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Clinical Epidemiology: Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-07-24)Background: It is likely that lower limb ulceration, lower limb amputation, or their absence in diabetic subjects, indicate varying degrees of long-term diabetes and its complications, and that measures of atherosclerosis ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)BACKGROUND Yellow fever (YF) is a non-contagious, mosquito borne haemorrhagic fever caused by a single-strand RNA flaviviruses. YF is endemic in the tropics primarily in South America and Africa although the vectors are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-07-14)Background and objectives of the study: Although it is known that good glycaemic control improves microvascular outcomes in diabetic patients, no local study has yet been undertaken to investigate the potential factors ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-07-09)Estimates of left atrial size in patients with suspected cardiac disease play an important role in diagnostic medicine. Left atrial size is used in predicting prognosis and events, as well as treatment decisions. Two methods ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2003)Please read the abstract in the section, 00front, of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2011)AIM The objective of this study is to determine factors that may contribute to hospital admissions in a cohort of medically insured South African patients in the era of HAART. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort of all ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Objective: The objective of this retrospective cohort study is to assess whether demographic and anthropometric parameters, laboratory tests, co-morbidity, co-infection, treatment regimen, IRIS and adherence predict response ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-11)Intentional and unintentional injuries were reported to be the second leading cause of Disability Adjusted Life Years in South Africa in 2000. We present household experiences of such injuries in 5 impoverished housing ...
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(Clinics Cardiv, 2010-05)OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine whether taking oral erythromycin prior to SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging with Tc99m-sestamibi would reduce the amount of interfering extra-cardiac activity and improve the image ...
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(OpenJournals, 2009-06)This review article highlights the key factors that need consideration in planning an effective nutrition education programme for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus in resource-poor settings. Type 2 diabetes is increasing ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2009-07)This study primarily aimed to estimate the association between influenza vaccination and the occurrence of hospitalization for acute respiratory or cardiovascular diseases, or all-cause death during the influenza season ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-09)No abstract available.
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-04)OBJECTIVES: To determine the efficacy and safety of adjunctive corticosteroid therapy in clinical Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PCP) in infants exposed to HIV infection. DESIGN: Double-blind randomised placebo-controlled ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-12)BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to investigate levels of foot care knowledge among patients attending the diabetes clinic at Pretoria Academic Hospital by comparing the knowledge of patients with ‘at risk’ feet ...
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(Medpharm Publications, 2008-07)BACKGROUND: Research into asthma is proceeding at an unprecedented rate and yet we live with a disease that escalates in prevalence and severity, despite a greater understanding of its pathophysiology and the necessary ...
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(Elsevier, 2008-05-20)Personal identification of individuals is very important in forensic sciences. Facial identification is becoming even more relevant with increasing crime rates, problems with access control and terrorist attacks. To make ...
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(Schattauer, 2008-04)Diabetic subjects have been shown to have altered fibrin network structures.One proposed mechanism for this is non-enzymatic glycation of fibrinogen due to high blood glucose.We investigated whether glycaemic control would ...
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(Medpharm Publishers, 2006-04)Fibromyalgia (FM) is a recognised chronic pain syndrome that is diagnosed without any special investigations.This syndrome constitutes widespread pain in a specific distribution, for a specific period of time, as well as ...
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(Clinics Cardiv, 2007-01)The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of the metabolic syndrome in a specific group of people. The ATP III criteria were used to identify the metabolic syndrome in a group of 1 410 corporate executives belonging ...
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(Clinics Cardiv, 2007)Co-morbidity between physical disease, especially cardiovascular, and psychological disturbances is well documented. In psychiatric patients, the potential for dysrhythmogenic incidences is increased by the fact that many ...
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