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Healthy Aging After Age 65: A Life-Span Health Production Function Approach
This article examines the determinants of healthy aging using Grossman’s framework of a health production function. Healthy aging, sometimes described as successful aging, is produced using a variety of inputs, determined in early life, young adulthood, midlife, and later life. A healthy aging production function is estimated using nationally representative data from the 2010 and 2012 He…
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Value of light microscopy to diagnose urogenital gonorrhoea: a diagnostic tes…
Gonorrhoea is a common sexually transmitted disease caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) infection. Light microscopy of urogenital smears is used as a simple tool to diagnose urogenital gonorrhoea in many resource-limited settings. We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of light microscopy to diagnose urogenital gonorrhoea as compared with a PCR-based test.
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High Prevalence of Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Gonorrhea Among Female Sex Workers…
Recent antimicrobial resistance data for Neisseria gonorrhoeae are lacking in Uganda, where, until 2010, ciprofloxacin was the nationally recommended first-line treatment of presumptive gonorrhea. This study assessed the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of N. gonorrhoeae isolates cultured from female sex workers (FSWs) in Kampala.
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Diagnosis of gonorrhoea in women
The results of Gram stains and cultures from 145 women with uncomplicated ano-genital gonorrhoea are presented. The site which gave the highest yield of gonococci was the cervix. Equally good results were obtained with Stuart's transport medium and direct plating in the clinic. Positive results from rectal specimens alone were obtained from 8-4% of the 119 women in whom the rectum was exami…
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Deep vein thrombosis in pediatric patients
Due to advances in caring for critically ill children and those with chronic diseases, rates of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) are increasing in children. Risk factors consist of central venous catheters, chronic medical conditions, thrombophilia, and various medications. Compression Doppler ultrasonography is the method most commonly used to diagnoseDVT, and patientswill usually present with p…
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Incidence of deep vein thrombosis in patients undergoing breast reconstructio…
Breast reconstruction is associated with multiple risk factors for venous thromboembolism. However, the incidence of deep vein thrombosis in patients undergoing breast reconstruction is uncertain.
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Metformin in 2019
Metformin is the first-line pharmacologic treatment for type 2 diabetes and the most commonly prescribed drug for this condition worldwide, either alone or in combination with insulin or other glucose- lowering therapies
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A 12-year retrospective review of bullous systemic lupus erythematosus in cut…
The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical features, laboratory findings, systemic manifestations, treatment and outcome of patients with bullous systemic lupus erythematosus in a tertiary care center in Thailand
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Potential Metastatic Locoregional Lymph Nodes on Squamous Cell Carcinoma Lary…
Biomarkers to predict locoregional lymph nodes metastasis is not yet accurate until now. The number of occult metastasis in laryngeal carcinoma varies between 1–65%. A tumor biomarker that can give information on the existence of locoregional lymph node involvement in patients with or without signs of clinical locoregional lymph node involvement, as guidelines whether selective neck dissec…
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Canagliflozin and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes and Nephropathy
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is the leading cause of kidney failure worldwide, but few effective long-term treatments are available. In cardiovascular trials of inhibitors of sodium– glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2), exploratory results have suggested that such drugs may improve renal outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes.
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