ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132655.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132656.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132657.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132658.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Blood pressure, height and weight were measured in 9851 Australian schoolchildren selected at random in three age groups – 5—7, 8—10 and 11—13 years. It was found that the median values of systolic and of diastolic blood pressures rose with age. However, the effect of age virtually disappeared when pressures were corrected for the effect of weight and Quetelet index (weight/height2) which suggested that blood pressure is related to size rather than to age; obesity also seemed to have an individual effect. These data do not determine the level of blood pressure in a child at which treatment is indicated, but provide standard ranges to be used in clinical assessment and as the basis for further epidemiological studies.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132659.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

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The incidence of head injury in South Australia was estimated from hospital separation (discharges, transfers and deaths) data for 1980 and 1981. The rate of hospital separation of patients with head injury in these years was high by international standards, and was 33% greater for country residents than for residents of the Adelaide metropolitan area. Marked differences in separation rates were observed between different age, sex and occupational groups. On the basis of indirect measures of injury severity, the injury severity threshold for admission to hospital with head injury appeared to be similar in country and city hospitals. An attempt was made to estimate the number of people seriously disabled by head injury each year. The findings raise questions about the concentration of acute surgical and long‐term rehabilitation services in the city, at the expense of country areas; they also provide a starting point for further, analytical studies of head injury.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132660.x

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年代:1984

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The results of operation have been analysed in 182 patients with 219 intracranial arterial aneurysms. One hundred and sixty of the aneurysms had ruptured; for 150 “typical” supratentorial aneurysms, the operative case fatality rate was 10%, and a satisfactory outcome was obtained in 85%. There were no deaths and little morbidity in 108 operations on grade 0 or 1 patients. Among a number of factors influencing outcome, the most obvious were age, hypertension, cerebral arterial spasm, and the clinical condition of the patient at the time of operation. The timing of surgery had no effect on results.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132661.x

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年代:1984

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During the 25‐year period 1959 to 1983, autopsies were performed and blood alcohol concentrations were measured in 122 men and 13 women aged 15 years and older who died in the Geelong coroner's district after accidental submersion. Post‐mortem blood alcohol concentrations higher than 17 mmol/L (0.08 g/100 mL) were observed in none of the female victims, but were present in 37% of all male victims and in 51% of those in the 30—64 age group. Forty‐two per cent of the latter group had blood alcohol concentrations higher than 33 mmol/L (0.15 g/100 mL). The direct and indirect roles played by alcohol in the accidental drownings of adults are discussed.

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132662.x

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年代:1984

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During a 54‐week period, faecal samples taken from 350 children under 5 years of age, who were admitted with acute diarrhoea to the infectious diseases ward of a Sydney hospital, were examined for pathogens. Rotavirus was detected as the sole agent in the specimens of 58 patients (16.6%), enteroviruses in those of 26 patients (7.4%), salmonellae in those of 19 patients (5.4%) andCampylobacter jejuniin those of 15 patients (4.3%). Shigellae were not detected. The results are discussed and, in view of the changing patterns of infection, it is suggested that there is a continuing need for research into the causes of enteritis in Australia.

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132663.x

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年代:1984

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132664.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY