Báo cáo y học: "Chronic productive cough in school children: prevalence and associations with asthma and environmental tobacco smoke exposur" pdf

... specificity for atopy confirmed by skin testing [15]. Outcomes and statistical analysis The primary objectives were to establish the prevalence of CPC in this population and to determine the associations of ... Blackburn CRB: Asthma and bronchitis in Sydney schoolchildren. 1. Prevalence during a six-year study. Am J Epidemio 1980, 111:721-727. 4. NHL National Heart Lung and...

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... (37%) and feeling tired or drained (72%). In addition, cough resulted in dis- turbed sleep in 70%, sore throat in 45% and caused incontinence in 55% of women and 5% of men. Whilst cough syncope ... avoiding situations and places which might trigger the cough or where they might be embarrassed by the cough. Cough related mor- bidity in terms of physical symptoms wa...

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... at any time and at any site in the skeleton but may not be clinically symptomatic. Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging proved to be very sensitive for initial and follow-up diagnostics. Introduction Chronic ... disease course in CNO. Nevertheless, systemic inflammatory markers may be raised to some extent, especially in the multifocal disease type and in patients with asso-...

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... excess in specialist physicians and insufficient physicians focus- ing on the primary health care or family practice [4]. While insufficiency in nurses and other health staff is well documented in ... system: Baghdad Baghdad: Ministry of Health; 2008. 17. Albert MA, Fretheim A, Maïga D: Factors influencing the utilization of research findings by health policy-makers in a developin...

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... therapy. In addition, CRP levels in patients enrolled in our study were considerably higher than in patients studied by Zink and coworkers (30 to 41 mg/l compared with 20 mg/l), and as shown in ... differences in costs of the TNF-blocking agents did not induce a selection bias. Also, the possibility for termination bias was investigated by examining disease activity of patie...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... outcome in the two models, hind paws were fixed, sectioned, and stained with haematoxylin and eosin. In the early stages of CIA, inflammatory infiltrates were found in both the DBA/1 (Figure 2a) and ... observed in DBA/1 in early arthritis. (b) In B6 mice, the infiltrating cells were predominantly mononuclear in early arthritis and there was less joint erosion. (c) In...

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... daily pattern of plasma prolactin, luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle- stimulating hormone (FSH) and testosterone levels at 6 different time points within a 24-h cycle in growing male rats kept in ... Freund's adjuvant on 24-hour rhythms in plasma prolactin, growth hormone, thyrotropin, insulin, follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone and testosterone in rats. Life...

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... outside the b ody before being mounted and tested in the chamber system for a maximum of 45 min, but during the incubation time the oxygen supply was main- tained continuously. Chemicals and buffer ... artery bypass grafting ischemia/reperfusion injury inducing cardiomyocyte apoptosis may occur. This surgery-related in flammatory reaction appears to be of extreme complexity with reg...

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... creatinine, angiotensin-converting enzyme, erythrocyte sedimenta- tion rate, vitamin B12, folate and thyroid hormones. Serum levels of immunoglobulin were 1590 mg/100 mL, < 6 mg/100 mL, and ... Epstein-Barr, and cytomegalovirus were all negative. Our patient was diagnosed with bilateral optic neuri- tis and treated with intravenous methylprednisolone (1000 mg/day for five days)...

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... abdominal pain. Skin lesions gradually faded away and rectal bleeding resolved. After nephrology evaluation of acute kidney injury, along with proteinuria and hematuria, he underw ent a kidney biopsy ... abdominal pain and gastroin- testinal bleeding. Skin lesions gradually faded. Acute kid- ney injury and proteinuria also improved. Conclusion HSP is a vasculitic syndrome that can p...

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