... workforce and infrastructure, as well as other health outcomes, such as infant mortality and all cause mortality" [24] The purpose of this study is to assess the associationbetween PEPFAR funding and ... transaction costs, increases equity and sustainability, and improves aid effectiveness and health sector efficiency [23] However, for donor organizations and governments, a sector-wide approach ... Rwanda between 2000 and 2006 increased from 46 to 52 years The fractional change is calculated at 0.13, but changed to -0.13 to reflect an improvement A second analysis comparing PEPFAR focus and...
... 30 2.7 The associationbetween stress and depression 33 2.7.1 Conceptualising stress 33 2.7.2 The associationbetween stress and depression 34 2.8 The associationbetween social ... 2.9.2 The associationbetween self esteem and depression 41 2.9.3 Conceptualising mastery 42 2.9.4 The associationbetween mastery and depression 44 2.10 The associationbetween ... associationbetween SES and stress, social support and psychological resources……………… 45 2.10.1 Associationbetween SES and stress 45 2.10.2 Associationbetween SES and social support...
... Univariate analysis Patients in the LE and ME groups were older (P = 0.002) and had longer disease duration (P < 0.001) and higher ESR (P = 0.031) and HAQ (P < 0.001) and more frequent joint replacement ... syndrome and GC exposure, thus acting as potential confounders, included age (P = 0.001 and P = 0.002, respectively), RA disease duration (P = 0.008 and P < 0.001), ESR (P = 0.006 and P = 0.031), and ... impaired glucose handling and that glucose metabolism may be affected directly or indirectly by inflammatory mediators [65] Several studies have demonstrated an associationbetween GC use and decreased...
... frequent and new marker in mouse and human lupus, establish a clear relationship between anti-NPM and aCL antibodies and finally define a subset of patients with aCL antibodies The association ... populations Materials and methods Mice and sera Female NZW and male BXSB mice were purchased, respectively, from Bomholtgard Breeding and Research Center (Ry, Denmark) and The Jackson Laboratory ... the prevalence and kinetics of anti-NPM antibodies, their relationships with aCL antibodies in WB mouse and human SLE sera and the mechanisms that might account for the associationbetween these...
... the model but did not change the associationbetween meniscal tears and the external knee adduction moment (data not shown) No associationbetween meniscal tears and the degree of foot rotation ... adduction moment during early stance and trended Table Associationbetween external peak knee adduction moment during early and late stance and the presence and severity of meniscal tears Univariate ... the relationship between meniscal tear presence (yes/no) and severity (grade) (independent variables) and peak external knee adduction moments and foot rotation during early and late stance (outcome...
... Book and colleagues [33] find an associationbetween disease duration and mortality To our knowledge, no previous study has examined the associationbetween markers of inflammation in RA and BNP/NTproBNP ... the final model (Table 4) NT-proBNP levels increased between each follow-up visit and the interactions between age and gender and gender and time of follow-up were significant effect modifiers ... no significant associationbetween these measures and NT-proBNP levels in our multivariate longitudinal analyses Previous reports on the associationbetween joint destruction and CVD in RA have...
... Univariate analysis Patients in the LE and ME groups were older (P = 0.002) and had longer disease duration (P < 0.001) and higher ESR (P = 0.031) and HAQ (P < 0.001) and more frequent joint replacement ... syndrome and GC exposure, thus acting as potential confounders, included age (P = 0.001 and P = 0.002, respectively), RA disease duration (P = 0.008 and P < 0.001), ESR (P = 0.006 and P = 0.031), and ... impaired glucose handling and that glucose metabolism may be affected directly or indirectly by inflammatory mediators [65] Several studies have demonstrated an associationbetween GC use and decreased...
... no associationbetween stavudine AUC and the lipoatrophy scores or concentrations of glucose, lactate and triglycerides To our knowledge this is the first study to evaluate the associationbetween ... hyperlactataemia (32%), and hypertriglyceridaemia (23%) We found an associationbetween duration and triglycerides concentrations A meta-analysis from randomised control trials and cohort studies ... copies/mL and 29 had no viral load data Forty and seven participants were on 30 mg and 40 mg of stavudine, respectively Twenty six, twenty and one participants were on efavirenz, nevirapine and lopinavir,...
... cracked and crusted lips, his initial physical examination was negative His uncorrected visual acuity was 12/10 in each eye and the intraocular pressure in his right and left eye was 14 and 17 ... senior relatives (grandparents) On the other hand, chest computed tomography (CT), abdominal ultrasound, brain and orbit magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, as well as brain and orbit magnetic ... autoimmune and tumour markers, screening for antiphospholipid syndrome, and cryoglobulinaemia was also negative Finally, the patient presented normal values of protein C, protein S, antithrombin, and...
... are recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) [13-15] and dental enamel defects [8,13,16-21], in addition have been described the associationbetween CD and unspecific forms of atrophic glossitis [22], ... aged betweenand 18 years old and living in the Region of Marche, were enrolled in the study CD was diagnosed at Paediatric Department of the University Politecnica of Marche (Ancona, Italy), and ... disappearance of the symptoms and normalization of serum anti-tTG and/ or EMA after gluten-free-diet (GFD) [28,29] The control group was recruited by simple randomization at a Primary and Secondary Public...
... investigating the associationbetween bone mass and risk for cardiovascular events and mortality was not possible due to extended heterogeneity between studies with respect to the study population and methods ... disease and BMD hip: OR: PAD by ABI 1.22 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.43) PAD and BMD hip: NS Men: Prevalent CV disease and BMD hip: NS PAD and BMD hip: OR: 1.39 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.84) 260 BMD and IMT: NS BMD and ... Lumbar spine and hip by DXA IMT and PWV BMD spine and IMT: r -.025 (P = 0.26) BMD hip and IMT: r-0.17 (NS) BMD and PWV: NS Mangiafico, 2008 [57] Clinicbased 182 100% BMD lumbar spine and hip DXA...
... TXB2, 6-keto-PGF1α) and LTB4 did not differ between responders and nonresponders, and neither did TNFα or nitrate concentrations (Table 3) Discussion Positive correlation was seen between plasma concentrations ... plasma concentrations of endotoxin and IL-8 (ρ = 0.62, P < 0.01) Further positive correlations were seen between MPAP on one hand and IL-8 (ρ = 0.72, P < 0.01) and ET-1 (ρ = 0.68, P < 0.01), on ... leukotriene B4 *P < 0.05 between responder and nonresponder, †P < 0.05 between baseline and before INO Endotoxin also caused a rapid release of inflammatory mediators and vasoactive substances...
... regression and logistic regression were used to compare percentage weight loss and clinically significant weight loss (overweight and obese only) between men and women, adjusting for sex, initial BMI and ... diet and exercise and charting their progress towards a target weight The user registers online and enters personal information about height, weight, activity levels, and desired amount and speed ... doi:10.1186/1479-5868-8-83 Cite this article as: Johnson and Wardle: The associationbetween weight loss and engagement with a web-based food and exercise diary in a commercial weight loss programme:...
... significant epistatic interactions between QTLs seen on chromosomes and 19, and 11, and 10 and 15 (for example, note the interactions of Act3WT.1 with Act19epi.1, and Act19WT.1 with Act3epi.1 in ... examples of epistatic effects on the associationbetween physical activity and body weight Two examples of epistatic effects on the associationbetween physical activity and body weight Each example ... genetic association of physical activity and body weight Genotypes at these loci exhibited variously positive, zero, and negative activity/ weight associations, and their individual and collective...
... levels between Iberian and Large White pigs, andbetween Duroc and Sino-European pigs were uncorrelated, whereas the total height of the tree was ~ 1.6, suggesting a negative correlation between ... enrichment scores were used to measure the strength of the associationbetween gene sets and the metabolic trait The significance and FDR of the associations were determined by 1000 permutations [10] ... of connection between a pair of tissues with regard to gene expression is defined as N1 N2 i=1 j=1 aij , where i and j correspond to probesets in N1 N2 tissue and tissue 2, and N1 and N2 are the...
... quality and amount of information disclosed Authors like Donnely and Mulcahy (2008), Ho and Wong (2001) and Gul and Leung (2004) document a negative relationship between CEO duality and voluntary ... Canada; 1995: Australia, France and the European Union; 1996: The Netherlands; 1997: Japan and EE.UU.; 1998: Spain, Belgium Germany and Italy; 1999: Greece, Ireland and Portugal 2000: Denmark 2001: ... complementarities between governance and information Because of this, in spite of the high ownership concentration and blockholder ownership, we expect positive complementarities between governance and disclosure,...
... Table and Figure 1) We further performed stratified analysis according to asthma type (atopic asthma and non-atopic asthma), age (children and adult) and ethnicity (Asian and Caucasian and African ... heterogeneity, and it was considered significant for P < 0.01 We used the fixed-effects model and the random-effects model based on the Mantel-Haenszel method and the DerSimonian and Laird method, ... heterogeneity test > 01; otherwise, random-effects model was used Table Associationbetween asthma risk and the RANTES -28C/G polymorphisms, stratified by asthma type, age and ethnicity Stratified variable...
... of the associationbetween measures which occupy adjacent tiers of the hierarchical model (described in figure 1) will be greater than that between the bottom and top tiers i.e i) Q1 and Q2 will ... at baseline (p = 0.015) and at 12 months (p < 0.001), and across change scores (p < 0.001) Q2 and Q3 – Data were available for Q2 and Q3 on 405 patients at baseline, and 311 at follow-up At baseline ... of the associationbetween measures which occupy adjacent tiers of the hierarchical model (described in figure 1) will be greater than that between the bottom and top tiers i.e i) Q1 and Q2 will...
... and designed the research; analyzed and interpreted the data; performed statistical analysis, handled funding and supervision and drafted the manuscript RRG, DB, OM, have acquired, analyzed and ... out on admission andbetween days and Infarct volume was calculated in the second CT by using the formula 0.5 × a × b × c, where a and b are the largest perpendicular diameters, and c is the number ... after oxygen and glucose deprivation and tPA Neurochem Int 2011, 58:337-343 doi:10.1186/1479-5876-9-58 Cite this article as: Rodríguez-González et al.: Associationbetween neuroserpin and molecular...