Health-related quality of life of women with disabilities in relation to their employment status.

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 determine the prevalence of bronchial asthma among Saudi Arabian schoolboys living in Al-Khobar city. METHODS:Parents of 1,482 randomly selected boys in preparatory and elementary schools included in this cross-sectional study filled out a questionnaire on asthma signs in their sons. Number of Questionnaire-Dia...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Al-Dawood K

更新日期：2000-12-01 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 examine the feasibility of using peer review for the quality control of online materials. METHODS:We analyzed the inter-rater agreement on the quality of epidemiological lectures online, based on the Global Health Network Supercourse lecture library. We examined the agreement among reviewers by looking at kappa...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Linkov F,Lovalekar M,LaPorte R

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To analyze the main indicators of income inequality, objective and subjective poverty, material deprivation, and the role of public social transfers in the reduction of poverty in 15 old and 10 new member states of the European Union (EU), undergoing post-communist socio-economic transition, as well as in Croatia, ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Matković T,Sucur Z,Zrinscak S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A continuous rise in life expectancy has led to an increase in the number of senior citizens, now amounting to a fifth of the global population, and to a dramatic increase in the prevalence of diseases of the elderly. This review discusses the threat of dementia, a disease that imposes enormous financial burden on hea...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Mitrečić D,Petrović DJ,Stančin P,Isaković J,Zavan B,Tricarico G,Kujundžić Tiljak M,Di Luca M

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate whether ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channels modulate the tocolytic effect of β2-adrenergic receptor (β2-AR) agonists (ritodrine and salmeterol) in early-pregnant (day 6) and late-pregnant (day 22) rat uterus in vitro, in order to examine the relation between the K(ATP) channel sulphonylurea-bin...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Lovasz N,Koncz A,Domokos D,Gaspar R,Falkay G

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radical primary health care-oriented reform of the medical services in Albania is now under way, calling for adequate revision in medical education. The reform has started in 1994. In January 1997, the Department of Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana, was established for the development...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Rrumbullaku L,Theodorakis PN,Caca P,Lionis C,Trell E

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To validate the Croatian version of the Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) and to investigate the predictors of perceived burden. METHODS:This cross-sectional study involved 131 dyads of one informal caregiver family member and one patient with dementia visiting primary care practices (Health Care Center Zagreb-West; 10...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Lucijanić J,Baždarić K,Librenjak D,Lucijanić M,Hanževački M,Jureša V

更新日期：2020-12-31 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：:Today the development of a unique professional language and publishing of professional and scientific publications is the basis of every profession, including the nursing profession. The task of the unique language specific to the nursing profession is to describe the nursing profession (to make it more familiar to th...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kalauz S,Cukljek S,Kovacević I

更新日期：2012-12-01 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 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 assess the effectiveness of the long-term group psychotherapy in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in war veterans on the basis of clinical picture of PTSD, associated neurotic symptoms, and adopted models of psychological defense mechanisms. METHODS:Prospective cohort study involved 59 war ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Britvić D,Radelić N,Urlić I

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To report on our experience with a voice-directed robotic arm for scope management in different procedures for "solo-surgery" and in complex laparoscopic operations. METHODS:A chip card with orders for the robotic arm is individually manufactured for every user. A surgeon gives order through a microphone and the o...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bacá I,Schultz C,Grzybowski L,Göetzen V

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the characteristics and determine risk factors for hantanvirus infection in natural focus of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) on the Dinara Mountain, where outbreak of disease emerged among Croatian soldiers in 1995, and to describe the features of HFRS acquired on the Dinara mountain and...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ledina D,Bradarić N,Borcić B,Turković B,Ivić I,Bakić J,Erceg M,Tvrtković N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To analyze the success of three different treatment modalities for heroin addiction: methadone therapy, hospital therapy without methadone, and therapeutic community. METHODS:Ninety heroin addicts from the city of Split, Croatia, were systematically allocated to three groups, with 30 participants each, according t...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Vidjak N

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the influence of depression on patients' satisfaction with lumbar discectomy performed by two different surgical techniques. METHODS:A prospective matched-cohort analysis of classical lumbar discectomy following static imaging (n = 45) and microlumbar "key-hole" discectomy after dynamic CT/myelography (n...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ljubicić Bistrović I,Ljubicić D,Ekl D,Penezić L,Mocenić D,Stancić MF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To test the hypothesis that tSSEP findings reflect clinical and MRI MS lesions, the aim of this study was to investigate tSSEP changes in patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) in relation to clinical and brainstem MRI findings. The second aim was to investigate whether the interpretation of the tSSEP res...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Krbot Skorić M,Adamec I,Crnošija L,Gabelić T,Barun B,Zadro I,Butković Soldo S,Habek M

更新日期：2016-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine overall cardiac effects of flavonoid catechin on ischemia-reperfusion injury in isolated rat hearts in vitro and in vivo. METHODS:After perfusing hearts at the pressure of 70 mm Hg, coronary perfusion was interrupted for 30 minutes and then re-established. There were four experimental groups, with 10 ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Modun D,Music I,Katalinic V,Salamunic I,Boban M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate motoric intestinal disturbances during inflammation with Trichinella spiralis in rats as an experimental model. METHODS:We examined the changes in worm-positive (jejunum) and worm-free (ileum) intestinal segments of rats infected with T. spiralis. To investigate the relationship between structural and ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Tanović A,Fernández E,Jiménez M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the influence of psychological and social factors on health risk behaviors, such as smoking, alcohol and psychoactive drug consumption among adolescents and to determine the prevalence of consuming various psychoactive substances. METHODS:The survey was conducted among adolescents in the Primorsko-g...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Malatestinić D,Mićović V,Kendel G,Baricev-Novaković Z

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To test for differences in hemodynamic and analgesic properties in patients with breast cancer undergoing quadrantectomy with paravertebral block (PVB) induced with a solution of either one or two local anesthetics. METHOD:A prospective, single-center, randomized, double-blinded, controlled trial was conducted fro...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Župčić M,Graf Župčić S,Duzel V,Šimurina T,Šakić L,Fudurić J,Peršec J,Milošević M,Stanec Z,Korušić A,Barišin S

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of oral cancer in Jordan. METHOD:We retrospectively analyzed the medical records 118 consecutive patients treated for oral cancer from 1989 until 1998. RESULTS:The age of the patients ranged from 35 to 90 years (median 62.5 years); three quarters were men. N...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ma'aita JK

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine the usefulness of molecular analysis of IgH gene rearrangement in assessment of clonality in bone marrow biopsies with lymphoid aggregates (LA) and/or nodular lymphoid hyperplasia (NLH) in patients with different subtypes of malignant lymphomas. METHOD:Five hundred and twenty nine samples of bone marrow...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Dominis M,Pesut A,Borovecki A,Marusic-Vrsalovic M,Kusec R

更新日期：2005-06-01 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 investigate the relationships between body mass index (BMI), dietary habits, and cardiovascular risk factors in isolated Adriatic island populations of Croatia. METHODS:Random sample of subjects (n=1001) was interviewed, using a validated questionnaire developed for this research program. Dietary habits were as...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pucarin-Cvetković J,Mustajbegović J,Doko Jelinić J,Senta A,Nola IA,Ivanković D,Kaić-Rak A,Milosević M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To present the results obtained in the identification of human remains from World War II found in two mass graves in Ljubuški, Bosnia and Herzegovina. METHODS:Samples from 10 skeletal remains were collected. Teeth and femoral fragments were collected from 9 skeletons and only a femoral fragment from 1 skeleton. DN...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Marjanović D,Hadžić Metjahić N,Čakar J,Džehverović M,Dogan S,Ferić E,Džijan S,Škaro V,Projić P,Madžar T,Rod E,Primorac D

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine whether the students enrolled in the computer-based teaching program would take the final examination in pathology earlier than those who studied according to the previous traditional program. METHODS:The study included all medical students enrolled in the pathology course at the Zagreb University Sch...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Nola M,Morović A,Dotlić S,Dominis M,Jukić S,Damjanov I

更新日期：2005-06-01 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