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A J Chen

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PubMed1980

Recent trends in the mortality and morbidity of cardiovascular diseases.

The trend of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality during the recent decades is traced. The standardized death rate for ischaemic heart disease had increased, for cerebrovascular disease it has remained stable and for hypertensive, pulmonary and symptomatic heart diseases it has declined. If the number of hospital admission is taken to be indicative of the prevalence of the disease in the community, then the prevalence rates of not only ischaemic heart disease but also hypertensive, pulmonary and symptomatic heart diseases have risen. The sex, age and ethnic characteristics of deaths and patients with different cardiovascular diseases are also presented and discussed.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

New admissions to Woodbridge Hospital 1975 with special reference to schizophrenia.

Woodbrige Hospital had 2,257 patients in 1975. Of these 75 percent were suffering from Schizophrenia. This pattern was similar to that of developing countries like Padistan and Malaya. A study was carried out on all new admissions in 1975. There were 1,068 patients whose age ranged from 10 to 89. Schizophrenia which constituted 62% of the cases was analysed in detail. They were mainly in the age range 10-29 (64%). The sex ratio was 3 males to 2 females. Their distribution by their type of housing was similar to that of the general populations. They were better educated. The most common presentation were reports of aggressive, violent, disturbed, abnormal or withdrawn behaviour. The 10 most common symptoms were paranoid ideas, hearing of voices, talking to oneself, insomnia, aggression, abnormal behaviour, laughing to oneself, disturbed behaviour, crying to oneself and withdrawn behaviour. The most common drugs used were trifluoperazine (47%) and chlorpromazine (45%). Electroconvulsive therapy was given to 25% of the patients. Most of the patients (63%) stayed less than 20 days.

Adolescent↗
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Legalized abortion: the Singapore experience.

Abortion has been legal since 1970 in Singapore. This report traces the events leading to the liberalization of abortion laws and examines women's changing attitudes toward abortion, in Singapore. The method of abortion practiced by obstetricians, postabortal sterilization, and the effect of legalized abortion on the incidence of illegal abortion in the country are also examined.

Abortion, Illegal↗