persons living in the community have major depression, and 75 percent initially present to a primary care physician. Recurrence may be as high as 40 percent. Suicide rates are nearly twice as high in depressed patients as in the general population. Sixty-three percent of persons who commit suicide are white, elderly men, and 85 percent of them have an associated psychiatric or physical illness....

BACKGROUND Although postural recovery is attentionally demanding in healthy elderly persons, an inability to recover balance due to competition for attentional resources between the postural system and a second task could contribute to falls in older adults with poor balance. This study examined the attentional demands of balance recovery from a mild postural disturbance in balance-impaired eld...

Relevance. The ineffectiveness of current methods engaging the population in vaccine prophylaxis leads to need develop new means solving problem vaccination abandonment. Aims is show effect applying theory compromise solutions analysis refusal influenza vaccination. Materials and . Data on number vaccinated morbidity among unvaccinated; research method based compilation criteria reflecting inte...

HIV prevention trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of a number of behavioral and biomedical interventions. HIV prevention packages are combinations of interventions and offer potential to significantly increase the effectiveness of any single intervention. Estimates of the effectiveness of prevention packages are important for guiding the development of prevention strategies and for char...

BACKGROUND TCF7L2 rs7903146 is an important genetic factor predicting type 2 diabetes (T2DM) which has also been linked to higher cardiovascular risk. To date, there is little information about the additional impact of this single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) beyond glucose metabolism. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We studied whether rs7903146 influenced postprandial lipid metabolism in thr...