The frequency of elevated blood pressure in obese minority youth.

In this study, 167 obese persons were recruited (45 African Americans, 122 Caribbean Hispanic persons), with a mean age of 14.6+/-2.1 years, a mean body mass index (BMI) of 38+/-7.

Criteria for oral glucose tolerance testing of obese minority youth.

Aim: To identify those obese minority youth at greatest risk for having an abnormal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) indicating impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2).

Study Design And Methods: 167 children, who met the ADA criteria for T2DM screening, underwent an OGTT. Logistic regression models were derived for girls, boys, and both.

Large cell lymphoma stage IA/IAE.

Fifty-two patients with large cell lymphoma stage IA/IAE were retrospectively reviewed for the purpose of evaluation of treatment methods. All pathology slides were reviewed by one pathologist with a special interest in lymphoma. There were 24 patients at stage IA and 28 at stage IAE.

Radiotherapy planning for simulation of prostate cancer: computerized tomographic scanning vs. conventional radiographic localization.

A computerized tomographic localization protocol for prostate cancer treatment planning is described. In 23 patients, this new method is compared to localization using conventional orthogonal radiographic simulation with contrast media in the rectum, bladder, and urethra. Advantages of the CT localization protocol include enhanced ability to delineate the tumor extension, particularly for superior, lateral, anterior, and posterior spread.

Prognostic factors for recurrence and cosmesis in 393 patients after radiation therapy for early mammary carcinoma.

Between 1978 and 1985, 393 of 2,765 (14%) patients with operable cancer of the breast (clinical stage T0-3N0-2M0) were irradiated after excisional biopsy and staging axillary dissection. Of 77 patients with microscopic axillary metastases, 68 received systemic adjuvant therapy. Treatment failed locally in 26 cases, and there were seven patients with distant metastasis.