Attitudes towards premarital testing on human immunodeficiency virus infection among Malawians.

abstract：AIM:To determine whether a combination of cell targeting and sequence recognition of nucleic acids can provide specificity for the inhibition of viral gene expression. METHODS:Antisense oligonucleotides complexed to a protein-based DNA carrier system were used to target hepatocytes for the inhibition of human hepatiti...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Wu GY,Walton CM,Wu CH

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To immunohistochemically evaluate the expression of MAGE-A1, MAGE-A, and NY-ESO-1 cancer/testis (C/T) tumor antigens in medullary breast cancer (MBC) tumor samples and to analyze it in relation to the clinicopathological features. METHODS:This retrospective study included samples from 49 patients: 40 with typical ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Matković B,Juretić A,Spagnoli GC,Separović V,Gamulin M,Separović R,Sarić N,Basić-Koretić M,Novosel I,Kruslin B

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess treatment outcomes of psychotherapy for war veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and to investigate self-perceived social acknowledgment. METHODS:In this prospective cohort study, a set of psychological instruments was used to assess the level of posttraumatic stress symptoms (Cli...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ljubotina D,Pantić Z,Francisković T,Mladić M,Priebe S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the effect of intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) in the prevention of recurrence and progression of the superficial bladder cancer. METHODS:Between February 1989 and May 1994, 170 patients with histologically proven superficial transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder stage T...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Librenjak D,Situm M,Eterovic D,Dogas Z,Gotovac J

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To detect polymorphisms of 23 Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat (STR) loci, including 6 new loci, in a reference database of male population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as to assess the importance of increasing the number of Y-STR loci utilized in forensic DNA analysis. METHODS:The reference sample consiste...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kovačević L,Fatur-Cerić V,Hadzic N,Čakar J,Primorac D,Marjanović D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To select appropriate preprocessing methods for different substrates by comparing the effects of four different preprocessing methods on touch DNA samples and to determine the effect of various storage times on the results of touch DNA sample analysis. METHOD:Hand touch DNA samples were used to investigate the det...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Dong H,Wang J,Zhang T,Ge JY,Dong YQ,Sun QF,Liu C,Li CX

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the ability to work and employability of individuals taking part in opioid substitution treatment programs (OSTP). METHODS:The study was composed of two surveys. In the first survey, 237 of 480 patients enrolled in OSTP responded to the questionnaire about their employment status, opinion about employmen...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bilban M,Kastelic A,Zaletel-Kragelj L

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the correlation between the length of the title of a scientific article and the number of citations it receives, in view of the common editorial call for shorter titles. METHODS:Title and the number of citations to all articles published in 2005 in 22 arbitrarily chosen English-language journals (n=...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Habibzadeh F,Yadollahie M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate what Zagreb University students think about professor-student dating. METHODS:We surveyed 500 students from ten different Zagreb University schools using anonymous questionnaires. Twenty-five female and 25 male students from each school were asked to assess professor-student dating as either accepta...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pulanić D,Skunca M,Jureković R,Obadić A,Ostojić-Pulanić B,Petrovecki M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the health-related quality of life of unemployed and employed women with disabilities and establish factors affecting their life satisfaction. METHODS:The study included 318 women with disabilities, 160 of whom were employed and 158 unemployed, paired according to age and region of residence. The health...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Barisin A,Benjak T,Vuletić G

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Faculty of Medicine in Tirana, the only institution providing medical training in Albania, has currently developed three separate branches of study, General Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy. Since the early 1990s, following the collapse of the communist regime, many faculty members have been trained abroad in dif...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Roshi E,Burazeri G

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine relationships among combat exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, depression, suicidality, nicotine dependence, and religiosity in Croatian veterans. METHODS:This cross-sectional study used Combat Exposure Scale (CES) to quantify the stressor severity, PTSD Checklist 5 (PCL) to quantif...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Šagud M,Petrović B,Vilibić M,Mihaljević-Peleš A,Vuksan-Ćusa B,Radoš I,Greš A,Trkulja V

更新日期：2018-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The article considers available options to educate science editors in the fast-transforming digital environment. There is no single course or resource that can cover their constantly changing and diversifying educational needs. The involvement in research, writing, and reviewing is important for gaining editing skills...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Gasparyan AY,Yessirkepov M,Gorin SV,Kitas GD

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To gain an initial perspective of mental health issues facing the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-positive population at the University Hospital Center of Tirana (UHCT) HIV/AIDS Ambulatory Clinic. METHODS:From June-August 2009, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 79 patients (93% response rate) at the ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Morrison SD,Banushi VH,Sarnquist C,Gashi VH,Osterberg L,Maldonado Y,Harxhi A

更新日期：2011-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this article is to offer a concise interpretation of the scientific data about the topic of Croatian genetic heritage that was obtained over the past 10 years. We made a short overview of previously published articles by our and other groups, based mostly on Y-chromosome results. The data demonstrate that C...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Primorac D,Marjanović D,Rudan P,Villems R,Underhill PA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the growth patterns of Qatari preschool children aged 0-5 years with the growth reference charts developed by the American National Center for Health Statistics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NCHS/CDC). METHODS:The demographic data of weight, height, and age were collected in a cross-se...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kamal AA,Bener A,Kareem Al-Mulla AM

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests that B cells contribute both to the regulation of normal autoimmunity and to the pathogenesis of immune mediated diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS). B cells in MS are skewed toward a pro-inflammatory profile, and contribute to MS pathogenesis by antibody production, antigen presen...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Milo R

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate whether socioeconomic inequalities at a micro-scale, through their effect on major health risk factors and other health indicators, contribute to health status in an isolated island population with demonstrated reduced genetic and environmental variability. METHODS:This cross-sectional study was per...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Smoljanović A,Vorko-Jović A,Kolcić I,Bernat R,Stojanović D,Polasek O

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate long-term cognitive consequences of subarachnoid hemorrhage with good outcome and the opinion of patients and their relatives about these consequences. METHODS:The study included 10 patients surgically treated for subarachnoid hemorrhage due to the rupture of aneurysm of the anterior communicating arte...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ravnik J,Starovasnik B,Sesok S,Pirtosek Z,Svigelj V,Bunc G,Bosnjak R

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess fetal behavior in all three trimesters of normal pregnancy and to investigate the continuation of behavior from fetal to neonatal period. METHODS:One hundred out of 130 pregnant women in all trimesters with singleton pregnancy were assigned for the investigation. All recordings were performed in the morn...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kurjak A,Stanojevic M,Andonotopo W,Scazzocchio-Duenas E,Azumendi G,Carrera JM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess genetic diversity and genetic distances among isolated populations from Dagestan. METHODS:A cross-population genetic epidemiology design was applied in ethnically and demographically diverse isolates from Dagestan, some with more than 200 and some with less than 100 generations of demographical history s...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bulayeva KB

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To provide a screening tool to reduce time and sample consumption when attempting mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup typing. METHODS:A single base primer extension assay was developed to enable typing, in a single reaction, of twelve mtDNA haplogroup specific polymorphisms. For validation purposes a total of 147...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Nelson TM,Just RS,Loreille O,Schanfield MS,Podini D

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic medicine integrates three of the most honorable human activities: treating the ill, teaching, and research. The quality that all three share is persistent quest for truth. However, there is reluctance of academic medicine today to openly defend scientific truth by challenging the arguments and the very existe...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Marusic M

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article brings an overview of the influence of molecular medicine on pathophysiology, medical practice, and medical education. Various aspects of the growing impact of molecular medicine on clinical practice are discussed: diagnostic and predictive testing, gene and targeted therapy, and pharmacogenomics. Insuffi...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Gamulin S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate whether the introduction of a vertical subject on research in biomedicine and founding of The Cochrane Collaboration branch at the University of Split School of Medicine influenced students' knowledge and attitudes toward evidence-based medicine (EBM), including the use of research literature. METHO...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Balajić K,Barac-Latas V,Drenjancević I,Ostojić M,Fabijanić D,Puljak L

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the problems in the interpretation of Croatian mortality data and explore possible reasons for the recorded increase in mortality in the 1990-1999 period, particularly related to different methods of collection and estimation of data on deaths and population. METHODS:Numbers of recorded deaths and popu...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bozicević I,Oresković S,Stevanović R,Rodin U,Nolte E,McKee M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To establish the incidence of tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) in the population of Labin area in Istria, Croatia, characterized by very little population migration. METHOD:We retrospectively analyzed data on 175 patients (102 men and 73 women) diagnosed with CNS tumor according to the World Health Organ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Materljan E,Materljan B,Sepcić J,Tuskan-Mohar L,Zamolo G,Erman-Baldini I

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polish physicians-philosophers tried to find a compromise between medicine as a science and medicine as a healing art. They stated that clinical practice should be transformed into science, bearing in mind that there would be no medicine without the existence of the sick. A perfect physician is a good and wise person ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pedziwiatr MJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore the possibility of brain imaging by microcomputed tomography (microCT) using x-ray contrasting methods to visualize mouse brain ischemic lesions after middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). METHODS:Isolated brains were immersed in ionic or nonionic radio contrast agent (RCA) for 5 days and subsequentl...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Dobrivojević M,Bohaček I,Erjavec I,Gorup D,Gajović S

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To estimate the incidence of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) in the population of Zagreb, Croatia, and to determine the patients' demographic and clinical characteristics. METHODS:From 2012-2017, we identified patients with POTS by a retrospective analysis of medical records at University Hospital...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Adamec I,Crnošija L,Ruška B,Pavičić T,Junaković A,Krbot Skorić M,Pekmezović T,Habek M

更新日期：2020-10-31 00:00:00