Disease relevance of Germany, East

• When 458 parents of children suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF) from all over the German Democratic Republic were interviewed to determine the number of their siblings, it was found that the maternal families had a total of 1369 children and the paternal, 1220 [1].
• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the German Democratic Republic. Incidence and strain-characteristics [2].
• Frequency and therapy of end-stage renal disease due to diabetic nephropathy in the German Democratic Republic [3].

High impact information on Germany, East

• Deletion analysis of DMD/BMD families from the German Democratic Republic and selected regions of Czechoslovakia and Hungary [4].
• A study in the German Democratic Republic indicated that the mortality in screening-detected NIDDM patients did not differ from that in patients detected in routine care [5].
• It was first synthesized in 1963 in the German Democratic Republic. Bendamustine is chemically related to the alkylating agent chlorambucil, with the benzene ring in the chlorambucil molecule replaced by a 1-methyl-benzimidazole moiety [6].
• We examined the allele and haplotype frequencies of five polymorphic DNA markers in 355 European cystic fibrosis (CF) patients (from Belgium, the German Democratic Republic, Greece, and Italy) who were divided into two groups according to whether they were or not taking supplementary pancreatic enzymes [7].
• Psychosocial problems in groups of adults with epilepsy from Canada, Finland, the German Democratic Republic, and the United States were evaluated by the Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory [8].

Associations of Germany, East with chemical compounds

• The uranium miners in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) were exposed mainly to a local low-dose irradiation in the lung by radon and its progeny, but also to some whole-body gamma irradiation [9].
• The highest contamination with DDT was measured in Lübeck bay, which may be explained by the long term application of DDT in the former German Democratic Republic. Penta- and hexa-chlorinated PCB were selectively accumulated in Mytilus edulis whereas highly lipophilic PCB with more than seven chlorine atoms were found in negligible concentrations [10].
• Between 1984 and 1997, six cases of urothelial cancer and 14 cases of renal cell cancer occurred in a group of 500 underground mining workers in the copper-mining industry of the former German Democratic Republic, with high exposures to explosives containing technical dinitrotoluene [11].
• The centralized structure of economic affairs in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the isolation from the free market led to the situation that imported asbestos was almost exclusively chrysotile [12].
• Oxidation phenotyping with debrisoquine in Germany (East) [13].

Gene context of Germany, East

• OBJECTIVES: To examine the long term evolution of mortality in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the period from 1960 and its specific position in health terms compared with the Federal Republic (FRG) in the west and Poland in the east [14].
• Concentration profiles reflect not only the recent pollution history of these compounds, but also the time-depending effects of the ban, restriction and termination of DDT-production in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) [15].
• The prevalence of diabetic nephropathy among the German Democratic Republic (GDR) population is substantial, as is true of many other countries [3].
• This study compares the main causes of influenza epidemics reported in Czechoslovakia (CSR) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the 9 seasons between 1980 and 1988 [16].
• The collective dose equivalent due to the naturally occurring radionuclides in building materials in the German Democratic Republic. Part 1: External exposure [17].

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