Lung cancer risk and past exposure to emissions from a large steel plant.

We studied the spatial distribution of cancer incidence rates around a large steel plant and its association with historical exposure. The study population was close to 600,000. The incidence data was collected for 1995-2006.

Prevalence of family violence in adults and children: estimates using the capture-recapture method.

Background: Reliable prevalence estimates of family violence in adults and children are difficult to obtain. Most are based on surveys or registration counts, whose research designs and methods are often questionable, making the results difficult to compare. This article presents an alternative approach.

Chronic respiratory symptoms in children and adults living along streets with high traffic density.

Objectives: To investigate if the population living along streets with high traffic density has a higher prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms.

Methods: A sample of 673 adults and 106 children (0-15 years), living along busy traffic streets in the city of Haarlem was compared with a control sample of 812 adults and 185 children living along quiet streets. Exposed and control streets were selected on the basis of model calculations of NO2 concentrations.

[Unexpected movements in a brain-dead patient].

In a brain-dead patient, a 42-year-old woman who went into a coma after a cervical foraminotomy, spinal automatisms were seen which cast doubt on the diagnosis of brain death. The procedure which was to lead to organ transplantation was seriously disturbed. In brain-dead patients spinal automatisms appear earlier and are more often present than deep tendon reflexes.

Fat distribution, androgens, and metabolism in nonobese women.

Eighty-five randomly selected women, all born in 1948, were studied. All were nonobese (body mass index [BMI], 23.3 +/- 0.

Abdominal fat depots measured with computed tomography: effects of degree of obesity, sex, and age.

Computed tomography scans at the level of L4/L5 were analysed in 66 men and 34 women who presented for routine tomography, stratified into different age categories. Areas of intra-abdominal fat and subcutaneous abdominal fat were calculated from the scans. In men and in women the proportion of the body surface as intra-abdominal fat increased with age (in men from 12.

Assessment of intra-abdominal and subcutaneous abdominal fat: relation between anthropometry and computed tomography.

The ability to distinguish between intra-abdominal and subcutaneous abdominal fat may be important in epidemiologic and clinical research. In this study anthropometric measurements were taken from 71 men and 34 women presenting for routine computed tomography (CT). Areas of abdominal fat were calculated from CT scans made at the level of the L4 vertebra.