The associations between ADHD and asthma in Korean children.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the most common neuropsychiatric disorder in school children, and childhood allergic disease by evaluating their respective prevalence.

Methods: Subjects were comprised of first and second grade students in twenty two elementary schools in a city in the Republic of Korea. The mode of measurement for ADHD was based on DSM-IV from clinical interviews conducted by child psychiatrists.

Positional change of hyoid bone after anesthesia in anterior surgery of upper cervical spine.

Background Context: The hyoid bone is used as a landmark in anterior upper cervical spine operations and is supposed to represent the level of C3 body. However, this correspondence between hyoid bone position and cervical level is not static and changes during surgery (extension after anesthesia).

Purpose: To find the cervical level corresponding to the position of hyoid bone before and after anesthesia and to evaluate the adequacy of its usage as a surgical landmark.

Comparative Study of Personality Traits in Patients with Bipolar I and II Disorder from the Five-Factor Model Perspective.

Objective: The distinguishing features of Bipolar I Disorder (BD I) from Bipolar II Disorder (BD II) may reflect a separation in enduring trait dimension between the two subtypes. We therefore assessed the similarities and differences in personality traits in patients with BD I and BD II from the perspective of the Five-Factor Model (FFM).

Methods: The revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) was administered to 85 BD I (47 females, 38 males) and 43 BD II (23 females, 20 males) patients.

Personality traits and affective morbidity in patients with bipolar I disorder: the five-factor model perspective.

In this study, we aimed to extend the present knowledge regarding the relationship of personality traits, as specified by the five-factor model (FFM), with the affective morbidity of bipolar I disorder. The primary aim of this study is to investigate the association of personality traits with affective morbidity, particularly with hospitalization for depressive, manic, or mixed episodes, in patients with bipolar I disorder. The Revised NEO Personality Inventory was administered to 83 subjects who showed a euthymic mood state.

[Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase levels and the risks of impaired fasting glucose in healthy men: a 2-year follow-up].

Objectives: An increase in the serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) concentration has been regarded as a marker of alcohol drinking or liver disease. Some reports, however, have suggested that the serum GGT may be a sensitive and early biomarker for the development of prediabetes and diabetes. In this study we investigated whether serum GGT is a reliable predictor of the incident impaired fasting glucose (IFG), including diabetes.

Influence of smoking on blood cadmium concentration in university students.

Objectives: This study was performed to examine the influence of smoking on the blood cadmium concentration in university students.

Methods: The study included 300 university students. A questionnaire interview was used to collect data.