Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, September 26, 2008

Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities

EPI Update, September 26, 2008

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

Report on a special investigation of the City of Macedonia for the period June 26, 2006 through September 30, 2008

Report on a special investigation of the City of Macedonia for the period June 26, 2006 through September 30, 2008

Akatemialautakunnan Herra Puheenjohtaja 26/10 1956 Yliopistonkansleri Pekka Myrberg

Kirje 26.10.1956

Professori Jan-Magnus Jansson 26/5 1970

Kirje 26.5.1970

Distribución, captura y CPUE del calamar gigante Dosidicus gigas a bordo de buques calamareros (27 de julio al 26 de agosto de 1997)

Presenta los resultados biológicos, pesqueros y oceanográficos del muestreo complementario del calamar gigante o pota, obtenidos a bordo de las embarcaciones calamareras comerciales de bandera japonesa KIKU MARU 58 y NIKKO MARU 21, que operaron en aguas nacionales, entre julio y agosto de 1997.

Spine Bone Texture Assessed by Trabecular Bone Score (TBS) to Evaluate Bone Health in Thalassemia Major.

Due to the increasing survival of thalassemic patients, osteopathy is a mounting clinical problem. Low bone mass alone cannot account for the high fracture risk described; impaired bone quality has been speculated but so far it cannot be demonstrated noninvasively. We studied bone quality in thalassemia major using trabecular bone score (TBS), a novel texture measurement extracted from spine dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), proposed in postmenopausal and secondary osteoporosis as an indirect index of microarchitecture. TBS was evaluated in 124 adult thalassemics (age range 19-56 years), followed-up with optimal transfusional and therapeutical regimens, and in 65 non-thalassemic patients (22-52 years) undergoing DXA for different bone diseases. TBS was lower in thalassemic patients (1.04 ± 0.12 [range 0.80-1.30]) versus controls (1.34 ± 0.11 [1.06-1.52]) (p < 0.001), and correlated with BMD. TBS and BMD values correlated with age, indicating that thalassemia negatively affects both bone quality and quantity, especially as the patient gets older. TBS was 1.02 ± 0.11 [0.80-1.28] in the osteoporotic thalassemic patients, 1.08 ± 0.12 [0.82-1.30] in the osteopenic ones and 1.15 ± 0.10 [0.96-1.26] in those with normal BMD. No gender differences were found (males: 1.02 ± 0.13 [0.80-1.30], females 1.05 ± 0.11 [0.80-1.30]), nor between patients with and without endocrine-metabolic disorders affecting bone metabolism. Our findings from a large population with thalassemia major show that TBS is a valuable tool to assess noninvasively bone quality, and it may be related to fragility fracture risk in thalassemic osteopathy.

Evaluación de la calidad del ambiente marino de la Bahía de Ferrol, Chimbote. 26 a 29 julio 1996

Expone los resultados de la evaluación de la calidad del ambiente marino realizado en la bahía de Ferrol, Chimbote, del 26 al 29 de julio de 1996, correspondiente a una época de baja actividad industrial pesquera. Se analiza y compara los resultados obtenidos con los de la época de veda y con las de intensa actividad industrial pesquera.