Finding Associations

There are several Internet directories that provide hsts of medical associations with information on or resources relating to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. By consulting all of associations hsted in this chapter, you will have nearly exhausted aU sources for patient associations concerned with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. 

The National Health Information Center (NHIC) offers a free referral service to help people find organizations that provide information about glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. For more information, see the NHlC s Web site at http /www.health.gov/NHICy or contact an information spedaHst by caUing 1-800-336-4797. 

The Directory of Health Organizations, provided by the National Library of Medicine Speciahzed Information Services, is a comprehensive source of information on associations. The Directory of Health Organizations database can be accessed via the Internet at http /ysis.nlm.nih.gov/dirline.html. It is composed of two parts DIRLINE and Health Hotlines. 

The DIRLINE database comprises some 10,000 records of organizations, research centers, and government institutes and associations that primarily focus on health and biomedicine. Simply type in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (or a synonym), and you win receive information on aU relevant organizations hsted in the database. 

Health Hotlines directs you to toU-free numbers to over 300 organizations. You can access this database directly at http ealthhotlines.nlm.nih.gov/. On this page, you are given the option to search by keyword or by browsing the subject list. When you have received your search results, cfick on the name of the organization for its description and contact information. 

The DIRLINE database comprises some 10,000 records of organizations, research centers, and government institutes and associations that primarily focus on health and biomedicine. 

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We suspect that the magnitude of most of the associations noted between meat or coffee and specific fatal diseases are somewhat underestimated because Adventists may tend to underreport the amount of meat or coffee they use. If a substantial number of subjects actually use more meat and coffee than they reported on the Initial questionnaire, it would tend to make it harder to find the real associations, and the observed associations would tend to be weaker. Furthermore, we may have missed associations because subjects changed their habits during the 21-year follow-up period. All observed associations are based on meat and coffee use at the time subjects completed the baseline questionnaire (1960). Subsequent changes in these habits would tend to reduce or eliminate the possibility of finding disease associations with these habits. Failure to find associations, or detection of weak associations, could also result from the fact that our study population contains relatively few subjects who are very heavy users of meat or coffee, while it contains an abundance of subjects who have no exposure to these items. 

The distribution of ACE genotypes in the Spanish population was as follows ACE-I/I 14.8% in controls and 20.5% in AD ACE-I/D 45.6% in controls and 46.0% in AD and ACE-D/D 39.6% in controls and 33.5% in AD (623). In this study, a small increase in the frequency of ACE- allele was observed in LOAD (623). Nevertheless, as with many other polymorphic genes, some authors did not find association between the ACE-I/D polymorphism and AD in different populations (80,617,624-631). However, a meta-analysis of 12 case-control series published up to the year 2000 suggested that ACi genotypes are associated with AD (611), and that the ACE-D allele is more frequent in Spanish, American, and Russian AD patients than in controls (614,615,617) but not in the Italian and Jewish populations (627,632). 

Rao BK, Brodell GK, Haaga JR, et al. 1986. Visceral CT findings associated with Thorotrast. J Comput Assist Tomogr 10 57-61. 

There are a number of biochemical findings associated with suicide. One example is the 5-HT system, with such findings as the following ... 

Rheumatoid arthritis has been reported to be associated with RLS in up to 25 % of cases [43], but serological analysis of 68 RLS patients failed to find association with rheumatological serologies [44], The same holds true for diabetes, often reported in association with RLS however, a recent extensive clinical study did not find a significantly higher prevalence of RLS in diabetic patients [44], Neuropathies associated with rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes may be the cause of RLS in these patients. In patients with end-stage kidney disease, reports showed a mild or overt (from moderate to severe) RLS in up to 62 % of cases [45,46], No correlation with iron levels or other uremia characteristics such as a decrease in parathormone levels has been found [46], Parkinson s disease (PD) has frequently been associated with... 

In order to reduce the dimension of the model space, several attempts have been made to find associated topological quantum numbers which would allow to separate the covalent VB space into non-mixing different subspaces (see Ref. 30 and references therein). For the linear chain, preliminary attempts were made early in 1979 [31], when a parameter measuring the spin-pairing long-range order was suggested,... 

What are the laboratory findings associated with rheumatoid arthritis ... 

Co-deposition of tritium with carbon is potentially the major T repository for ITER even if the use of carbon is minimized to the divertor strike plates. Retention by other mechanisms is expected to be low and to contribute only marginally to the in-vessel tritium-uptake (Sect. 12.4). For this reason the focus here is on some recent experimental findings associated with ( ) carbon erosion and deposition patterns in existing tokamaks, ( ) hydrocarbon film formation in areas of the divertor hidden from the plasma, and (in) mixed-material effects. 

To make further assurance that the tolerance observed in the activity cage experiments was real and not the result of some unsuspected or adventitious finding associated with the conditions of the experiment, rats with a previous exposure to ozone were later challenged by exposure to ozone alone at multilethal doses (7 to 11 p.p.m. of ozone). No previously exposed rat succumbed to a 4-hour exposure, whereas all rats with no previous exposure to ozone died. On autopsy, the tolerant rats showed no pulmonary edema and hemorrhage, whereas this was the cause of death in the nontolerant rats. The characteristic spasmodic breathing of animals exposed to lethal concentrations of ozone was still present in the tolerant animals... 

Chronic ingestion of 5 mg kg day is considered unacceptable. Common findings associated with nitrate poisoning include unconsciousness, dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, coma, cyanosis, dyspnea, and pallor. 

Other signs Band keratopathy, a reflection of subepithelial calcium phosphate deposits in the cornea, is a very rare finding associated with hypercalcemia. It extends as a horizontal band across the cornea in the area that is exposed between the eyelids. 

FIGURE 50-3. Clinical findings associated with hypermagnesemia. 

Miles JH, Hadden EL, Takahashi TN, Hillman RE (2000) Head circumference is an independent clinical finding associated with autism. Amer J Med Genetics 95 339-350. 

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