... infiltrates or arterial hypoxemia The study excluded children with an exacerbation of reactive airways disease If patients with sickle cell disease are at increased risk of airway inflammation and ... supported an asthma diagnosis Most patients with asthma are not cared for by asthma specialists and frequently the diagnosis is made on clinical grounds without formal pulmonary function testing Additionally, ... bronchopulmonary dysplasia No patient with SC disease in either group had a history of a cerebral vascular accident Only patient with SC disease had acute chest syndrome, while children in the asthma group...
... order/rank and schizophrenia may be due to paternal age In fact, as advanced paternal age was ariskfactorfor schizophrenia, the disease frequency was greater in children with higher birth rank as ... common disease to focus on genetic approaches Table Sample classes as a function of parental or maternal age at birth Group Parental age at birth, n (%) Paternal Total (P = 0.065) Maternal
... Compostela University Hospital La Choupana, Santiago de Compostela 15706, Spain 2Department of Radiology, Santiago de Compostela University Hospital La Choupana, Santiago de Compostela 15706, Spain ... et al.: Is distortion of the bioprosthesis ring ariskfactorfor early calcification? Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2010 5:77 Author details Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Santiago ... bioprosthesis ring Liao KK, Li X, Ranjit J, Amayta DM, Joyce LD, Park SJ, Bianco R, Bolman RM: Mechanical stress: An independent determinant of early bioprosthetic calcification in humans Ann Thorac Surg...
... References Gupta A, Nanda S: Uterine rupture in pregnancy: a five-year study Arch Gynecol Obstet 2011, 283(3):437-441 Morimatsu Y, Matsubara S, Higashiyama N, Kuwata T, Ohkuchi A, Izumi A, Shibhara H, ... blood accumulating around the liver, causing upper abdominal pain The rupture may have increased, causing fetal heart rate pattern abnormalities Kurdoglu et al [5] reported a uterine rupture case: ... cesarean: a case series and review of the literature Am J Perinatol 2009, 26(10):739-744 Kurdoglu M, Kolusari A, Yildizhan R, Adali E, Sahin HG: Delayed diagnosis of an atypical rupture of an...
... cohort of patients undergoing resection for adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus (i.e patients with a low prevalence of risk factors for insulin resistance and cardiovasculardisease but who are subject ... regression analysis was used for length of stay Because of nonparametric distribution, length of stay data were logarithmically transformed before regression analysis Parameters included in the analysis ... data indicate that early postoperative hyperglycaemia is more likely to be arisk marker than ariskfactor in a patient group encountering severe surgical stress but with a low prevalence of cardiovascular...
... Furusho S, Kita T, Katayama N, Abo M, Ohkura N, Herai Y, Hori A, Ishiura Y, Nobata K, Ogawa H, Yasui M, Kasahara K, Nakao S: Comparison of cough reflex sensitivity after an inhaled antigen challenge ... between ETS for respiratory diseases such as adult and pediatric asthma Also a series of epidemiological analyses on parental smoking and respiratory health in children have been performed [60,64,65,4,66-71] ... of passive smoking at home and risk of acute myocardial infarction Argentine FRICAS Investigators Factores de Riesgo Coronario en America del Sur J Am Coll Cardiol 1998, 31(4):797-803 Cardenas...
... controversial, Table may lead to a further refinement of risk of osteoarthritis and low back pain based solely on BMI Limitations of obesity as ariskfactorfor low back pain A significant difficulty ... large muscular athletes who are in good cardiovascular shape, the rationale behind these numbers is that, across large population groups, there is an increased prevalence of certain diseases in people ... back pain, in particular with chronic or recurrent low back pain [27] What appears to be a main concern in linking obesity as a causal factorfor low back pain is the numerous variables encountered...
... investigator All NSAIDs and aspirin were considered However, when aspirin was taken as an antiplatelet aggregant for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases (
... will require comparing RA patients that are matched fordisease severity but are disparate for CAD Study limitations We adjusted for traditional Framingham risk factors that are commonly considered ... of cases with RA and CAD Table includes characteristics of the patients with RA Average age at onset of RA was 55 years and the average disease R986 Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Warrington ... study, detailed quantitative data on amounts of tobacco used were not available Also, data regarding other risk factors, such as family history and body mass index, were not available Elevated levels...
... GACTCATGACTGTTGTTACAACC-3' and reverse 5'-TCTCAGGACTCTCTTAGGTACTA-3' that amplify a 493 bp fragment, and primers for β-actin are: forward 5'-TGGAGAAGAGCTATGAGCTGCCTG-3' and reverse 5'-GTGCCACCAGACAGCACTGTGTTG-3' ... (Foster City, CA) For each sample (analyzed in triplicate), a pool containing Brilliant qPCR master mix (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA), Taqman probes, along with the cDNA was prepared, and then aliquoted ... phospholipase A2 in reactive astrocytes in response to transient focal cerebral ischemia in the rat brain J Neurochem 2004, 90(3):637-645 Yagami T, Ueda K, Asakura K, Hata S, Kuroda T, Sakaeda T, Takasu...
... intraabdominal complication such as anastomotic leakage or POPF In case of having intraabdominal infectious complication, we changed drains under radiographic examination and lavaged the cavity ... Kinoshita T, Sano T, Katai H, Okajima K: Pancreas-preserving total gastrectomy for proximal gastric cancer World J Surg 1995, 19:532-536 Sasako M, Katai H, Sano T, Maruyama K: Management of complications ... the patients with and without DM Mathur et al reported that fatty pancreas is risk of postoperative pancreatic leakage after pancreatoduodenectomy [38] Kovanlikaya et al reported that there are...
... Chicago, IL, USA) Data was analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance on ranks Pairwise multiple comparison was made with the Holm-Sidak method Foam cell formation and staining ... Adams K, Adams JM: Indomethacin therapy for patent ductus arteriosus in premature infants: efficacy of a dosing strategy based on a seconddose peak plasma indomethacin level and estimated plasma ... leukemia virus) reverse transcriptase primed with oligo dT cDNA was amplified with specific primers (48 pmol/reaction) for ABCA1 (forward primer 5'-GAAGTACATCAGAACATGGGC-3' and reverse primer 5'GATCAAAGCCATGGCTGTAG-3'...
... Catalunya We thank Nalisoa Randriamahefa for her excellent technical assistance We also thank DFG for support Author details Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, ... Leonhard’s classification were not associated to any of the markers Our data support findings from two meta-analyses of GWA-studies searching for common risk variants in ANK3 for schizophrenia, ... (F32-F33) with an average age at onset of 43 years and an average age at recruitment of 51 years Sample was further subdivided according to Leonhard’s classification systematic schizophrenias (n = 228),...
... infection, and a favorable response to antimicrobial therapy Data registration and statistical analysis Data were collected daily by one of the authors (PY) and entered into an SPSS database (SPSS Data ... citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 10 No Ylipalosaari et al Table SOFA score and age-adjusted multivariate analysis forrisk factors for hospital mortality OR 95% CI P value ICU-acquired infection ... study and acquisition and analysis of data, and drafted the manuscript TA-K, JL, and HS participated in the design of the study and the analysis of data and drafted the manuscript PO participated...
... tolerance and the variance inflation factor Variables associated with bacteremia in univariate analysis were included in a multivariate analysis for identification of independent variables after adjustment ... our data show A baumannii is an important pathogen isolated in respiratory samples of B-NP patients and is also an independent riskfactorfor bacteremia A baumannii has a high level of antibiotic ... Constance Hospital, Constance, Germany), Thiago Lisboa (Joan XIII University Hospital, Tarragona, Catalonia and CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias), Antonio Macor (Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Torino,...
... Scale characteristics are described elsewhere [15] Analysis Logistic regression methods were used to analyse the associations between the risk factors and the outcome variable The analysis was ... environment variables The Cochran-Armitage trend test was performed in order to test if a gradual increase in sickness absence was associated with increase in risk of disability pension The SAS procedure ... was stronger among men (OR=3.13) than among women (OR=2.19) (Table 2) Additional analysis treating days of sickness absence during 1990 as a continuous variable showed a clear trend of increase...
... signaling through a novel mechanism involving nuclear accumulation of interferon regulatory factor J Virol 83, 2178–2187 Nakao K, Nakata K, Yamashita M, Tamada Y, Hamasaki K, Ishikawa H, Kato ... estimate distributions obtained for each gene on each array when performing RMA analysis Normalization ensures that the median standard error across all arrays is for each gene Problematic chips are ... incubated with anti-IRF9 IgGs (Santa Cruz, CA, USA, antibody 10793) as primary antibody and anti-rabbit Alexa Fluor 680 (Invitrogen) as secondary antibody, and analysed by flow cytometry using a FACSCalibur...
... average exchange rates for the The preparation of financial statements in conformity with IAS year and balance sheets are translated at exchange rates rul- requires management to make estimates and ... net change in the fair value of financial assets classified as available -for- sale The movement in the available -for- sale equity reserve was as follows: Transition adjustment as at January 1, ... Capital surplus as at January Capital paid-in 625 Transitional effect from adopting IAS 39 Retained earnings as at January 1,945 4,703 Retained earnings as at January 2,570 Capital surplus (B1)...
... confirmed that “damage” was an explanatory factor which was much significant than the other variables and factors available Thus overall, the damage factor had both a statistical and a causal value, ... of forked beech trees was tested using a Chi squared test on a × contingency table (3 damage levels × presence or absence of a fork) Arisk of fork emergence was calculated for each of the damage ... too, and this reinforced the hypothesis that forking was a result of damage to the spring shoot Thus according to general epidemiological laws, the causal nature of a relationship was particularly...
... 14 Kawashima M, Kagami Y, Toita T, Uno T, Sugiyama M, Tamura Y, Hirota S, Fuwa N, Hashimoto M, Yoshida H, Shikama N, Kataoka M, Akuta K, Sasaki K, Tamamoto T, Nemoto K, Ito H, Kato H, Yamada S, ... Japan Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamadaoka 2-2, Suita, 565-0871 Osaka, Japan 4Department of Maxillo-Facial Radiology, Osaka University Graduate ... Pignon JP, MetaAnalysis of Radiotherapy in Carcinomas of Head and neck (MARCH) Collaborative Group: Hyperfractionated or accelerated radiotherapy in head and neck cancer: a meta-analysis Lancet 2006,...