... life with or without disability, when to be without disability is not an option, suVers from the same logical problems as the argument that attempts to compare non-existence with existence It makes ... Harris believes doing so is to risk, unnecessarily, bringing people with disabilities into existence For Harris this is needlessly making a worse world than might have been made For Harris itis ... it seems puzzling to describe as ‘worse’ the possible world in which disabled individuals with worthwhile lives exist, instead of non-disabled individuals with equally worthwhile lives 33 3 33 4...
... microdialysis study Crit Care Med 2008, 36 :32 33- 3 238 19 33 Krinsley JS, Jones RL: Cost analysis of intensive glycemic control in critically ill adult patients Chest 2006, 129:644-650 34 Van den ... 2009, 35 :1 738 -1748 Arabi YM, Tamim HM, Rishu AH: Hypoglycemia with intensive insulin therapy in critically ill patients: predisposing factors and association with mortality Crit Care Med 2009, 37 :2 536 -2544 ... LOS was 1.8 (1.0 3. 3) days for those without hypoglycemia and 3. 0 (1.5–6.7) days for those with a single episode of hypoglycemia (P < 0.0001) This was a consistent finding even when patients were...
... arthritis Arthritis Rheum 20 03, 48 :35 84 -35 96 Gorman JD, Criswell LA: The shared epitope and severity of rheumatoid arthritis Rheum Dis Clin North Am 2002, 28:59-78 Deighton CM, Walker DJ, Griffiths ... HS: Rheumatoid arthritis associated autoantibodies in patients with synovitis of recent onset Arthritis Res 2000, 2: 236 -2 43 Bas S, Genevay S, Meyer O, Gabay C: Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide ... development of RA [3] The HLA-DRB1 locus has been shown to be linked to and associatedwith RA, with an especially high risk in individuals with compound heterozygosity for shared epitope (SE) genes...
... Staging Committee: Page of (page number not for citation purposes) World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008, 6:65 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 A New American ... bcl-2 antisense therapy chemosensitizes human melanoma in SCDI mice Nat Med 1998, 4: 232 - 234 Miller LJ, Marx J: Apoptosis [editorial] Science 1998, 281: 130 1 Meterissian SH: Apoptosis: its role ... study of tissue morphogenesis and oncogenesis [9,11,18] Inhibition of apoptosis can occur in any phase of the cell cycle, although the exact mechanism through which bcl-2 inhibits apoptosis is not...
... polymorphism has convincingly been associatedwith MHC2TA gene expression, itis unclear whether the polymorphism itself is functional or whether itis in linkage disequilibrium with one or more causal genetic ... Austrian RA patients was not significantly associatedwith rheumatoid factor positivity, with an aCCP antibody titer stage of RA, or with the age at onset of the disease (Table 2) In the present study, ... Investigation of the SLC22A4 gene (associated with rheumatoid arthritis in a Japanese population) in a United Kingdom population of rheumatoid arthritis patients Arthritis Rheum 2005, 52:752-758 Swanberg...
... respect to current corticosteroid use [33 ,34 ], prevalence of renal disease [1 ,30 ,33 ,34 ], mean organ damage index [1 ,34 ], and mean disease activity score [30 ,33 ], suggesting that race may not have ... 10 (page number not for citation purposes) 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 I independent immunomodulatory effect of GH J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2001, 86: 538 3- 538 8 Thiel S, Holmskov U, Hviid ... patients, is in line with other studies in patients with SLE [1 ,31 ] With respect to major infections, use of immunosuppressive medication and use of corticosteroids were not associatedwith the...
... synovial tissue from patients with rheumatoid arthritis: comparison with patients with osteoarthritis and reactive arthritis Ann Rheum Dis 2005, 64:1780-1782 Page of (page number not for citation ... JM, et al.: A missense single-nucleotide polymorphism in a gene encoding a protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTPN22) isassociatedwith rheumatoid arthritis Am J Hum Genet 2004, 75 :33 0 -33 7 Orozco G, ... (49.2%) 251 (37 .7%) Negative 31 (15.1%) 99 (48 .3% ) 75 (36 .6%) Odds ratio (95% confidence interval) 0.8 (0.5–1.4) 1.0 (0.7–1.4) P value 0.5 1.0 36 .0 ( 13. 4%) 27.5 (48 .3% ) Rheumatoid arthritis Rheumatoid...
... 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Rheumatology 1990 Criteria for the Classification of Fibromyalgia Report of the Multicenter Criteria Committee Arthritis Rheum 1990, 33 :160-172 Zeger SL, Liang KY: Longitudinal ... leg, and 17 cases with bilateral GTPS) and in 1 63 subjects without GTPS; therefore, 13. 7% of subjects with GTPS had a LLI compared with 14.1% of those without GTPS (P = 0.86 by Fisher's exact test) ... 1976, 57 :38 7 -39 0 Gordon EJ: Trochanteric bursitis and tendinitis Clin Orthop 1961, 20:1 93- 202 Kaufman KR, Miller LS, Sutherland DH: Gait asymmetry in patients with limb-length inequality J Pediatr...
... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Toms et al Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Acknowledgements This work is supported by an Arthritis Research ... Arthritis Res Ther 2009, 11:R110 Toms TE, Panoulas VF, Douglas KM, Griffiths HR, Kitas GD: Lack of association between glucocorticoid use and presence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with ... References Toms TE, Panoulas VF, Douglas KMJ, Kitas GD: Methotrexate therapy associates with a reduced prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in rheumatoid arthritis patients over the age of 60: more than...
... [± SD]) 12 ( 13) 1 23. 6 ± 21.1 0.88 0.07 66.5 ± 13. 3 ( 13. 8) 129.5 ± 20.9 67.4 ± 13. 3 85.5 ± 13. 2 88.1 ± 13. 2 0.22 EF (%)(mean [± SD]) ASA (%) 48.4 ± 13. 2 76 (82.6) 47.5 ± 13. 6 54 ( 83. 1) 0.55 0.90 ... (Table 3) A delta MAP ≥26 mmHg was found to be independently associatedwith CSAAKI in multi-variable analysis (OR 2.8; 95% CI, 1 .3- 6.1, p = 0.009, Table 4) A higher CPB flow rate was associatedwith ... midline sternotomy with the use of CPB CPB was instituted using standard techniques with cannulation of the right atrium with a 42F cavoatrial venous cannula and the ascending aorta with a 20 or 22F...
... extent and intensity In brief, a sample with no positive epithelial cells was scored as 0, that with less than 25% total positive epithelial cells was scored as 1+, that with positive epithelial cells ... with biotinylated secondary antibody for 30 minutes at 37 °C and then with horseradish peroxidase-labeled streptavidin for 30 minutes at 37 °C After PBS washing, sections were developed using 3, 3Vdiaminobenzidine ... controls were obtained by omitting the primary antibody [8] Statistical analysis The criterion for a positive reaction was a single epithelial cell with yellow particles in its plasma membrane and...
... line mutation as a potential predisposition for the development of SCCHN with special attention to multitumor patients, and patients who are at low risk for SCCHN with regard to age or carcinogen ... 1100delC variant differs within various populations [5] It was found in 0.9% of the Northrhine-Westphalia population [ 13] The CHK2 1100delC variant has been associatedwith breast cancer in multiple-case ... The study consists of 91 consecutive patients with histologically confirmed SCCHN, including all sites (57 oropharynx, 12 hypopharynx, 22 larynx) and stages (T 1-4, N0 -3, M0/1) of disease After...