Postdeployment mental health concerns and family functioning in veteran men and women.

Objective: Despite growing numbers of veteran women, it is unclear whether the impact of common postdeployment mental health concerns on key aspects of family functioning varies by gender. We examined whether associations between PTSD, depression, and problematic alcohol use and intimate relationship quality and parenting self-efficacy differed among men and women in a large, gender-balanced sample of post-9/11 veterans.

Method: Participants included 2,348 veterans (51.

Neuromuscular and biomechanical adjustments of the speech mechanism during modulation of vocal loudness in children with cerebral palsy and dysarthria.

ABSTRACChildren with cerebral palsy (CP) are characterized as difficult to understand because of poor articulation and breathy voice quality. This case series describes the subsystems of the speech mechanism (i.e.

Effectiveness of decision aids for smoking cessation in adults: a quantitative systematic review.

Objective: The objective of the review was to determine the effectiveness of the use of decision aids to facilitate the shared decision-making process between a person and a healthcare provider on smoking cessation rates, knowledge of smoking cessation methods and decisional quality.

Introduction: The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest health threats in the world, and it is the single most important preventable cause of disease. In the smoking cessation process, people move through different stages in their readiness to quit.

Advance care planning and anticipatory decision making in patients with Alzheimer disease.

Early advance care planning and anticipatory decision making in the Alzheimer disease (AD) trajectory is a strategy NPs can incorporate to improve managing uncertainty around common decisions. This article explores decisions patients and caregivers face along the AD trajectory and provides resources for patients, caregivers, and NPs.

Effectiveness of decision aids on smoking cessation in adult patients: a systematic review protocol.

The objective of this review is to determine the effectiveness of the use of decision aids in a shared decision-making encounter between any healthcare provider and adult patients who smoke, compared to standard education on smoking cessation, in any healthcare setting.Specifically, the review questions are: What is the effectiveness of the use of decision aids in a shared decision-making encounter in any healthcare setting between the healthcare provider and adult patients who smoke compared to standard education, based on the patient's.

Responses to Intensity-Shifted Auditory Feedback During Running Speech.

Purpose: Responses to intensity perturbation during running speech were measured to understand whether prosodic features are controlled in an independent or integrated manner.

Method: Nineteen English-speaking healthy adults (age range = 21-41 years) produced 480 sentences in which emphatic stress was placed on either the 1st or 2nd word. One participant group received an upward intensity perturbation during stressed word production, and the other group received a downward intensity perturbation.

Acute asthma epidemics, weather and pollen in England, 1987-1994.

Recent epidemics of acute asthma have caused speculation that, if their causes were known, early warnings might be feasible. In particular, some epidemics seemed to be associated with thunderstorms. We wondered what risk factors predicting epidemics could be identified.

Effect of thunderstorms and airborne grass pollen on the incidence of acute asthma in England, 1990-94.

Background: Thunderstorms and prior grass pollen counts were investigated as predictors of daily hospital admissions for asthma in England. This study was motivated by reports in the literature of spectacular asthma epidemics associated with thunderstorms, particularly in the grass pollen season.

Methods: Asthma admissions for two age groups (0-14 years and 15 and over) were measured using the Hospital Episodes System (HES) in the 14 regional health authorities (RHAs) in England.

Changes in intraventricular septal thickness, left ventrical wall thickness and left ventricular volume in obese adolescents on a high protein weight reducing diet.

Ten obese adolescents (153 percent ideal body weight) underwent significant weight reduction over a two to three month period using a low calorie, low carbohydrate, protein diet. The subjects lost a mean of 13.9 +/- 4.

The effect of a weight-reducing diet on the nitrogen metabolism of obese adolescents.

Rates of whole body amino nitrogen flux were measured in 16 obese adolescents undergoing weight reduction with a high protein low energy diet. The subjects received approximately 2.5 g of animal protein per day per kilogram ideal body weight and maintained nitrogen balance throughout the 18 days on the diet.

One-year follow-up of weight, total body potassium, and total body nitrogen in obese adolescents treated with the protein-sparing modified fast.

Seventeen obese adolescents were treated with the protein-sparing modified fast (PSMF), a high-protein, low-carbohydrate, low-calorie diet, for approximately 3 mo and then followed for a total of 12 mo. The diet provided a mean of 880 kcal.kg-1.

Potassium, magnesium, and calcium balance in obese adolescents on a protein-sparing modified fast.

Ten obese adolescents consumed the protein-sparing modified fast (PSMF), a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, for 92 +/- 19 d and lost 14.7 +/- 5.3 kg.

Effect of energy repletion on dynamic aspects of protein metabolism of malnourished adolescent and young adult patients with cystic fibrosis during the first 12 days of treatment.

The short-term effect of nutritional rehabilitation on whole body protein metabolism of six malnourished (energy depleted) adolescent and young adult cystic fibrosis (CF) patients was examined during the first 12 days of treatment. Refeeding was accomplished using continuous nasogastric administration of an elemental diet. Intakes were 1.

Energy needs and nutritional rehabilitation in undernourished adolescents and young adult patients with cystic fibrosis.

The energy needs, nutritional status and body composition of 6 undernourished adolescents and young adults with cystic fibrosis (3 male and 3 female) were studied prior to and following a 12 day period of refeeding. Nutritional rehabilitation was attempted with continuous naso-gastric feeding of an elemental diet. The energy needs of the patients were shown to be 25-80% higher than in healthy individuals of the same age, sex and size.

Effect of a weight-reducing high-protein diet on the body composition of obese adolescents.

The effect of a three-month period on a high-protein reducing diet on body composition was studied in 17 obese adolescents, aged 12.5 to 17.4 years.

A critical evaluation of a specific radioimmunoassay for prostatic acid phosphatase.

A radioimmunoassay (RIA) method for acid phosphatase detection was compared to a standard enzyme assay using sera from 210 normal volunteers and 285 patients with prostatic disease. Statistical and clinical comparisons were made between defined subgroups. All 55 normal females had RIA detectable serum acid phosphatase, implying that this assay cannot be entirely specific for enzyme of prostatic origin.