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Risk factors for idiopathic cerebellar ataxia of late onset

Klockgether T, Bürk K, Wüllner U, et al. Risk factors for idiopathic cerebellar ataxia of late onset. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 1998;160(2):171-174.In an attempt to identify risk factors for the development of idiopathic cerebellar ataxia (IDCA) we performed a case-control study of 59 IDCA patients. Hypertension and medicine intake were less frequent in IDCA than in neurological controls. Multiple logistic regression yielded an odds ratio (OR) for hypertension of 0.13 (95% confidence interval: 0.00-1.02, P=0.0527) and medicine intake of 0.10 (95% confidence interval: 0.00-0.72, P=0.0157). In contrast, we did not identify an association of IDCA with a number of medical diseases, head trauma, smoking, alcohol intake, rural living and well-water drinking. Some of these factors have been previously shown to be associated with other neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, serum antibody titers against neurotropic viruses were not elevated in IDCA. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved

Risk factors for idiopathic cerebellar ataxia of late onset

Klockgether T, Bürk K, Wüllner U, et al. Risk factors for idiopathic cerebellar ataxia of late onset. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 1998;160(2):171-174.In an attempt to identify risk factors for the development of idiopathic cerebellar ataxia (IDCA) we performed a case-control study of 59 IDCA patients. Hypertension and medicine intake were less frequent in IDCA than in neurological controls. Multiple logistic regression yielded an odds ratio (OR) for hypertension of 0.13 (95% confidence interval: 0.00-1.02, P=0.0527) and medicine intake of 0.10 (95% confidence interval: 0.00-0.72, P=0.0157). In contrast, we did not identify an association of IDCA with a number of medical diseases, head trauma, smoking, alcohol intake, rural living and well-water drinking. Some of these factors have been previously shown to be associated with other neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, serum antibody titers against neurotropic viruses were not elevated in IDCA. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved

Study of latitudinal effects on VLF transmitter signals recorded by DEMETER/ICE experiment

International audienceWe report on VLF transmitter signals observed by the ‘Instrument Capteur Electrique' (ICE) experiment onboard the DEMETER micro-satellite. The DEMETER polar and circular sun-synchronous orbits lead to cover an invariant latitude range between -65° and +65° where up- and down-going half-orbits correspond to night-time (22:00 LT) and day-time (10:00 LT), respectively. The DEMETER orbit features permit to record signals emitted by some VLF ground-stations and detected by ICE experiment. We consider three transmitter signals emitted by stations in Europe (Germany, DFY, 16.58 kHz), in Asia (Japan, JP, 17.8 kHz) and in Australia (Australia, NWC, 19.8 kHz). We study the variation of these VLF signals taking into consideration the DEMETER satellite latitudes .We emphasis on latitudes where the satellite is close to the Earth's sub-auroral regions. We discuss particularly the presence, or not, of auroral magnetic activity effect on the VLF transmitter signals