OBJECTIVES To determine anaemia prevalence and related factors in pregnant women (PW), post partum women (PPW) and non pregnant women (NPW) in a remote mountainous district. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2001. All PW, all PPW within 6 months of delivery and a random number of NPW equivalents to the number of PW in each commune were selected. Hemoglobin (Hb) was measured us...

BACKGROUND With advances in spinal cord stimulation (SCS) technology, particularly rechargeable implantable, patients are now being offered a wider range of parameters to treat their pain. In particular, pulse width (PW) programming ranges of rechargeable implantable pulse generators now match that of radiofrequency systems (with programmability up to 1000 microseconds. The intent of the presen...

We investigated the validity of employing a fuzzy piecewise prediction equation (PW) [Gonzalez et al. J Appl Physiol 107: 379-388, 2009] defined by sweat rate (m(sw), g·m(-2)·h(-1)) = 147 + 1.527·(E(req)) - 0.87·(E(max)), which integrates evaporation required (E(req)) and the maximum evaporative capacity of the environment (E(max)). Heat exchange and physiological responses were determined thro...

1. Yang H, Anderson SA, Forshee R, Williams A, Epstein JS, Marks PW. Modeling complete removal of risk assessment questions in the USA predicts the risk of HIV exposure in blood recipients could increase despite the use of nucleic acid testing. Vox Sang 2016;110:324‐8. 2. Chandra T, Kumar A, Gupta A. Prevalence of transfusion transmitted infection in blood donors: An Indian experience. Transfus...

Pyeongwisan (PW) is an herbal medication used in traditional East Asian medicine to treat anorexia, abdominal distension, borborygmus and diarrhea caused by gastric catarrh, atony and dilatation. However, its effects on inflammation-related diseases are unknown. In this study, we investigated the biological effects of PW on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-mediated inflammation in macrophages and on lo...

Research on psychopathy in women has generated equivocal laboratory findings. This study examined the performance of psychopathic women in 2 laboratory tasks designed to assess abnormal selective attention associated with response modulation deficits: a computerized picture-word (PW) task, and a picture-word Stroop (PW Stroop) task. Consistent with data from psychopathic men, women receiving hi...

Development and validation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 28, 487-495.] for weekly assessment of worry was evaluated in a brief treatment study. Cognitive restructuring techniques were taught to 28 nonclinical high-worriers, 14 of whom served as a control group in a lagged waiting-list design. Results showed that the Penn State Worry Questionnaire-Past We...

BACKGROUND Plain water (PW) should be the main beverage consumed by the population. However, consumption of caloric beverages (CB) has increased considerably worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the association between CB and PW intake in Mexican adults with a low socioeconomic status (SES). METHODS In a cross-sectional design, beverage consumption was evaluated with a 24-h beve...

Background: Perfusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PW-MRI) and HMPAO Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) are both cerebral perfusion measurement techniques. Imaging before and after acetazolamide administration can assess cerebrovascular reserve in symptomatic haemodynamic cerebrovascular disease. We compared SPECT and PW-MRI parameters in this patient group. Methods: We ...

Objective: To measure the impact of multiple field in filed (MFIF) technique on dose homogeneity, doses to organs at risk (OARs) and acute skin toxicity in comparison to physical wedged (PW) tangential technique. Methods: The study population consisted of 75 patients who had breastconserving surgery and whole-breast radiation using MFIF.These patients were matched one-to-one to a control group ...