Disease relevance of New Mexico

• On Oct 30, 1989, the New Mexico Health and Environment Department learned of 3 patients with eosinophilia and severe myalgia who had been taking L-tryptophan [1].
• Stomach cancer incidence rates vary by ethnic group in New Mexico, with American Indians and Hispanic Whites at higher risk than the state's non-Hispanic White population [2].
• Increased incidence and prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Los Alamos County, New Mexico [3].
• Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is a serious health problem among the Zuni Indians of New Mexico. In July 1983, Indian Health Service personnel initiated a community-based exercise program designed to help control NIDDM in the community [4].
• Tryptophan contaminants associated with eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. The Eosinophilia-Myalgia Studies of Oregon, New York and New Mexico [5].

Psychiatry related information on New Mexico

• The Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention (ASAP) Program is a University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Emergency Center, and community and school-based prevention project for adolescents [6].

High impact information on New Mexico

• A Keystone symposium held in Taos, New Mexico, 21-26 March 2002 provided the setting for a pioneering gathering of cell biologists and neuroscientists [7].
• Lung cancer and occupation in New Mexico [8].
• Cutting in a lipid bilayer? Keystone Symposium on Molecular Mechanisms of Alzheimer Disease, Taos, New Mexico, USA, 3-8 March 1999 [9].
• A biethnic community survey of cognition in participants with type 2 diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance, and normal glucose tolerance: the New Mexico Elder Health Survey [10].
• RESULTS: Blood ethanol levels peaked at 17 +/- 2 mmol/l (the lower legal limit of intoxication in New Mexico) during the ethanol study [11].

Chemical compound and disease context of New Mexico

• The 16S rDNA sequence of SA-01 was >98% similar to that of Thermus strain NMX2 A.1, which was previously isolated by other investigators from a thermal spring in New Mexico. Strain NMX2 A.1 was also able to reduce Fe(III) and other electron acceptors [12].
• A food frequency interview directed at preformed vitamin A and beta-carotene was administered to 130 cases and 309 controls in an ongoing population-based case-control study of lung cancer in New Mexico. The questionnaire measured frequency, amount, and stability of consumption for 55 food items [13].
• Gastric cancer in New Mexico counties with significant deposits of uranium [14].
• PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the community-based Chronic Disease Self-management Program (CDSMP) and the Spanish-language version (Tomando Control de Su Salud) programs as delivered in settings along the Texas/New Mexico/Mexico border [15].
• This study measures the prevalence and distribution of dental fluorosis and coronal caries in lifelong adult residents of two New Mexico communities [16].

Biological context of New Mexico

• Nucleotide sequence analysis of 630 bases of the env gene encoding the gp21 protein was done on DNA from 12 New Mexico Indians (8 Pueblo, 4 Navajo) [17].
• 6. The results show that ADH and ALDH phenotypes among American Indians living in New Mexico are very similar to those of Caucasian populations and quite different from those of Orientals [18].
• A nonrandomized controlled trial using historical controls was conducted in a model family practice clinic at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque. The study group (n = 389) included adult women who had been seen at the clinic at a time when educational materials were present in the waiting area [19].
• Cellular, animal, and human radiobiology studies are in progress at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility as part of a joint University of New Mexico and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory pion therapy project [20].
• The Cerro Grande wildfire in May of 2000 burned across ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex P.&C. Lawson var. scopulorum Englem.) forest within Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico, where contaminant transport and associated post-fire inhalation risks are of concern [21].

Anatomical context of New Mexico

• This paper summarizes radionuclide concentrations (3H, 90Sr, 137Cs, 238Pu, 239,240Pu, 241Am, and totU) in muscle and bone tissue of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus) collected from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, lands from 1991 through 1998 [22].

Associations of New Mexico with chemical compounds

• Quantitative assessment of exposure to dog (Can f 1) and cat (Fel d 1) allergens: relation to sensitization and asthma among children living in Los Alamos, New Mexico [23].
• Effects of age, breast density, ethnicity, and estrogen replacement therapy on screening mammographic sensitivity and cancer stage at diagnosis: review of 183,134 screening mammograms in Albuquerque, New Mexico [24].
• Problem-based medical education began as a revision of the McMaster University medical curriculum in 1969 and was instituted in the United States as a problem-based experimental track at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1979 [25].
• Nitrate inhibited U(VI) reduction in acetate-amended aquifer sediments collected from a uranium-contaminated site in New Mexico. Once nitrate was depleted, both U(VI) and Fe(III) were reduced concurrently [26].
• Acute fluoride poisoning in a New Mexico elementary school [27].

Gene context of New Mexico

• Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) isoenzyme phenotypes were determined in autopsy liver samples from 50 North American Indians from New Mexico. Forty-six of the 50 livers had sufficient ADH activity to allow phenotyping at the ADH2 and ADH3 loci [18].
• Despite this similarity in environment, melanic mice from the three New Mexico populations were slightly, but significantly, darker than melanic mice from Arizona. The entire Mc1r gene was sequenced in all mice [28].
• In this study, we determined the biologic activity of dichloromethane-extracted particulate matter < 10 micro m in aerodynamic diameter (PM10) obtained from filters at three sites in the Paso del Norte airshed, which includes El Paso, Texas, USA; Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and Sunland Park, New Mexico, USA [29].
• Between 1969 and 1993, 1171 patients with papillary (including mixed) or follicular thyroid cancer were reported to the New Mexico Tumor Registry [30].
• (N Engl J Med 296:581--587, 1977) reported a reduction in coronary heart disease mortality in New Mexico white males with an increase in altitude [31].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of New Mexico

• Clinical investigations of pi meson radiotherapy were conducted by the Cancer Research and Treatment Center of the University of New Mexico and the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1974 until 1982 [32].
• Patterns of mammography use among Hispanic, American Indian, and non-Hispanic White women in New Mexico, 1994-1997 [33].
• Longitudinal study of fasting serum glucose concentrations in healthy elderly. The New Mexico Aging Process Study [34].
• Criteria for use of total parenteral nutrition administered by a central venous catheter in adults. Presbyterian Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico [35].
• Three polyvinyl chloride tracheotomy tube (Shiley) failures were seen in two ventilator-dependent children at the University of New Mexico Hospital. In each a defect was noted between the faceplate and the cannula [36].

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