BACKGROUND Graphite electrode manufacturing workers are exposed to coal tar and its volatiles containing a variety of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), silica and graphite dusts, and asbestos. AIMS To investigate mortality from cancer and other diseases among workers in a graphite electrode production plant in Italy. METHODS A total of 1291 males actively employed between 1 January 19...

Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology increases the areal density of hard disk drives. Among the three types of SMR drives on the market today, Host Aware SMR (HA-SMR) drives look the most promising. In this paper, we carry out evaluation to understand the performance of HA-SMR drives with the objective of building large-scale storage systems using this type of drive. We focus on evaluat...

10.1016/S1674-6384(14)60044-7 Objective Shengmai Recipe (SMR) is a Chinese patent medicine used for the treatment of chronic heart disease. In order to further assess the renal-protective effect against ischemia lesion of SMR, the cardioprotective effect of SMR on pressure overload-induced left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction and the potential mechanism on alleviating myocardial damage, ...

BACKGROUND We compared mortality by cause of death in HIV-infected adults in the era of combined antiretroviral therapy with mortality in the general population in the same age and sex groups. METHODS Mortality by cause of death was analyzed for the period 1999-2006 in the cohort of persons aged 20-59 years diagnosed with HIV infection and residing in Navarre (Spain). This was compared with m...

BACKGROUND Although stainless steel has been produced for more than a hundred years, exposure-related mortality data for production workers are limited. AIMS To describe cause-specific mortality in Finnish ferrochromium and stainless steel workers. METHODS We studied Finnish stainless steel production chain workers employed between 1967 and 2004, from chromite mining to cold rolling of stai...

INTRODUCTION Medication reconciliation improves congruence in cross sectional patient courses. Our regional electronic medical record (EMR) integrates the shared medication record (SMR) which provides full access to current medication and medication prescriptions for all citizens in Denmark. We studied whether our SMR integration could facilitate medication reconciliation. MATERIAL AND METHOD...

A nationwide epidemiological study included 3516 primary major lower limb amputations in diabetic patients, during the period 1982 to 1992. On this well defined diabetic amputee population the relative mortality (Standard Mortality Ratio, SMR) has been analysed. The mortality rate was found to be 8 times the expected during the first year following amputation. The relative mortality is higher f...

Results Lung cancer mortality was elevated only in the chromium plater subgroup, with borderline statistical significance [SMR=1.46, observations (Obs) = 28, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.98–2.04]. The chromium plater subgroup also showed elevated mortality risks for brain tumor (SMR=9.14, Obs=3, 95% CI 1.81–22.09) and malignant lymphoma (SMR=2.84, Obs=6, 95% CI 1.05–5.51). Risks were part...

BACKGROUND Sleeping metabolic rate (SMR) is used as a proxy for basal metabolic rate in infants, when measurement while awake is not practical. Measuring SMR via indirect calorimetry (IC) can be useful for assessing feeding adequacy especially in compromised neonates. Standard IC equipment, including a hood placed over the head, is not designed for the smallest of patients. Our aim was to deter...