Excessive salt intake is associated with hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Salt intake exceeds the World Health Organization population nutrition goal of 5 grams per day in the European region. We assessed the health impact of salt reduction in nine European countries (Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom). Through literature research we...

We report a boy with severe congenital myopathy, Möbius-Poland sequence, Robin sequence, and severe developmental delay. We consider this patient to have Carey-Fineman-Ziter syndrome. Since this is only the seventh case reported, this case helps to define further the consistent manifestations of this recognizable phenotype. Additionally our patient shows laryngostenosis, intermittent episodes o...

In order to elucidate the clinical homogeneity and severity of the hyperphenylalaninaemias in Poland, a total of 71 children with typical phenylketonuria (PKU) originating from western and northern Poland were screened for 13 mutations in the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene. Eighty percent of all PKU alleles tested were found to carry an identified mutation. One mutation, namely the R408W ...

Poland syndrome is a rare congenital malformation. This syndrome was described in 1841 by Alfred Poland at Guy’s Hospital in London. It is characterized by hypoplasia of the breast and nipple, subcutaneous tissue shortages, lack of the costosternal portion of the pectoralis major muscle and associated alterations of the fingers on the same side. Corrective treatment of the chest and soft tissue...

1University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Hematology, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2Vejle Hospital, Vejle, Denmark; 3Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom; 4Herlev University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark; 5Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Institute & Cancer Centre, Warsaw, Poland; 6Medical University of Gdansk, Department of Hematology, Gdansk, Poland; 7University of Iowa, ...

Genetic characterization of the whole genome of four avian influenza H7N7 viruses isolated in three successive winter seasons (2007 to 2009) from wild mallards in three cities in Poland was performed. All of the tested strains were of low pathogenicity and no molecular marker associated with an increased adaptation to poultry, mammals or resistance to antiviral drugs was found. The major outcom...

a Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Monitoring, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Dzięgielowa 27, 61-680 Poznań, Poland b Department of Biogeography and Paleoecology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Dzięgielowa 27, 61-680 Poznań, Poland c Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland d Institute of Geological Sciences...

The astrocytoma cancer represents CNS neoplasms in which the predominant cell type is derived from an immortalized astrocyte. The genomewide analysis of glioma identified somatic mutation at codon 132 of the IDH1 gene which encodes NADP+ dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase. Further studies indicated that patients with somatic, heterozygous R132H mutation have distinct clinical characteristic: yo...

New wintering populations of Whooper Swan have been recently reported from west Asia, a lack of information about the population and its origin. The understanding the genetic structure and connectivity are crucial for determining strategies of management for its conservation programs. The samples were collected from two populations in northern Iran, Finland, Sweden, and Iceland, where with larg...

Data on multi-trace element composition and content relationships have been obtained for Cantharellus cibarius, C. tubaeformis, and C. minor mushrooms from Poland and China by inductive coupled plasma-dynamic reaction cell-mass spectroscopy. There is no previous data published on As, Li, V, Tl, and U in chanterelles from Poland and on Ba, Co, Cr, Ni, Rb, and Sr in chanterelles from China. The r...