William M. Mikkelsen

TL;DR: Variables from the medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and radiographs were used to develop sets of criteria that serve different investigative purposes and these proposed criteria utilize classification trees, or algorithms.

TL;DR: The data with reference to relative distribution above arbitrarily defined cutting points suggest that these points, commonly used in clinical medicine to define "hyperuricemia," are unrealistically low and, in addition, fail to take into account important differences associated with age.

TL;DR: The latex fixation test performed poorly as a case detection tool, only one-third of those respondents with positive tests having any other evidence to suggest a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, and rates of latex positively occurred in individuals with a history of jaundice or infectious hepatitis and in those with evidence of emphysema or right heart failure.

TL;DR: Analysis of the uric acid data from the initial examination cycle of the Tecumseh Community Health Study reveals that not only age and sex but also body weight or build should be considered when evaluating serum uric Acid levels in disease or relating serum Uric acid levels to other physiologic variables.

TL;DR: Those of post traumatic changes, including amputation of digits, in the hands and wrists and fusion of cervical vertebral bodies, thought to represent a failure of segmentation in embryonic life, were most frequent in residents of Tecumseh, Michigan.