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Disease relevance of Los Angeles

  • HIV incidence among injection drug users enrolled in a Los Angeles methadone program [1].
  • SETTING--On February 14, 1992, more than 100 passengers on a flight from South America to Los Angeles, Calif, were infected with toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 [2].
  • Among patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) who were hospitalized in New York City, San Francisco, Calif, and Los Angeles, Calif, from 1983 through 1988, we observed a marked shift in the payer distribution toward Medicaid and away from private insurance [3].
  • Characteristics of Los Angeles, Calif., residents in whom carcinomas of the cervix, vulva, vagina, anus, and penis were diagnosed during the period 1972-81 were compared with those of all residents and with those in whom any cancer was diagnosed during the same period [4].
  • INTERPRETATION: The A49T variant of the SRD5A2 gene may be a significant contributor to the incidence of prostate cancer in African-American and Hispanic men in Los Angeles. We estimate that the population attributable risk due to this aminoacid substitution for clinically significant disease is about 8% in both populations [5].
 

Psychiatry related information on Los Angeles

 

High impact information on Los Angeles

  • An HLA-matching method based on compatibility at 10 key amino acid residues of HLA-A and B molecules and a limited number of HLA-DR types was evaluated with use of the HLA types of the patients currently on the national waiting list and waiting lists in Los Angeles and Birmingham, Alabama. RESULTS [11].
  • Interviews of 45 patients and 89 matched controls in Los Angeles County showed that illness was associated with penicillin or tetracycline use during the month before onset (P less than 0.001) and with eating ground beef during the week before onset (P = 0.052) [12].
  • Tectonic contraction across Los Angeles after removal of groundwater pumping effects [13].
  • SETTING: Three states (California, Utah, and Vermont) and 6 cities (Boulder, Colo; Flagstaff, Ariz; Los Angeles, Calif; Mesa, Ariz; New York, NY; and San Francisco, Calif) in which the effect on tourism of smoke-free restaurant ordinances had been debated [14].
  • Five counties in Southern California including Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego. PARTICIPANTS [15].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Los Angeles

 

Biological context of Los Angeles

 

Anatomical context of Los Angeles

 

Associations of Los Angeles with chemical compounds

  • This report gives the results of assays of circulating steroid hormone levels in white and black college students in Los Angeles, CA [30].
  • Sixty-five surgically excised, formalin-fixed endometrial tissue specimens were accessioned through the Department of Pathology Registry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and analyzed for UPAR expression by using immunohistochemical techniques [31].
  • Patients received alternate 90-second balloon inflations with and without distal perfusion of oxygenated perfluorochemical (Fluosol, Alpha Therapeutic Corp., Los Angeles, California) at 60 ml/min [32].
  • The experiments were performed in Bochum, and the calculations were carried out in Osaka and Los Angeles. As the cyclobutene ring-opening transition structure approaches planarity, the energy gap between allowed conrotatory and the forbidden disrotatory pathways decreases [33].
  • Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center suggest that amikacin interacts more frequently in a synergistic manner with beta-lactams than do alternative aminoglycosides [34].
 

Gene context of Los Angeles

  • Three hundred twenty-eight non-Hispanic white residents of Los Angeles County (265 males and 63 females) were genotyped for the presence or absence of GSTM1 alleles and phenotyped for CYP1A2 activity [35].
  • On the other hand, comparison of either series from Mexico-city with the Los Angeles or the San Antonio studies yielded discrepancies in several specificities of both HLA-A and B loci, most notably the consistent absence of A25 in Mexican Mestizos living in Mexico-City [36].
  • There were no significant difference in the relative mRNA expression levels of CXCR-1 and -2 among endoscopic grades of RE based on the Los Angeles classification [37].
  • The study was performed at the Clinical Research Center of the Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles. The effects of alpha-helical CRH on autonomic parameters (blood pressure, pulse, temperature, respiration) were determined [38].
  • Approximately 12% of the U.S. population is Hispanic, with the majority residing in urban centers such as Los Angeles. The prevalence of BRCA mutations among high-risk Hispanic families is unknown [39].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Los Angeles

  • To evaluate the protective efficacy of polyribosylribitol phosphate (PRP) and polyribosylribitol phosphate-diphtheria toxoid (PRP-D) vaccines in children 18 to 59 months of age, we conducted a case-control study in Los Angeles (Calif) County between July 1, 1988, and July 31, 1989 [40].
  • We studied 41 cases of HCC from the Los Angeles area for evidence of EBV infection by in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, and polymerase chain reaction methods [41].
  • The RAND 36-item general health survey, University of California Los Angeles Prostate Cancer Index, American Urological Association symptom index, validated Cancer Interference with Life and Family Scales, and sociodemographic and co-morbidity questionnaires were completed 3 to 17 months after treatment [42].
  • MATERIALS AND METHODS: We tested the characteristics of the percent free PSA monoclonal Immulite DPC Immunoassay (Diagnostic Products Corp., Los Angeles, California) for predicting organ confinement in 698 consecutive unscreened men treated only with radical prostatectomy between 1995 and 2000 [43].
  • Amplification of the beta-globin gene by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and direct sequencing were used for a fast and reliable identification of the beta-globin variant Hb D Los Angeles and revealed the predicted G----C substitution in codon 121 [44].

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