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... analyzed with the two tailed unpaired t-test For comparison of the individually observed and predicted time values and for comparison of within-group changes a repeated measures analysis of variance ... during exercise and the degree of left ventricular enlargement was similar in IDCM patients with and without LBBB Hence, these mechanisms may equally be operative in both subgroups and may not have ... dyssynchrony is typically present in patients with LBBB but also common in patients without LBBB (16) As a result of the heterogeneous onset of LV contraction and its heterogeneous termination LV...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 11:32

... Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo TR is a psychiatrist, professor at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, and Head of the Department of Research and Development ... psychiatric nurses and clinical social workers, were asked to complete standardized forms for all inpatients and outpatients seen within the four week period A total of 2154 patients were included ... the No SUD group amongst patients with schizophrenia [34] The third finding is that the SUD patients have lower prevalences of anxiety and depression compared to patients without SUD This finding...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... concentrations of anti-Xa activity and mean Cmax and AUC024 h for both groups Two groups of patients were studied: ICU patients with subcutaneous oedema (index group) and ICU patients without subcutaneous ... the assumption of a Cmax in healthy volunteers of 0.22 (standard deviation (SD) 0.07) IU/ml and an AUC024 h of 1.26 (SD 0.40) hãIU/ml [17] and a desired power of 80% and of 5% All patients received ... subcutaneous injection of dalteparin in ICU patients with subcutaneous oedema with anti-Xa activity in ICU patients without subcutaneous oedema Materials and methods This non-randomized open parallel...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24

... inHIV tive) and withinfected (HIV-negative) within the intensive care (HIV-posiof cases not Pneumocystis pneumonia patients infected unit (ICU) of cases with Pneumocystis pneumonia in patients infected ... well-known benefit of NIMV in different populations of immunosuppressed patients with other causes of respiratory failure [20,21] The retrospective nature of our study, with no standardized modality ... on 24 patients after excluding patients with lymphoid leukemia The neutrophil count is reported on the whole population of HIV-negative patients (n = 27) that 80% of HIV-negative patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... HIV-TB patients group The strength of our study was the inclusion of randomly selected non-TB controls at baseline, and the large number of TB patients and high follow-up rates, i.e 90 and 80% at and ... both TB patients with and without HIV co-infection HIV uninfected PTB patients had significantly lower CD4 levels than healthy controls at baseline and did not reach the same levels of circulating ... guardians of any participants under Andersen et al BMC Infectious Diseases 2012, 12:66 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/12/66 Page of 18 years of age Patients were offered pre- and post-test...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... two instruments and their performance in measuring differences in QOL among patients with and without obesity Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... interview of a random sample of 366 patients seen at a large hospital-based primary care practice in Boston between November 2001 and June 2003 The goal of the study was to describe the quality of life ... used to compare the QOL impact of obesity and changes in weight with the QOL impact of other diseases Thus, studies of obesity may need to include a combination of different instruments especially...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... formation of CNT on the cathode in the arc-discharge route can occur without catalyst addition as shown by the work of Bacon in 1957 [47] and more recently by Iijima [1] Despite the huge impact of Iijima’s ... as: Rümmeli et al.: Synthesis of carbon nanotubes with and without catalyst particles Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:303 Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit from: Convenient online ... initial catalyst size and the CNT outer diameter, after synthesis the catalyst particles are found to lie within the core of the CNT and are elongated [42] In addition, the roots of the graphitic...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... 85% (35 of 41) of the specimen of patients with EAC with BE, and 84% (16 of 19) in EAC without BE (p = n.s) No LgR5 expression was found in specimen with esophageal SCC No expression of the putative ... Figure 2a) and EAC without BE (n = 19, Median 13%, IQR 4.75% - 23.0%; 95% CI 6.346 - 22.436%; p < 0.05; Figure 2a; p < 0.05 for LgR5 expression of BE with adjacent EAC and EAC with and without BE) ... (a and b) Case demonstrates area of magnification Prognostic Effect of LgR5 To analyze survival differences of patients after successful (R0) curative surgical resection for EAC with and without...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... includes 162 subjects (male and female) of which 44 were of healthy individuals, 44 patients with type diabetes, 44 patients with type diabetes and nephropathy and 30 diabetics with retinopathy The ... concentrations of inflammatory markers and metabolic variables in the Caribbean population Type diabetes with the concentrations of inflammatory markers and metabolic variables in Caribbean population without ... patients with diabetes with and without microvascular complications Previous studies have indicated that SSA concentrations are elevated in diabetics (both type and type2) with and without complications,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... care: a randomised controlled trial of GP management, with and without adjunctive counselling BMC Psychiatry 2011 11:95 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • ... were levels of depressive symptoms and the proportion of participants with symptoms below the cut-off score indicative of mild to severe depressive symptoms Two validated measures of depressive ... short form of the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS 21 SF) [23] was used to monitor levels of stress and anxiety, which commonly occur co-morbidly with depression The stress and anxiety...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... twelve patients, of which to were CNCM patients A total of 231 CNCM and 612 NN patients were in the final dataset In the CNCM region, 67.7% was diagnosed with severe mental illness, 22.6% with ... as availability of psychiatric care, level of urbanicity and ethnic diversity (low levels of immigration) is similar to South Limburg Patients from NN were matched with CNCM patients (see below) ... patients were matched with the NN patient with the nearest propensity score as well as those with the two second nearest scores, aiming to make matching groups consisting of one CNCM and NN patients...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... which is not necessar- Table 2: Comparison of the prevalence of oral impacts, by OHIP-14 and CS-OIDP attributed to malocclusion, between adolescents with and without normative need for orthodontic ... populations and disease states [3-6] One of the most commonly used generic OHRQoL measures is the two versions of Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP); with 49 or 14 items [7,8] On the other hand, specific ... both overall scores between adolescents with and without normative need for orthodontic treatment To aid comparison and interpretation, the magnitude of differences was also expressed as an effect...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Materials and methods We have analyzed skeletal age and Risser sign with their Cobb angle in 418 patients with idiopathic scoliosis (IS) and 256 patients without scoliosis (control) All the patients with ... difference in patients with scoliosis from in patients without scoliosis Additionally skeletal age and Risser sign were also compared according to severity of curve and gender in entire patients group ... scoliosis and without scoliosis were grouped into group1 and group2, respectively All patients selected for this study had an age between minimum and maximum 16 years for girls, and minimum and maximum...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... health; VT: vitality Figure Bland-Altman plot of EQ-5D and SF-6D Bland-Altman plot of EQ-5D and SF-6D Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006, 4:20 ... comparing the SF-6D and EQ-5D qualitatively and quantitatively, using data from two randomised controlled trials of patients with symptomatic coronary stenosis Methods We included patients with symptomatic ... range and sensitivity to change after intervention and the low agreement show that the EQ-5D and SF6D yield incomparable scores Even within a group of patients with the same diagnosis, the EQ-5D and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... sclerosis patients with functional lung fibrosis and signs of lung fibrosis on highresolution computed tomography; SScFib-, SSc patients with no signs and symptoms of lung fibrosis; GM, gel matching with ... sclerosis patients without lung fibrosis tion of IL-8 by airway epithelial cells [46] Furthermore, Viemann and colleagues demonstrated that the expression of Cal B and Cal A correlates with the inflammatory ... profile of BALFs from a group of SScFib+ and SScFib- patients, respectively Materials and methods Patients The samples consisted of archived BALF samples acquired between March 2004 and April...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... levels of MMP-3 with CRP, ESR, and BASDAI (respectively) [17] or with ESR and BASDAI but not with CRP [27] We obtained no clear correlation of serum levels of BALP with parameters of disease ... to 52 weeks of treatment with adalimumab patients with axial spondyloarthritis before and after 12 and 36 to 52 weeks of treatment with adalimumab *P < 0.05 ns, not significant Page of (page number ... AS patients, we observed a good correlation of VEGF with CRP, ESR, and BASDAI This is in line with previous reports showing that VEGF is a good indicator of high disease activity in patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... of patients with a test result outside the reference range No significant differences in laboratory parameters were observed between patients treated with and without Table 3: Number (%) of patients ... version 16.0) software package Results A total of 81 patients were identified with a median age of 47 years (26-73 years), of whom 89% were male and 82% Caucasian Twenty-seven patients were using ... groups with and without ABC Besides, all patients were stratified in low-risk, average-risk and high-risk categories for cardiovascular disease according to their hsCRP levels independent of ABC...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... exchange and hemodynamics in ALI/ARDS patients with normal IAP or IAH However, PEEP significantly increased EVLWI in patients with normal IAP but not in patients with IAH IAH, within the limits of ... CW in patients with IAH, thus reducing pleural pressures, this was associated with better hemodynamics as compared with those patients with lower IAP and less recruitment On the other hand, it ... patients was associated with an improved oxygenation [23] We did not find differences in ITBVI, EVLWI and hemodynamics between ALI/ARDS patients with and without IAH Our patients were characterized...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... measures of mean COP velocity, standard deviation of COP, and range of COP in both the anterior/posterior (A/P) and medial/lateral (M/L) 10 directions In a comparison of subjects with and without ... reproduced without the expressed permission of the author An Abstract of A Comparison of Strength, ROM, Laxity, and Static and Dynamic Postural Control Between Ankle Copers and Patients With Chronic ... production of ankle, knee, and hip flexion and extension range of motion in individuals with CAI Fifteen participants with CAI and fifteen healthy participants performed maximum-effort repetitions with...

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