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Higher Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels in School-Age Children Are Inconsistently Associated with Increased Calcium Absorption
There is no consistent pattern of relationship between 25-OHD and either fractional or total calcium absorption in school-age children. However, there appears to be a modest cal...
Measurement of the oscillator strengths of very weak 1 eV Fe I lines
Relative oscillator strengths are measured for nine very weak 1-eV Fe I lines, using the Oxford spectroscopic furnace. These oscillator strengths are placed on an absolute scale...
Ethnic differences in prevalence of asthma symptoms and bronchial hyperresponsiveness in New Zealand schoolchildren.
Maoris and Pacific Islanders in New Zealand have a higher asthma mortality and hospital admission rates than Europeans. To determine whether difference in asthma prevalence is t...
Hegemonic Masculinity, HIV/AIDS Risk Perception, and Sexual Behavior Change Among Young People in Ghana
Among the youth in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, a paradoxical mix of adequate knowledge of HIV/AIDS and high-risk behavior characterizes their daily lives. Based on origina...
Clinically Atypical Expression of Pathologically Typical Lewy-Body Parkinsonism
Six patients autopsied by the neuropathology service at UMDNJ—Robert Wood Johnson Medical School between 1985 and 1988 had pathologically typical Lewy-body Parkinson's disease (...
Child Psychiatric Epidemiology: Current Status and Future Prospects
Objective The purpose of this paper is to present selected findings from child psychiatric epidemiology in areas of prevalence and correlates, and discuss issues in interpreting...