Age Distribution

Publication Title: 
Sleep

A series of 33 patients with combined (injurious) sleepwalking, sleep terrors, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (viz. "parasomnia overlap disorder") was gathered over an 8-year period. Patients underwent clinical and polysomnographic evaluations. Mean age was 34 +/- 14 (SD) years; mean age of parasomnia onset was 15 +/- 16 years (range 1-66); 70% (n = 23) were males.

Author(s): 
Schenck, C. H.
Boyd, J. L.
Mahowald, M. W.
Publication Title: 
BMC pediatrics

BACKGROUND: Emotional difficulties can trigger respiratory symptoms. Thus, children presenting with respiratory complaints may benefit from a psychological intervention. The purpose of this study was to define the proportion of patients referred to a Pediatric Pulmonary Center who may benefit from instruction in self-hypnosis, as a psychological intervention. METHODS: A retrospective chart review was conducted for all newly referred patients to the SUNY Upstate Medical University Pediatric Pulmonary Center during an 18 month period beginning January 1, 2000.

Author(s): 
Anbar, Ran D.
Geisler, Susan C.
Publication Title: 
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

OBJECTIVE: To determine the extent to which smoking cessation interventions are used in the community and their relative success in older women. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Prospective cohort study located in 23 general practices in England, Scotland. and Wales and including 3,622 women aged 60 to 79 years at recruitment from the British Women's Heart and Health Study. RESULTS: Of the 370 smokers at baseline, 77 (21%) had stopped smoking at 3 years, reducing the prevalence of smoking from 10.2% to 8.8%.

Author(s): 
Schroeder, Knut
Lawlor, Debbie A.
Montaner, David
Ebrahim, Shah
Publication Title: 
Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH

Multi-drug resistant falciparum malaria is widespread in Asia. In Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam the national protocols have changed largely to artesunate combined treatment regimens but elsewhere in East and South Asia chloroquine (CQ) and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) are still widely recommended by national malaria control programmes.

Author(s): 
Smithuis, Frank
Shahmanesh, Maryam
Kyaw, Moe Kyaw
Savran, Olivia
Lwin, Saw
White, Nicholas J.
Publication Title: 
Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH

Early diagnosis and treatment of malaria (EDTM) is a key component of malaria control. The success of EDTM depends on health seeking behaviour and the quality of the health service. This study assessed self-diagnosis, treatment and treatment delay after the introduction of EDTM in 1993. In southern Vietnam EDTM comprises microscopic diagnosis and free treatment with artemisinin derivatives at public health facilities. Until 2001, 1698 questionnaires had been completed by patients participating in randomized treatment trials of uncomplicated malaria.

Author(s): 
Giao, Phan T.
Vries, Peter J.
Binh, Tran Q.
Nam, Nguyen V.
Kager, Piet A.
Publication Title: 
Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH

OBJECTIVE: To monitor the efficacy of anti-malarial treatments in Thailand. METHOD: A 28-day in vivo study in nine provinces along international borders in 2003. The first group comprised 164 patients from four provinces: Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Ratchaburi and Ubon Ratchathani. These patients received 15 mg/kg mefloquine as a single dose. The second group, 58 patients from Kanchanaburi, were treated with 15 mg/kg mefloquine plus artesunate (12 mg/kg).

Author(s): 
Vijaykadga, Saowanit
Rojanawatsirivej, Chaiporn
Cholpol, Sawat
Phoungmanee, Duangduen
Nakavej, Argat
Wongsrichanalai, Chansuda
Publication Title: 
Bulletin of the World Health Organization

OBJECTIVE: To test a novel methodology to define age-based dosing regimens for the treatment of malaria with a new, user-friendly, blister-packaged fixed-dose combination of artesunate and amodiaquine. METHODS: A weight-for-age reference database of 88 054 individuals from sub-Saharan Africa was compiled using data from Demographic Health Surveys, observational and intervention studies, and standardized for sex, age and malaria risk. We then determined the optimal tablet strength (milligram (mg) per tablet) and age-dose categories for the combination of artesunate and amodiaquine.

Author(s): 
Taylor, Walter R. J.
Terlouw, Dianne J.
Olliaro, Piero L.
White, Nicholas J.
Brasseur, Philippe
ter Kuile, Feiko O.
Publication Title: 
Malaria Journal

BACKGROUND: Adequate malaria diagnosis and treatment remain major difficulties in rural sub-Saharan Africa. These issues deserve renewed attention in the light of first-line treatment with expensive artemisinin-combination therapy (ACT) and changing patterns of transmission intensity. This study describes diagnostic and treatment practices in Mto wa Mbu, an area that used to be hyperendemic for malaria, but where no recent assessments of transmission intensity have been conducted. METHODS: Retrospective and prospective data were collected from the two major village health clinics.

Author(s): 
Mwanziva, Charles
Shekalaghe, Seif
Ndaro, Arnold
Mengerink, Bianca
Megiroo, Simon
Mosha, Frank
Sauerwein, Robert
Drakeley, Chris
Gosling, Roly
Bousema, Teun
Publication Title: 
Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH

OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact and feasibility of artemether-lumefantrine deployment at community level, combined with phased introduction of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), on malaria transmission, morbidity, and mortality and health service use in a remote area of Ethiopia. METHODS: Two-year pilot study in two districts: artemether-lumefantrine was prescribed after parasitological confirmation of malaria in health facilities in both districts.

Author(s): 
Lemma, Hailemariam
Byass, Peter
Desta, Alem
Bosman, Andrea
Costanzo, Gianfranco
Toma, Luigi
Fottrell, Edward
Marrast, Anne-Claire
Ambachew, Yohannes
Getachew, Asefaw
Mulure, Nathan
Morrone, Aldo
Bianchi, Angela
Barnabas, Gebre Ab
Publication Title: 
Malaria Journal

BACKGROUND: While the federal state of Amazonas bears the highest risk for malaria in Venezuela (2007: 68.4 cases/1000 inhabitants), little comprehensive information about the malaria situation is available from this area. The purpose of this rapid malaria appraisal (RMA) was to provide baseline data about malaria and malaria control in Amazonas. METHODS: The RMA methodology corresponds to a rapid health impact assessment (HIA) as described in the 1999 Gothenburg consensus.

Author(s): 
Metzger, Wolfram G.
Giron, Anibal M.
Vivas-Martínez, Sarai
González, Julio
Charrasco, Antonio J.
Mordmüller, Benjamin G.
Magris, Magda

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