Báo cáo y học: " Long-term air pollution exposure and living close to busy roads are associated with COPD in women" pps

... industry. Questionnaire: diagnoses, symptoms and risk factors Together with an invitation to participate in the study, a self-administered questionnaire was sent to the women. The investigating physicians ... definition by symptoms only. To our knowledge this is the first study assessing long-term effects of air pollution on the devel- opment of COPD by combining broad an...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... Liebmann 2,4,5 and Robert Ritch 2,6 Address: 1 Retina Service, Department of Ophthalmology, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY, USA, 2 Einhorn Clinical Research Center, The New York Eye and ... woman with type-2 diabetes and systemic hypertension presented with a history of POAG in both eyes (OU) for nearly 10 years. The damage was moderate and the progressi...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... which in turn may increase pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary artery SMC growth, thereby producing primary PH in susceptible individuals. This ‘serotonin hypothesis’ was consistent with reports ... in platelets and lungs from patients with primary and sec- ondary forms of PH [12] and in pulmonary artery SMCs from patients with primary PH, as compared with SMCs fro...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... by (A) smoking status and daily zinc intake (adjusted for age, body mass index, gender, race/ethnicity, and urinary cadmium); (B) urinary cadmium and daily zinc intake (adjusted for age, body ... (log-transformed) and respiratory risk suggests that zinc may play a role in smoking -associated lung disorder by modifying the influence of cadmium. Conclusions: While zinc intake is a...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:21

... present in the synovium. In keeping with this, it has been shown that anti- citrulline antibodies are indeed produced locally in RA synovium by B lymphocytes and plasma cells [11,12], and that ... clinical threshold is crossed, and overt synovitis is precipitated. Exposure to new citrullinated synovial antigens expressed during inflammatory ‘flares’, when apoptotic indices...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... lead to ‘protection’ against development of accelerated athero- sclerosis in chronic inflammatory diseases remains to be determined, but this is in intriguing possibility. It could explain why GCA ... a 5-year period of follow up in 47 patients with RA without clinically evident cardiovascular disease at the time of evaluation by carotid ultrasonography. In our study carotid IMT...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... apoptotic changes to occur. Cells were 90 to 95% apoptotic as determined by Annexin-V staining and 7- Aminoactinomycin D exclusion before washing with PBS and intraperitoneal injection into the indicated ... Macrophages that have ingested apoptotic cells in vitro inhibit proinflammatory cytokine production through autocrine/paracrine mechanisms involving TGF-β, PGE2, and PAF. J...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... stopping treatment are collected in TAHOD by physician report at the time of stopping an individual drug. The physician reports the major reason believed to be underlying the reason for stopping ... analyses, rate of treatment change was significantly associated with exposure category, the country income category, the drug class combination, calendar year and the number of combi...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... rception, knowledge and attitudes toward these reptiles. According to the interviewees, the local terms biting, stinging and pricking are synonymous and used as equivalent to offending. In this artic ... play an important role in religious thought and in the day -to- day life of people, represent- ing life cycles depending on the attributes and contexts inwhichtheyarefou...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21