Aim: To determine the prevalence and identify associated risk factors for dry eye syndrome
in a population in Sumatra, Indonesia. Methods: A one stage cluster sampling procedure …

Type I and type II interferons (IFN) are central to both combating virus infection and
modulating the antiviral immune response. Indeed, an absence of either the receptor for type …

2 Introduction organisations, academia, pharmacy, general practice and clinical
pharmacology, and was chaired by Dr Patricia Wilkie, a lay member of the CSM. The first …

Concise, mathematically clear, and comprehensive treatment of the subject.* Expanded
coverage of diagnostics and methods of model fitting.* Requires no specialized knowledge …

The widespread freshening of the upper 500–800m layer of the northern North Atlantic,
which this paper describes, represents one of the most persistent and extreme variations in …

The needle holder can be moved in sagittal as well as lateral directions and lowered toward
the base of the skull in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal plane of the skull or, with …

Progress in the understanding of chronic pain with neuropathic features has been hindered
by a lack of epidemiologic research in the general population. The Leeds Assessment of …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of varicose veins and chronic venous
insufficiency (CVI) in the general population. DESIGN: Cross sectional survey. SETTING …

Abstract Leng GC (Wolfson Unit for Prevention of Peripheral Vascular Diseases, Department
of Public Health Sciences, The Medical School, Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh, EH8 …

We examined the relationships of whole blood viscosity and its major determinants to
incident cardiovascular events (ischaemic heart disease and stroke) in a prospective study …