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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132704.x

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年代:1984

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132705.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132706.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132707.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

A study of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Cimetidine prescriptions, hospital admissions, and deaths due to peptic ulcer in 13 million Australians in 1981 indicated that the annual ulcer incidence per 1000 population was 3.8 for duodenal ulcer and 0.7 for gastric ulcer. Approximately 70 000 Australians appear to receive initial treatment for a peptic ulcer each year. Two‐thirds of patients were managed outside hospital. Patients with gastric ulcers were more likely to be admitted to hospital or to die from their ulcer than were patients with duodenal ulcers. Significant regional differences in ulcer frequency were found; in particular, the risk of gastric ulcer in NSW was four times that in Victoria. Gastric and duodenal ulcers were more common in New South Wales than in Victoria, Queensland or Western Australia. These differences, and other regional variations, indicate appropriate localities for further studies of the aetiology of peptic ulcer.

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132708.x

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年代:1984

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Crocidolite was mined and milled at Wittenoom Gorge in Western Australia from 1943 to 1966. Between 1960‐1964 and 1980‐1982, the estimated incidence of malignant mesothelioma in Western Australia rose from 0.6/100 000 in men and less than 0.1/100 000 in women, aged 35 years or older, to 6.6/100 000 in men and 0.7/100 000 in women in this age group. Overall, 97 (70%) of 138 patients with malignant mesothelioma had definite or probable exposure to asbestos; 76 of these (55%) to Western Australian crocidolite. Of the latter 76 patients, 56 had worked in the mine or mill at Wittenoom and 4 had nonoccupational exposure in the Wittenoom area; the remaining 16 had been exposed to crocidolite elsewhere in the State. There were only 4 (3%) patients with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, of whom three had been exposed to crocidolite.

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132709.x

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年代:1984

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The major features of the outbreaks of influenza A and B, which occurred in Melbourne during the winter of 1982, are described. Diagnoses of influenza A or influenza B were established in 310 patients by virus isolation, immunofluorescence, and serological tests. Immunofluorescence was found to be a valuable, rapid, but considerably less sensitive, test than virus isolation, and serodiagnosis was the test of choice either when patients did not present or when specimens were not collected until late in the illness. The results of haemagglutination‐inhibition tests performed with a panel of monoclonal antibodies suggest that at least two recognizably different strains of influenza A and influenza B were circulating in the community.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132710.x

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年代:1984

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In view of the recognized high prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Malta compared with Australia, 75 g oral glucose tolerance tests were performed on 396 Maltese‐born residents of Melbourne. Eighteen (4.5%) were found to have diabetes mellitus and 19 (4.8%) were found to have impaired glucose tolerance by current criteria. Glucose tolerance was correlated with family history of diabetes, with age, with obesity and with parity in women, but not with length of residence in Australia. Analysis of statistical data of death certification showed that Maltese‐born residents of Victoria had a higher age‐specific mortality from both diabetes mellitus and ischaemic heart disease than did Victorian Italian‐born residents or the total Victorian population. This was most marked in women. The results suggest that Maltese immigrants to Australia after years of residence, still run a higher risk of becoming affected with diabetes mellitus or ischaemic heart disease than the average for the Australian population. The relative importance of genetic and environmental factors involved in this difference should be the subject of continuing study in the future.

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132711.x

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年代:1984

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The height and weight measurement of 928 young people of Busselton were collected over a period of up to 11 years. The prevalence of obesity was low in early childhood and increased progressively through adolescence and adulthood, so that 9% of male subjects and 16% of female subjects aged 21 years or over, were obese. The prevalence and degree of obesity were both greater in female subjects than in male subjects. Although most obese young adults were not obese in childhood, 50% of those who were obese between the ages of 9 and 14 years were still obese when examined in young adult life, and were at greater risk of becoming obese adults than were their non‐obese peers. Most subjects who subsequently became obese young adults were significantly heavier than their non‐obese peers at all ages from the age of 6 years.

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132712.x

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年代:1984

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132713.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

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