Family dysfunction and Native American women who do not seek prenatal care.

Objective: To test the hypotheses that, in a health system with few external barriers to care, women with no prenatal care (NPC) have higher rates of nuclear family dysfunction and disproportionate amounts of adverse neonatal outcomes compared with women with prenatal care.

Design: Case-control study.

Setting: Indian Health Service system.

Effect of potassium concentration in dialysate on total body potassium.

Objective: To investigate the effects of the presence/absence of potassium in the dialysate on total body potassium content in stable hemodialysis patients.

Design: Randomized selection.

Setting: Outpatient chronic hemodialysis unit at the James A.

Total body potassium and serum potassium among eating disorder patients.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to determine body composition, including total body potassium (TBK+), serum potassium, and lean body mass (LBM), in anorexia nervosa.

Method: TBK+ measurements, serum potassium levels, and anthropometric measurements were obtained from four anorectic patients in the first week after their hospital admission. All four patients had normal serum potassium levels but three of the four had significant depletion of total body potassium.

Prostate cancer imaging with a new monoclonal antibody: a preliminary report.

Background: Optimal treatment of prostate cancer depends on accurate staging. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging have severe limitations, and standard bone scanning can show only destructive osseous metastases. A radiolabeled antibody specific to prostatic adenocarcinoma could theoretically find evidence of soft-tissue metastases and lymph node involvement.