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Trends in mortality from pulmonary tuberculosis before and after antibiotics in the Portuguese sanatorium Carlos Vasconcelos Porto (1918-1991): archival evidence and its paleopathological relevance [PDF]
, 2015 The comparative study of patients’ profiles and outcomes from pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), before and after the discovery of antibiotic therapy, using sanatoria archives is an unexplored approach in paleopathology.
Matos, Vítor M. J., Santos, Ana Luísa
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006 Assessment of intrapopulation human health provides information concerning social structure, division of labor, and lifestyle. Differential health among the sexes can provide clues to social roles, resource acquisition and status within prehistoric ...
Rachel K Wentz +3 more
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THE PALEOEPIDEMIOLOGY OF POROTIC HYPEROSTOSIS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST: RADIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS [PDF]
American Journal of Roentgenology, 1975 Porotic hyperostosis was observed in 34 percent of 539 crania excavated from sites in Arizona and New Mexico. Common causes of this cranial pathology in the Old World (thalassemia, sickel cell anemia, and malargia) do not explain its occurrence in the American Southwest, as malaria and hemoglobinopathies are not known to have existed in the New World ...
M Y, El-Najjar, B, Lozoff, D J, Ryan
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Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2015 The data-set described here comprises cranial pathology data and cranial age assessment for 113 individuals from four Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges, Serbia.
Marija Radović +2 more
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Osteoporosis and paleopathology: a review [PDF]
, 2014 Osteoporosis is a complex and heterogeneous disorder, of multi-factor aetiology. It is the most frequent metabolic bone disorder, affecting an increasing number of post-menopausal women and aging individuals from both sexes.
Curate, Francisco
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Schmorl's Nodes in Archaeological Skeletal Remains from Southern Patagonia [PDF]
, 2014 Los nódulos de Schmorl (NS) son herniaciones del núcleo pulposo de los discos intervertebrales dentro de los cuerpos vertebrales adyacentes. Las causas de su desarrollo son parcialmente comprendidas, asociadas a factores morfológicos, degenerativos ...
Suby, Jorge Alejandro
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Paleoepidemiology of Degerative Joint Disease [PDF]
, 1978 In order to contribute significantly to the description and understanding of human disease, paleoepidemiology must first recognize requirements which epidemiologists have long considered essential: 1) that the populations sampled are relevant to a set of
Jurmain, Robert D.
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Cranial vault trauma and selective mortality in medieval to early modern Denmark [PDF]
, 2015 Significance Neurocranial fractures and their aftermath took a toll on people in premodern societies, much like today. Archaeological information on skeletal trauma, however, typically consists of mere tallies of injuries, much like other ...
Boldsen, Jesper L +2 more
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 185, Issue 3, November 2024.Abstract Objectives Intersectionality posits that multiple levels of marginalization interact to produce patterns of frailty and mortality, both today and in the past. To investigate how mortality during industrialization was selective with respect to sex and socioeconomic status (SES), this study analyzes data from four burial grounds dated to the ...
Samantha L. Yaussy
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Discovery of the Principal Cystic Fibrosis Mutation (F508del) in Ancient DNA from Iron Age Europeans [PDF]
, 2007 The most common, life-threatening autosomal recessive disease of Europeans and Euro-Americans, cystic fibrosis (CF), occurs predominately in patients with the F508del mutation.1 Although F508del is currently detectable as a single allele in 1/30-1/40 ...
Cedric Le Marechal +4 more
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