Báo cáo y học: "The association between leptin, interleukin-6, and hip radiographic osteoarthritis in older people: a cross-sectional study" doc

... RA patients had more radiographic damage at all time points (P < 0.005). Value of the anti-MCV test in early arthritis At baseline, RA patients had a higher median ESR, CRP and SHS, and a higher ... found between anti-CCP2 levels and DAS28 at baseline (r = 0.12; P = 0.14). GEE analysis revealed a significant association between DAS28 and anti-MCV during 2 years of f...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... non-fat-derived leptin can play a role in the etiol- ogy of hip OA in men. IL-6 was weakly associated with leptin and also associated with trunk and total fat ratios in our data, but did not mediate ... cardiovascular disease, and diabetes were recorded by questionnaire. Hip pain was assessed by questionnaire and was defined as pain for >24 hours in the last 12 months...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:21

... patients with RA of less than 4 years in dura- tion longitudinally with comprehensive assessments of clinical and radiographic data at baseline and after 5 and 10 years [15]. The patients had ... entered untransformed, and all analyses were adjusted for age and gender. The baseline cross-sectional associations between demographic, disease activity, and severity variables (...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... branded and unbranded food items, automatically calcul ating an estimate of cal- orie intake. A daily exercise diary encourages additional physical activity by setting a target to expend a mini- mum ... 642. 1 Covariates: initial BMI, and n umber of days between first and last recorded weight. Separate analyses for each engagement variable. 2 Covariates as above and all engage...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... association between PLR and indices of radiographic PF OA in the medial PF compartment. SA showed a statistically significant association with medial joint space narrowing and lateral and medial patellar ... the patellar and femoral articular cartilages, and can potentially aggravate osteophyte formation and also facilitate joint space narrowing. In the present study...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... relation- ship between subchondral bone cysts and tibial cartilage volume at baseline, and longitudinally, the relationship between baseline subchondral bone cysts and annual per- centage tibial ... progres- sion was defined simply as an increase in score, and thus included both those who had an increase in score and incident cysts. Similarly, cyst regression was defined as...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... were examined by administration of a 500-μg sublingual glyceryl trinitrate tablet (Alpharma, Barnsta- ple, UK) while the brachial artery was imaged continu- ously for five minutes. The intraobserver ... brachial and coronary artery in suspected coronary artery disease. Int J Cardiol 2005, 105:58-66. Table 2 Correlations between the microvasculature and macrovasculature a Measureme...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:21

... Kvien TK, Landewe R, Listing J, Nicola PJ, Tarp U, Zink A, Askling J: EULAR points to consider when establishing, analysing and reporting safety data of biologics registers in rheumatology. Ann Rheum ... review and meta-analysis (where appropriate) of RCTs and observational studies to assess the association between systemic GC therapy and the risk of infection in patients wit...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... daily activity such as walking, stair climbing, cycling, household activities and daily commuting to and from work (walking and cycling). We calculated the metabolic equivalents for each activity, ... Peppa M, Goldberg T, Cai W, Rayfield E, Vlassara H. Glycotoxins: a missing link in the &quot;relationship of dietary fat and meat intake in relation to risk of type 2 dia...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 16:49

... below in the manuscript. The study was approved by the Ministry of Health in Gaza and the local ethical committee in Gaza Strip. Inclusion and exclusion criteria All available discharge data of patients ... and high mortality from cardiovascular disease [28]. Accord- ing to these findings it can be hypothesized, that educa- tional interventions on healthy life styles may play an e...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20