National surveillance for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Taiwanese children
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Obesity is the most common cause of diabetes in Taiwanese children, according to a study of 2,926,700 children. In this large group of children, blood and urine tests revealed that 9 boys and 15 girls per 100,000 children had diabetes. Half of the children had type 2 diabetes, according to a smaller study of 253 diabetic children. Obese children were 18 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than normal-weight children.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2003
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Suspected moonflower intoxication -- Ohio, 2002
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Fourteen cases of moonflower poisoning in Akron and Cleveland, OH, were reported to the Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center between October 11 and November 20, 2002. All were teenagers and all had eaten seeds from a plant identified as Datura inoxia. This plant is related to jimson weed, which is also poisonous. This may represent a new form of substance abuse among teenagers.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2003
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Use of quarantine to prevent transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome -- Taiwan, 2003
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Over 130,000 people were quarantined for up to 10 days in Taiwan between March 18 and July 4, 2003 during the SARS outbreak. This is one of the few times in the 20th century that large numbers of people had to be quarantined for health reasons. Most were quarantined at home, at a hospital, a hotel, a military base, or other officially designated quarantine site.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2003
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