Demographic and injury trends for car crash casualties hospitalized in Level I Trauma centers over two decades: data from the National Trauma Registry.

Background: During the past two decades, there have been many changes in automotive and medical technologies, road infrastructure, trauma systems, and demographic changes which may have influenced injury outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine injury trends among traffic casualties, specifically private car occupants, hospitalized in Level I Trauma Centers (TC).

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed based on data from the Israel National Trauma Registry.

Implications for future humanitarian aid missions: Lessons from point-of injury and hospital care for Syrian refugees.

Background: Warzone humanitarian medical aid missions are infrequent and applying lessons from these missions is vital to ensuring preparedness for future crises. Between 2013-2018, the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps (IDF-MC) provided humanitarian medical aid to individuals injured in the Syrian Civil War who chose to seek medical assistance at the Israeli-Syrian border. Patients requiring care surgical or advanced care were transferred to civilian medical centers within Israel.

Burns in Israel: Etiologic, Demographic, and Clinical trends-A 9-Year Updated Comprehensive Study, 2004-2010 versus 2011-2019.

Based on the Israeli National Trauma Registry (INTR) data, this study reports etiological, demographic, and clinical trends and includes all admissions to burn and trauma centers across Israel from 2011 to 2019 and compares these with 2004 to 2010 rates. From 2011 to 2019, 5,710 patients were admitted to burn centers across Israel. Children aged 0 to 1 years (25.

Motorcycle-related head and neck injuries: increased risk among ethnic minorities.

Background: Ethnic disparities have been associated with injury and mortality. The impact of ethnicity on head and neck injury (HNI), traumatic brain injury (TBI), in-hospital mortality and resource utilization following a motorcycle crash (MCC) is undetermined. This study explored the influence of ethnicity in these aspects and the effect of helmet use on HNI and TBI following a MCC.

Epidemiology of hospitalizations due to dog bite injuries in Israel, 2009-2016.

Background: Dog bites are a substantial public health concern. Rarely has hospitalizations resulting from dog bites been examined. We examined, at a national level, demographic and injury characteristics of dog-bites injuries requiring hospitalization to target prevention programs and policies for those who are at higher risk.

Fasting plasma glucose in young adults free of diabetes is associated with cognitive function in midlife.

Background: Evidence for an association of fasting plasma glucose (FPG) with cognitive function in adults free of diabetes is scarce and based on middle-aged and older adults. We examined the association of FPG, measured at age 30, and of change in FPG from age 30 to 43, with cognitive function at age 50.

Methods: 505 nondiabetic participants of the population-based Jerusalem Lipid Research Clinic (LRC) cohort study had baseline FPG, 2-h post-oral challenge plasma glucose (OGTT) and insulin determined at ages 28-32, and FPG and OGTT again at ages 41-46.

Body Mass Index, Height and Socioeconomic Position in Adolescence, Their Trajectories into Adulthood, and Cognitive Function in Midlife.

Background: Whether life course anthropometric indices relate to cognitive function in midlife remains insufficiently explored. Rarely was socioeconomic position (SEP) adequately accounted for.

Objective: To examine the association of the cumulative life course burden of high-ranked body mass index (BMI), its trajectory, and stature with cognitive function in midlife.

Increase in the Inflammatory Marker GlycA over 13 Years in Young Adults Is Associated with Poorer Cognitive Function in Midlife.

Background: Inflammatory markers are elevated in patients with dementia. Evidence for an association between inflammation and cognitive function in dementia-free individuals is sparse, inconsistent, and predominantly restricted to the elderly. Assessment of inflammatory markers in young adults as predictors of cognitive function in midlife, well before the onset of overt dementia, is lacking.

Increased attrition of leukocyte telomere length in young adults is associated with poorer cognitive function in midlife.

Evidence for an association of leukocyte telomere length (LTL) with cognitive function, predominantly in older adults, is inconsistent. No report has examined the association of LTL dynamics (age-specific LTL and its attrition rate) with cognitive function. We aimed to examine the association of LTL dynamics over 13 years in young adulthood with cognitive function in midlife.

Factors predicting current use of hormone replacement therapy among menopausal Jewish women in Israel. The National Women's Health Interview Survey, 1998.

Background: Despite the controversy regarding the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy, studies in various countries report a two- to threefold increase in the use of HRT during the last decade.

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of HRT use among post-menopausal Jewish women in Israel and to determine the variables predicting current HRT use.

Methods: A cross-sectional telephone survey was conducted in 1998 on a random sample of Jewish women aged 45-74.