ISSN:0251-5350    

DOI:10.1159/000110798

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1990

数据来源: Karger

ISSN:0251-5350    

DOI:10.1159/000110790

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1990

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

A study of the prevalence of major neurologic diseases will be carried out in a rural population near Ballabgarh, India, using the World Health Organization protocol for epidemiologic studies of neurologic disorders and other internationally standardized survey techniques, screening procedures, and diagnostic criteria. Before applying any protocol developed in one population to another population, it must be intensively tested. Here, we describe the adaptation of the WHO protocol to the local conditions in rural Ballabgarh, and the findings of the pilot study conducted to test the protocol.

ISSN:0251-5350    

DOI:10.1159/000110791

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1990

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Incidence rates of hospitalized head injury cases in the US Army were calculated by age, race, and sex. Skull fractures and intracranial diagnoses were found almost exclusively in males. For concussion, white males were at about 1.5 times greater risk compared to black males, and white females were at about 2 to greater than 3 times the risk compared to black females. For other intracranial injury, males were at 1.25 to about 2 times increased risk compared to females, white males were at about 1.5 times risk compared to black males, and white females were at 1.5–2 times greater risk compared to black females. Ten percent of head injury cases had an alcohol-related additional diagnosis and 97% of these were found in male

ISSN:0251-5350    

DOI:10.1159/000110792

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1990

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

As part of a multidisciplinary study program, an epidemiological descriptive survey was carried out in the province of Ferrara, northern Italy. The temporal trend of Huntington chorea (HC) in the last century (1871–1987) was determined in the study area, and the patients and subjects at risk were identified with the aim of creating genetic advisory councils offering preventive interventions to eliminate the disease. The final study population consisted of 10 unrelated families with HC and 47 HC cases who lived in the province of Ferrara in the survey perio

ISSN:0251-5350    

DOI:10.1159/000110793

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1990

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Hematocrit, total white cell and platelet counts. plasma urea and creatinine concentrations were estimated in 291 patients (mean age 70 ± 12 years) admitted consecutively over a 6-month period to a district general hospital with acute stroke. Urinary albumin/ creatinine ratio was also determined in a subgroup of patients during a follow-up visit 3 months after ictus. Results were compared with those from age- and sex-matched community controls. Total white cell count was elevated in all types of stroke compared with values from control subjects. Platelet count, plasma urea and creatinine concentrations were higher and the plasma albumin/ globulin ratio was lower among patients with ischemic stroke. Elevated total white cell count, urea and creatinine, which were of prognostic significance, were found to be associated with the severity of stroke as indicated by the Glasgow coma score, and did not have any independent prognostic value. Elevated hematocrit was not shown to be a risk factor and did not have any prognostic significance. A low plasma albumin/ globulin ratio, an index of plasma viscosity, was a possible risk factor for ischemic strokes. Urinary albumin/ creatinine ratios in the highest quintile increased the risk of stroke 13-fold

ISSN:0251-5350    

DOI:10.1159/000110794

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1990

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Hereditary ataxias, hereditary spastic paraplegia and Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome (HA) are chronic progressive neurological diseases. Epidemiologic studies of these disorders are few. In a geographically well-defined Danish population, we present incidence rates, cumulated incidence rates and prevalence for patients with HA based on modern continuous-time survival analysis techniques. From these, prevalence has been estimated to be 6.06 per 105 in the 10 to 50-year-old population. Combined risk of HA was found to be 0.16‰ for women and 0.20‰ for men up to their 51st birth

ISSN:0251-5350    

DOI:10.1159/000110795

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1990

数据来源: Karger

ISSN:0251-5350    

DOI:10.1159/000110796

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1990

数据来源: Karger

ISSN:0251-5350    

DOI:10.1159/000110797

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1990

数据来源: Karger