Selenium content of breast milk.

Selenium levels in human milk in the winter period ranged from 5.3 micrograms/l to 23.8 micrograms/l, the mean value being 11.

Association of scores for Type A behavior with age, sex, occupation, education, life needs satisfaction, smoking, and religion in 1084 employees.

The associations of Type A or B behavior with age, sex, occupation, education, life needs satisfaction, smoking, and religion were studied. 242 women and 842 men, ages 21 to 64 years, (M age 42 +/- 8 yr.), completed the Bortner scale and rated on a 5-point scale their life needs satisfaction.

Relationship of eight basic emotions with age, sex, education, satisfaction of life needs, and religion.

Personality scores of Croatian men and women by age, occupation, education, satisfaction of life needs, and religion were examined. 842 men and 242 women whose mean age was 42 yr. (SD, 8) represented manual labor, clerical work, and management.

External fixation as a primary and definitive treatment of open limb fractures.

This paper analyses the medical records of 5024 injured persons treated and operated on at the Surgical Clinic of the Clinical Hospital in Osijek, during the war against Croatia (1991 and 1992). There were 1653 (33.0 per cent) admitted, while the rest were treated as out-patients.

Penetrating heart wounds repaired without cardiopulmonary bypass. Evaluation and follow-up of recent war injuries.

Penetrating cardiac injuries requires urgent management. Between September 1991 and June 1992, 10 patients with penetrating cardiac injuries sustained in war were treated at our hospital in Croatia, which does not have cardiopulmonary bypass facilities. Seven of these patients survived cardiorrhaphy and were discharged from the hospital, subject to follow-up.