Báo cáo y học: " Adverse health consequences in COPD patients with rapid decline in FEV1 - evidence from the UPLIFT trial" doc
... factors. Identification of patients with the most rapid decline in lung function, particularly in the early stages of COPD, would require a study of reproducibility of FEV 1 and its decl ine in individual patients, ... rate of decline in the SGRQ total score increased linearly wi th each quarti le increase in the post-bronchodilator decline in FEV 1 (Figure 3...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20
... importance. Discussion In this study we investigated the treatment of patients with SUD in Community Mental Health Centres (CMHCs) which typically treat patients with non-psy- chotic disorders such as anxiety disorders, ... finding is that the patients in the SUD group have poorer outcomes in regard to recovery from psy- chological problems. In addition, they hav...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22
... probability of dis- ability after stroke, and the four probabilities of death - affect patients courses in the same way as they did in the original life-table model [5]. The annual probability of ... stroke patients with early institutionalized rehabilitation by a multidisciplinary team [33]. However, length of stay in stroke units may vary within Europe and this may ch...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35
Báo cáo y học: "Elevated plasma homocysteine is positively associated with age independent of C677T mutation of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene in selected Egyptian subjects"
... from 5,10-methylene-tetrahydrofolate [9,10]. Reduction in the activity of these enzymes caused by congenital defects and/or deficiencies in folate may affect the normal homocysteine pathway ... homocysteine levels in subjects with hyperinsulinemia. J Intern Med. 2000;247(2):28 7-9 4. 66. Fonseca VA, Fink LM, Kern PA. Insulin sensitivity and plasma homocysteine concentratio...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49
Báo cáo y học: " Vgf is a novel biomarker associated with muscle weakness in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with a potential role in disease pathogenesis"
... to age-, gender-, and strain-matched wild-type litter- mates. The loss of Vgf immmunoreactive signal in SMI-32 spinal cord motorneurons in the L3-L5 region of spinal cord in ~130 days old ... levels in CSF and in serum respectively precedes ALS-type muscle weakness in ~90 day-old symptomatic mutant G93A-SOD-1 mice and continue to decline as a function of progression of...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:52
Báo cáo y học: "TRAF1/C5 polymorphism is not associated with increased mortality in rheumatoid arthritis: two large longitudinal studies" pot
... genotyped in the non-RA cohort. Genotypings were performed using the MassArray matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry, according to the protocols recom- mended ... differ from the frequen- cies in the a dult EAC cohort [8]. Also the minor allele frequency in the non-RA cohort is similar to those in the general population [20]. I...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:23
Báo cáo y học: "Tight perioperative glucose control is associated with a reduction in renal impairment and renal failure in non-diabetic cardiac surgical patients" ppsx
... hydrocortisone intravenously [19]. In patients with acute myocardial infarction, low-dose insulin has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and pro-fibrinolytic effects, inde- pendently of a decrease in blood ... on the effect of tight gly- cemic on in- hospital outcome in diabetics. They suffer from a chronic state of insulin resistance, with inhibition of the insulin- signaling...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23
Báo cáo y học: " Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) is associated with allergic rhinitis in children with asthma" pot
... kb flanks in the CEU popula- tion with r 2 ≥ 0.8, so our lack of findings for RXRa was unlikely due to inadequate genotypic coverage [32]. Inter- estingly, our tests for gene by gene interaction ... of our findings in Costa Ricans may be mainly applicable to them and certain Hispanic subgroups. How- ever, we replicated our main finding in CAMP and BAMSE, and previous findings in C...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22
Báo cáo y học: " Empiric anti-Candida therapy for patients with sepsis in the ICU: how little is too little" docx
... age-matched representatives of the general population [12,13]. These over- estimations exaggerate the affordability of empiric micafungin. Nevertheless, the main finding of this study by Zilberberg and colleagues ... help refine the best empiric anti-Candida strategy for ICU patients with sepsis. Competing interests YG has received research funding and is on the advisory board f...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22
Báo cáo y học: " Insulin-treated diabetes is not associated with increased mortality in critically ill patients" ppt
... tight glycaemia control by intensive insulin therapy in every ICU?. Crit Care 2006, 10:130. 38. Preiser JC, Devos P: Clinical experience with tight glucose control by intensive insulin therapy. Crit ... than did those without a his- tory of insulin-treated diabetes (Table 2). There w ere no differences in ICU or hospital lengths of stay in patients with or without a history of ins...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21