Michael B Brimacombe

..Prenatal and birth history as potential sources of risk factors in relation to the onset of autism were examined...

..Educational efforts in regard to FASD should be sensitive to the various health professionals engaged in preventing, diagnosing and treating FASD...

..Also no difference in the incidence of stillbirth due to unknown cause was found between the case series...

..Current performance measures of glycemic control may not be reliably identifying quality problems, and tying reimbursements to such measures may compromise the care of complex patients...

..Drug resistance and resistance mutations were seen across all SCGs. SCG-2 had higher proportions of katG codon 315 mutations and resistance to four drugs...

..These families also carry a relatively high incidence of medical disorders, independently of developmental and psychiatric disorders. This work supports the underlying presence of genetic factors in the etiology of autism...

..Sequential forceps-ventouse utilization further doubles the risks and is, therefore, to be avoided in all circumstances...

..Leukocyte telomere dynamics might help explain the boundaries of the human life span...

..There may be common pathophysiologic mechanisms resulting in clinical subgroups of autism spectrum disorders. Recognition of the co-occurrence of concurrent disorders may provide insight into the therapeutic strategy...

..We assessed the impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on mortality after hip fracture, and compared mortality in this cohort to persons without hip fracture in a population-based prospective cohort study...

..We compared mortality after hip fracture to controls without hip fracture, and assessed the impact of comorbidity on mortality following hip fracture in a population-based cohort study...

..These findings underscore the complexity of leukocyte telomere dynamics in vivo and suggest that determinants in addition to the "end-replication problem" contribute to telomere shortening in vivo...

..5%. The Pediatric Autonomic Symptoms Scale is comprehensive and can profile autonomic dysfunction in the 2 neurodevelopmental disorders. Its usefulness in other pediatric disorders remains to be studied...

..Their analysis reveals no significant difference in treatment effect on psychiatric symptoms in the nine controlled studies to date...

..Deficits in maternal O(2) transport in third trimester normal pregnancy are unlikely to be causally associated with variation in fetal growth...

..However, ASD children with the motor deficits were not more likely to receive service than those without the motor deficits...

..To examine birth weight related risks of fetal injury in connection with shoulder dystocia...

..Physicians may underrecognize the excess cardiovascular risk conferred by diabetes alone, without a recent cardiovascular event. Other disparities in the receipt of lipid-lowering medications (LLMs) may exist...

..These results suggest that there is low baseline cardiac parasympathetic activity with evidence of elevated sympathetic tone in children with autism whether or not they have symptoms or signs of autonomic abnormalities...

..Greater ease of positioning resulted in a decrease in added time in the OR and encouraged a larger number of imaging sessions...

..Paternal age exerts a considerable effect on the offspring's LTL, a phenomenon which might relate to telomere elongation in sperm from older men. The implications of this effect deserve detailed study...

..To analyze the stereotactic accuracy of the PoleStar N-20, a compact intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) system, based on a 0.15-Tesla (T) magnet...

..tuberculosis isolates to the development of resistance to increasing numbers of antibiotics and may increase the ability of drug-resistant isolates to be transmitted between subjects...

..To describe the epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in a predominantly minority population with low childhood immunization rates and high HIV prevalence, during the early childhood pneumococcal vaccine (PCV7) era...

..This implies that lymphocytes are directly related to functional status in Gulf War veterans with CFS, but the Th2 factor produces its effect on functional status via changes in cognitive abilities...

..Phase III is the ongoing assimilation of data sets derived from research on a core group of donors with searchable access by investigators...