Báo cáo y học: " Factors predicting the outcome of customised foot orthoses in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort stud" pps

... the wearing time per day [11]. Although all patients indicated that they wore their foot Table 3 Results of multivariate linear regression analyses of change in pain and disability measures with ... factors associated with change in pain and disability. A significance level of P < 0.05 was used to include a factor in the final model. The change scores in N...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... female patients with a median age of 27.5 years. The type of injury was external trauma in 21 (70%) patients and endoluminal injury in the remaining 9 (30%) patients. The mechanism of injury was ... days (median, 21.5 days). Hospital stays were twice as long in delayed patients, in those younger than 18 years of age, and in those with a gunshot injury, a...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... for daily practice, since discontinuation of therapy at certain intervals, such as after 1 or 2 years of therapy, may become a standard approach. Payers and patients may want to make sure that further ... of 3 comes closer to indicating an acceptable state. Conclusion Therapy with infliximab has definite long-term clinical effi- cacy and safety in patients with AS. Patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... demanding in the quantity of available data. In the LR analysis, the kinetic parameters were modeled based on sex, presence of CYP 3A5 *1 allele, age at transplantation (<40 versus ≥40 years ... lo- cated in intron 3, has been recognized as the most important CYP 3A5 polymorphism. The alleles A and G are CYP 3A5 *1 and CYP 3A5 *3, respectively. Indi- viduals carr...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:32

... Lourida ES, Alamanos Y, Kostara C, Tselepis AD, Drosos AA: Atherogenic lipid profile is a feature characteristic of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: effect of early treatment – a prospective, ... muscle wasting may occur as a consequence of a reduc- tion in functional capacity. The systemic inflammation associ- ated with RA causes a hypercatabolic stat...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... The red line indicates the lineage leading to the human genome. The dashed part of the line indicates the artifactual peak of duplications at the eutherian nodes. 0 Time (millions of years ago) Amniotes Tetrapods Vertebrates Chordates Bilateria Homo Primates Mammals Theria Eutheria Number ... method. Vilella et al. also claim that the ‘addition of new placental mamma...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... reflex pathways in the insular, cingulated and ventromedial prefrontal cortices, central nucleus of the amygdala, paraventricular hypothalamus and the medulla. In addition there can be interference ... occur because of involvement of several critical pathways of autonomic nervous system, including the brain stem, spinal cord, hypothalamus and cerebral cortex. Demyel...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39

... has changed the paradigm of treatment options. However, despite the introduction of anti-cytokine therapy, there remains a significant unmet need for additional therapy in the treatment of RA ... original URL. Abstract The objective of this study was to evaluate the safety and possible efficacy of IFN-β- 1a for the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthr...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... rheumatology clinics, repeating these measurements after a median interval of 1 year. We extracted the underlying latent variable using principal component factor analysis. We used the Bayesian information ... such as disease damage or joint impairment. The polyarticular nature of RA usually causes a global limi- tation in joint function. This characteristic of RA makes a...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... Clinical decisions about hospital discharge were made by the treating surgical team and not by the investi- gators. In case of a colectomy a midline laparotomy was carried out. For a gastrectomy and ... and statistical analysis The main endpoint of the study was the determination of the perioperative concentration of IL-1β in the patient's peritoneal fluid...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21