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Inner ear decompression sickness following a shallow scuba dive	1990	Israeli Naval Hyperbaric Institute, Haifa.	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine Periodical, Abbrev. Aviat.Space Environ.Med. Pub Date Free Form Jun Volume 61 Issue 6 Start Page 563 Other Pages 566 Notes LR: 20041117; JID: 7501714; OID: NASA: 90314934; ppublish Place of Publication UNITED STATES ISSN/ISBN 0095-6562; 0095-6562 Accession Number PMID: 2369397 Language eng SubFile Case Reports; Journal Article; IM; S DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID 2369397 Abstract Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS). Early recompression treatment is required in order to avoid permanent inner ear damage. We present an unusual case of a scuba diver suffering from IEDCS as the only manifestation of DCS following a short shallow scuba dive, successfully treated by U.S. Navy treatment table 6 and tranquilizers. This case suggests that diving medical personnel should be more aware of the possible occurrence of IEDCS among the wide population of sport scuba divers. Descriptors Adult, Barotrauma/diagnosis/etiology/therapy, Decompression Sickness/diagnosis/etiology/therapy, Diving/adverse effects, Ear, Middle/anatomy & histology/injuries, Humans, Male, Naval Medicine Links Book Title Database Publisher Data Source Authors Reissman,P., Shupak,A., Nachum,Z., Melamed,Y. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Postpartum contraception: developing strategies for expanded services	1990		Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Network (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Periodical, Abbrev. Netw.Res.Triangle Park.N.C. Pub Date Free Form Aug Volume 11 Issue 3 Start Page 1,8 Other Pages 9,15 Notes LR: 20120817; JID: 9509506; OID: CPFH: 27369cr990; OID: POP: 00197163; OTO: PIP; GN: PIP: Also published in Spanish under the title, "La anticoncepcion postparto: el desarrollo de estrategias para ampliar los servicios", in Network en Espanol 5( Place of Publication UNITED STATES ISSN/ISBN 0270-3637; 0270-3637 Accession Number PMID: 12342902 Language eng SubFile Journal Article; J DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID 12342902 Abstract PIP: Contraception should be integrated into maternity care programs and made accessible to postpartum women to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The advantages of integrating family planning and maternal care services include a cost-effective operation by employing current resources and staff and contraceptive distribution to women who otherwise may have no access to contraceptive methods. 2 key factors for such a program are timing and counseling. Educating women about contraception should begin during prenatal visits; pregnant women could be advised concerning appropriate methods and proper timing to begin contraceptive usage after birth. Furthermore, rural women would benefit by family planning services providing prenatal care and family planning counseling. Understanding cultural factors associated with resuming sexual activity after birth is also important in implementing successful contraceptive services. In some cultures, sexual activity is disfavored for a designated period of time after giving birth; thus, a delay in beginning contraceptive usage may not pose a problem until sexual relations are resumed. Counseling would provide information regarding available contraceptive methods as well as the effectiveness of breastfeeding as a natural means of postpartum contraception. Descriptors Ambulatory Care Facilities, Birth Intervals, Counseling, Culture, Delivery of Health Care, Demography, Developing Countries, Economics, Family Planning Services, Health, Health Planning, Health Planning Guidelines, Health Services, Health Services Needs and Demand, Maternal Health Services, Maternal-Child Health Centers, Organization and Administration, Philosophy, Population, Population Characteristics, Postnatal Care, Primary Health Care, Birth Spacing, Clinic Activities, Cultural Background, Demographic Factors, Economic Factors, Family Planning, Family Planning Programs, Integrated Programs, Maternal-child Health Services, Needs, Philosophical Overview, Postpartum Programs, Program Activities, Programs, Recommendations Links Book Title Database Publisher Data Source Authors Townsend,S. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Effect of smoking on aerobic microflora of dental plaques	1990		Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Bulletin of High Institute of Public Health Periodical, Abbrev. Pub Date Free Form Volume 20 Issue 1 Start Page 59 Other Pages 65 Notes ID: 18086 Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN Accession Number Language english SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Dental plaques of 36 smokers of cigarettes, shisha and ghoza with a mean age of 35.4 years As well as those of a control group of 23] non smokers of similar age were investigated to study their aerobic microflora, The specimen were taken from So dental plaque. Their bacterial population was estimated. Smoker! using cigarette had the lower score gingivitis 0-2] while those using shisha and ghoza had higher score 3-4] as compared with control group. showing Zero-1] score. The type of organisms en countered in smokers was not markedly different from that in not smokers but their numbers varied a lot. However, streptococci diphtheroids and micrococci took the upper hand in the latter while lactose and non lactose fermenting gram ve bacilli and Candida tropicalis were absent from such samples. Higher counts of fungi were noted in smokers in general and those of shisha i ghoza in particular. Association of high numbers of yeasts and bacteria was noted in 19/36 and 5/23 of smokers and non smokers respectively. Three types of yeasts were isolated C. albicans C. tropicalis saccharomyces cervicae. While filamentous fungi represented by aspergillus and penicillium spp. It was obviom from that when there was rise in number of fungi iii smokers number of bacteria was simulataneouly increased as well Descriptors Bacteria, Aerobic, Smoking Links http://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/ghl/resource/en/emro-18086 Book Title Database GHL; http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/ Publisher Data Source Authors Wageh,Nagaat M., Abou Donia,Hadia Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Development of diagnostic methods for asbestos cement pipes - Development plan and interim report of study	1990	Investigation and Research Department, Japan Water Pipe Systems Research Center, 2-1-9, Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Water Supply Periodical, Abbrev. Water Supply Pub Date Free Form 1990/ Volume 8 Issue 4-Mar Start Page 683 Other Pages 692 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0735-1917 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Asbestos cement pipes are in urgent demand for replacement because of the high frequency of failures. In response to this demand, The Japan Water Pipe Systems Research Center is developing diagnostic methods for asbestos cement pipes aiming at contributing to timely and effective replacement. Three methods have been studied: (1) Direct diagnosis (using 10 types of inspection method), (2) Indirect diagnosis based on statistical analysis (2 types of method), and (3) Diagnosis based on measured data. This wide selection of diagnoses is being narrowed down to the most beneficial and sensible approaches. Descriptors asbestos, cement, conference paper, monitoring, pipeline, water supply Links Book Title Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Watanabe,S., Nakajima,T., Ishibashi,K. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in a chloraminated distribution sytem: Seasonal occurrence, distribution, and disinfection resistance	1990	Wolfe, R.L., Metropolitan Water District, La Verne, CA 91750, United States	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Applied and Environmental Microbiology Periodical, Abbrev. Appl.Environ.Microbiol. Pub Date Free Form 1990/ Volume 56 Issue 2 Start Page 451 Other Pages 462 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0099-2240 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Nutrification in chloraminated drinking water can have a number of adverse effects on water quality, including a loss of total chlorine and ammonia-N and an increase in the concentration of heterotrophic plate count bacteria and nitrite. To understand how nitrification develops, a study was conducted to examine the factors that influence the occurrence of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) in a chloraminated distribution system. Samples were collected over an 18-month period from a raw-water source, a conventional treatment plant effluent, and two covered, finished-water reservoirs that previously experienced nitrification episodes. Sediment and biofilm samples were collected from the interior wall surfaces of two finished-water pipelines and one of the covered reservoirs. The AOB were enumerated by a most-probable-number technique, and isolates were isolated and identified. The resistance of naturally occurring AOB to chloramines and free chlorine was also examined. The results of the monitoring program indicated that the levels of AOB, identified as members of the genus Nitrosomonas, were seasonally dependent in both source and finished waters, with the highest levels observed in the warm summer months. The concentrations of AOB in the two reservoirs, both of which have floating covers made of synthetic rubber (Hypalon; E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del.), had most probable numbers that ranged from 300/ml and correlated significantly with temperature and levels of heterotrophic plate count bacteria. No AOB were detected in the chloraminated reservoirs when the water temperature was below 16 to 18Â°C. The study indicated that nitrifiers occur throughout the chloraminated distribution system. Higher concentrations of AOB were found in the reservoir and pipe sediment materials than in the pipe biofilm samples. The AOB were approximately 13 times more resistant to monochloramine than to free chlorine. After 33 min of exposure to 1.0 mg of monochloramine per liter (pH 8.2, 23Â°C), 99% of an AOB culture was inactivated. The amounts of this disinfectant that are currently used (1.5 mg/liter at a 3:1 ratio of chlorine to ammonia-N) may be inadequate to control the growth of these organisms in the distribution system. Descriptors drinking water, antibiotic resistance, article, bacterial growth, chloramination, nitrification, Nitrosomonas, nonhuman, oxidation, priority journal, quality control, ultrastructure Links Book Title Database Embase; MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Wolfe,R. L., Lieu,N. I., Izaguirre,G., Means,E. G. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Investigation of indoor thermal environment, air quality, and energy consumption in new detached houses of wood-frame construction in a small city in Japan	1990	Yoshino, Hiroshi, Tohoku Univ, Japan	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Environment international Periodical, Abbrev. Environ.Int. Pub Date Free Form 1990/ Volume 16 Issue 1 Start Page 37 Other Pages 52 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0160-4120 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract The authors investigated indoor thermal environment, airtightness, indoor air quality, and energy consumption in thirteen new houses of wood-frame construction in a local city in Japan in the winter of 1985. All houses had thermally-insulated walls, ceilings, and floors, except for one house which had a concrete floor without insulation under the floor. Eight houses had concrete floors on the first level of the structure. Seven houses out of eight had hot-water pipes embedded in the concrete for floor heating and thermal insulation under the floor on the grade. Three houses out of seven also had fan coil units in the bedrooms on the second floor. The six other houses without floor heating had oil or gas local space heaters. The authors found differences in temperature profiles between the houses with floor heating and those with space heaters. The effective leakage area per floor area obtained by the fan pressurization method was distributed from 3.8 to 16 cm2/m2. The concentration measurements of CO2 and NO2 in the living rooms showed that the two houses with unvented oil space heaters were more polluted than the other houses. The total annual amount of energy consumption was distributed from 46 to 100 GJ. Descriptors carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, air quality, article, energy consumption, housing, human, temperature Links Book Title Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Yoshino,H., Matsumoto,H., Makita,K., Hasegawa,F., Utsumi,Y., Akabayashi,S. -I Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Chemical reactions in double-stranded nucleic acids. IX. Directed introduction of substituted pyrophosphate bonds into DNA structure	1990	Kuznetsova, S.A.	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Bioorganicheskaia khimiia Periodical, Abbrev. Bioorg.Khim. Pub Date Free Form / Volume 16 Issue 2 Start Page 219 Other Pages 225 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0132-3423 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract An effective synthesis of oligodeoxyribonucleotides containing a substituted pyrophosphate bond in the definite position of the sugar-phosphate backbone has been developed by template-directed condensation of two heptanucleotides. One of them containing 5'-phosphate group to be activated and 3'-phosphate group of the other being substituted with ethoxy-, buthylamino-, morpholino- or ethyl glycinate residues. Water-soluble carbodiimide (EDAC) proved to be more efficient in the phosphate group activation than N-hydroxybenzotriazole ester (yields of substituted pyrophosphates 35-80 and 10-15% respectively). The substituted pyrophosphate bong is quite stable in neutral aqueous solution. Mild conditions of selective cleavage of this bond yielding the initial oligonucleotides were found. Descriptors DNA, oligodeoxyribonucleotide, pyrophosphate, article, chemistry, molecular genetics, nucleotide sequence, synthesis Links Book Title Khimicheskie reaktsii v dvuspiral'nykh nukleinovykh kislotakh. IX. Napravlennoe vvedenie zameshchennykh pirofosfatnykh sviazei v strukturu DNK. Database MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Kuznetsova,S. A., Ivanovskaia,M. G., Shabarova,Z. A. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Rehabilitation methods: Linings. Cement mortar lining of watermains by mortar injection principle	1990	ABV, Gothenburg	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Water Supply Periodical, Abbrev. Water Supply Pub Date Free Form 1990/ Volume 8 Issue 2-Jan Start Page 279 Other Pages 282 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0735-1917 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Conpipe is a technique for restoring water pipeline systems used in Sweden and in GDR. The Conpipe is based on the principle a new pipe built inside the old one using super polymeric concreted grout. Planned reconstruction will predominantly concentrate on cast iron end steel pipes up to 300 mm diameter. More than 2000 km of pipeline have been restored since 1974. Descriptors cement, conference paper, management, pipeline, water supply Links Book Title Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Lannblad,B. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Quantitative evaluation of the radon and lung cancer association in a case control study of Chinese tin miners	1990	Lubin, J.H., Epidemiologic Methods Section, Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20892, United States	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Cancer research Periodical, Abbrev. Cancer Res. Pub Date Free Form 1990/ Volume 50 Issue 1 Start Page 174 Other Pages 180 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0008-5472 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Studies of underground miners have consistently shown an increased risk of lung cancer with cumulative exposure to radon-222 and its decay products. Although the deleterious effects of high radon exposure are clear, questions regarding the shape of the exposure-response relationship, and the effects of time factors such as attained age, time since exposure and early age at first exposure, the effect of exposure rate, and the joint association of radon exposure and tobacco use have not yet been fully clarified. This report considers these questions by fitting various models for the relative odds of disease to 74 male lung cancer cases who were diagnosed between 1981 and 1984 and were alive in 1985 and an equal number of controls. All subjects are current or past employees of the Yunnan Tin Corporation, Gejiu City, China, who reside in the local area. Workers were interviewed to obtain information on work history, from which radon exposure in cumulative working level months and arsenic exposure were estimated, and on tobacco use. Results indicate that excess relative risk increases by 1.7% per cumulative working level month [95% confidence interval (0.5, 5.4)]. The linear exposure response relationship significantly declines with year since last radon exposure (P=0.02). The risk trend also declines with increasing exposure rate (P=0.001), indicating that long duration of exposure at a low rate may be more deleterious than short duration of exposure at a high rate. A unique aspect of this study population is the very early ages at first radon exposure for many of the workers, about 37% of the radon-exposed workers were first exposed under the age of 13 years. The analysis shows no modification of the radon lung cancer relationship with age at first exposure. These patterns of risk with radon exposure are generally consistent with those reported in the recent National Academy of Sciences' Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations IV report. The primary method of tobacco consumption in this area of China is by waterpipe. Lung cancer risk increases with pipe-years of use. The joint analysis of tobacco use and radon exposure supports the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations IV conclusion that the most likely model is between additive and multiplicative. The variations of the radon lung cancer relationship by years since last exposure and exposure rate are not affected by adjustment for arsenic exposure. Descriptors radon, tin, article, cancer risk, case control study, China, controlled study, human, lung cancer, major clinical study, miner, priority journal, quantitative assay Links Book Title Database Embase; MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Lubin,J. H., Qiao,Y. -L, Taylor,P. R., Yao,S. -X, Schatzkin,A., Mao,B. -L, Rao,J. -Y, Xuan,X. -Z, Li,J. -Y Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Risk of high copper content in drinking water	1990	Madsen, H., Odense Universitet, afdeling for miljÃ¸medicin.	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Ugeskrift for laeger Periodical, Abbrev. Ugeskr.Laeg. Pub Date Free Form / Volume 152 Issue 25 Start Page 1806 Other Pages 1809 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0041-5782 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Copper occurs in small amounts in certain food items, but toxic exposures in Northern Europe have occurred only in connection with contaminated drinking water. Chronic exposure of small children can result in development of Indian Childhood Cirrhosis. This disease has recently been documented in Germany as a result of drinking water contaminated from corrosion of water pipes made of copper. Continued diarrhoea in small children can also be due to high copper exposure. Copper is not routinely determined in drinking water in Denmark. Further, no central registration is available concerning water with low pH or the types of water pipes used in houses. Descriptors copper, chemically induced disorder, child, Denmark, diarrhea, human, infant, infantile diarrhea, liver cirrhosis, preschool child, review, risk factor, water pollution, water supply Links Book Title Risici ved hÃ¸jt kobberindhold i drikkevandet. Database MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Madsen,H., Poulsen,L., Grandjean,P. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors

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