The analytic goal was to estimate excess risk of asthma among children in relation to neighborhood and housing characteristics as well as racial/ethnic group. Using SUDAAN (version 9.0) statistical software programs, we developed a series of logistic multivariable models. We estimated excess risk from odds ratios derived from generalized estimating equations (GEE). The GEE procedure [...]
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Figure 1 illustrates the distribution of ZCTAs by neighborhood poverty according to sociodemographic data obtained from the decennial 2000 U.S. census. Areas with the highest concentration of poverty lie within one of Rhode Island’s six core cities, where child poverty rates in 2000 exceeded 15%.
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The patient highlighted has had CCHD since birth. He had phlebotomy for polycythemia and sudden deterioration of renal function culminating in acute on chronic renal failure. The case report is unique in two respects. First, it is the first report known to us occurring in an African and, secondly, it is also the first known [...]
INTRODUCTION Glomerular injury is a documented complication of congenital cyanotic heart disease (CCHD). Some of the abnormalities reported in patients with CCHD include proteinuria and nephrotic syndrome (NS). The pathology recorded in such patients include glomerulomegaly, capillary dilatation, thickening of the capillary walls, focal or diffuse proliferation of mesangial cells and segmental or global glomerulosclerosis. [...]
