Disease relevance of Rural Population

• METHODS: Sera obtained from 7895 individuals in a rural population survey were tested using an algorithm based on two different EIA systems: Recombigen HIV-1 EIA and Wellcozyme HIV-1 Recombinant [1].
• Diagnosis of iron deficiency anemia in a rural population of children. Relative usefulness of serum ferritin, red cell protoporphyrin, red cell indices, and transferrin saturation determinations [2].
• Prevalence of chronic bronchitis in a rural community of the Hill Region of Nepal [3].
• A serosurvey was conducted in a random sample of 259 women and 231 men in 12 rural communities in Mwanza Region, Tanzania, using a type-specific ELISA for Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection [4].
• The background prevalence of indirect immunofluorescence antibody to Legionella pneumophila in a rural community was determined by testing sera from 517 volunteers [5].

Psychiatry related information on Rural Population

• Fasting serum lipoprotein lipid concentrations were measured in 64 subjects aged 11-18 and 72 aged 33-54 years, who comprised 86% of long-term residents of these ages in a rural community in Trinidad. Total HDL, HDL2, and HDL3 cholesterol concentrations were similar in males and females after allowance for alcohol consumption [6].
• Alcohol abuse in a rural community in India. Part II: characteristics of alcohol users [7].
• Regional lamb consumption was not correlated with the frequency of CJD; however, lamb consumption among nationwide categories of increasing population density (rural communities, towns, cities, the Paris metropolitan area, and the city of Paris) did correlate with an increasing frequency of CJD [8].
• Are the associations between life-style related factors and plasma total homocysteine concentration different according to polymorphism of 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene (C677T MTHFR)? A cross-sectional study in a Japanese rural population [9].

High impact information on Rural Population

• Endogenous nitrosation in relation to nitrate exposure from drinking water and diet in a Danish rural population [10].
• Compared with previous estimates based mostly on rural populations, the higher frequency of PAN and the lower frequency of WG might suggest specific environmental etiologic factors [11].
• Consistent with this, blood glucose concentrations were significantly higher in urban than in rural populations [12].
• METHODS: A cross-sectional population survey was conducted in 12 rural communities of Mwanza Region between 1991 and 1992 [13].
• Clinical profile of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy identified de novo in rural communities [14].

Chemical compound and disease context of Rural Population

• Neither the urban nor the rural population showed a substantial or statistically significant association of serum triglyceride levels with incidence of coronary heart disease [15].
• Since fluoride in well water had little influence on caries experience and is causing dental fluorosis, it should be removed by defluoridation or the rural population should be provided with an alternative source of drinking water with lower fluoride concentration [16].
• Evidence for high seroprevalence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in individuals from three rural communities in Venezuela [17].
• Fish consumption, blood docosahexaenoic acid and chronic diseases in Chinese rural populations [18].
• A rural community expressed concern about a perceived excess of kidney and pancreatic cancer coupled with contamination of drinking water with atrazine, benzene, ethylene dibromide, and nitrate [19].

Biological context of Rural Population

• Association of apolipoprotein genetic polymorphisms with plasma cholesterol in a Japanese rural population. The Shibata Study [20].
• We examined the potential modulatory effects of ADH2 and ALDH2 genotypes on the alcohol-BP relationship in a cross-sectional sample of a Japanese rural community [21].
• Associations of Fc epsilon R1-beta polymorphisms with immunoglobin E antibody responses to common inhalant allergens in a rural population [22].
• We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to study the epidemiology of pathogenic and nonpathogenic Entamoeba histolytica in a rural community in Mexico. Formalin-fixed stool samples were used for extraction of DNA [23].
• CONCLUSION: The Ventimiglia di Sicilia Study highlights the great importance of overweight and obesity as a public health issue in a rural population and indicates that it is necessary to consider the impact of body weight and fat distribution on both total and CHD mortality [24].

Anatomical context of Rural Population

• Konzo and sub-clinical upper motor neuron damage persist in poor rural communities in northern Mozambique, associated with high cyanogen concentrations in cassava flour and high urinary thiocyanate concentrations in schoolchildren [25].
• The concentration of the most abundant free amino acids in breast milk, taurine, glutamic acid, glycine + threonine, alanine and glycine was measured in breast milk samples obtained from Mexican women from an urban population (38 samples) and from a rural population (106 samples) [26].

Associations of Rural Population with chemical compounds

• Vitamin A nutritional status of rural community of Khol block in Haryana, North India. A collaborative study [27].
• Prevention of folate deficiency by food fortification. IV. Identification of target groups in addition to pregnant women in an adult rural population [28].
• BACKGROUND: Sensitization to allergen is common in rural populations in less affluent countries, but atopic disease is less frequent than in richer countries [29].
• To determine whether histamine sensitivity also contributes to allergen responsiveness, 893 subjects in a rural community were prick tested with 14 allergens and tenfold dilutions of histamine phosphate beginning at 1 mg/ml-1 [30].
• Participants were recruited from 3 rural communities with naturally occurring fluoride in their water systems at 0.03, 0.7, and 2.5 mg/L [31].

Gene context of Rural Population

• In the rural community such changes as were encountered were invariable mild and no-one had clinical features resembling classical rheumatoid arthritis; by contrast, among the urban Blacks the changes resembled those of rheumatoid disease in White populations [32].
• PATIENTS AND MEASUREMENTS: We examined lipid levels in a group of untreated severely GHD patients with a mutation in the GHRH receptor gene from a rural community in North-east Brazil [33].
• DESIGN AND METHODS: We investigated the relationships of adiponectin concentration with insulin sensitivity, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hCRP) and pulse wave velocity (PWV) in male inhabitants of rural communities in Japan. hCRP and PWV were used as an indexes of atherosclerosis [34].
• This prospective case series set out to evaluate the safety of tPA use in patients referred from rural communities to a tertiary center [35].
• The joint maternal-neonatal PGM1 distribution in a sample from an Italian rural population is significantly different from that expected assuming Hardy-Weinberg conditions for equilibrium [36].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Rural Population

• OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of glucose intolerance in adult urban and rural populations in the northern parts of Sudan. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A sample of 1,284 subjects aged > or = 25 years was selected using a multistage cluster method and underwent a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test [37].
• The subjects were 1,121 men and 1,480 women, ranging between 30 and 90 years of age, who were voluntary participants in the Jichi Medical Cohort Study and who resided in one of five rural communities in Japan. RESULTS: In men, insulin, age, BMI, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, and fibrinogen were significantly correlated with Lp(a) [38].
• An increase in serum cholesterol levels for men and women was observed in all longitudinal studies among rural populations; mean increases in serum cholesterol levels per year were 0.034 mmol/l (p < 0.001) and 0.033 mmol/l (p < 0.001), respectively [39].
• Alcohol abuse in a rural community in India. Part I: Epidemiological study [40].
• AIM: To determine if the City University Tritan Test is a useful addition to visual function assessment in rural communities in northern Nigeria. METHODS: The study was a cross sectional survey [41].

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