Disease relevance of New South Wales

• Ischemic heart disease in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, 1979-1985 [1].
• Biochemical and serological data are presented for 35 isolates of Yersinia enterocolitica from raw goat's milk produced in New South Wales, Australia. Strains resembled biotype I or 2, but the majority (25 of 35) fermented rhamnose and some showed other atypical reactions [2].
• When blocking tests with selected MAbs were applied to 468 flavivirus antibody positive sera collected from human subjects throughout New South Wales, sera with blocking patterns consistent with previous MVE infection were found in 18 subjects [3].
• Acute toxicity in a municipal sewage treatment plant in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was traced to chlorfenvinphos, an organophosphorous pesticide [4].
• A survey of current prescribing practices of anti-inflammatory and urate-lowering drugs in gouty arthritis in New South Wales and Queensland [5].

Psychiatry related information on New South Wales

• The use of bupropion for smoking cessation in rural New South Wales [6].
• This study focuses on a pilot group of nurses from the Hunter Region of New South Wales to develop the multi-dimensional construct professional self concept of nurses [7].
• METHOD: An analysis of decisions in the Supreme Court of New South Wales that dementia per se was not a mental illness in terms of the 1958 Mental Health Act. A brief review of the extrusion of other diseases from psychiatry [8].

High impact information on New South Wales

• In 1982, 50 of the 5.36 million New South Wales residents required surgery for this complication of MVP [9].
• In New South Wales, phenacetin was also banned, but 2 yr later the sales of all combined analgesics were also prohibited [10].
• Diabetes and glucose tolerance in New South Wales coastal Aborigines: possible effects of non-Aboriginal genetic admixture [11].
• The new Medicine programme at the University of New South Wales will exclusively utilize virtual microscopy for the study of both histology and histopathology [12].
• The incidence of childhood IDDM in New South Wales, Australia [13].

Chemical compound and disease context of New South Wales

• A New South Wales Supreme Court jury has decided that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) can cause or materially contribute to the development of laryngeal cancer [14].
• First trimester ultrasound with nuchal translucency measurement for Down syndrome risk estimation using software developed by the Fetal Medicine Foundation, United Kingdom--the first 2000 examinations in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia [15].
• Measures taken in New South Wales to address childhood obesity following the New South Wales Childhood Obesity Summit [16].
• Mortalities and a poor growth syndrome in cattle in the Hunter River valley of New South Wales were associated with pyrrolizidine alkaloid toxicity caused by Senecio lautus (common fireweed) [17].
• Caprine retrovirus infection in New South Wales: virus isolations, clinical and histopathological findings and prevalence of antibody [18].

Biological context of New South Wales

• RFLP types C3 and C1 were most common (collectively, 85% of isolates), but C1 was not found in New South Wales and C3 was present in dairy cattle but not in beef cattle in Victoria. These differences may be explained by restricted livestock trading patterns between different segments of the cattle industry [19].
• A postal survey of a random sample of 1200 persons who lived in the Hunter Region of New South Wales was undertaken in order to determine their experiences of blood pressure measurement and treatment for hypertension [20].
• During the period of six years from 1977 to 1982, the number of admissions of victims of traffic accidents to public hospitals in the Hunter Health Region of New South Wales fell from 2099 to 1734, a decline of 21% [21].
• The utilization of antenatal diagnosis by women of advanced maternal age in the New England Health Region, New South Wales [22].
• Specimens of the Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea commercialis were deployed for a 3-month period at control and sewage disturbed marine locations in the Hunter Region, New South Wales, Australia. The DNA damage product,8-hydroxyguanine, was measured by GC/MS-SIM from chromatin extracts of the gill tissues of oysters to assess oxidative damage [23].

Anatomical context of New South Wales

• We identified all residents of New South Wales, Australia, who had mitral valve surgery for myxomatous valve disease during 1982 and, using these data and the adult population statistics from 1982, estimated the cumulative risk of valve surgery in patients with MVP [9].
• OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the handling and insertion trauma of the recently developed Nucleus perimodiolar Contour electrode array (Cochlear Ltd., Pty, Lane Cove, New South Wales, Australia) in human temporal bones compared with the Nucleus standard straight electrode array [24].
• Trauma to the central and peripheral nervous systems. Part II: A statistical profile of surgical treatment New South Wales 1977 [25].

Associations of New South Wales with chemical compounds

• A process is under development at the University of New South Wales to produce fermentation ethanol faster and more efficiently [26].
• Diagnostic patterns for schizophrenia and affective psychosis were examined for all admissions to psychiatric facilities in New South Wales over a ten-year (1967-1977) period, before, during, and after lithium carbonate had been established as an accepted treatment [27].
• The relation of house dust mite allergen levels to asthma and allergy was examined in two population samples of children aged 8-11 years in northern New South Wales. We studied 805 children in Lismore (a hot, humid, coastal region) and 770 in Moree/Narrabri (a hot, dry inland region) [28].
• We used electrospray tandem mass spectrometry in the New South Wales (Australia) Newborn Screening Programme to measure free carnitine and acylcarnitine species in the newborn population [29].
• SETTING: Community setting in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. SUBJECTS: Two random samples of adults 35-69 years from the electoral roll [30].

Gene context of New South Wales

• BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in New South Wales (NSW) [31].
• Recent (1983-1996) CMM incidence trends for a high incidence area (New South Wales, Australia) have been examined according to gender, age group, body site and tumour thickness [32].
• DESIGN: A case-control study in 769 non-institutionalized, elderly (aged > or = 60 years; female:male ratio 0.85) residents of Dubbo, New South Wales. METHODS: Individuals were classified as having ISH (n = 171), having SDH (n = 218) and being normotensive controls (n = 366) with age and sex matching [33].
• Data from the New South Wales State Cancer Registry implicate a background increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer in the population as a major contributing factor [34].
• In order to examine further the relation between atopy, as defined by skin-prick tests, and respiratory illness, we studied three populations of schoolchildren aged 8-11 years and living in different climatic areas of New South Wales, Australia. Skin-prick tests were performed using 13 commercial allergen extracts [35].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of New South Wales

• The use of non-prescription salbutamol inhalers by asthmatic patients in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. Newcastle Retail Pharmacy Research Group [36].
• The study was carried out in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, using a sample of over 6000 children which would be large enough to detect, with high probability, differences of about 5% in smoking prevalence between the treatment and control groups [37].
• A household health survey of an entire rural shire in the Central Western Region of New South Wales was conducted by the Health Commission of New South Wales, Regional Health Office in Bathurst along with the Central Western Regional Advisory Council during April-May, 1976, to determine the prevalence of chronic illness [38].
• We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all women who had an amniocentesis during twin pregnancy from 1980 through 1991 in New South Wales, Australia. Women who were exposed to methylene blue dye during the procedure were compared with women who had amniocentesis without dye exposure [39].
• Gene sequence analysis of fusion (F) gene cleavage motifs and haemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) carboxyl-terminal extension sequences was used to analyse Newcastle disease viruses (NDV) associated with virulent outbreaks of the disease which occurred in New South Wales, Australia in 1998-2000 [40].

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