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... comparable between these two groups In the subgroup of patients with peritonitis with septic shock, biliary origin was independently associated with increased mortality Yeast in peritoneal fluid of postoperative ... Intra-peritoneal yeasts and Enterococci were associated with septic shock in the subgroup of patients with community-acquired peritonitis Yeasts were also associated with increased mortality in postoperative ... fluid were independent risk factors of septic shock Incidence of septic shock and mortality rate were no different between patients with community-acquired and postoperative peritonitis Intra-peritoneal...

... reason for late presentation is not clearly studied in Ethiopia There are multiple factors associated with delay to seek care and treatment, including delay in HIV testing and delay in accessing ... HIV/AIDS were not associated with late presentation to HIV/AIDS care (P > 0.05) Variables which showed association with late presentation to HIV/AIDS care in the bivariate analysis such as occupational ... al.: Factors associated with late presentation to HIV/AIDS care in South Wollo ZoneEthiopia: a casecontrol study AIDS Research and Therapy 2011 8:8 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and...

... function, self-esteem and the formation of psychotic symptoms remains unclear To date the relationship between self-esteem, psychotic symptoms and premorbid adjustment in the early stages of psychosis ... examining self-esteem, paranoia and negative symptoms in individuals with first-episode psychosis Early Interv Psychiatry 2011, 5:150-155 30 American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and statistical ... supported by findings in studies of patients at high risk of developing psychosis [41] In line with this, cognitive behavioral therapy aiming to improve self-esteem by correcting misattributing tendencies...

... potentially causes harm to IDUs, including those mentioned above, as drug -related harms related Page of to policing. ” We operationalized drug -related harms related to policing as those where police ... more likely to report drugrelated harms Multivariable Analysis Variables that remained independently associated with drug -related harms related to policing are displayed in Table 2, with the recall ... article as: Volkmann et al.: Factors associated with drug -related harms related to policing in Tijuana, Mexico Harm Reduction Journal 2011 8:7 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take...

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... factors associated with severe acute radiation pneumonitis in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer treated with concurrent chemotherapy and intensity-modulated radiotherapy Radiation ... Analysis of clinical and dosimetric factors associated with treatmentrelated pneumonitis (TRP) in patients with non-small- cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with concurrent chemotherapy and threedimensional ... on using IMRT in treating lung cancer is needed We started using IMRT to treat lung cancer in 2005, and we evaluated clinical and dosimetric factors associated with severe acute radiation pneumonitis...

... Characteristics of HIV-infected women and factors associated with HCV seropositivity in the Republic of Georgia AIDS Research and Therapy 2011 8:25 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take ... Levine AM, Mack WJ, Kovacs A: Factors associated with prevalent hepatitis C infection among HIV-infected women with no reported history of injection drug use: the Women s Interagency HIV Study ... [29] And HCV seroprevalence exceeding 70% was reported in a similar study in Southern China [30] Cohort studies among persons with IDU showed that the incidence of HCV was greatest within the...

... enhance and are predominantly basilar and subpleural, though small intraparenchymal cysts can also be found [5] As in our case, affected patients are at Warwick et al Journal of Medical Case Reports ... characteristics [14] Renal tumors have been reported in as many as 34% of individuals with germline FLCN mutations [9] They are frequently multiple and bilateral and present at a mean age of ... the clinical management of our patient GW performed the literature review and prepared the manuscript LI and ES critically appraised the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript...

... al.: Sociodemographic and occupational risk factors associated with the development of different burnout types: the cross-sectional University of Zaragoza study BMC Psychiatry 2011 11:49 Submit your ... 5.50) Burnout type, sociodemographic and occupational risk factors Table shows the raw and adjusted ORs for the “frenetic” burnout type Only the number of hours worked per week and the type of working ... purpose-designed software Conclusions Our results add to the understanding of the type of professional burnout present in employees of a university organisation in Spain and support the idea of a differential...

... et al., Factors associated with mosquito pool positivity and the characterization of the West Nile viruses found within Louisiana during 2007 Virology Journal 2010, 7:139 Page of ... diversity in the wetland areas It is also interesting that there is more genetic diversity within Louisiana than without That is, the diversity when comparing between the wetlands and forests within ... positive pool; the odds of a positive pool is over seven times more likely in July than June The overall trends of land cover and month are shown together in Figure Phylogenetic Analysis The phylogenetic...