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In the mid-1990s, 93% of infants in the urban areas of Bolivia received at least one vaccination [ 28 ] . Although the hospital visits of most infants were for the purpose of regular check-ups and vaccinations, a number of infants were seen because of illness.
6. How does extent of injury or severity of illness affect the intervention?
Because of its metabolic role, drugs which interfere with MAOA such as clorgyline have been used to treat ADHD [ 64 ] . The most notable of MAOA polymorphism was a nonsense mutation that led to a complete loss of MAOA function in males showing extreme forms of impulsive behavior and aggression [ 65 ] . More recently, the association with aggression was replicated in a study showing that maltreated children with certain alleles of MAOA were more likely to show aggressive behaviors [ 66 ] . MAOA male knockout mice also show high levels of aggression [ 67 ] . Less severe genetic variants are known to exist in MAOA which have been studied as candidates to explain various dimensions of psychiatric illness.
[ 13 ] If managed care presents barriers to access to effective care, the elderly would be especially vulnerable because they have a higher burden of illness than the rest of the population.
This work was supported by the State of California Alzheimer's Disease Research Clinical Center, by the Sierra-Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, and by the Medical Research Service of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System