are there special techniques in obese patients

... engages in wishful thinking • explains by naming • diverts attention from the issue • distracts with glittering generalities • begs the question Are There Any Fallacies in the Reasoning? 99 Expanding ... Are There Any Fallacies in the Reasoning? (J) 85 Critical Question: Are there any fallacies in the reasoning? Attention: A fallacy is a reasoning "trick" that an author might use while trying ... Hominem fallacy The Latin phrase Ad Hominem means "against the man or against the person." There are a variety of ways of making irrelevant attacks against a person making a claim, the most common...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20

... Scores on the Binge Eating Scale (BES) were in a range suggestive of binge eating in over one fourth of subjects, while over 10% of patients had BES scores indicative of binge eating disorder Mean ... Screening for binge eating disorder in obese outpatients Compr Psychiatry 2000, 41(2):111-115 32 Callegari A, Michelini I, Sguazzin C, Catona A, Klersy C: Efficacy of the SF-36 questionnaire in ... proposal is supported by clinical studies [21] The Binge Eating Scale was used to detect binging [22]; values in the range 17-26 were considered suspect of binge eating, whereas values ≥ 27 were...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... with risk of infection of 20-60%, occurring across all age groups Only the remaining 12% are living in areas of low prevalence with risk of infection of less than 20%, occurring mainly in adulthood ... This book provides an overview of special cases in hemodialysis patients Authors have contributed their most interesting findings in dealing with patients suffering of other diseases simultaneously, ... occur during birth by newborn exposure to blood or amniotic fluid In areas of low prevalence, the infection occurs primarily in adults Individuals at high risk for HBV infection are injecting drug...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 18:20

... with risk of infection of 20-60%, occurring across all age groups Only the remaining 12% are living in areas of low prevalence with risk of infection of less than 20%, occurring mainly in adulthood ... This book provides an overview of special cases in hemodialysis patients Authors have contributed their most interesting findings in dealing with patients suffering of other diseases simultaneously, ... occur during birth by newborn exposure to blood or amniotic fluid In areas of low prevalence, the infection occurs primarily in adults Individuals at high risk for HBV infection are injecting drug...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 00:20

... latrine coverage was increased from 78% in 2007 to 82% in 2009 in urban areas and from 67% to 71% in rural areas (see Table 4), however, coverage declined to 62% in urban areas and to 48% in rural ... general clinic attendance fell from 3.17% in 2007 to 1.63% in 2009 In contrast, the mortality percentage among malaria inpatients (case fatality rate among malaria inpatients) increased, rising from ... rural areas in the months of 2008 following the Nargis incident In urban and rural areas combined, the sanitary latrine coverage for the Nargis-affected population during 2008 was 76% in the...

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... basic tasks in reservoir engineering The boundaries between individual layers are constructed as surfaces passing through structural depths (z-coordinates) measured in wells As explained in section ... concept in the construction of grid data for corner point geometry is the idea of “coordinate lines” Coordinate lines are straight lines upon which all the cell corners must lie Thus if there are ... cells in the x-direction and NY cells in the y-direction, there will be (NX+1)*(NY+1) coordinate lines Models of the above mentioned storages were created using vertical coordinate lines, but in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 07:20

... shunting, thereby decreasing first pass metabolism; decrease in quantities and affinity of plasma proteins, thereby increasing free-drug levels; increase in volume of distribution in patients ... remain about the pathophysiology of treatment-emergent diabetes, guidelines are being formulated to aid clinicians in identifying patients at risk Screening for diabetes should include questioning ... studied primarily in patients with seizure disorders Carbamazepine-induced increase in total cholesterol is primarily due to an increase in HDL [34] This occurs during the initial weeks of therapy,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... change in the repo rate) Therefore d is defined according to the following scheme: 1 if ∆iM < d = 0 if ∆iM > In a few cases no monthly changes are detected in the monetary indicator (∆iM=0) In ... behaviour depending on whether policy rates are increasing or decreasing Model specification tests are reported in Section 7, while Section contains the result of a simulation using the estimated ... banking industry in the 1990s should have led to a faster adjustment of bank interest rates to monetary policy changes compared with the 1980s, when a certain degree of stickiness in bank interest...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... for CY 2011 B Interviewed the U.S Postal Inspector, Team Leader, in Tampa, Florida, to obtain information on the tax refund scheme being perpetrated in the Tampa area We obtained information on ... planning, organizing, directing, and controlling program operations They include the systems for measuring, reporting, and monitoring program performance We determined the following internal controls ... this information, along with third-party income and withholding information that the IRS maintains for the prior year’s tax filings, could allow the IRS to better identify individuals filing fraudulent...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... observed in patients with obese patients and in healthy subjects The self-selected walking speed of obese subjects is 1.17 ± 0.10 m/sec; Browning et al [21] reported that the velocity that minimizes ... phase and reduced single support phase compared with both obese and healthy subjects This motor strategy is likely to be aimed at avoiding overloading on one single limb and maintaining the Cadence ... creating instability during standing and walking Morbility and mortality of PWS are mainly related to severe obesity Hypothalamic dysfunction is a recognized cause of compulsive appetite leading...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... of the retina Both EOG and ERG in fact are useful indices reflecting dopamine activity There are several studies in the interna- tional literature concerning the relationship of dopamine with ... procedure includes recordings of eye movents every minutes, for 12 minutes in dark and subsequently 12 minutes in light The resulting recording is shown in figure 1(a) There is no difference of ... assessment and diagnosis In no case medication was interrupted in order to include the patient in the study Be physically healthy with normal clinical and laboratory findings, including EEG, ECG and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... by clozapine or olanzapine, especially in the high body mass index (BMI) subgroup [3] The purpose of this study is to assess binge eating symptomatology in a group of individuals receiving treatment ... WS: Obesity, binge eating and psychopathology: are they related? Int J Eat Disord 1994, 15:53-61 Freeman LM, Gil KM: Daily stress, coping, and dietary restraint in binge eating Int J Eat Disord ... weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters Binge eating status was assessed through a clinical interview, using DSM-IV criteria (SCID-IV) [11] To be able to correctly identify binge...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... c) Patients on Warfarin (Protein C is a vitamin K dependent protein) d) Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) e) Patients already on activated protein C infusion f) Failure to obtain consent ... increased plasma concentrations in septic patients [25] This interaction is a critical step in the host defence against sepsis since inhibition of protein C binding to EPCR (in baboon model) is shown ... reduction in plasma protein C concentrations in severe sepsis observed in our study However, our data indicates that plasma protein C levels are even lower in immunocompromised septic patients compared...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... status as also being a potential inhibiter to both initially contacting and remaining in contact with some patients as they were attempting to remain undetected by other authorities In addition, ... also inhibits prospective patients from volunteering to participate in research projects This is in line with findings that ethnic minorities have a greater distrust of medical research in general ... and carers are actively involved in recruitment and research procedures, as the decision of consent will in large part be influenced by them It is particularly important to include caregivers in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... [25] are all factors that increase the likelihood of forming blood clots and are other important VTE risk factors seen in patients with acute psychosis The risk of VTE is specifically increased in ... are fragments of insoluble fibrin detectable in plasma after fibrin coagulum has been cleaved by plasmin Increased plasma level of D-dimer results from pathological activation of blood clotting ... necrosis, tumours or infections Nevertheless, we did not find any clinical or laboratory markers of infection in our sample of patients The increased plasma level of D-dimer in acute psychosis...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... factor-alfa; IFNg, interferon-gamma; IL-1a, interleukin-1 a; IL-4, interleukin-4; IL-6, interleukin-6; IL-10, interleukin-10; IL-17, interleukin 17; IL-22, interleukin-22; CRP, C-reactive protein Extreme ... diarrhea (p < 001), which is interesting given that IL-22 appears to play an important role in maintaining the integrity of the epithelium in animal models of intestinal infection [63] It has been ... epithelium In murine models of intestinal infection with Citrobacter rodentium, there is greater intestinal damage in the absence of IL-22, leading to greater levels of systemic bacteria [63] Indirect...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... of hypotension as the need for vasopressor agents (norepinephrine, epinephrine, neosynephrine, vasopressin, or ≥5 mg/kg/minute of dopamine) for more than 1h or a systolic blood pressure ≤90 mmHg ... collected up to the first 14 days are used in the linear model shown here ICU, intensive care unit and/or signaling have also been implicated in hemorrhagic shock in animal models [30-32] As stressful ... baseline ± days baseline ± days Change in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)/nuclear DNA (nDNA) ratio between baseline and day (± 1) in the intensive care unit Of the 28 critically ill between baseline...

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... than in those with respiratory infections Secondary infections were more common in patients with abdominal infections (70 patients, 43%), than in those with respiratory infections (119 patients, ... with abdominal infections Mortality rates in studies of infection and sepsis in the ICU are quite variable In studies in surgical ICUs, ICU mortality rates in patients with abdominal infections varied ... patients (22%) with abdominal infections developed respiratory infections later during the ICU stay and 15 patients (4%) with respiratory infections developed abdominal infections (Table 3) Patients...

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