BACKGROUND Information regarding the effects of body size in childhood and early adulthood on the risk of hip and knee replacement in later life is inconsistent. We aimed to assess their effect, taking into account body mass index (BMI) in middle-age. METHODS Prospective cohort (Million Women Study) of 791,034 women with information on birth weight, body size at age 10 and age 20, and current...

BACKGROUND There is no national joint replacement registry in the country of Asia and reports of national outcomes of joint replacement in Asia as yet. Therefore, this study was then to report a national data of the number of hip replacements, incidence rate, demographic characteristics of hip replacement patients, and short-time survival rate after hip replacement of Han Chinese in Taiwan. M...

abstract background: esophageal replacement is indicated in certain circumstances including long gap esophageal atresia, severe strictures due to gastro-esophageal reflux (ger) and caustic burns. we analyzed our results of 18 patients who underwent esophageal replacement in our university hospital. methods: we reviewed esophageal replacements carried out in our department between june 1996 and ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study examined age-specific incidence and prevalence of renal replacement therapy attributed to analgesic nephropathy from 1971 through 2005 and adjusted comorbidity prevalence and survival of patients who had analgesic nephropathy and were on renal replacement therapy (compared with control subjects without diabetes). DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMEN...

The authors reported no conflicts of interest.The Journal policy requires editors and reviewers to disclose interest decline handling or reviewing manuscripts for which they may have a conflict interest. this article We read with the population-based observational study by Sohn colleagues1Sohn S.H. Kang Y. Kim J.S. Hwang H.Y. K.H. Choi J.W. Early long-term outcomes bioprosthetic versus mechanic...

INTRODUCTION Cardiac resynchronization defibrillator (CRT-D) as primary prevention is known to reduce mortality. At the time of replacement, higher age and comorbidities may attenuate benefit implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy. The purpose this study was evaluate progression after implantation their association with mortality following CRT-D generator replacement. In addition,...

OBJECTIVE To assess mortality associated with hormone replacement in younger and older postmenopausal women. DESIGN A comprehensive search of MEDLINE, CINAHL, and EMBASE databases was performed to identify randomized controlled trials of hormone replacement therapy from 1966 to September 2002. The search was augmented by scanning selected journals through April 2003 and references of identifi...