In addition, a recent case report conducted by Bernard and coworkers [ 14] suggested that inducing cooling before ROSC may be advantageous.
This paper reports on a case study – conducted within the European FP7 project "4FUN" – focusing on exposure of pre-school children to lead resulting from past emissions by non-ferrous smelters in Belgium (Northern Campine area).
A case report was conducted.
YG designed the study in collaboration with NL and TH, applied to the Ethical Board in collaboration with NL, prepared the Case Report Forms, conducted clinical assessments, collected data, planned and executed the analyses, interpreted the results in collaboration with TH and NL, and prepared all drafts of the manuscript in collaboration with TH.
We excluded animal studies, duplicates, summaries, commentaries, editorials, case reports, studies that conducted outside United States, and studies published before last 7 years or studies with data collection take place before last 10 years 20022).
Studies conducted in developed countries, case reports, case series, and studies conducted in patients with immunodeficiency or immunocompromise (eg, human immunodeficiency virus, cancer, post organ transplantation) were excluded.
Editorials, review articles, special articles, small case series in which statistical analyses were not conducted, case reports, meta-analyses, audits of clinical practice patterns, abstracts, and correspondence were excluded [ 10].
We report a large case-control study conducted in the North West Region of England and in Wales.
13, 14 The analysis described in this paper was conducted on case reports in disaggregated form, as a pooled analysis would not give a robust statistical approach.
Although the condition has been popularized by media coverage and case reports, no systematic studies have been conducted to conclusively tie methamphetamine use to symptoms that are commonly described as meth mouth.
