Disease relevance of West Virginia

• Although the higher frequency of p53-immunohistochemical positivity in the West Virginia group may reflect a different etiology of these cholangiocarcinomas, explaining the high incidence in this area, results of p53 sequence analysis were not different in the West Virginia group [1].
• The raccoon variant of the rabies virus is now present in Alabama, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and all Atlantic Seaboard states from Florida to Maine. In Ohio, this variant, last detected in 1992 as a single case, was again detected in 1996 [2].
• A chart review of 792 consecutive patients at the Retinal Unit, West Virginia University, during a six-month period disclosed that 24 of 590 patients (4%) had chorioretinal scars suggestive of toxoplasmosis [3].
• At the West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston Division, and Charleston Area Medical Center's Vascular Center of Excellence, we have implemented a team approach with gynecologists taking a pivotal role in the selection, co-management, and follow up of patients receiving UAE for the treatment of their uterine fibroids [4].
• Medical Grand Rounds from the West Virginia University Medical Center: controversy in Internal Medicine: strict versus relaxed therapy of diabetes mellitus [5].

Psychiatry related information on West Virginia

• Career choices, accomplishments: women graduates of West Virginia University School of Medicine [6].

High impact information on West Virginia

• DESIGN AND SETTING: The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a random-digit telephone survey conducted in 1998 in 5 states: Florida, Iowa, Michigan, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. PARTICIPANTS: Population-based sample of 14 679 noninstitutionalized adults 18 years or older [7].
• A coincidental finding in the case of G6PD "West Virginia" was a C-->T transition at nucleotide 1,191 [8].
• An update on the West Virginia School of Medicine [9].
• Fatal unintended carbon monoxide poisoning in West Virginia from nonvehicular sources [10].
• Re: "Impact of viral respiratory diseases on infants and young children in a rural and urban area of southern West Virginia" [11].

Biological context of West Virginia

• STUDY: A retrospective analysis of all the charts of children diagnosed with IBD was performed at the gastroenterology clinics of Marshall University, Huntington, WV; and West Virginia University, Charleston Division, Charleston, WV [12].
• METHODS: Height, weight, blood pressure, total cholesterol (TC), and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol were measured in 1338 fifth-grade children (631 boys and 707 girls) in 14 rural West Virginia counties in 2000-2001 [13].
• In 1992, two patients were referred to the Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Family and Community Health, Marshall University School of Medicine, in Huntington, West Virginia for evaluation [14].
• METHOD: During the spring of 1994, a cross-sectional survey about ethical disagreements was conducted of all 42 internal medicine housestaff at the West Virginia University Hospitals and all 51 faculty in the Department of Medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. Chi-square analysis was used to compare categorical variables [15].
• Our results showed that reducing saturated fatty acids and increasing consumption of folate, Vitamin E, calcium and fiber are of prime public health importance in West Virginia. Diet and activity levels were modestly related, suggesting that those who adopt a healthy diet also become more active and vice versa [16].

Anatomical context of West Virginia

• To formulate an epidemiologic description of West Virginia spinal cord injury (SCI) resulting in hospitalization, we used data collected during the West Virginia Spinal Cord Injury Registry's first three years of operation, July 1985 through June 1988, supplemented by data from registries in neighboring states [17].

Associations of West Virginia with chemical compounds

• The algorithm was tested in computer simulations of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy with data from 378 patients (166 from California and 212 from West Virginia) who underwent planar exercise thallium-201 scintigraphy and coronary angiography [18].
• OBJECTIVES: An update of a study of workers exposed to 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT) at a rubber chemicals plant in Nitro, West Virginia is reported [19].
• In 1949, the first descriptions of human exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD)-contaminated chemicals were reported after a trichlorophenol reactor explosion in Nitro, West Virginia, USA [20].
• The policy at the West Virginia Poison Center is to reserve ondansetron, an antiemetic with a higher cost than other antiemetics, as a second line agent for patients presenting within 8 hours of an acetaminophen ingestion [21].
• The patients had worked in different coal preparation plants in southern West Virginia for over 10 years and had exposure to an acrylamide polymer flocculent contaminated with acrylamide monomer [14].

Gene context of West Virginia

• The prevalance of celiac disease in West Virginia [22].
• Increasing incidence and characteristics of differentiated thyroid cancer in Huntington, West Virginia [23].
• Thirty-eight pediatric patients have been surgically managed at West Virginia University from 1977-1983 for GER [24].
• In 1994, a pro bono hand clinic was started on the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona. The Navajo Nation, larger than the state of West Virginia, holds the greatest concentration of Native Americans in the United States. There has been no specialty hand care on the reservation, home to a population approximately 160,000 people [25].
• Medical grand rounds from the West Virginia University Hospital. Insulin resistance [26].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of West Virginia

• METHODS: Between March 1991 and July 1999, 12 patients at Oregon Health Sciences University, the Portland Veterans Administration Medical Center and West Virginia University School of Medicine Hospital were treated with external beam radiation followed by neck dissection and Ir192 implants [27].
• Psychiatry has been integrated into the Department of Internal Medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine as a means of ameliorating the educational and patient care deficiencies engendered by the traditional mind-body dichotomy in medical education [28].
• OBJECTIVE: The West Virginia Initiative to Improve End-of-Life Care charged its Palliative Care Delivery System Task Force with developing hospital-based palliative care teams in West Virginia. SETTING/SUBJECTS: A descriptive study of a state-community partnership to improve palliative care [29].

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