INTRODUCTION This paper presents personality testing data from final stage applicants to the NASA astronaut program. Questions addressed include whether personality predicted final selection into the astronaut corps, whether women and men demonstrated typical gender differences in personality, and whether three characteristic clusters found in other high performance populations replicated in th...

OBJECTIVES To study the familial aggregation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in The Netherlands and to analyse the effect of proband characteristics on the concordance rates for RA. Secondary aims were to compare the characteristics of patients in an early RA inception cohort with those of regular patients and to select Dutch families for the genome-wide scan carried out by the European Consortium...

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an inherited common autosomal Mendelian disorder of lipoprotein metabolism with a population prevalence of 1 in 500. FH is characterized by severely elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), which result in surplus deposition of cholesterol in tissues. This condition leads to premature at hero sclerosis and early-onset of coronary hear...

patients and methods this cross-sectional study was performed on 1202 ms patients in farshchian hospital, hamadan, in 2013. all patients were diagnosed with definite ms. a questionnaire was used to gather information; demographic characteristics, medical history, signs and symptoms at onset, course of disease, relatives with ms, and degree and type of relationship were recorded. conclusions the...

BACKGROUND Familial hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia is a genetic disorder of magnesium metabolism that presents with refractory seizures in infancy. CASE CHARACTERISTICS We herein report an infant with familial hypomagnesemia who presented as medically-refractory seizures and had cerebral atrophy on neuroimaging. Interestingly he had lost previous two siblings because of lack of co...

three millions people die related to smoking every year. twelve million smokers are reported in iran. the studies show that smoking is an important factor which causes cardio – vascular and respiratory diseases. its role in cancer diseases is strongly confirmed. the social and economical effects of smoking also are considerable. in this study 192 preuniversity students in bahaman city (province...

BACKGROUND It is not known whether there are differences in clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with familial and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in an African setting. PURPOSE To compare the clinical characteristics and outcomes of familial and idiopathic DCM. METHODS We performed a retrospective study of familial and idiopathic DCM at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Tow...