Odds ratios (ORs) NVP-HSP990 for periodontal diseases severity and their respective 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated. The risk of advanced scores in Clinical Attachment Level (CAL) and Community Periodontal Index (CPI) were estimated using Poisson Regression analyses.

Results: Only smoking and age were associated with severity in CAL and CPI index. No relation between MD and PD was observed even in different

positions within the police department.

Conclusions: It was not observed relation between GHQ-12 and the incidence of Periodontal Disease in a Brazilian Police population. Classical factors like age and smoking, however, were associated with CAL and CPI index higher scores in this population.”
“Drugs prescription in children correlates

with a high risk of developing unknown or rare adverse drug reactions (ADRs). In the absence of appropriate clinical trials in the paediatric population, the spontaneous reporting of suspected ADRs is an important means to promote selleck inhibitor reasonable warning signals. In this context, family paediatricians (FPs) play a crucial role although a general poor compliance in their ability of reporting of ADR is widely described. To understand the reasons beyond this situation we performed a survey, the first of its kind in Italy, to evaluate FPs knowledge, feeling and compliance in ADR reporting. A total of 552 FPs evenly distributed throughout the Italian territory provided a feedback to the survey. Knowledge of pharmacovigilance (PV) resulted to be poor, mainly due to the absence of adequate training in academy; despite this, the majority of FPs declared to be interested to PV and aware of its positive impact on their clinical practice. Yet, FPs reported a poor compliance to the reporting of ADRs. A very high variability in ADRs reporting however, was observed among the regions, possibly because of variability of regional

educational programmes dedicated to PV. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“Bow hunter’s syndrome (BHS) is a rare condition resulting from vertebrobasilar insufficiency secondary to mechanical PF-04929113 occlusion or stenosis of the vertebral artery (VA) due to head rotation. Traditionally, surgical intervention with C1-C2 fusion or VA decompression was the mainstay of therapy. Endovascular intervention was rarely performed to treat BHS. We reviewed the neurointerventional database from July 2005 to October 2010 to identify all cases of BHS treated with VA stenting. Here we report clinical, technical, and outcome data for 4 patients with BHS who were treated with VA stenting. In all 4 of these patients, stenting was performed in the V2 segment (C2-C6) of the VA without significant technical difficulties. All patients reported symptomatic relief, and only minor or no residual stenosis was detected by dynamic digital subtraction angiography. Our findings indicate that VA stenting for the treatment of BHS is feasible, safe, and clinically effective.