylori strains compared to non-Asian strains are predicted to encode proteins that differ in functional activity and could represent novel determinants of virulence. To identify such proteins, we undertoo...

Steven Eschrich Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 [email protected] Nitesh V. Chawla Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 [email protected] Lawrence O. Hall Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Florid...

1Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK 2Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK 3Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 4School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 5School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 6RCN Research Institute, ...