Results Sixty seven percent of patients were female. Among the enrolled 429,476 patients had follow-up data and 10,362 deaths. The majority (85%) had working status, 82% CD4 count test done in three months and 91% were screened for TB at first visit. Of the 7.2 million visits 93% had TB screening documented and of 397,288 CD4 tests done in the pre ART phase 71% (282,936 tests) were done in the ...

hepatitis b (hb) disease occurs with high risk behaviors in the different communities. aim of this study was to find out some of local customs in lifestyle that might be risk factors for transmitting this disease in order to design the educational programs and control it periodically in chaharmahal va bakhtiari, iran. this was a case-control study, carried out on patients with hb and the contro...

The objective of this study was to determine if video otoscope still images (640 x 480 pixel resolution) of the tympanic membrane following surgical placement of tympanostomy tubes are comparable to an in-person microscopic examination. Forty patients having undergone tympanostomy tube placement in both ears were independently examined in-person by two otolaryngologists and imaged using a video...

Estimates of gains related to repeated test exposure (retest effects) and within-person cognitive changes are confounded in most longitudinal studies because of the nonindependent time structures underlying both processes. Recently developed statistical approaches rely on between-person age differences to estimate effects of repeated testing. This study, however, demonstrates how retest effects...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infections (UTI) are common among the oldest old and may lead to a few days of illness, delirium or even to death. We studied the incidence and predictive factors of UTI among the oldest old in the general population. METHODS The Leiden 85-plus Study is a population-based prospective follow-up study of 86-year-old subjects in Leiden, The Netherlands. Information on th...

Background and Purpose. Stroke incidence increases with age and is likely to increase in the aging populations. We investigated incidence, outcome, and resource use in very old subjects with stroke. Methods. We performed a systematic review of available data through electronic search of the literature databases and manual search of reference lists. Data were extracted for the age groups of over...