Indicators for return to work after stroke and the importance of work for subjective well-being and life satisfaction.

Objectives: This study focuses on the continuation of gainful employment after experiencing stroke, addressing factors indicative of readiness for return to work, subjective well-being and life satisfaction.

Methods: The target group comprised 120 patients, studied by means of medical records and postal questionnaires.

Results: A total of 41% had returned to work, although there were changes concerning employers, assignments and working hours.

Single-step divergent selection for male comb shape in two White Leghorn lines.

1. Divergent selection for comb shape (SH, the way that the cockerel bears the comb) was performed in 2 White Leghorn lines in a study aimed at assessing possibilities for improving SH. 2.

Distribution of the secretory leucocyte proteinase inhibitor in human articular cartilage.

The secretory leucocyte protease inhibitor, SLPI, is a low molecular weight inhibitor of proteases such as elastase and cathepsin G, which are released from leucocytes during phagocytosis. The purpose of this study was to show whether or not SLPI is produced in articular chondrocytes. In articular disorders, the protease-antiprotease balance is disturbed.

Acute diarrhoea in adults: aetiology, clinical appearance and therapeutic aspects.

A prospective study of acute diarrhoea was performed during 15 months 1981/1982 and included 731 patients and 240 controls. 43% had been infected abroad. A cluster of travellers with bacterial pathogens was diagnosed in July-August.

A prospective study of rotavirus infections in neonatal and maternity wards.

The occurrence and symptomatology of rotavirus infections was studied at three maternity wards and one neonatal unit. Rotavirus was identified in 12.7% of 553 infants and 1.