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A Meszaros

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PubMed2003

Evaluation of asthma knowledge and quality of life in Hungarian asthmatics.

BACKGROUND: The objective was to develop an educational instrument, to assess its impact as an intervention instrument and to examine quality of life (QoL). METHODS: 119 asthmatics were randomized (64 in the intervention and 55 in the reference group). The education instrument was developed based on the EuroPharm-Forum Guidelines and its impact assessed by a self-developed questionnaire. Patients' QoL, asthma knowledge was assessed twice, once before and after the education seminar, education was only provided for the intervention group. QoL was measured with the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) and a visual analogue scale (VAS). RESULTS: We found significant differences in answers to the asthma questions, by 40% improvement, but no changes in the control group. In inhaler-use technique, we could not find significant changes neither in the intervention nor in the control group. There were no significant differences between the results of the two visits neither with the VAS nor with the SGRQ on the QoL data. CONCLUSION: The results indicate that asthmatics experience lower QoL. As the subjects were regularly controlled asthmatics they had better general knowledge and inhaler-use technique was expected. The results suggest that it is necessary to regularly refresh asthma knowledge, to assess patients' self-management plans to achieve long-term effectiveness of asthma management.

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PubMed1999

Qualitative and quantitative study of wound healing processes in the coelenterate, Plexaurella fusifera: spatial, temporal, and environmental (light attenuation) influences.

Following injury, the Caribbean soft coral, Plexaurella fusifera, forms an epithelial front containing amoebocytes and zooxanthellae, a photosynthetic endosymbiont. Amoebocytes may be responsible for extruding the connective mesogleal fibers necessary for regeneration of tissue and zooxanthellae may provide the energy for repair. This study examined the effects of time, space, and environment (light attenuation) on wound healing in this coral species and quantitatively confirmed the increase of amoebocyte concentrations in the injured area. A wound was made on coral branchlets by removing approximately 4.5 mm of coenenchyme. At assigned times after injury, samples were collected for gross morphological and histological evaluation, in which amoebocytes and zooxanthellae concentrations were quantified within 0.009 mm3 of tissue. Overall amoebocyte numbers within uninjured and wounded tissue were similar. However, when numbers of amoebocytes per area of injured tissue were calculated and compared to those of uninjured tissue, 82.4% more amoebocytes occurred at distances 0-0.5 mm from the wound edge, while areas of tissue >2 mm from the wound edge were occupied by fewer amoebocytes. Overall increases in concentrations of zooxanthellae also occurred within wounded coral, but no apparent temporal, spatial, or light-related pattern was detected. Therefore, this study supports the conjecture that amoebocyte accumulation at a wound site is an effect of cells migrating from uninjured tissue adjacent to the wounded edge. In addition, this movement occurs regardless of light attenuation. Light, which in this study was confined to ranges between 70 and 545 microE s-1 m-2, did not significantly affect the wound healing process in regard to either closure or cellular concentrations.

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PubMed1996

[Characteristics of the Gypsy population].

"The study sums up the number and socio-economic characteristics of [the] gipsy population in Hungary. The history of gipsy surveys, dating back more than one hundred years, is reviewed.... The present situation is described drawing on the 1990 population census and the data of a special gipsy survey carried out in 1993. In the course of their analysis the authors discuss in detail the demographic characteristics, regional structure, labour market position, household budget situation, and housing conditions of gipsies." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

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PubMed1995

[Regional population shifts and settlement concentration].

The author analyzes migration and settlement patterns in Hungary during the past three decades. "Migration beyond the borders of the counties has been directed towards mainly Budapest and its conurbation....Significant population increase took place in Budapest's conurbation due to migration surplus and high natural increase.... In the inter-county migration the most frequent form was the movement into the neighbouring counties. Both intra-county migration and that crossing the border of counties have been directed towards mainly towns and larger communities." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

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