clinical assessment of asthma and copd

... Although asthma and COPD have many risk factors in common and often coexist in clinical settings, and there is some evidence that asthma may be a risk factor for the development of COPD [40], ... asthma diagnosis had COPD diagnosis, and 21% of those with asthma diagnosis had chronic bronchitis symptoms Total n Asthma diagnosis n (%) Asthma diagnosis Asthma symptoms COPD diagnosis Chronic ... Restriction of analysis to asthmatics without COPD, and to those with COPD without asthma, was performed for both diagnoses and symptoms The results showed similar effects in the restricted and nonrestricted...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... comorbidity, and study centre Stratified analyses were performed with respect to diagnosis (neither asthma nor COPD; and asthma and/ or COPD) Respiratory symptoms often occur together, causing problems of ... Netherlands showed that knowledge about both asthma and COPD was related to better adaptation to these diseases [33] Knowledge of disease is likely to vary in the group of asthma and/ or COPD in ... breathlessness without asthma and/ or COPD had lower both PCS and MCS than subjects with asthma and/ or COPD It could be that breathlessness indicated by subjects without asthma or COPD represents a...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... ST that was half of the acquired ST Projection radiography X-ray of hands and feet in a posterior-anterior projection was performed within a month of the US X-rays of both hands and feet (2nd–5th ... ultrasonography, x-ray, and clinical examination, with MRI as standard reference method Sensitivities and specificities of US, x-ray, and clinical examination, with MRI as the standard reference method, ... (6 of 16) and Wakefield and colleagues [16] in 1% (1 of 100) of the examined MCP joints Five of the erosion-like changes found in our study were located at the radial or ulnar side of the 2nd and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... that have investigated the validity of the use of OSCEs in clinical examinations of medical students and a full review of all of these is outside the scope of the current discussion In the main, ... episode of psychosis He has supervised and aided junior doctors sitting the CASC examination List of abbreviations OSCE: Objective Structure Clinical Examination; CASC: Clinical Assessment of Skills ... Skills and Competencies; MRCPsych: Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists UK Acknowledgements and Funding SM would like to acknowledge and thank Dr Matthew Broome (Associate Clinical Professor...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... from the end of the Evaluation of dosimetric and technical data For each group of patients, technical parameters of delivery were scored in terms of number of arcs, total number of monitor units ... toxicity) and the investigation of dosimetric and technical features of the treatments The objectives of this study were to evaluate feasibility and safety of SBRT with FFF beams Although, in hypofractionated ... first assessment of treatment outcome, although obviously very early, was performed at first and second follow up visits and will be reported in terms of degree of response Results Dosimetric and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... consequence of the activities of many angiogenic factors, but VEGF seems to be crucially involved both in asthma and COPD, and different types of cells can play a role as the source of VEGF The clinical ... with asthma and COPD using a high-magnification bronchovideoscope and did not find any difference between COPD patients and controls [43] A drawback of this technique is the detection limit of ... [72] Hypertrophy and hyperplasia of mucous glandular structures and loss of alveolar attachments are considered to be the main structural changes of airway remodelling in COPD and they may play...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... signs and symptoms suggestive of asthma according to the National Institute of Health (NIH) Questionnaire [17] but without a firm diagnosis of asthma or an exclusion of the diagnosis of asthma ... showed a sensitivity of mannitol and methacholine to identify EIB of 68.4% and 73.7% and a specificity of 44.4% and 55.5% respectively Sensitivity and specificity for mannitol and methacholine to ... receive a clinical diagnosis of asthma at Visit (ClinDx5), 78% had a likelihood of asthma of less than 50% assigned at Visit Sensitivity and specificity of mannitol to predict ClinDx5+ was 55% and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... 23–54 years of age were included in the study Asthma and COPD were ruled out by a negative history of respiratory symptoms Many studies have used assessment of EBC pH as a measure of airway acidity ... (HC), asthma, COPD and cold Comparison of pH in EBC obtained by either RTube or ECoComparison of pH in EBC obtained by either RTube or ECoScreen in healthy controls (HC), asthma, COPD and cold ... degasification of EBC prior to analysis, or the use of a special gas [5] We included stable asthmatics and COPD GOLD stage and Comparing the asthmatic and COPD patients with healthy controls, we did...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... content of esterified and etherified p-coumaric acids is 3.78 and 1.72% respectively, and the content of esterified and etherified ferulic acid is 1.02 and 2.2%, respectively [23] Dimerization of ... economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels PNAS 2006, 103(30), 11206-11210 [6] Taherzadeh M.J., Kamiri K Pretreatment of lignocellulosic wastes to improve ethanol and ... conversion of lime-treated wheat straw into bioethanol: quality assessment of bioethanol and valorization of side streams by anaerobic digestion and combustion Biotechnology for Biofuels 2008,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... assays with increasing amounts of DNA fragments encoding cyt b5 and monitored the formation of androstadienol and DHEA As shown in Fig the stimulation of DHEA and androstadienol production from ... transformation of preg into androstadienol, a precursor in the biosynthesis of 1354 P Soucy et al (Eur J Biochem 270) Fig Influence of increasing amounts of P450red on the relative formation of DHEA and androstadienol ... also in the production of androstadienol which is considered to be an intermediate in the 16-androstene pathway leading to the biosynthesis of androstenol and of 5a(16)androsten-3-one, a pheromonally...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... analysis of IVS2 +691C/G SNP M: marker 1kb; Lane 1, and 7: homozygote CC; lane and 4: GG; lane and 5: heterozygote C/G From that, we calculated allele frequencies of +691C and +691G as 0.75 and 0.25, ... binding and activity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 95 (1998) 9608 233 [5] Paul Roy Heath et a.l, Allenle of Human histamine H2 receptor and methods of detection of H2 receptor ... to Assoc Prof Trinh Dinh Dat from Faculty of Biology, Hanoi University of Science, for his continuing expertise support and proof-reading the manuscript D.D Long et al / VNU Journal of Science,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... Standards and Health: Assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease This page intentionally left blank Water Quality Guidelines, Standards and Health: Assessment of ... exposure assessment is an important input to both the assessment of risk and to risk management Exposure assessment is a formal component of the risk assessment process (Chapter 8) Exposure assessment ... Harmonised assessment of risk and risk management: an overview 11 While the general public may prefer the idea of 'zero risk', in a world of limited resources and competing demands some idea of tolerable...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... history and context of five key areas of inquiry of this study: the place, product, people, politics, and programs (the 5P‟s); followed by a brief summary of previous allegations of human and labor ... history and development of the rubber sector in the country, and the impact of severe poverty and social and economic instability on the labor force and employment patterns The civil war and subsequent ... Exploratory Assessment of Living and Working Conditions, with Special Attention to Forced Labor 11 Tapping rubber trees The clearing of land, breeding in the nursery, and the weeding and pruning of fields...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:21

... Comparison of Recycling, Landfilling, and Incineration: A Review of Recent Studies”; Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 21:6:191-237 32 Microsoft Excel and Web-based versions of this tool ... of action by EPA • 1.4 The landfill recovery scenario is based on estimated recovery rates and percentages of waste disposed in landfills with no recovery, landfills with only flaring, and landfills ... reduction and recycling of paper products, for example, reduce energy consumption, decrease combustion and landfill emissions, and increase forest carbon sequestration ES.4 GENESIS AND APPLICATIONS OF...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... Role of Assessor: An assessor is a person who is assigned the job of assessing a candidate’s performance in any of the skills that is to be assessed For the purpose of the Summative Assessment, ... Therefore, due care and attention must be given to each of the following:       Size of the room Seating arrangements Acoustics of the room Equipment used Quality of the recording of the Listening ... comprises of a variety of task These tasks are graded according to the length of the task and the difficulty level Schools may download the sample tasks and reorganize them in two parts transcripts and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 05:20

... Programme officers in the development of new projects The participation of civil society, government, and business stakeholders in the diagnosis of environment and health problems and in the design and ... development of computational technologies, land use trends and impacts analyses, and socio-economic aspects of environmental and natural resource conservation and management Dr Gitau received her B.S and ... of well-being, and takes into account the multiple goals and multiple perspectives of the primary managers of these systems Issues of human values (such as economics and aesthetics), scale, and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... sum of the cross products of cumulative percentage of land-use units and lagged cumulative percentage of the resource T2 is the sum of the cross products of lagged cumulative percentage of land-use ... boundaries of Gikabu-naButi village of Tigoni Division are socioeconomic The village adjoins another, and both are sandwiched within two vast tea estates The land was part of one of the tea estates and ... Casley and Lury (1982) as (T1-T2)/ 10,000 where T1 is the sum of the cross-products of cumulative percentage of land-use units and lagged cumulative percentage of the resource T2 is the sum of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... production and agroforestry Tour of fields Livestock production Tour of pens and sheds Marketing End of tour of fields, pens, and sheds End of tour of fields, pens, and sheds Beginning of discussion ... of the agenda of the workshop, a description of the steps of an action research process and of the objectives and proposed methods of the project was provided Table 3.1 shows the sequencing of ... strategies Graphs of trends and time lines Graphs Graphs of transect profiles showing resource location and land-use characteristics Lists of income and expenditure types Key inputs and outputs Venn...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... 1976), (4) assessment of stability (Roberts, 1976a), (5) calculation of the strong components, (6) assessment of connectedness (Roberts, 1976b), and (7) assessment of the effects of different ... [3, 12] and [12, 3] Increases in the weight of any one of these arcs increase the number of oscillating impacts of community goals A weight of 10 resulted in oscillations of all but nine of the ... Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Klee, V (1989) Sign-pattern and stability In Applications of Combinatorics and Graph Theory to the Biological and Social Sciences...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20