Volume 6, Number 12, June 2014 (Special Issue on Skin Cancer Research)

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Links between Insulin Resistance, Lipoprotein Metabolism and Amyloidosis in Alzheimer’s Disease

Ian James Martins, Rhona Creegan

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612190  4,641 Downloads  6,129 Views   Citations

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Smoking and Health-Related Quality of Life (SF-36). A Population-Based Study in Campinas, SP, Brazil

Margareth Guimarães Lima, Flávia Silva Arbex Borim, Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612189  3,082 Downloads  4,525 Views   Citations

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The Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking and Knowledge of Its Health Implications among Adolescents in Owerri, South-Eastern Nigeria

Chikere Ifeanyi Casmir Ebirim, Agwu Nkwa Amadi, Okwuoma Chi Abanobi, Gabriel Uche Pascal Iloh

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612188  3,903 Downloads  5,887 Views   Citations

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Effects of Depression on Aspects of Self-Care in Type 2 Diabetes

Richard Seides

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612187  4,043 Downloads  5,155 Views   Citations

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Influence of Proxies on the Reported Frequency of Falls, Fear of Falling and Activity Restriction in Older People

Elise Mendes da Costa, Isabelle Godin, Thierry Pepersack, Michèle Dramaix, Yves Coppieters, Martine Bantuelle, Alain Levêque

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612186  2,444 Downloads  3,113 Views   Citations

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The Effect of Short Term Vitamin D Supplementation on the Inflammatory and Oxidative Mediators of Arterial Stiffness

David Martins, Yuan-Xiang Meng, Naureen Tareen, Jorge Artaza, Jae Eun Lee, Caroline Farodolu, Gary Gibbons, Keith Norris

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612185  2,761 Downloads  3,477 Views   Citations

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Review Paper

Ulcerative Colitis and Acute Thrombocytopenia in a Pediatric Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Bronislava Papadatou, Fiammetta Bracci, Daniela Knafelz, Antonella Diamanti, Maria Sole Basso, Fabio Panetta, Filippo Torroni, Valerio Nobili, Giuliano Torre

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612184  3,272 Downloads  4,214 Views   Citations

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Review Paper

Graves' Disease Thyroid Color-Flow Doppler Ultrasonography Assessment: Review Article

Thiago Adler Ralho Rodrigues dos Santos, Rodrigo Otavio Gomes Pina, Marina Taliberti Pereira de Souza, Maria Cristina Chammas

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612183  4,975 Downloads  6,300 Views   Citations

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Crohn’s Disease and Urinary Manifestations: A Crohn’s Intestinal Disease Mimicking a Bladder Mass

Bronislava Papadatou, Lidia Monti, Giuliano Torre, Fabio Panetta, Antonella Diamanti

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612182  3,081 Downloads  3,826 Views   Citations

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Growth of Circulating Tumor Cell-Derived Colonies from Peripheral Blood of Melanoma Patients: Preliminary Characterization of Colony Composition

Wolfram E. Samlowski, John R. McGregor, Suzanne T. Samlowski, Shweta Tharkar, Shirley Shen, Joel S. Bentz

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612181  3,032 Downloads  3,955 Views   Citations

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Statins as a Candidate of Drugs for Intracranial Aneurysm Treatment

Keiichi Tsuji, Tomohiro Aoki, Miyuki Fukuda, Kazuhiko Nozaki

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612180  2,560 Downloads  3,358 Views   Citations

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Does Hypothyroidism Cause Hyponatremia?

Jens Hunze, Linda IJsselstijn, Remi W. Wulkan, Arjan M. van Alphen

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612179  3,761 Downloads  5,920 Views   Citations

This article belongs to the Special Issue on Thyroid Disease

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Review Paper

Epidemiological, Pathophysiological and Clinical Peculiarities of Graves’ Disease in Children with Down and Turner Syndrome: A Literature Review

Malgorzata Wasniewska, Tommaso Aversa, Filippo De Luca, Mariella Valenzise, Maria Francesca Messina, Fortunato Lombardo

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612178  2,650 Downloads  3,393 Views   Citations

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The Role of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine and Lipoprotein Associated Phospholipase A2 in Children and Adolescents with Dyslipidemia

Eleni Klinaki, Alexandra Soldatou, Antonios Marmarinos, Athanasia Pagoni, Charalampos Tsentidis, Dimitrios Gourgiotis, Anastasia Garoufi

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612177  2,568 Downloads  3,180 Views   Citations

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Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome of the Finnish Type: A Greek Case Report

Sofia Melina Stasinou, George Valasoulis, Ioannis Georgiou, Kyrgiou Maria, Evangelos Paraskevaidis, Nikolaos Plachouras

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612176  2,729 Downloads  3,625 Views   Citations

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A Retrospective Analysis of the Capacity Built through a Community-Based Participatory Research Project Addressing Diabetes and Obesity in South and East Los Angeles

Kathryn Hillstrom, Valerie Ruelas, Anne Peters, Turusew Gedebu-Wilson, Ellen Iverson

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612175  2,815 Downloads  3,516 Views   Citations

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Gestational Weight Gain in Obese Patients and Adverse Pregnancy Events

Shelly H. Tien, Dana Villines, Barbara V. Parilla

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612174  2,471 Downloads  3,155 Views   Citations

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Prevalence and Risk of Anemia in Type-2 Diabetic Patients

Ayesha Sharif, Shahnila Younus, Kanwal Baig, Nafisa Hassan Ali

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612173  3,566 Downloads  4,948 Views   Citations

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Passive Smoking and Children’s Health

Luiz Antonio Del Ciampo, Ieda Regina Lopes Del Ciampo

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612172  3,388 Downloads  4,778 Views   Citations

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Which Are the Factors Associated to Child Mistreatment? Use of a Routinely Collected Specific Dataset for Surveillance in a Belgian Pediatric Unit

Christelle Senterre, Brigitte Vanthournout

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612171  2,739 Downloads  3,584 Views   Citations

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Experiences of Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm—In and Out on Five Minutes

Monica Pettersson, Birgitta Gedda, Ina Berndsson

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612170  3,359 Downloads  4,107 Views   Citations

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The Relationships between Cognitive Neuropsychological State, Oxidative Stress and Genotoxicity in Radiology Staff

Hajar Akbari Dastjerdi, Mohammad Fazilati, Ali Akbar Malekirad, Habibollah Nazem, Mohammad Abdollahi, Akbar Zerratpisheh

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612169  2,891 Downloads  3,752 Views   Citations

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Personality Traits and Self Regulation: A Comparative Study among Current, Relapse and Remitted Drug Abuse Patients

Nadia Bukhtawer, Sumaira Muhammad, Ayesha Iqbal

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612168  5,445 Downloads  6,926 Views   Citations

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Which Socio-Economic Factors Influence Patients’ Choice to Opt for the ED or the GPC during Out-of-Hours: An Explorative Study in Flanders

Jens Detollenaere, Evelyn Verlinde, Sara Willems, Jeftha Blezer

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612167  3,313 Downloads  4,490 Views   Citations

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Minigene Analysis of the c.743 + 40A > G Intronic Variant in the CFTR Gene

Ayman El-Seedy, Raed Farhat, Marie-Claude Pasquet, Alain Kitzis, Véronique Ladeveze

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612166  4,053 Downloads  4,732 Views   Citations

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Can We Change a Look at Atherosclerotic Aortic Aneurism Treatment?

Vladimir Petrovich Krylov, Аlexander Gennadyevich Mrochek, Leonid Petrovich Titov, Valentina Nikolaevna Gaiduk, Leonid Ivanovich Reut, Аleksey Leonidovich Smaliakou

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612165  2,981 Downloads  3,662 Views   Citations

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A Study on Lung Cancer in Jianghan Plain

Kun Zhang, Man Li, Yanhua Zhang, Xiaochun Peng

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612164  3,511 Downloads  4,153 Views   Citations

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Effects of Air Pollution on Disease Respiratory: Structures Lag

Amaury de Souza, Yuming Guo, Hamilton Germano Pavão, Widinei Alves Fernandes

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.612163  4,214 Downloads  5,493 Views   Citations

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