Understandings of Down's syndrome and their place in the prenatal testing context [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: There is a growing consensus that decisions about prenatal testing should a) be informed, and b) reflect the individual's attitudes and values.
Bryant, Louise Dorothy
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The oral mucosal and salivary microbial community of Behçet's syndrome and recurrent aphthous stomatitis. [PDF]
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is ...
Bergmeier, LA +9 more
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Cowden syndrome - Diagnostic skin signs [PDF]
Cowden syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant familial cancer syndrome with a high risk of breast cancer. The most important clinical features include carcinomas of the breast and thyroid, and hamartomatous polyps of the gastrointestinal tract.
Burgdorf, Walter H. C. +5 more
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Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Chinese adolescents [PDF]
Since national figures on the occurrence of metabolic syndrome among Chinese adolescents are lacking, this study aims to estimate its prevalence and distribution among Chinese youngsters.
Yang, X. +6 more
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General practitioners' perceptions of chronic fatigue syndrome and beliefs about its management, compared with irritable bowel syndrome: qualitative study [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: To compare general practitioners' perceptions of chronic fatigue syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome and to consider the implications of their perceptions for treatment.
Tom Sensky +11 more
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Reduced-complexity syndrome-based TTCM decoding [PDF]
The iterative decoder of Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation (TTCM) exchanges extrinsic information between the constituent TCM decoders, which imposes a high computational complexity at the receiver. Therefore we conceive the syndrome-based block decoding of
Ng, Soon Xin +2 more
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Parent and self-report health-related quality of life measures in young patients with Tourette syndrome [PDF]
Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by tics and comorbid behavioral problems. This study compared child- and parent-reported quality of life and everyday functioning.
C. Luoni +39 more
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Down syndrome, paternal age and education: comparison of California and the Czech Republic [PDF]
Background: The association between maternal age and risk of Down syndrome has been repeatedly shown in various populations. However, the effect of paternal age and education of parents has not been frequently studied.
Hynek Pikhart +5 more
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The experience of humour in Asperger’s syndrome [PDF]
A Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of Counselling Psychology.This study investigated the experience of humour of people with Asperger’s syndrome.
Ruggeri, Susan
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