Báo cáo y học: " Cigarette smoking associates with body weight and muscle mass of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional, observational study" potx

... cigarette smoking associates with reduced BMI and BF in patients with RA and heavy smoking associates with lower muscle mass. Smoking cessation appears to associate with increased BMI, BF, and waist ... identify potential associations of smoking with body weight and composition of RA patients. Methods A total of 392 patients (290 females)...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... indicated by a fold increase of more than 1 (Fig. 1d and Table 1). The median increase for patients with PsA was 4.7, for patients with SpA 5.0, for patients with JIA 6.4 and for patients with RA ... clinical characterization of the patients, and all the patients and personnel at the Rheumatology Clinic for providing samples. This study was supported financi...

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... Induction of systemic immunologic tolerance to beta-lactoglobulin by oral administra- tion of a whey protein hydrolysate. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1997; 100:266–73. 14. Takahashi I, Nakagawa I, Kiyono ... milk allergy and 10 children with cow’s milk allergy (age 1–6 years; mean age 4.1 years) were studied. Allergic symptoms such as urticaria, erythema, and wheezing occurred in less...

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... Human Inflamma- tion Antibody Array III (Raybiotech), which can detect 40 dif- ferent cytokines, or the Human Matrix Metalloproteinase Antibody Array (Raybiotech), which can detect seven MMPs and ... (Thou- sand Oaks, CA, USA). Nitrate/Nitrite Colorimetric Assay Kit was from Cayman Chemical (Ann Arbor, MI, USA). Tissue acquisition and chondrocyte cell culture Human ankle and knee articu...

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... report four patients (a 36-year-old Caucasian female, a 59-year-old White-Asian male, a 64-year-old Caucasian female and a 61-year-old Caucasian female) that developed an intra-abdominal hypertension due ... out- side the typical setting of abdominal surgery o r trauma, decompressive laparotomy is not always the gold stan- dardandpatientswithVADsmaybeathighriskfor postoperative I...

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... WSM. Glycosaminoglycan analysis Glycosaminoglycans are highly negatively charged because of the presence of sulfate ester and/ or carboxyl groups. Therefore, they interact with cations and are precipitated ... matrix, with various charac- terization methods: fractionation by size-exclusion and anion-exchange HPLC, amino acid analysis, glycosami- noglycan and calcium quantificati...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21

... that diamond and aluminum nanoparticle as additive in liquid paraffin at appropriate concentration can show better tribological properties for anti-wear and anti-friction than the pure paraffin ... bear the load but also separate the both interfaces, thus the wear and friction can be reduced. Zhang et al. [17] investigated Cu nanoparticles as an oil additive and found at a load of...

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... RP and also indi- cates that shared pathogenic pathways might be used in RP and RA. As large variations in the severity and targets of the inflammatory attack appear in patients with RP and RA, ... half of the RP patients the cartilage of the tracheolaryngeal tract is affected. This is a potentially fatal symptom caused by a collapse of tracheal rings and bronchi...

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... Filipowicz-Sosnowska A, Schechtman J, Szczepanski L, Kavanaugh A, Racewicz AJ, van Vollenhoven RF, Li NF, Agarwal S, Hessey EW, Shaw TM, DANCER Study Group: The efficacy and safety of rituximab in patients with ... to disease activity might facilitate our understanding of innate and adaptive B-cell functions in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods Thirty-five 'RTX-naïve&apo...

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