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Changing cancer survival in China during 2003-15: a pooled analysis of 17 population-based cancer registries.
(The Lancet. Global health, 2018-05)
From 2003 to 2005, standardised 5-year cancer survival in China was much lower than
in developed countries and varied substantially by geographical area. Monitoring population-level
cancer survival is crucial to the understanding ...
Validation and Identification of Invasive Salmonella Serotypes in Sub-Saharan Africa by Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction.
(Clin Infect Dis, 2016-03-15)
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and nontyphoidal Salmonella (NTS) cause the majority
of bloodstream infections in sub-Saharan Africa; however, serotyping is rarely performed.
We validated a multiplex polymerase chain reaction ...
Losses of expected lifetime in the United States and other developed countries: methods and empirical analyses.
(Demography, 2011-02)
Patterns of diversity in age at death are examined using e (†), a dispersion measure
that equals the average expected lifetime lost at death. We apply two methods for
decomposing differences in e (†). The first method estimates ...
Beta2-adrenergic receptor gene polymorphisms as systemic determinants of healthy aging in an evolutionary context.
(Mech Ageing Dev, 2010-05)
The Gln(27)Glu polymorphism but not the Arg(16)Gly polymorphism of the beta2-adrenergic
receptor (ADRB2) gene appears to be associated with a broad range of aging-associated
phenotypes, including cancers at different sites, ...
Rare hereditary COL4A3/COL4A4 variants may be mistaken for familial focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
(Kidney Int, 2014-12)
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a histological lesion with many causes,
including inherited genetic defects, with significant proteinuria being the predominant
clinical finding at presentation. Mutations in ...
Histoplasmosis among hospitalized febrile patients in northern Tanzania.
(Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 2012-08)
Histoplasmosis may be common in East Africa but the diagnosis is rarely confirmed.
We report 9 (0.9%) cases of probable histoplasmosis retrospectively identified among
970 febrile inpatients studied in northern Tanzania. ...
Do specialty courts achieve better outcomes for children in foster care than general courts?
(Eval Rev, 2013-02)
OBJECTIVE: This study assessed the effects of unified family and drug treatment courts
(DTCs) on the resolution of cases involving foster care children and the resulting
effects on school performance. METHOD: The first analytic ...
Low tobacco-related cancer incidence in offspring of long-lived siblings: a comparison with Danish national cancer registry data.
(Ann Epidemiol, 2015-08)
PURPOSE: Familial clustering of longevity is well documented and includes both genetic
and other familial factors, but the specific underlying mechanisms are largely unknown.
We examined whether low incidence of specific ...
Travelers with sickle cell disease.
(J Travel Med, 2014-09)
BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common genetic disease among persons
with African ancestry. This article provides a background to SCD and reviews many
important aspects of travel preparation in this population. ...
Multilocus sequence typing of serially collected isolates of Cryptococcus from HIV-infected patients in South Africa.
(J Clin Microbiol, 2014-06)
Patients with cryptococcal meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa frequently relapse following
treatment. The natural history and etiology of these recurrent episodes warrant investigation.
Here, we used multilocus sequence typing ...