... molecules are broken down some of their energy is captured in so-called high- energy molecules.” By far the most important high- energy molecule is adenosine triphosphate or, more commonly, ATP Figure ... sensitive to touch, pain, and change in temperature outside of the body Meanwhile, sensory neurons located inside the body are sensitive to pain and changes in temperature inside the body Sensory ... reactions, molecules can react to form new molecules What Are Enzymes? You may remember from a high school or college chemistry lab that when you performed an experiment using two or more chemicals,...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20
... corymbosum had some of the highest CAA values, followed by V macrocarpon, among 25 commonly consumed fruits (Wolfe et al., 2008) Of the pure tester compounds, quercetin had the highest CAA value, followed ... total cholesterol, high- density lipoprotein (HDL), and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglycerides (TG) V macrocarpon juice, as compared with the placebo, contained higher vitamin ... al higher than that of the control group Induction of apoptosis in MCF-7 cells was observed in a dose-dependent manner after exposure to extracts for h A dose of 50 mg·mL−1 resulted in a 25% higher...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20
Tài liệu Pathophysiology and Clinical Aspects of Venous Thromboembolism in Neonates, Renal Disease and Cancer Patients Edited by Mohammed A. Abdelaal ppt
... must be aware of the preventability of this epidemic and act accordingly For patients with a high/ very high risk of VTE combined pharmacological and mechanical prophylaxis should be ordered However, ... of physicians and healthcare providers to adhere to VTE prophylaxis guidelines/protocols in high/ very high- risk patients remains a problem in many countries Hospitals with adequate electronic information ... has long been known that homocystinuria—also known as severe hyperhomocysteinemia, a genetic disorder in which blood levels of homocysteine are about 20-fold higher than the normal concentration—is...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 23:20
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND CLINICAL ASPECTS OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN NEONATES, RENAL DISEASE AND CANCER PATIENTS pdf
... must be aware of the preventability of this epidemic and act accordingly For patients with a high/ very high risk of VTE combined pharmacological and mechanical prophylaxis should be ordered However, ... of physicians and healthcare providers to adhere to VTE prophylaxis guidelines/protocols in high/ very high- risk patients remains a problem in many countries Hospitals with adequate electronic information ... has long been known that homocystinuria—also known as severe hyperhomocysteinemia, a genetic disorder in which blood levels of homocysteine are about 20-fold higher than the normal concentration—is...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo y học: "Association of the T+294C polymorphism in PPAR δ with low HDL cholesterol and coronary heart disease risk in women"
... significantly higher incidence of coronary heart disease for carriers of at least one C allele (p=0.033) (table 4) Among those with a BMI below 24.6 carriers of the rare C allele had a significantly higher ... that the C allele is linked to a higher basal transcriptional activity, it is currently unclear why this allele is associated with lower HDL and a trend towards higher LDL levels in humans Of note ... coronary heart disease could be detected Eliminating patients with diabetes mellitus or triglycerides higher than 1.000 mg/dl which likely represent cases of secondary hyperlipidaemia did not alter...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:03
Tài liệu Sport and Physical Activity in Children with Congenital Heart Disease ppt
... childhood that are associated predominantly with high dynamic or static exercise BOX Selected forms of exercise and games in childhood Types of exercise with a high dynamic/low static component Running, ... Types of exercise with a high static/low dynamic component Climbing, swinging, leaning on both arms, pulling, pushing, martial arts such as judo, gymnastics, e g on the high bar or the parallel ... show high frequencies (on average 167.8 ± 17.9 beats per minute), which occasionally exceeded the maximum measurements reached during the exercise tests The heartbeat frequency was also high...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20
Nutrition and cancer: A review of the evidence for an anti-cancer diet pptx
... that there is an association between a diet with a high glycemic load and cancer The case control studies have found consistent increased risk of a high glycemic load with gastric [12], upper aero ... risk of breast cancer; the quartile with the highest intake only had 50% of the risk of the lowest intake group [89] In the Nurses' Health Study a high intake of cruciferous vegetables (5 or more ... independent, alcohol increases risk Colon cancer rates higher in Aftrican Americans in NC; due to less UV light absorption with dark skin? SS; cut-off for highest quartile is 664 µg/day (way above RDA)...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21
Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease pot
... nutrition today and in the days ahead Abbreviations: ADP—adenosine diphosphate; AMP—adenosine monophosphate; ATP—adenosine triphosphate; A-V—arteriovenous; BCAA—branched-chain amino acid; GMP—guanosine ... based largely upon N balance data (rather than factorial method data) from studies using a high- quality, highly digestible source of protein The protein intake values that produced zero N balance ... It is assumed that the “highest quality protein” is protein that supports maximal growth of a young animal Because rats grow quickly and have limited protein stores and a high metabolic rate, deficiencies...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 05:21
Nomenclature and Classification of Congenital Heart Disease doc
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20
RHEUMATIC FEVER AND RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE pptx
... strains Difficulties in accessing health care Higher incidence of acute streptococcal-pharyngitis and suppurative complications Higher incidence of acute RF Higher rates of recurrent attacks Health-system ... Untimely initiation or lack of secondary prophylaxis Higher rates of recurrent attacks with more frequent and severe heart valve involvement, and higher rates of repeated hospital admissions and ... times can be virtually indistinguishable from acute appendicitis Both the temperature and sedimentation rate tends to be higher than in appendicitis, but if the latter cannot be excluded, surgery...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20
Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective doc
... levels found not only in highincome countries but also in those where traditional diets are high in salt, consumption of salty foods, salted foods, and salt itself is too high The critical factor ... from these systems are plant-based: they are high or very high in cereals (grains), complemented with animal sources of protein These diets are therefore high in starchy foods and usually in dietary ... with high- income countries, transport-related and occupational and household physical activity is higher in low-income countries Transport-related physical activity (cycling, walking) is higher...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21
Diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia pptx
... fever described peak temperatures commonly greater than 39°C,21,37 but lowergrade temperatures have been described more recently.22 In Aboriginal Australians, defining fever as a temperature greater ... Streptococcal serology in high- incidence populations The high prevalence of GAS infections (mainly pyoderma) in Aboriginal communities of northern and central Australia causes very high background titres ... For example, in a region with high compared with low incidence of ARF, a person with fever and arthritis is more likely to have ARF Similarly, in a region with high incidence, Aboriginal and...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Measuring health-related quality of life in Hungarian children with heart disease: psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the Cardiac Module" pptx
... (ranging 13.8-25.9%), with highest values in the school functioning domain both for both selfand parent proxy-reports, and in the Cardiac Module (ranging 0.5-66.2%) with highest values in the Treatment ... parents [65-67] Our data not confirm the findings of higher parent-child agreement among chronically ill children as the majority of ICCs were higher in the comparison group [7] We did not investigate ... reverse-scored and linearly transformed to a 0-100 scale (0 = 100, = 75, = 50, = 25, = 0), so that higher scores indicate better HRQOL Scale Scores are computed as the sum of the items divided by...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Review Open Access The MacNew Heart Disease docx
... global MacNew HRQL at discharge compared to those in the highest tertile with an absolute adverse event rate of 28% in the low HRQL and 9% in the high HRQL group [19] Overall these findings support ... two weeks Scoring of the MacNew is straight-forward The maximum possible score in any domain is [high HRQL] and the minimum is [poor HRQL] Missing responses not contribute to the score and item ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004, http://www.hqlo.com/content/2/1/3 Table 2: Items [with the highest factor weightings =>0.40] as allocated to each domain in the original English version of...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Structural ambiguity of the Chinese version of the hospital anxiety and depression scale in patients with coronary heart disease" doc
... best fit to the data The model fit indices, which revealed identical values for both models, was highly acceptable by conventional model-fit criteria [3033] Discussion Procedure The first author ... were males In terms of the clinical data, over two thirds of subjects were angina The finding of high proportions of Chinese CHD patients screening positive with anxiety and depression using the ... administered and easily scored measure, therefore implementation of a complicated scoring system would be highly undesirable Moreover, the extensive use of the HADS in clinical research over the last 20...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Comparison of the SF-6D and the EQ-5D in patients with coronary heart disease" pdf
... vitality domain has no direct counterpart in the EQ-5D Baseline and change scores The SF-6D had a higher percentage of missing data, both at baseline and post-intervention (Table 1) 33 patients ... difference: 0.69 for EQ-5D versus 0.60 for SF-6D Non-parametric comparison of the distributions showed highly significant differences (p < 0.001) The median baseline values have different locations in ... change over time The EQ-5D is skewed towards good health, which creates a ceiling effect The SF6D is highly centred on the middle of the scoring range (see figure 1) The difference in scoring range...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Mapping of the EQ-5D index from clinical outcome measures and demographic variables in patients with coronary heart disease" pptx
... variables of interest (Tables and 3) The EQ-5D index was slightly higher for men than for women and significantly lower for higher CCS angina classifications (Table 3) The EQ5D index was also ... essentially the lowest RMSE at 0.17 This RMSE was, however, higher than the minimal important difference for the EQ-5D index of 0.05 [22,23] and high compared to some RMSEs found in other similar studies ... satisfaction scale (TSS) and the disease perception scale (DPS) Each scale has a range of to 100 with higher values representing greater functioning/satisfaction and fewer limitations Statistical analysis...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20
N-Terminal Pro–B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Long-Term Mortality in Stable Coronary Heart Disease ppt
... coronary artery disease to define existing coronary heart disease Patients with high NT-pro-BNP levels had a significantly higher prevalence of coronary disease at angiography than patients with low ... according to quartiles of NT-pro-BNP Patients with NT-pro-BNP in the upper quartile were older, had a higher left ventricular www.nejm.org february 17 , 2005 Downloaded from www.nejm.org at RIKSHOSPITALET ... population with normal LVEF (i.e., ≥60 percent; 506 patients), the level of NT-pro-BNP was significantly higher in patients with than in those without coronary artery disease Table shows the baseline characteristics...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20
Low-Carbohydrate-Diet Score and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women potx
... lowest fat and protein intake and the highest carbohydrate intake) to 30 (the highest protein and fat intake and the lowest carbohydrate intake) Therefore, the higher the score, the more closely ... engl j med 355;19 who had a higher score were more likely to smoke and had a higher body-mass index, a lower dietary glycemic load, a lower caloric intake, and a higher intake of saturated fat ... 0.56 to 0.88; P for trend = 0.002) A higher glycemic load was strongly associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease (relative risk comparing highest and lowest deciles, 1.90; 95%...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20
Inflammatory Markers and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men and Women doc
... for matching factors, high levels of interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein were significantly related to an increased risk of coronary heart disease in both sexes, whereas high levels of soluble ... or more), physical activity (in quintiles from lowest to highest level), ratio of total to HDL cholesterol (in quintiles from lowest to highest ratio), and use of postmenopausal hormone therapy ... and women, patients had significantly higher baseline levels of interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein than controls The levels of sTNF-R1 and sTNF-R2 showed a high degree of correlation with each...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20