A preliminary comparison of traffic, home, and work accident incidence was performed among 103 outpatient schizophrenic patients and an age matched sample of 123 controls. The number of motor vehicle drivers among schizophrenic outpatients was far less than among controls (70 of 103 versus 122 of 123; P = .00001). Among those who did drive, schizophrenic patients drove far less than controls (19 of 70 patients driving greater than or equal to 5,000 miles per year versus 81 of 122 controls; P = .0001). Patients also reported more accidents per miles driven than did controls, consistent with previous studies. Older patients reported more home accidents than did younger patients (five of eight for those over 55 years versus four of 95 for those less than 55; P = .0007); no similar effect was observed among controls. Schizophrenic outpatients may be at greater risk of motor vehicle accidents per miles driven than age matched controls; elderly patients may be at higher risk of home accidents as well.

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Sex-linked pattern of collaterals in iliac artery occlusive disease.

Aorto-femoral angiography carried out in 839 patients revealed that 139 males and females had uni- or bilateral occlusion of the common or external iliac arteries. Pelvic or lumbar/intercostal arteries served as collaterals in 786 patients. In the remaining 53 patients the collateral blood supply originated from the thoracic arteries. Among the 53 patients, only 7 were females. A chi 2-test revealed the difference to be significant (p less than 0.0005), indicating a sex-linked difference, a male preponderance, in the development of collateral circulation of thoracic origin.

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Rx for controversial programs: PR.

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[The occurrence of a reovirus variant in a German broiler flock].

Broilers deriving from a parent flock, which had been effected in the 6th. month of hatching egg production, show arthritis beginning with the 12th day of life. The tarso-metatarsal joint has been affected. Birds show stunting. Body weights at slaughter and feed conversion of the affected flocks were reduced. The percentage of condemned birds before slaughter was highly increase and came up to 3-5%. Chickens of other breeder flocks, which were reared with the diseased birds, showed viral arthritis at an age of 18-20th day of life. The boilers derived from parent flocks which had been vaccinated twice during the with a 1133 reo live vaccine and before laying with an oil based vaccine of the antigen type WVU. A reovirus has been isolated (isolate K 171/87), which caused viral arthritis in 1133-immune day old chicks after parenteral and oral application. Infection of these chickens with the pathogenic reovirus of the antigen type 1133 didn't cause a disease. Also by serological examinations it was shown, that the reo-isolate K 171/87 possesses a different antigenicity. The kind of occurrence indicates, that this reovirus infection has been transmitted vertically from one parent flock and it spread laterally to chickens of other parent flocks in broiler farms.

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Preoperative needle-marking of non-palpable breast lesions.

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Structure of graduate medical education programs in preventive medicine.

Organizing and structuring graduate education programs in preventive medicine is a complex and often obscure process. This article describes the interrelated organizations that affect directly or indirectly the process of preventive medicine graduate education. A brief description of the overall structure of the educational process and suggestions for individuals interested in participating in the determinative organizations are given.

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Urinary tract symptoms: microbiologic evaluation in rural family practice.

In order to define the etiology of urinary symptoms in rural family practice, this study examines 106 patients (88 women, 18 men) who went to their family physicians in private practice or a resident-faculty practice with genitourinary symptoms. Evaluation of each patient included history, physical examination, urinalysis, and urine or cervical cultures for bacteria, Mycoplasma, and Chlamydia. Using agar plate culturing techniques, 37 patients (35 percent) were identified as having significant urine bacteria. Chlamydia was rarely associated with urinary tract symptoms. Mycoplasma hominis, however, was isolated and felt to be etiologic in 19 (22 percent) of the 88 symptomatic women (P = 0.0026). Older women (mean age 42 years, P less than 0.001) with greater than 5 white blood cells per high-power field (WBC/hpf) on microscopic urinalysis (P less than 0.001) were likely to have cystitis and significant bacteria on urine culture. Younger women (mean age 31 years, P less than 0.001) with less than 5 WBC/hpf (P less than 0.001) had negative urine cultures and were likely to have M. hominis as a pathogen. These results demonstrate that the etiology of genitourinary symptoms seen in rural family practice may vary substantially from those seen in other patient care settings.

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