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A Booth

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Nutritional knowledge questionnaire. Part two.

An easily administered and scored test of nutritional knowledge was published in the previous issue of the Journal (December 27, 1980). The correct answers to the questionnaire are presented here. The questionnaire has been administered to 2175 subjects. The test was shown to have high reliability and criterion validity, discriminating between educational and occupational groups. There was a significant linear relationship between nutritional knowledge score and age. It is suggested that the test may be of value in the assessment of patients requiring dietetic management.

Adolescent↗

Malonaldehyde formation in intact platelets is catalysed by thromboxane synthase.

Imidazole and compound L8027 (selective inhibitors of thromboxane synthase) produced parallel inhibition of malonaldehyde and thromboxane B2 secretion induced by collagen or thrombin in gel-filtered suspensions of human platelets. Comparing the effects of these inhibitors and aspirin on secretion of granule constituents indicated that platelet degranulation depends mainly on thromboxane production; prostaglandin endoperoxides contributed little.

Blood Platelets↗

The cessation of marital intercourse.

The authors found that marital coitus had ceased for a definable period (median=8 weeks) in one-third of a sample of 144 men and 221 women who were relatively young and had been married an average of 11 years. An analysis of factors related to the social background and marital relationship of the respondents indicated that the cessation behavior of men is more highly predictable than that of women and that antecedents of this behavior differ markedly between the sexes. The authors suggest that, even among relatively young couples, marital intercourse is discontinous and problematic.

Adult↗

Crowding and health.

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Communicable Diseases↗

Crowding and human reproduction.

Studies of crowding in lower animals repeatedly demonstrate that compressed living conditions depress the ability of the species to reproduce. In a sample of 470 urban Toronto women we examined the effect of neighborhood and household crowding on the probability of a pregnancy and on the probability that any given product of the pregnancy will not survive until one year of age. Crowding did not influence fertility nor fetal and infant survival within the range of crowding found in this sample. If crowding has any influence on reproduction it would more profitably be investigated beyond the range of living density and housing markets found in North American urban areas.

Abortion, Legal↗