Báo cáo y học: "A meta-analysis of the incidence of malignancy in adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis" doc

... studies comparing the incidence of malignancy in patients with RA versus the general population since these may be expected to provide a realistic perspective on risk in the clinical setting. Materials ... both within-study and between-study variation by incorporating the heterogeneity of effects in the overall analysis. Results A total of 2,093 articles were ide...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... weakly with four domains of the Thai HAQ (dressing and grooming, walking, grip, and activity domains). The grip and walking domains of the Thai HAQ also had weak correlations with the number of ... the Chinese and Arabic HAQs. For each domain of the Thai HAQ, only the walking domain had an ICC of greater than 0.85. The mean scores of each domain of the Thai...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... writing of the manuscript. VD per- formed several experiments. MH participated in the analysis of the study and in the writing of the manuscript. BC and JM participated in the design of the study ... is unfavorable in the treatment of RA. The proposed local admin- istration of higher celecoxib concentrations in the synovial space of the joint of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... ±Birk protease inhibitors [5], metallothioneins [6], prothymosin a [7], a bacterial ®bronectin-binding protein [8], the brain protein a-synuclein together with the related proteins b-synuclein and c-synuclein ... relies mainly on the evidence outlined above. In view of the c lose similarity of the ROA spectra of the casein, synuclein and tau proteins shown in t his pap...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 15:20

... priori hypothesis was that the birth order effect may interact with the genetic predisposition of the off- spring in influencing future atopic manifestations. In order to test this hypothesis, ... Each of these SNPs had a minor allele frequency ≥ 19%. Using the Haploview program [26], three of the five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the interleu- kin 13 ge...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... http://www.kursus.kvl.dk/shares/vetgen/_Popgen/ genetik/applets/kitest.htm). Results Distribution of PADI4 haplotype combinations The frequencies of the PADI4 haplotype combinations found in our study are presented in Table 1. A detailed description of the variability of exons 2–4 of the ... and drafted the manuscript. TH, RG, HK, GRB, and AS partici- pated in the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... review. Interventions The interventions included (a) hydrotherapy, which was prima- rily of low intensity and involved walking, leg swinging, and mobility exercises; (b) land-based swinging, mobility, and stretching ... pain included the VAS; the pain subscale of the Harris Hip Score; and/or the pain subscale of the Health Related Quality of Life Table 1 Level of evidenc...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... that met the aims of the study. Following the initial interview, the interview sche- dule was further refined (Additional file 1). Generation of data Each interview took place within the out-patient ... well-being and quality of life (QOL). This study aimed to explore the perceptions of women with RA on their choice of footwear and identify the factors influencing fo...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... 4-20). Nine patients had their tumors within the head, 2 in the body and 7 in the tail of the pancreas. Notably one patient was demonstrated to have liver metastasis. The predominant presenting ... complaint was abdominal pain (8/18). The rest of the patients were asymptomatic and tumors were de- tected incidentally during routine physical examina- tion. All thes...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... made in managing HBV infection, challenge remains in optimizing HBV therapy. First, further understanding HBV dynamics and correlation of the level of HBV replication with liver injury will be invaluable ... mortality. Although HBV treatment is usually highly indicated, clinical trials of HBV treatment remains limited in this special group of patients. The available pre...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:41