Point-of-purchase health inform ...
Objectives Point-of-purchase (POP) information at food stores could help promote healthy dietary habits. However, it has been difficult to evaluate ...
A1330V polymorphism of the low- ...
1. Cooper C, Campion G, Melton LJ 3rd. Hip fractures in the elderly: a world-wide projection. Osteoporos Int. 1992;2:285–9. 2. Center JR, Nguyen TV, ...
Effectiveness of intervention f ...
Objectives Although the importance of stretching exercise for pain-relieving and patient education is well documented for chronic lumbago patients, ...
Effect of habitual exercise on ...
Objectives We investigated whether habitual exercise (HE) (treadmill running) suppresses development of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) induced by ferric ...
Long-term administration of the ...
Objective The causal agents of gastric cancer could include fungus toxins. Sterigmatocystin (ST), a fungus toxin, is a risk factor of gastric cancer ...
Gene expression in primary cult ...
Objectives Aluminum is notorious as a neurotoxic metal. The aim of our study was to determine whether endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is involved ...
Measuring the burden of disease ...
Background Few studies calculating burden of disease (BOD) have been carried out in China. Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) is one of the usefu ...
A comparative study of health-p ...
Objectives To clarify the difference in health-promoting lifestyles between agricultural and non-agricultural workers in Japan, a cross-sectional st ...
Insight into physical activity ...
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is increasingly reported in children, mainly in the presence of overweight/ obesity. From the most recent report, up to 60 ...
Environmental home inspection s ...
This review deals with environmental home inspection services in Western Europe provided for patients at the request of attending physicians to impr ...
Regional disparities in child m ...
Objective China was one of the 68 ‘‘countdown’’ countries prioritized to attain Millennium Development Goals (MDG 4). The aim of this study was to a ...
Rare Pediatric Adrenocortical C ...
Pediatric adrenocortical carcinoma is extremely rare with a prevalence of 0.3 per million. Adrenocortical neoplasms in children usually present with ...
Pulmonary artery embolism due t ...
Hydatid pulmonary embolism is an uncommon condition resulting from the rupture of a hydatid heart cyst or the opening of a visceral hydatid cyst int ...
Spiral head CT in the evaluatio ...
The purpose of this pictorial essay is to review the benefits of spiral head computed tomography (CT) with routine multiplanar reformations in the e ...
Usual and unusual causes of spl ...
The ‘Lyre’ sign describes the characteristic splaying of the carotid artery bifurcation due to a carotid body tumour (paraganglioma) on conventional ...
Fabella fracture with CT imagin ...
Fracture of the fabella is rare, may be easily overlooked, and can be a clinically important cause of posterolateral knee pain following traumatic i ...
Gastric pneumatosis: the role o ...
Gastric pneumatosis is rare, with causes ranging from benign to lethal. The purpose of this pictorial essay is to present a series of cases of gastr ...
Asymmetric septal hypertrophic ...
We report the case of a 30-year-old female who presented to the emergency department with the chief complaint of syncope. She also described intermi ...
Current role of lateral cervica ...
We report a case showing the classic features of a Hangman’s cervical spine fracture following a motor vehicle collision. Because this injury was no ...
Acute traumatic gonadal vein ru ...
We present a case of a 29-year-old female in her second trimester of pregnancy with twin gestations who was involved in a major motor vehicle collis ...
Myocardial infarction after blu ...
Myocardial infarction after blunt chest trauma has been reported in only few cases, and mechanisms of this complication have rarely been described.W ...
Remote cerebellar hemorrhage af ...
Remote cerebellar hemorrhage (RCH) is a rare complication after supratentorial or spinal surgery. RCH is poorly known and hence probably underdiagno ...
Surfer’s myelopathy—an unusual ...
Surfer’s myelopathy is an emergent medical condition, representing a rare type of nontraumatic injury of the spinal cord, triggered by continued hyp ...
Transient leukoencephalopathy a ...
Methotrexate (MTX) is an indispensable antimetabolite for the treatment of oncological and immunological disorders in all age groups. It can be admi ...
Hemoperitoneum due to spontaneo ...
We report the case of a 65-year-old woman who was treated with low-molecular-weight heparin and suffered spontaneous rupture of an ovarian cystadeno ...