El Paso revisited. Epidemiologic follow-up of an environmental lead problem

JAMA ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 242 (8) ◽  
pp. 739-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Morse
Keyword(s):  
El Paso ◽  
Environmental Lead

scholarly journals LOW-LEVEL ENVIRONMENTAL LEAD EXPOSURE IN CHILDHOOD AND ADULT INTELLECTUAL FUNCTION: A FOLLOW -UP STUDY

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maitreyi Mazumdar ◽  
David Bellinger ◽  
Matthew Gregas ◽  
Kathleen Abanilla ◽  
Janine Bacic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lead Exposure ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Environmental Lead ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Intellectual Function ◽  
Environmental Lead Exposure

scholarly journals Reinterpreting Models of Slope-Front Recharge in a Desert Basin

Geosciences ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Barry J. Hibbs ◽  
Mercedes Merino
Keyword(s):  
El Paso ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variability ◽  
Stable Water Isotopes ◽  
Lateral Contact ◽  
Groundwater Samples ◽  
Alluvial Floodplain ◽  
Hueco Bolson ◽  
Floodplain Deposits

Identification of recharge areas in arid basins is challenging due to spatial and temporal variability and complexity of the hydrogeology. This study re-evaluates recharge mechanism in a desert basin where isotopic and geologic data indicated that published conceptual models of recharge are not accurate. A new model of recharge is formulated that is consistent with the unique geologic framework in the basin. In the area of study, the Rio Grande flows across a broad alluvial floodplain, the “El Paso-Juarez Valley”, where the river has incised the surface of the Hueco Bolson. The modern Rio Grande floodplain overlies the older basin fill, or “Hueco Bolson deposits”, in the valley portion of the area. The lateral contact between the older bolson deposits and the recent alluvial floodplain deposits defines the “slope front”. The valley wall along the slope front is penetrated by many arroyos that incise the Hueco Bolson deposits and modern floodplain surface. The presence of a large lens of freshwater at the boundary between the older bolson fill and recent Rio Grande alluvium seemed to suggest to previous researchers that dilute water developed due to runoff drawn in by San Felipe Arroyo, a prominent arroyo at the slope front between the older Hueco Bolson deposits and the recent Rio Grande alluvium. Our follow-up verification work illustrates that this is demonstrably not the case. The testing of groundwater samples for stable water isotopes and radioisotopes showed that the deeper and more dilute waters near San Felipe Arroyo are actually pre-dam waters recharged from the shifting Rio Grande channel.

scholarly journals Correction to: Predictors of timely diagnostic follow-up after an abnormal Pap test among Hispanic women seeking care in El Paso, Texas

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thelma Carrillo ◽  
Jane R. Montealegre ◽  
Christina G. Bracamontes ◽  
Michael E. Scheurer ◽  
Michele Follen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hispanic Women ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Pap Test

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

scholarly journals Predictors of timely diagnostic follow-up after an abnormal Pap test among Hispanic women seeking care in El Paso, Texas

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thelma Carrillo ◽  
Jane R. Montealegre ◽  
Christina G. Bracamontes ◽  
Michael E. Scheurer ◽  
Michele Follen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Hispanic Women ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Pap Test ◽  
Optimal Interval ◽  
National Breast ◽  
Diagnostic Interval

Abstract Background Diagnostic follow-up of women with an abnormal Pap test is necessary to resolve the risk developing cervical cancer. The purpose of this study is to describe patient characteristics associated with timely receipt of a diagnostic colposcopy after an abnormal Pap test among Hispanic women in El Paso, a Texas-Mexico border city. Methods We conducted a retrospective chart review of Hispanic patients seen at an academic colposcopy clinic following an abnormal Pap test. An optimal diagnostic interval to colposcopy was based on a National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) quality indicator and was defined as receipt of colposcopy within 90 days or less from the date of an abnormal Pap test. Risk ratios (RR) were calculated by building a generalized linear model fit using a Poisson distribution, log link, and robust variance. Results Overall, 177 of the 270 women (65.6%) received follow-up within an optimal diagnostic interval. After adjusting for other variables in the model, women who were 30 years of age or older were 32% more likely to have an optimal interval than younger women (adjusted RR = 1.32, P < 0.01). High school graduates were less likely than more educated women to have an optimal interval (adjusted RR = 0.68, P < 0.01). Participation in the NBCCEDP was not associated with receipt of follow-up within an optimal diagnostic interval. Conclusions Compared with women with greater educational attainment, high school graduates were less likely to receive follow-up within an optimal diagnostic interval, as were younger (≤ 30 years) women compared with older women. Participation in the NBCCEDP was not associated with receipt of care within an optimal diagnostic interval.

scholarly journals Low-level environmental lead exposure in childhood and adult intellectual function: a follow-up study

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maitreyi Mazumdar ◽  
David C Bellinger ◽  
Matthew Gregas ◽  
Kathleen Abanilla ◽  
Janine Bacic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lead Exposure ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Environmental Lead ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Intellectual Function ◽  
Environmental Lead Exposure

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

Brief summary of Kleť photographic search programme for minor planets

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 189-192
Author(s):  
J. Tichá ◽  
M. Tichý ◽  
Z. Moravec
Keyword(s):  
Ccd Camera ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Main Belt

AbstractA long-term photographic search programme for minor planets was begun at the Kleť Observatory at the end of seventies using a 0.63-m Maksutov telescope, but with insufficient respect for long-arc follow-up astrometry. More than two thousand provisional designations were given to new Kleť discoveries. Since 1993 targeted follow-up astrometry of Kleť candidates has been performed with a 0.57-m reflector equipped with a CCD camera, and reliable orbits for many previous Kleť discoveries have been determined. The photographic programme results in more than 350 numbered minor planets credited to Kleť, one of the world's most prolific discovery sites. Nearly 50 per cent of them were numbered as a consequence of CCD follow-up observations since 1994.This brief summary describes the results of this Kleť photographic minor planet survey between 1977 and 1996. The majority of the Kleť photographic discoveries are main belt asteroids, but two Amor type asteroids and one Trojan have been found.

Intranuclear Crystals in Regenerating Canine Kidneys

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 412-413
Author(s):  
D.G. Osborne ◽  
L.J. McCormack ◽  
M.O. Magnusson ◽  
W.S. Kiser
Keyword(s):  
Epithelial Cell ◽  
Epithelial Cells ◽  
Tubular Epithelial Cell ◽  
Tubular Epithelial Cells ◽  
Cell Nuclei ◽  
Crystalline Structures ◽  
Small Crystals ◽  
Membrane Bound

During a project in which regenerative changes were studied in autotransplanted canine kidneys, intranuclear crystals were seen in a small number of tubular epithelial cells. These crystalline structures were seen in the control specimens and also in regenerating specimens; the main differences being in size and number of them. The control specimens showed a few tubular epithelial cell nuclei almost completely occupied by large crystals that were not membrane bound. Subsequent follow-up biopsies of the same kidneys contained similar intranuclear crystals but of a much smaller size. Some of these nuclei contained several small crystals. The small crystals occurred at one week following transplantation and were seen even four weeks following transplantation. As time passed, the small crystals appeared to fuse to form larger crystals.

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