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J Williamson

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PubMed1975

A dietary survey of older people in Edinburgh.

1. Dietary histories covering 1 week were obtained from 212 men and 263 women, aged 62--90 years, who formed a random sample of the older people living in a defined area of Edinburgh. The histories were validated by 2 d weighed-diet records for 219 of the subjects. 2. Nutrient intakes are given as mean values and standard deviations, and as percentage distributions of intake relative to the recommended intakes of nutrients. Intakes are also related to factors which might affect diet adversely. 3. Mean values obtained suggested that intakes were less than recommended intakes for more nutrients for women than for men, particularly values for energy and vitamin D. Values for percentage distributions indicated that a substantial proportion of all subjects had low intakes of ascorbic acid and vitamin D, that the energy intake of many women was low and that for most nutrients a greater proportion of men than of women had the recommended intake. Factors assocIATED With significant proportions of subjects with less than the recommended intakes were mental illness in women and deafness and severe dyspnoea in men. 4. Possible action to improve the diet of the elderly is discussed.

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PubMed1975

The rapid isolation from human blood of concentrated, white-cell-free preparations of Plasmodium falciparum.

The sucrose gradient centrifugation method has been applied to representative samples of human (Gambian) blood infected with ring, trophozoite, schizont and gametocyte stages of P. falciparum in order to assess quantitatively the efficiency of recovery, white cell removal and the degree of enrichment of the infected cell fraction. Maximal white cell removal was 90%. (a.v.) Average infected cell recoveries varied with the level of white cell contamination, namely 47% (2-5% WBC), 34% (1-2% WBC) and 24% (smaller than 1% WBC); infected cells were enriched 2-9-fold on average, and up to 22-fold in the case of gametocytes. Preliminary attempts to prepare free parasites by nitrogen cavitation of infected cells showed that disruption took place at much lower pressures than those required to break normal red cells. Gel diffusion analyses showed that the most highly purified infected cell preparations retained the full precipitinogenic spectrum of the original crude preparation.

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PubMed1975

"Rockford revisited".

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