Child and youth traffic-related injuries: use of a trauma registry to identify priorities for prevention in the United Arab Emirates.

Objective: Traffic-related injuries are the main cause of death during childhood and youth in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), use of safety restraints by citizens is uncommon, rollovers are frequent, and current legislation does not protect rear-seat occupants. Because little was known about the circumstances of hospitalizations for traffic injuries to guide prevention, a trauma registry was used to assess causes and determinants for traffic-related injuries during childhood and youth (<19 years) and its value for prevention.

Methods: One hundred ninety-three children and youth with traffic injuries were admitted for more than 24 h at surgical wards of the main trauma hospital in the Al-Ain region during a 36-month period (2003-2006).

Home and other nontraffic injuries among children and youth in a high-income Middle Eastern country: a trauma registry study.

A trauma registry in the United Arab Emirates was used to ascertain nontraffic injuries of 0- to 19-year-olds. The registry's value for prevention was assessed. A total of 292 children and youth with nontraffic injuries were admitted for >24 hours at surgical wards of the main trauma hospital in Al Ain region during 36 months in 2003-2006.

Occupational injury in the United Arab Emirates: epidemiology and prevention.

Background: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is developing rapidly, with many foreign construction, farm and industrial workers.

Aims: To assess the epidemiology of occupational injury hospitalizations using a trauma registry.

Methods: Surgical admissions from March 2003 to April 2005 were recorded in the registry at the main trauma hospital in Al Ain city (population 348,000).

Protease inhibitor effects on triglyceride synthesis and adipokine secretion in human omental and subcutaneous adipose tissue.

Objective: Significant advances in the treatment of the morbidity and mortality associated with AIDS are also associated with undesirable side-effects in fat redistribution (lipodystrophy), insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk, which is directly linked to protease inhibitor (PI) treatment.

Methods: The effects of four different PIs on triglyceride (TG) storage and adipokine production (leptin, adiponectin, and acylation stimulating protein [ASP]) in omental (OM) and subcutaneous (SC) adipose tissues were examined.

Results: Initial results demonstrated that saquinivir (SQV) and ritonivir (RTV) had little observed effect on de novo TG synthesis ([3H]glucose incorporation into TG) or fatty acid re-esterification ([14C]oleate incorporation into TG), whereas amprenivir (APV) and indinivir (IDV) reduced TG synthesis, especially in SC tissue up to 30+/-5.