This study was performed to assess the relationship between socioeconomic position, according to parental education and participants’ own education, and periodontitis in a large probability sample of the Korean population using data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to assess the associations of periodontitis and the...

The aim of this study was to investigate trends in nutrients and sources of dietary intake for Taiwanese people from the Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (NAHSIT) 1993-1996 to 2005-2008. Twenty-four hour dietary recall data were obtained from the 2005-2008 NAHSIT. The results showed that intake of cereals and grains, and dietary fiber has decreased, whereas intake of carbohydrate rich conv...

In 2014, persons aged 13-29 years represented 23% of the U.S. population, yet accounted for 40% of diagnoses of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection during the same year (1). During 2010-2014, the rates of diagnosis of HIV infection decreased among persons aged 15-19 years, were stable among persons aged 20-24 years, and increased among persons aged 25-29 years (1). However, these 5-yea...

discussion we have to stress that the importance of this case report is its presentation in an elderly patient, as the frequent age of presentation in the iranian patients is the middle age. on the other hand, pv occurs rarely, thus, the reporting of any rare case with some exceptions is important. case presentation we reported a case of pemphigus vulgaris in a 79-year-old patient with the exte...

background attitude and knowledge of the different groups of society play an important role in facilitating living conditions and meeting the needs of the disabled elderly. objectives the current study aimed to evaluate the attitude and knowledge of medical sciences students toward the disabled elderly from different angles. patients and methods ninety students from semnan university of medical...

background: previous studies on the relationship between sleep patterns and obesity in the elderly are limited and have conflicting results. moreover, few studies have measured sleep patterns objectively. in this study, we investigated objective sleep patterns and their relationship with obesity in the elderly in tehran, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 88 elderly (≥60 years old) w...

Firearm violence is one of the most serious threats to the ealth of adolescents in the United States. In 2002, 277 outh aged 10 to 14 years and 2474 youth aged 15 to 19 ears were killed by firearms [1]. Several-fold more are reated in emergency rooms each year for nonfatal injuries, any of them resulting in permanent disabilities. National stimates indicate that in 2003 there were 704 youth age...

Dewing fiscal year J97.2 the Nation spent about $72 billion for perso9tal Weallh care. Persons under age 19 accounted for about one-stxth of this amount; those aged 19-64, a little less than threefifths; and those aged fi5 and over, slightly more than one-fourth. The effect of Ihe economic stabilization propwm was felt as spendZng for each age group registered ita Zozc%est increase in several y...

OBJECTIVE To determine the contribution of herpes simplex virus (HSV) to serious neurological disease. SETTING AND PATIENTS A 3-year prospective survey of children aged 2-23 months in Britain and Ireland. RESULTS 19 children had HSV central nervous system (CNS) infection; 13 aged 2-11 months had focal neuroimaging abnormalities and 11 long-term neurological sequelae. Of six aged 12-35 month...