BACKGROUND There is much evidence showing that childhood socioeconomic position is associated with physical health in adulthood; however existing evidence on how early life disadvantage is associated with adult mental wellbeing is inconsistent. This paper investigated whether childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with adult mental wellbeing and to what extent any association is e...

OBJECTIVES This study systematically compared accumulation, sensitive period, critical period and social mobility models relating life course socioeconomic position (SEP) and adult crystallised cognitive ability, which has not been comprehensively investigated. DESIGN Two prospective cohort studies. PARTICIPANTS Five thousand three hundred and sixty-two participants in the Medical Research ...

We aimed to provide the familial risk of classical Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) by relationship, histology, age at diagnosis, and sex. A cohort of 57,475 first-degree relatives of 13,922 HL patients diagnosed between 1955 and 2009 in 5 European countries was observed for HL incidence. The overall lifetime cumulative risk (CR) of HL in first-degree relatives of a patient with HL was 0.6%, which represe...

A population-based epidemiological study that concerns the estimate of incidence rates of Hodgkin's Disease (HD) and Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) in a Central Italy area was performed. All the new cases of HD and NHL diagnosed from 1982 till 1994 in the target population were collected by multiple information sources. The temporal trend of incidence rates and their relation with age, gender and...

BACKGROUND Hodgkin's disease (HD) is a relatively rare lymphoma that affects younger as well as older persons. It is reported in the Western as well as Asian studies that HD is a rare disease in developing world. It is commoner in males in most of the countries and shows a bimodal pattern of age. The commonest subtype is nodular sclerosis in the west and mixed cellularity in the eastern and dev...

Sixty two thyrotoxic patients, 34 African and 28 Indian, were studied in order to assess the prevalence of thyroid antibodies and TSH binding inhibitory activity (TBI): 45 had Graves' disease and 17 had toxic nodular goitres. Microsomal and thyroglobulin antibodies were positive more often in Indian than in African patients with Graves' disease (microsomal 52% vs 37.4%, P less than 0.05; thyrog...

tissue contained 15 glomeruli with diffuse thickening Introduction of the glomerular basement membrane as well as increase in mesangial matrix in each. In addition, Nodular glomerulosclerosis is a well-described lesion mesangial hyaline nodular lesions were present in seven of diabetic nephropathy. Although it was considered glomeruli (Figure 1). No tubulointerstitial or vascular pathognomonic ...