The gender specific frequency of risk factor and CHD diagnoses prior to incident MI: A community study

BACKGROUND: CHD is a chronic disease often present years prior to incident AMI. Earlier recognition of CHD may be associated with higher levels of recognition and treatment of CHD risk factors that may delay incident AMI. To assess timing of CHD and CHD risk factor diagnoses prior to incident AMI. METHODS: This is a 10-year population based medical record review study that included all medical care providers in Olmsted County, Minnesota for all women and a sample of men residing in Olmsted County, MN with confirmed incident AMI between 1995 and 2000. RESULTS: All medical care for the 10 years prior to incident AMI was reviewed for 150 women and 148 men (38% sample) in Olmsted County, MN. On average, women were older than men at the time of incident AMI (74.7 versus 65.9 years, p < 0.0001). 30.4% of the men and 52.0% of the women received diagnoses of CHD prior to incident AMI (p = 0.0002). Unrecognized and untreated CHD risk factors were present in both men (45% of men 5 years prior to AMI) and women (22% of women 5 years prior to first AMI), more common in men and those without a diagnosis of CHD prior to incident AMI (p < 0.0001). CONCLUSION: A CHD diagnosis prior to incident AMI is associated with higher rates of recognition and treatment of CHD risk factors suggesting that diagnosing CHD prior to AMI enhances opportunities to lower the risk of future CHD events

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Stability analysis of convection in the intracluster medium

We use the machinery usually employed for studying the onset of Rayleigh--B\'enard convection in hydro- and magnetohydro-dynamic settings to address the onset of convection induced by the magnetothermal instability and the heat-flux-buoyancy-driven-instability in the weakly-collisional magnetized plasma permeating the intracluster medium. Since most of the related numerical simulations consider the plasma being bounded between two `plates' on which boundary conditions are specified, our strategy provides a framework that could enable a more direct connection between analytical and numerical studies. We derive the conditions for the onset of these instabilities considering the effects of induced magnetic tension resulting from a finite plasma beta. We provide expressions for the Rayleigh number in terms of the wave vector associated with a given mode, which allow us to characterize the modes that are first to become unstable. For both the heat-flux-buoyancy-driven-instability and the magnetothermal instability, oscillatory marginal stable states are possible.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur

Evaluation of the Surajdewal sand for the glass industry

The raw sand available at Surajdewal was examined chemically and petrographically and some beneficiation work was carried out to investigate the suitability of the sand for the glass industry. The sand, as such, corresponds to Grade 3 of IS: 488-1963. During beneficiation it was observed that washing with water lowered the iron content, bringing the sand almost equivalent to Grade 2, and on leaching with 1 H2S04 the sand was found to be in conformity with Grade 1. The coarseness of the sand was reduced through grinding and this led to significant improvement in particle size distribution, ali preferred by the glass industry. Trial melting wa11 carried out with untreated and different grades of treated sands. The results were found to be encouraging for utilization in the glass industry. © 1982 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC