Differences in mortality in Switzerland by citizenship during the first and second COVID-19 waves: Analysis of death statistics.

Background: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it became apparent that members of marginalized populations and immigrants were also at risk of being hospitalized and dying more frequently from COVID-19. To examine how the pandemic affected underserved and marginalized populations, we analyzed data on changes in the number of deaths among people with and without Swiss citizenship during the first and second SARS-CoV-2 waves.

Method: We analyzed the annual number of deaths from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office from 2015 to 2020, and weekly data from January 2020 to May 2021 on deaths of permanent residents with and without Swiss citizenship, and we differentiated the data through subdivision into age groups.

Reactive scattering of rydberg atoms: H* + D2 --> HD + D*.

The scattering of highly excited hydrogen Rydberg atoms, H* (n = 36), with deuterium molecules in their rovibrational ground state, D2(v = 0, j = 0), has been investigated at a relative collision energy of 0.53 eV. Time-of-flight distributions of elastically/inelastically scattered H* Rydberg atoms and reactively scattered D* Rydberg atoms have been measured at different laboratory angles.

[Artifacts in MRT caused by instruments and implants].

Metallic instruments and implants can cause severe image artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Besides the properties of the materials and the geometrical arrangement of the devices, the applied MRI sequence type and its parameters (echo time, voxel size, read-out bandwidth, orientations of encoding directions, etc.) play also an important role.

Confocal laser scanning microscopy of urinary bladder after intravesical instillation of a fluorescent dye.

Objectives: To assess the potential of confocal laser scanning microscopy for imaging of the urinary bladder after intravesical instillation of a fluorescent dye.

Methods: The study was performed on the bladder of male Copenhagen rats. For confocal fluorescence microscopy (CFM), a standard confocal laser scanning microscope (Zeiss LSM 410) was used.

Lack of radiation dose response for patients with low-risk clinically localized prostate cancer: a retrospective analysis.

Purpose: The need for dose escalation for patients with low-risk clinically localized prostate cancer remains controversial. In this study, we report our pooled institutional experience of low-risk patients treated with a range of "standard" radiation doses to assess outcome in regard to biochemical failure and to determine whether a dose-response relationship exists within this conventional dose range.

Methods And Materials: Patients with low-risk clinically localized prostate cancer (T1 or T2a, Gleason grade View Article and Find Full Text PDF