Disease relevance of North Dakota

• In February, March, and April 1974, a severe epidemic of measles, with 71 cases and three deaths, occurred on the Cheyenne and Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservations in South and North Dakota. The attack rate was 9.0 cases per 1,000 persons, and associated with the illness were 24 cases of pneumonia and ten cases of otitis media [1].
• PARTICIPANTS: Roger Maris Cancer Center and University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. RESULTS: Between the years 1996-2001, 178 subjects with biopsy-proven colon cancer and 80 patients with rectosigmoid cancer were included in our study [2].
• Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in North Dakota: a case control study utilizing birth certificate data [3].

High impact information on North Dakota

• In Part one we report the results of a questionnaire study of patients in North Dakota with TD [4].
• In North Dakota, the annual cost of care for children with ADHD was 5.1 million dollars, 5.6% of all health care costs for children [5].
• Enzyme-retting formulations consisting of Viscozyme L, a pectinase-rich commercial enzyme product, and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) were tested on Ariane fiber flax and North Dakota seed flax straw residue [6].
• An epiphytic lichen and a soil lichen in two very closely related genera (Parmelia sulcata and Xanthoparmelia chlorochroa, respectively) were sampled 16 years apart at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota and measured for their elemental content [7].
• North Dakota Supreme Court consent decision raises questions. Long v. Jaszczak [8].

Associations of North Dakota with chemical compounds

• In 1973 the University of North Dakota School of Medicine (UNDSM), following the national trend toward four-year medical programs, expanded its previous two-year medical school curriculum to include all four years of medical education [9].
• A flood-related outbreak of carbon monoxide poisoning--Grand Forks, North Dakota [10].

Gene context of North Dakota

• The North Dakota Department of Health Claims Database was used to estimate the administrative prevalence, annual cost of care per case, and total annual cost of care for subjects with ADHD compared with controls [5].
• North Dakota adopts rules, SNAs push for BSN [11].
• We were unable to identify a corresponding decline in SIDS in North Dakota for this time period [12].
• Minnkota Power Cooperative, Great River Energy, the North Dakota Industrial Commission, and EPRI funded the project [13].
• During 1986 these Medicare beneficiaries were admitted to one of 53 hospitals in an area that encompassed parts of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Information on ZIP code of residence, closest hospital, and hospital of admission were used to analyze hospital choices of the Medicare rural elderly residing in this area [14].

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