[Postmarketing surveillance of benazepril-related cough and related risk factors analysis on hypertensives].

Objective: To investigate the risk factors of benazepril related cough.

Methods: Case-control study nested in a community-based postmarketing surveillance was carried out. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one hypertensive patients screened from a Chinese community were recruited to take benazepril for 3 years.

[A nested case-control study on child sensory integrative dysfunction].

Objective: To explore risk factors and protective factors of sensory integrative dysfunction (SID) among preschool and school children in Beijing, and to identify potential risk factors of SID.

Methods: Three hundred and ten kindergarten children were investigated twice in 1993 and 1999 by "The Child Sensory Integration Check List" and "General Information Questionnaire". A nested case-control study was carried out by single variable and multivariate conditional logistic regression analysis to find out the risk factors of SID.

Chinese National Twin Registry as a resource for genetic epidemiologic studies of common and complex diseases in China.

Twins, due to their unique genetic and environmental relationships, have provided crucial insight in our understanding of genetic contributions to numerous etiologically complex disorders in developed countries. As the leading cause of death and adult disability, cardio- and cerebrovascular diseases are common in China, followed by cancer. Obesity and psychological disorders are increasing.

[Prevalence and relevant factors on echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy among community-based hypertensive patients in Shanghai].

Objective: To investigate the prevalence and relevant factors on the echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH).

Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among the hypertensive patients in an urban community.

Results: The prevalence of LVH was 29.

Phase-resolved fluorescence study of mono-L-aspartyl chlorin E6.

The properties of a photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy, mono-L-aspartyl chlorin e6 (NPe6), were investigated using phase-resolved fluorescence. NPe6 was analyzed in water solution at concentrations ranging from 3.13x10(-7) to 8.