... number not for citation purposes)Journal of the International AIDS SocietyShort reportMigration andRiskFactorsfor HIV Acquisition in Pregnant Women in Baja California, MexicoRolando M Viani*1, ... million people of Mexican origin resided in Cal-ifornia, with economic and social factors being the drivingforce for migration.[1] Baja California is a leading point ofentry to the United States, ... busiest land port of entry in theworld, with more than 131,000 legal border crossingsdaily. Therefore, Tijuana offers a unique opportunity tostudy the riskfactorsfor HIV acquisition and migrationpatterns...
... and mixed farming (OR = 2.0; 95% CI: 1.7, 3.7) were riskfactorsfor cattle seropositivity to Brucella antigens. On the other hand, the use of disinfectants (OR = 1.9; 95% CI: 1.1, 2.1) and ... two groups of risk factors. The density of animal populations, the herd size, the type and breed of animal (dairy or beef), the type of husbandry system and other environmental factors are thought ... Prevalence of, andriskfactors for, brucellosis in Awassi sheep in Southern Jordan. Small Rumin Res 2007, 73, 300-303. 4. Al-Majali AM, Al-Qudah KM, Al-Tarazi YH, Al-Rawashdeh OF. Risk factors...
... Auckland. New Zeland, for her assistance with English translation.References1. Pearson SE, Meyer AC, Adams GL, Ondrey FG: Decreased hearingafter combined modality therapy forheadandneck cancer. Am ... ear radiation dose and hearingloss in head -and- neckcancer patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys2005, 61:1393-1402.12. Blakley BW, Gupta AK, Myres SF, Schwan S: Riskfactorsfor oto-toxicity ... effective treatments for headandneck tumors. For initial lesions T1 and T2, the results of exclusive use ofRT are comparable to the ones obtained using surgicalprocedures. For lesions in a more...
... efforts in prevention and control of the main risk factors. The two main universal riskfactorsfor NAFLD, obesity and air pollu-tion, have broad adverse health effects, and reducing their prevalence ... associa-tions between insulin resistance and NAFLD, and similar risk factorsand protective factorsfor these 2 interrelated disorders. Waist circumference and the ratio of apolipo-protein B to ... in children and adults; it might represent a physiological response to environ-mental factors in children and a long-standing adapta-tion in adults. The histological criteria for distinguishing...
... CentralPage 1 of 9(page number not for citation purposes)Health and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearchCo-morbidity and visual acuity are riskfactorsfor health-related quality of life ... of one university hospital and three gen-eral hospitals in the Netherlands between July 2000 and January 2003. The eligibility requirements for inclusion inthe non-randomized study were referral ... thevariance.DiscussionOur study aimed to provide a risk profile for visuallyimpaired older patients related to a change in QOL. First,when not taking specific riskfactors into account, for theentire group there...
... endoscopic and imagingmethods and the standardized perceptual evaluation of theindividual handicap. ASR will enable precise evaluations ofspeech and voice as a precondition for scientific purposes, for example, ... extents ofspeech disorder (dysglossia) and voice disorder (dysphonia)after the treatment forheadandneck cancer. 2. Speech Disorders in Patients withOral Cancer Dysglossia often occurs in patients ... global functional outcome of speech and voice after the treatment of headandneck cancer. Itallows quantifying the intelligibility also in severely disturbedvoices and speech.AcknowledgmentsThis...
... 3.3. Riskfactors of pH1N1/2009 Table 3.15 - 3.18. The association between some factorsandrisk of getting infection with pH1N1/2009 (univariate analysis) Risk factors Infected by 2009 pandemic ... EDUCATION AND TRAINING MINISTRY OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE ANDEPIDEMIOLOGY * NGUYEN THI THI THO EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND SOME RISKFACTORS OF PANDEMIC ... identifying riskfactors for influenza infections, especially for influenza pandemic. Regarding to seasonal influenza, children under 5 years of age was at a 1.85 times (1.09 - 3.26) greater risk...
... (2005),/6(1), 53–59 Risk factorsfor retained placenta and the effect of retained placenta on the occurrence of postpartum diseases and subsequent reproductive performance in dairy cowsYeon-Kyung ... the risk factorsfor retained placenta by evaluating severalreproductive factors in individual cows, and to determinethe effects of retained placenta on the occurrence ofpostpartum diseases and ... reproductive performance have varied. Our first objectivewas to determine the riskfactorsfor retained placenta byevaluating several factors: calving condition, parity,gestation length, and calving...
... inpatients with advanced headandneckcancer who receivechemotherapy and radiation therapy. Radiology 1996, 201:675-680.4. Wood K: Audit of nutritional guidelines forheadandneck cancer patients ... concomitantchemotherapy for locally advanced headandneck cancer. N Engl J Med2004, 350:1945-1952.13. Cooper JS, Bernier J: Rationale for triage in the postoperativemanagement of headandneck cancers. ... 2005, 18:343-351.5. Peterman A, Cella D, Glandon G, Dobrez D, Yount S: Mucositis in head and neck cancer: economic and quality-of-life outcomes. J Natl Cancer InstMonogr 2001, 45-51.6. Whicher...
... therapy. Otolaryngol HeadNeck Sur 2001, 125:645-8.29. Hansen EK, Bucci MK, Quivey JM, Weinberg V, Xia P: Repeat CT imaging and replanning during the course of IMRT forhead -and- neck cancer. Int J ... were 0, 50, 110,250 and 310 degree for NK/T cases, and 0, 45, 90, 120,160, 200, 240, 280 and 320 degree for NPC cases. For brain cases, gantry angles were 0, 60, 230, 300 and 45Hu et al. Radiation ... Synergy S, XVI, Crawley, UK). For imaging the head -and- neckand brain tumor patients,we used the following parameters: 100 kVp, S20 collima-tor and F0 filter, total 65 mAs and a high-resolutionreconstruction...
... integrated boost (SIB) in headandneck cancer patients. Radiat Oncol 2006, 31:1-7.19. Ho KF, Fowler JF, Sykes AJ, Yap BK, Lee LW, Slevin NJ: IMRT dosefractionation forheadandneck cancer: variation ... radiotherapy (IMRT) forheadandneck cancer: Areview. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2009, 73(2):111-125.22. Fowler JF: Optimum overall times II: Extended Modelling forhead and neck radiotherapy. ... with headandneck tumours were selected for this retrospective planning study. ThePTV1 included the primary tumour, PTV2 the high risk lymph nodes and PTV3 the low risk lymph nodes. Except for the...
... dose for PTV1 and between 84% and 93% for the PTV2.The median doses of the low and high dose PTVs arein a range of 99.9% (Tomo) and 104.9% (VMAT) for PTV2 and between 101.4% (Konrad) and 105.8%(VMAT) ... rotational IMRT based on a ring gantry for a complex parotid gland sparing head- and- neck technique.Methods: Treatment plans were created for 10 patients with head -and- neck tumours (oropharynx, hypopharynx,larynx) ... were 26.5Gy for RapidArc and 23Gy for VMAT, 14.1Gy for Tomo. For fixed gantry techniques 21Gy was achieved for step&shoot+KonRad, 17.0Gy for step&shoot+Panther DAO, 23.3Gy for step&shoot+Pinnacle...
... Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3Department of HeadandNeck Oncology and Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - ... number not for citation purposes)IntroductionIn radiotherapy forheadandneck cancer, the major sali-vary glands frequently receive a high radiation dose. Ahigh dose on the salivary glands results ... Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Department of HeadandNeck Oncology and Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsEmail: CM van Rij...
... Otolaryngology -Head and Neck Surgery: Neck dissection Classificaton Update: Revisions Pro-posed by the American HeadandNeck Society and theAmerican Academy of Otolaryngology -Head andNeck Sur-gery. ... measures.Materials and methods: 39 patients with squamous cell cancer of the headandneck irradiated using3D-c-IMRT were evaluable for dose distribution within PTVs and at one parotid gland and 38 patients for toxicity ... parotic gland sparing of intensity modulated radiotherapy(3D-c-IMRT) performed with metallic compensators forheadandneckcancer in a clinical series by analysisof dose distributions and clinical...
... specificproteins and genes that are germane to HNSCC.BackgroundHNSCC is the sixth most common cancerand remains amajor cause of cancer morbidity and mortality worldwide[1]. More than 85% of headandneck ... American Cancer Society: Cancer Facts and Figures. 2009.2. Chen Y, Chen C: DNA copy number variation and loss of heterozygosityin relation to recurrence of and survival from headandneck squamouscell ... 1, Table S6, Table S7 and Table S8). In addition, the generated n etworksincluded known headandneckcancer biomarkers. Com-mon fragile site genes (DAG1 and P ARK2) and variousgenes that...