... the clinical and economic value of doripenem in patients with VAP. Key messages ã Initial doripenem use in patients with VAP was associated with statistically significant shorter dura- tions of ... days) was generally consistent with that in previous cohort studies of patients with VAP (10 to 14 days) [1,23]. Simi- larly, duration of hospitalization (26 days) was within the range in previous ... comparator group with P. aeruginosa at baseline than for those without P. a e r ug ino s a. For exam- ple, median duration of mechanical ventilation was 10 days for all patients with VAP and 13...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02
Báo cáo y học: "he Association Among Lipoprotein-associated Phospholipase A2 Levels, Total Antioxidant Capacity and Arousal in Male Patients with OSA"
... LP-PLA2 level was independently associated with arousal (p=0.002). Linear regression analysis with enter method demonstrated that only LP-PLA2 levels were related with arousal (Table 2), but hsCRP, ... increased cardiac and vascular events in patients with OSA are not well understood. Arousal which is an important component of OSA was associated with increased sympathetic activation and electrocardiographic ... measured in serum samples with the PLAC Test. Total antioxidant capacity in patients was determined with Antioxidant Assay Kit. Results: Arousal was positively correlated with LP-PLA2 levels (r=0.43,...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00
Báo cáo y học: "Weight loss, leukopenia and thrombocytopenia associated with sustained virologic response to Hepatitis C treatmen"
... characteristics and laboratory data between patients with and without sustained virological response (SVR). Characteristics Patients with SVR (n=41 ) Patients without SVR (n=13) P-Value Male gender, n, ... apparently associated with higher response to treatment among Asian Americans pa- tients compared to Caucasians, Hispanics and Afri- can Americans, respectively (19). In our study, the patients with ... associated with treatment success (10, 20). However, other studies demonstrated that weight loss did not improve the treatment outcomes (15, 21). It is known that interferon therapy is associated...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39
Báo cáo y học: "Serum cholesterol concentration associated with aspirin esterase activity in older people: preliminary data"
... population did not include subjects with malnutrition nor there were any with nutritional modifications during the interventional period. More studies with larger sample sizes and longer ... metabolism among older people. A recent report has shown that greater aspirin hydroly- sis can be associated with decreased cholesterol levels of high-density lipoprotein in type 2 diabetics (6). Although ... significant correlations with the changes in cholesterol concentrations may open new avenues for exploration of aspirin metabolism. Our present results of improvement of aspirin effect with de- creased...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39
Báo cáo y học: " A Novel Variable Number of Tandem Repeat of the Natriuretic Peptide Precursor B gene’s 5’-Flanking Region is Associated with Essential Hypertension among Japanese Females"
... to be associated with an increased risk of BP progression in males, but not in females [22]. Further studies are needed to resolve these conflicting results. Since there are many loci with ... subjects with or without the 16 repeat allele (Table 3). The plasma BNP level was significantly higher in the EH group than in the NT group (p=0.0203). The plasma BNP level in each genotype with ... levels with age and gender were consistent. Further- more, the BNP level that had the optimal sensitivity and specificity for detecting systolic dysfunction in the overall population increased with...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:04
Báo cáo y học: "Grb2-associated binder 1 polymorphism was associated with the risk of Helicobactor pylori infection and gastric atrophy"
... polymorphism was associated with the low risk of the infection independent on severe atrophy. Although the Gab1 polymorphism prevented H. pylori infection, it was associated with the risk of ... seropositive subjects, the Gab1 polymorphism was not associated with gastric cancer. When we made a comparison between cases and controls with seropositive atrophy, the ORs of G/A and A/A for ... Ivyspring International Publisher. All rights reserved Research Paper Grb2 -associated binder 1 polymorphism was associated with the risk of Helicobactor pylori infection and gastric atrophy Yasuyuki...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 15:37
Báo cáo y học: "Elevated plasma homocysteine is positively associated with age independent of C677T mutation of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene in selected Egyptian subjects"
... correlated positively with age, total cholesterol, urea, creatinine, glucose levels and carotid intimal thickness (CIT). Conclusion: The MTHFR mutation does not seem to be associated with either high ... seem to be associated with the occurrence of coronary heart disease or the elevation of plasma tHcy in the studied patients. Plasma tHcy was significantly higher in elder patients with cardiovascular ... complications compared with the young control group. There was a significant positive correlation between plasma tHcy and age. Also, the high plasma tHcy was associated with the presence of mildly...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49
Báo cáo y học: " Vgf is a novel biomarker associated with muscle weakness in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with a potential role in disease pathogenesis"
... Bacskai BJ, Hyman BT, Trotti D, Brown RH Jr. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -associated SOD1 mutant proteins bind and aggregate with Bcl-2 in spinal cord mitochondria. Neuron 2004; 43(1):19-30. 30. ... spinal cord neurons. Neuron cultures were infected with Adeno (Ad)-Vgf or Ad-LacZ viral constructs at 5 MOI for 72 hrs, and then treated with AMPA (5 àM), NMDA (20 àM) for 48 hrs while cell ... blocked by incubation with casein. Samples and standards were applied in duplicate and incubated overnight at 4°C. Following the Vgf capture phase, the plates were reacted with rabbit anti-Vgf...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:52
Báo cáo y học: "Clinical Symptoms Associated with Asystolic or Bradycardic Responses on Implantable Loop Recorder Monitoring in Patients with Recurrent Syncope"
... manifest as febrile illness (20%). Severe neurologic disease (meningoencephalitis), frequently associated with advanced age and diabetes, was initially re- ported to occur in less than 1% of patients. ... ophthalmoscopy, with early hyopofluorescence and late staining on fluorescein angiography (FA). Inac- tive chorioretinal lesions typically are partially atro- phic and partially pigmented with a “targetlike ... FA (Figure 1). Chorioretinal lesions vary in number and size, involving the mid- periphery, with or without involvement of the poste- rior pole. Linear clustering of chorioretinal lesions, following...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:17
Báo cáo y học: "Clinical Symptoms Associated with Asystolic or Bradycardic Responses on Implantable Loop Recorder Monitoring in Patients with Recurrent Syncope"
... monitoring with an ILR was 6 months. The baseline clinical characteristics of patients with asystolic or bradycardic responses during ILR monitoring (Group 1) are compared with those with- out ... reserved Research Paper Clinical Symptoms Associated with Asystolic or Bradycardic Responses on Implantable Loop Recorder Monitoring in Patients with Recurrent Syncope Khalil Kanjwal, Yousuf ... predicting cause of syncope from clinical histories found that syncope occurring without aura or prodrome is associated with spontaneous ar- rhythmic etiology predominantly bradycardia. Given a small...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:17
Development of a method to measure consumer emotions associated with foods
... 2009 Keywords: Emotion Mood Consumer Food abstract Emotion attributes have been generally associated with product brands but little work has been pub- lished to understand consumer emotions associated with the product itself. The purpose of ... foods with consumers in person or on the internet. A list of emotion terms was screened and validated with consumers. The emotion terms selected for foods were generally positive, as compared with ... originating within a clinical framework. The list of emotions was useful in differentiating between and within categories of foods. Higher overall acceptability scores correlated with higher...
Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 21:07
Solid waste management associated with develop of 3R initiative
... increasing the land for IPs to 65 000–70 000 ha in 2015 with the land for hiring reaching up to 60%; 2 this growth will be associated with an increase of hazardous industrial waste generation ... including industrial waste, is illegally discharged daily without any control measures. The amount of HzSW collected is about 60–120 tons/day, with an additional 40–60 tons/day not being collected ... is just at the initial trial period, with many diffi culties being experienced due to the waste generators’ inexperience; edu- cation needs to be carried out with a view to “learning from the...
Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2013, 12:52
Risks Associated with Overcollection of Medicinal Plants in Natural Habitats
... annua L. (sweet wormwood), 15 Risks Associated with Overcollection of Medicinal Plants 379 Botanical Garden, and the University of Chicago have all contracted with private pharmaceutical companies ... nutri- tional plants are regarded still with reverence and typically are guarded with ferocity. DENALI, Alaska’s only biotechnology company, is working with Native orga- nizations throughout the ... to the ground for reseeding. That noted, individual, established plants within a stand appear to be 15 Risks Associated with Overcollection of Medicinal Plants 367 Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew,...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20
Risks and Benefits Associated with Genetically Modified (GM) Plants
... GMOs? Future GM organisms are likely to include plants with improved disease or drought resistance, crops with increased nutrient levels, fish species with enhanced growth characteristics, and plants ... transcriptional factors or hor- mones) into the same organism with subsequent effects on other genes. The main issue associated with gene biotechnology is that the foreign genes could escape ... and adhesives. ã To develop GM rapeseed oil with high erucic acid content. This oil is used in plastics and in high-grade industrial lubricants. ã To develop plants with higher carbon xation rates via...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo "REMARKS ON LOCAL DIMENSION OF FRACTAL MEASURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE (0, 1, 9) - PROBLEM " pdf
... fractal measure associated with 45 Case 1. If (y 4 ,y 5 ,y 6 ) is not a generator, then #t 6n+6 =#t 6n+5 a F 6n+5 a F 6n+6 . Case 2. If (y 4 ,y 5 ,y 6 ) is a generator. Without loss of ... M. Ngai, Iterated function systems with overlaps, Asian J. Math. 4(2000), 527 - 552. 5. T. Hu, The local dimensions of the Bernoulli convolution associated with the golden number, Trans. Amer. ... fractal probability measures associated with equal probability weight, Preprint. 7. T. Hu, N. Nguyen and T. Wang, Local dimensions of the probability measure asso- ciated with the (0, 1, 3) - problem,...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 04:20