US college and university student health screening requirements for tuberculosis and vaccine-preventable diseases, 2012.

Objective: Colleges are at risk for communicable disease outbreaks because of the high degree of person-to-person interactions and relatively crowded dormitory settings. This report describes the US college student health screening requirements among US resident and international students for tuberculosis (TB) and vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) as they relate to the American College Health Association (ACHA) guidelines. Methods/Participants: In April 2012, US college health administrators (N = 2,858) were sent online surveys to assess their respective school's TB screening and immunization requirements.

Use of Expedited Partner Therapy for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in College and University Health Centers in the United States, 2011-2012.

We examined expedited partner therapy for chlamydia and gonorrhea in college and university health centers by institutional and policy characteristics. Expedited partner therapy awareness and use was low (44.1% used), did not differ by institutional characteristics, and differed by policy environment.

Waterpipe smoking among U.S. university students.

Introduction: While cigarette use is declining, smoking tobacco with a waterpipe is an emerging trend. We aimed to determine the prevalence of waterpipe use in a large diverse sample of U.S.

[Significance of patient education and rehabilitation for an epilepsy patient].

In patient education, the therapy of an epilepsy patient is planned in collaboration with the patient. Treatment results will improve, when drug therapy and the effects of epilepsy on everyday life are individually assessed together with the patient. Epilepsy information and support provided on a primary information day will help to orient to an altered life situation.

Zn2+ complexes of di- and tri-nucleating azacrown ligands as base-moiety-selective cleaving agents of RNA 3',5'-phosphodiester bonds: binding to guanine base.

The ability of the dinuclear Zn2+ complex of 1,4-bis[(1,5,9-triazacyclododecan-3-yloxy)methyl]benzene (L(1)) to promote the cleavage of the phosphodiester bond of dinucleoside-3',5'-monophosphates that contain a guanine base has been studied over a narrow pH range from pH 5.8 to 7.2 at 90 degrees C.

Whiplash injuries in Finland--the possibility of some sociodemographic and psychosocial factors to predict the outcome after one year.

Purpose: The aim of our study was to evaluate if there was any relation between the change experienced in the condition of health or the length of the reported sick leaves after one year of whiplash injury and different sociodemographic and psychosocial factors.

Method: Our study design is a prospective 1-year-follow-up study. The material was collected in the year 1998 from neck injuries that had been caused by traffic accidents.

Whiplash injuries in Finland: the situation 3 years later.

The aim of this study was to define the influence of whiplash injuries on the perceived condition of health 3 years after injury. We evaluated remaining symptoms and the use of health services. Insurance companies provided reports and medical certificates from traffic accidents in Finland in 1998, for those injured who had agreed to take part in the study.

The possibility to use simple validated questionnaires to predict long-term health problems after whiplash injury.

Study Design: A prospective follow-up study.

Objectives: To evaluate the relation of the state of health before the accident and the significance of the symptoms reported soon after the injury to the situation 3 years after the injury. To evaluate the possibility of using simple validated questionnaires to predict long-term health problems after the injury.

Usefulness of prodromal unstable angina pectoris in predicting better survival and smaller infarct size in acute myocardial infarction (The InTIME-II Prodromal Symptoms Substudy).

Prodromal unstable angina on presentation is a significant predictor of smaller infarct size, reflected by smaller creatine kinase-MB and creatine kinase total measurements and lower 30-day, 6-month, and 5-year mortality. These findings suggest that prodromal unstable angina is an important physiologic marker that should be routinely collected for risk stratification.

Whiplash injuries in Finland: a prospective 1-year follow-up study.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to define how many whiplash injuries occur in Finland in traffic accidents and the degree of severity of these injuries using the whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) classification presented by the Quebec Task Force, and to define possible long-term health effects caused by whiplash injury as well as the duration of whiplash-associated sick-leaves.

Methods: This was a prospective one-year-follow-up study. Fourteen insurance companies paving compensations for traffic accidents in Finland sent the accident reports and medical certificates of all neck injuries attributable to traffic accidents to the research team.

Prodromal unstable angina in acute myocardial infarction: prognostic value of short- and long-term outcome and predictor of infarct size.

Background: An estimated 50% of patients with myocardial infarction have prodromal unstable angina. There is controversy over whether prodromal unstable angina identifies a group of patients at lower risk of short- and long-term death and the clinical importance of recording this event.

Methods: Of 207 patients enrolled at a single Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries (GUSTO-I) site, 196 survived the 24 hours after presentation, achieved peak creatine kinase MB concentrations, and were classified as having either abrupt symptom onset or prodromal unstable angina in the 2 weeks before myocardial infarction.

Alcohol consumption and mortality. III. Studies of female populations.

Aims: This is the third of a set of three papers evaluating drinking status and mortality risk. Analysis of three general population surveys of women evaluated all-cause mortality rates by drinking pattern.

Design And Participants: Raw data from three studies of adult women were evaluated.

Alcohol consumption and mortality. II. Studies of male populations.

Aims: This is the second of a set of three papers evaluating drinking status and mortality risk. Analysis of eight general population surveys of men evaluated all-cause mortality rates by drinking pattern.

Design And Participants: Raw data from three studies of youth and five studies of adults were evaluated.

Alcohol consumption and mortality. I. Characteristics of drinking groups.

Aims: This is the first of a set of three papers evaluating drinking status and mortality risk. Analyses of multiple studies describe associations of drinking patterns with characteristics hypothesized to confound the relationships between drinking status and mortality. Characteristics which both significantly differentiate drinking groups and are consistent across studies would suggest that mortality studies not controlling for them may be compromised.

Clinical predictors of transvenous defibrillation energy requirements.

Nonthoracotomy and, more recently, transvenous lead systems have become routine for initial implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) placement. Previous studies of clinical predictors of nonthoracotomy defibrillation energy requirements evaluated multiple complex lead systems that included subcutaneous patches. However, the predictors of an adequate transvenous defibrillation threshold (DFT) have not been assessed previously.

Determinants of life-course variation in the frequency of alcohol consumption: meta-analysis of studies from the collaborative alcohol-related longitudinal project.

Objective: This report evaluates the relative contribution of predictors of change in the frequency of alcohol consumption among drinkers, based on the quantitative synthesis of data from 27 longitudinal studies of the general population. The analysis has two objectives: (1) to evaluate the impact of selected demographic characteristics on the magnitude and trajectory of change in drinking across multiple samples, and (2) to assess the influence of methodological characteristics on the consistency of results across studies.

Method: Raw data from studies including two serial measures of the frequency of alcohol consumption are analyzed.

Dorsal ramus irritation associated with recurrent low back pain and its relief with local anesthetic or training therapy.

Nerves leave the spinal cord as mainly motor primary rootlets and sensory rootlets. These join to nerve root before leaving the spinal canal. After the root canal, the nerve root branches into the ventral root, which contains sensory and motor fibers innervating the extremities, and the dorsal root, that is, the dorsal ramus, which innervates the posterior structures, for example, back muscles: the dorsal ramus itself may become irritated (dorsal ramus syndrome).

Gender differences for the risk of alcohol-related problems in multiple national contexts.

The primary research question asked is: After holding alcohol consumption constant, will men and women be at equal risk for a variety of alcohol-related problems? Since women are actually at a higher blood alcohol content at the same consumption levels, a physiological argument would suggest that women are at equal or greater risk for alcohol problems than men. However, variation in societal norms surrounding gender roles and/or societal-level stress may mediate the experience of men and women, regardless of the differences in physiology. Ten cross-sectional general population studies are used.

Relationships of measures of alcohol consumption with alcohol-related problems in multiple studies: a research synthesis from the collaborative alcohol-related longitudinal project.

Two measures of alcohol consumption were used to predict groups of alcohol problems in 21 general population studies from 11 countries to determine (a) if quantity of drinking per occasion or frequency of drinking per month constituted significant "risk" for alcohol problems, having controlled for each as well as individual-level and aggregate-level variables which might confound these relationships and (b) if these associations were homogeneous across studies. A two-tiered analysis assessed these relationships within each study by modeling age, sex, quantity per occasion and frequency per month as predictors of alcohol problems. Meta-analysis combined test statistics to determine if they were homogeneous across studies.

Societal-level predictors of groups' drinking patterns: a research synthesis from the Collaborative Alcohol-Related Longitudinal Project.

Objectives: Period effects of per capita consumption of alcohol and divorce rates are assessed for change in quantity and frequency among age/sex groups in multiple longitudinal studies.

Methods: Twenty-five studies of quantity and 29 studies of frequency are used. Studies are from 15 nations and cover periods of 1 to 21 years.

Exercise therapy effects on functional radiographic findings and segmental electromyographic activity in lumbar spine instability.

Flexion-extension and traction-compression radiographs as well as functional electromyographic (EMG) analysis were used to assess nine patients with chronic low back pain and segmental instability symptoms. After a treatment program, at which time most of the patients were asymptomatic and their physical status normalized, the patients were reexamined using EMG and radiographs. No significant change was found in the functional radiographic examination, whereas the myographic findings were significantly improved.

The influence of health on family contacts and family feelings in advanced old age: a longitudinal study.

This study provides a longitudinal analysis of the influences of health, age, gender, and socioeconomic status on family contacts and family feelings in a sample of 62 members of the Berkeley Older Generation Study. Stability in family contacts and in family feelings was observed over 14 years of advanced old age. Of the four predictor variables, health and socioeconomic status accounted for the largest proportion of observed variance.

A cross-study contextual analysis of effects from individual-level drinking and group-level drinking factors: a meta-analysis of multiple longitudinal studies from the collaborative alcohol-related longitudinal project.

In contextual (cross-level) analysis within multiple longitudinal general population studies, individual-level drinking behaviors (quantity per typical occasion, frequency of drinking per month and total volume of drinks per month) at final measurement are assessed by three models that simultaneously enter individual- and group-level measures. Two age groups (15-20 and 21-30) are independently assessed. In each model, the Time 1 individual-level drinking behavior and one of three group-level factors are entered.