Chondromalacia patella increases the risk of herpes zoster: a population-based study.

Background: The reactivation of herpes zoster (HZ) is associated with disease stress. However, the relationship between chondromalacia patella (CMP) and HZ remains poorly understood. This study investigated the relationship between CMP and the risk of developing HZ.

The Risk of Herpes Zoster in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Retrospective Population-Based Study.

Background: The association between polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and the risk of herpes zoster (HZ) remains unclear. This study investigated the risk of HZ in women with PCOS. Methods: This study used data from the Longitudinal Generation Tracking Database (LGTD 2005) which contains the information of 2 million randomly selected from National Health Insurance beneficiaries.

Association between de Quervain syndrome and herpes zoster: a population-based cohort study.

Objective: Both physical diseases such as infection and chronic pain and psychological disorders such as depression have been associated with herpes zoster (HZ) reactivation. However, the relationship between de Quervain syndrome (DQS), a painful tenosynovitis and HZ remains unclear. We investigated whether DQS increases the risk of HZ reactivation.

To Investigate the Risk of Herpes Zoster in Women With Endometriosis: A Taiwan National Population-Based Cohort Study.

The objective of this study is to investigate the occurrence of herpes zoster (HZ) in patients with endometriosis. This retrospective population-based cohort study was conducted using the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. Between 2000 and 2012, women aged ≥20 years with newly diagnosed endometriosis were enrolled into the endometriosis group.

Risk of herpes zoster infection in men with varicocele.

Purpose: Several diseases have been identified as stressful factors for herpes zoster (HZ) infection. In this study, we investigated the risk of HZ infection in men with varicocele.

Methods: We enlisted the data of patients with newly diagnosed varicocele between 2000 and 2012 from the Taiwanese National Health Insurance Research Database as case cohort.

Herpes zoster in patients with sciatica.

Background: Several diseases are associated with herpes zoster (HZ). However, whether sciatica is a stressor leading to HZ development remains unclear. Here, we evaluated the occurrence of HZ in patients with sciatica.

Association between lateral epicondylitis and the risk of herpes zoster development.

Background: Diseases burden is associated with herpes zoster (HZ) development. However, the relationship between lateral epicondylitis (LE) and HZ remains unknown.

Aim: This study investigated the association between LE and the risk of HZ development.

Risk of Herpes Zoster in Patients with Adhesive Capsulitis of the Shoulder.

Background: Physical diseases, such as infection, and emotional distress are associated with herpes zoster (HZ). However, the relationship between adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder (ACoS) and HZ remains unknown.

Objective: This study investigated the risk of HZ development in patients with ACoS.

State differences in the reporting of 'unspecified stroke' on death certificates: implications for improvement.

Background And Purpose: Little is known about the comparability of stroke subtype mortality across states. We conducted a cross-sectional descriptive study to examine state differences in the reporting of "unspecified stroke" on death certificates in the United States.

Methods: The number of deaths from different subtypes of stroke in each state for the years 2007 to 2009 were obtained from the CDC WONDER online databases.

Overwork, stroke, and karoshi-death from overwork.

Karoshi, death from over-work, is usually the extreme result of acute cardiovascular events including stroke. Among 203 karoshi cases received worker compensation in Japan, sixty percent died of stroke. Karoshi is a term for social medicine originated form Japan.

RETRACTED: Perceived health consequences, memory impairments, and subjective memory complaints of elderly individuals exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in Taiwan.

The Publisher regrets that this article was an accidental duplication of an article in Computers and Geotechnics. The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn.

Comparing Mini-Mental State Examination and Attention and Digit Span in elderly exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated dibenzofurans.

Background: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)/polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDF) are known to affect central nervous functioning. In recent studies, elderly patients who have been exposed to these have been noted to have psychological deficits. There is little known about which test is sensitive to neurotoxins in cognitive evaluation.

Lateral medullary infarction presenting as Brown-Séquard syndrome-like manifestation: a case report and literature review.

Purpose: Lateral medullary infarction is not uncommon in clinical practice of neurology. This report describes a patient who initially presented with Brown-Séquard syndrome-like manifestation but was later diagnosed with acute infarction in the left lower lateral medulla.

Case Report: A 65-year-old woman presented with acute onset of unsteadiness, left side hemiparesis, left limb dysmetria, left side partial Horner syndrome, and paresthesia in the right lower limb and trunk with a sensory level at T5 on the right.

The association between arsenic exposure from drinking water and cerebrovascular disease mortality in Taiwan.

Background: Chronic arsenic exposure is associated with a variety of diseases, including cancer, peripheral vascular disease, and diabetes. However, its association with cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) has not yet been resolved. The aim of this study is to explore this association in Taiwan using nation-wide data.

Essential fatty acids and human brain.

The human brain is nearly 60 percent fat. We've learned in recent years that fatty acids are among the most crucial molecules that determine your brain's integrity and ability to perform. Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are required for maintenance of optimal health but they can not synthesized by the body and must be obtained from dietary sources.

A characterization of the antioxidant enzyme activity and reproductive toxicity in male rats following sub-chronic exposure to areca nut extracts.

In the present study, areca nut extracts (ANE) administered to male rats by gavage at a dose of 100mg/kg/day for a period of 15, 30, or 45 days resulted in signs of reproductive toxicity. ANE administration resulted in a significant decline (30-57% in epididymal sperm count and 27-61% in sperm motility) as well as substantial abnormalities in sperm morphology. Significant variances in activities of antioxidant enzymes were also observed.

Association of CD40 and thyroglobulin genes with later-onset Graves' disease in Taiwanese patients.

Objective: Graves' disease (GD) is known to be associated with thyroglobulin (TG) and CD40 genes. Therefore, we decided to investigate the relationship of age at onset of GD with CD40 and TG gene susceptibilities in a Taiwanese population.

Design And Method: We analyzed the association of TG and CD40 polymorphisms with age at onset of GD in Taiwanese patients.

The early response of mannitol infusion in traumatic brain injury.

Introduction: Mannitol was used in traumatic brain injury but controversy about the onset and duration.

Setting: Clinical observational study.

Methods: Fourteen traumatic brain injured patients with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score < or = 8 were enrolled.

Exon 33 T/T genotype of the thyroglobulin gene is a susceptibility gene for Graves' disease in Taiwanese and exon 12 C/C genotype protects against it.

This study investigates whether Tg gene polymorphisms can be associated with Graves' disease (GD) in a Taiwanese population and identifies potential polygenic susceptive genes for GD. The findings of such a study may have important implications for prognostic prediction and treatment of GD. We performed case control association studies for the 3 discovered Tg single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (E10, E12, E33) in 215 GD patients and 141 controls.

[Using "number needed to treat" to interpret treatment effect].

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has rapidly emerged as a new paradigm in medicine worldwide. The clinical medicine in twenty-first century could be the era of EBM. Randomized controlled trial has been regarded as the gold standard for evaluating the treatment effect of a new drug or a new therapy.

Association between rmpA and magA genes and clinical syndromes caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan.

Background: The association of the magA gene with the hypermucoviscosity phenotype relevant to the pathogenesis of Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess has been reported in Taiwan. Similarly, the rmpA gene, known as a positive regulator of extracapsular polysaccharide synthesis that confers a mucoid phenotype, may be another candidate gene causing hypermucoviscosity. However, the association of rmpA with K.

Heat shock pretreatment may protect against heatstroke-induced circulatory shock and cerebral ischemia by reducing oxidative stress and energy depletion.

The mechanisms underlying the protective effects of heat shock pretreatment on heatstroke remain unclear. Here we attempted to ascertain whether the possible occurrence of oxidative stress and energy depletion exhibited during heatstroke can be reduced by heat shock preconditioning. In the present study, colonic temperature, mean arterial pressure, heart rate, striatal levels of heat shock protein 72 (HSP72), local Po2, brain temperature, cerebral blood flow, cellular ischemia and damage markers, dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHBA), lipid peroxidation, glutathione, glutathione peroxidase and reductase activities, and ATP were assayed in normothermic control rats and in heatstroke rats with or without preconditioning 16 or 96 h before initiation of heatstroke.