... values. Results Forty patients with persistent allergic asthma were included in the study. In all patients, the skin-prick test was positive. Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus was the most positive single ... asthma. 7 Cholinergic nerves play an important role in the regulation of airway calibre in many species, including humans, and they form the dominant constrictor mechanism in t...
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... phenom- enology and family history study. Am J Psychiatry 1985, 142:441-446. 14. Kirmayer LJ, Robbins JM, Kapusta MA: Somatisation and depres- sion in fibromyalgia syndrome. Am J Psychiatry 1988, 145:950-954. 15. ... detailed medical history and a thorough clinical examination by a physi- cian at the Department of Physical medicine at the Uni- versity Hospital. To be included in the study...
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Báo cáo y học: " Percentile benchmarks in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Health Assessment Questionnaire as a quality indicator" pot
... face-to-face in a clinical setting or in a telephone interview format by trained outcome assessors. Eight functional categories are assessed specifically by the HAQ: dressing and grooming, arising, eating, ... other longitudinal studies going on in our center: the University of Pennsylvania Alumni study [12] and Stanford University Staff used as controls in the Stanford Runners study...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24
Báo cáo y học: "Microcirculation abnormalities in patients with fibromyalgia – measured by capillary microscopy and laser fluxmetry" ppt
... wave is normal. The small number of patients in this preliminary study may be a limitation in that we may have coincidentally recorded 10 FM patients with a type-B response to occlusion of the blood ... with more patients are needed to confirm this finding. The missing fast component of reactive hyperaemia in our FM population is presumably due to a higher sympathetic tonus, resul...
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Báo cáo y học: "Cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the QUEST-RA study" pdf
... hypertension, 14% for hyperlipidemia, 8% for diabetes, 43% for ever-smoking, 73% for physical inactivity, and 18% for obesity. Traditional risk factors except obesity and physical inactivity ... University Medicine Berlin, Berlin; Ireland: Barry Bresnihan, St. Vincent University Hospital, Dublin; Patricia Minnock, Our Lady's Hospice, Dublin; Eithne Murphy, Claire Sheehy, and...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23
Báo cáo y học: "Foot kinematics in patients with two patterns of pathological plantar hyperkeratosi" pdf
... Uni- versityPodiatryclinicevery4-8weeksfordebridement of plantar callus were recruited and gave informed con- sent. The inclusion c riterion was one of two types of forefoot PPH pattern. Group 1 displayed ... reliability in a clinical setting. Subtalar and ankle joint measurements. Phys Ther 1988, 68:672-677. 20. Elveru RA, Rothstein JM, Lamb RL, Riddle DL: Methods for taking subtalar joi...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24
Báo cáo y học: " Resource utilization in patients with schizophrenia who initiated risperidone longacting therapy: results from the Schizophrenia Outcomes Utilization Relapse and Clinical Evaluation (SOURCE)" pdf
... RLAT initiation from 250 patients with schizophre- nia. The mean number of days spent in the hospital per patient increased from 31 in year -3 to 44 in year -2, to 90 in year -1, and to 141 in year ... patient had missing data). Additionally, in 38.9% of patients the investigator reported that they received other antipsy- chotics in addition to RLAT during the study. Of the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: " Psychosocial functioning in patients with treatment-resistant depression after group cognitive behavioral therapy" pptx
... one’sownnegativethinking;(Session7) Challenging and restructuring one’s own negative think- ing; (Session 8) Looking for new ideas and invoking positive thinking; (Session 9) Practicing the new ideas and positive thinking in daily life; ... approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research. J Consult Clin Psychol 1991, 59(1):12-19. 31. Atkins DC, Bedics JD, McGlinchey JB,...
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Báo cáo y học: " Diaphragm adaptations in patients with COPD" pps
... sarcomeric injury activate proteolytic machinery, leading to contractile protein wasting and, consequently, loss of force generating capacity of diaphragm fibers in patients with COPD. Interestingly, ... is an initial step in myofilament proteolysis by cleavage of myosin and actin [55]. In this way, activated caspase-3 yields fragments that are degradable by the ubiquitin-pro- teasome...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21
Báo cáo y học: "Tissue fibrocytes in patients with mild asthma: A possible link to thickness of reticular basement membrane" pptx
... being collagen producing cells. The cells were therefore stained for prolyl-4-hydroxylase, a protein critically involved in collagen synthesis, and pro- collagen I. Prolyl-4-hydroxylase/CD45RO could ... differentiation into α-SMA expressing myofibroblasts in these patients. It should be noted that the patients included in this study is very homogenous since they did not show any di...
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