Báo cáo y học: " Efficacy of salmeterol/fluticasone propionate by GOLD stage of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: analysis from the randomised, placebo-controlled TORCH study" ppsx

... Access Research Efficacy of salmeterol/fluticasone propionate by GOLD stage of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: analysis from the randomised, placebo-controlled TORCH study Christine R Jenkins* †1 , Paul ... Vestbo J, Knobil K, Yates JC, Calverley PM: Effect of pharma- cotherapy on rate of decline of lung function in chronic obstructive pul...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... previously published in the C OPD literature. Rbm s plitting, we propose , could be the result of either new layer s being formed by the epithelium or more likely degradation of the Rbm by proteolytic ... ormation of a new layer in the Rbm. This is compatible with the cor- relation of smoking history and length of splitting in our study and also explains the observ...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... were: 1) The study vest was con- venient to use; 2) The study vest was easy to use; 3) The study vest was comfortable; 4) The study vest helped me feel better; 5) The study vest helped me breathe ... therapists, and other members of the healthcare team) who facilitated the conduct of this study. Author details 1 Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... events, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, untreated hypothyroidism, any other major diseases, current smoking, long-term oxygen therapy and use of systemic postmenopausal hormone therapy. Patients ... gave their written informed consents. The study protocol was approved by the Joint Commission on Ethics of Turku University and Turku University Central Hospital. Study design The...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... characterized by impairment of lung function with airway obstruction, which is most fre- quently the result of tobacco smoke [1]. COPD is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Many ... physical health summary score and one mental health summary score were computed from the eight dimension scores. The physical health summary score is mainly based on...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... expression respectively as measured by FACS analysis indicating high efficiency of transduction (Fig 2A and 2C). To determine if CXCR4 was down regulated by the respective siRNA in the XHR construct, the transduced ... indicating the efficacy of the CXCR4 siRNA on its target. Similarly, to determine the activity of the anti-CCR5 siRNA in the XHR vector, transduce...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... did not find any significant contribution of therapy to IR in our cohort. However, in this early cohort only 22% of patients were exposed to steroids by the time of study and 54% of patients had ... glucose clearance is reduced by 40% [43]. Therefore endothelial dysfunction is hypothesised to be a primary step in the development of the insulin resistant state. The No...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... cavity, lips and the thyroid gland which together accounted for 92% of the total number of HNC in the DVCR (Table 1). The majority of HNC were located in the oral cavity (46%) and 51% of these were ... used in 32.4 to 34.2% of the cases [20,31]. RT was not used in any of the cases in the current study. This type of therapy is at this point not readily available t...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... activity of a signaling pathway may currently be best characterized by the expression levels of its target genes. In support of this hypothesis, Breslin et al. [13] have shown the capacity of expression ... of oncogenic pathways are the target genes of the oncogenic pathways rather than the components of the pathways. We also ran GSEA for the oncogenic profiles u...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... venous canulation could decrease the incidence and severity of pain associated with venipuncture in adult patients. 7 In another study by Gupta et al the efficacy of ... hemo- dynamic changes. Acknowledgement This study was supported by a grant from Teh- ran University of medical Sciences. Implications Statement: Valsalva maneuver can decrease the severity of .....

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15