... considered that one sixth of the total burden of disease from birth to 18 years is accounted for by exposure to contaminated air, food, soil and water causing respiratory diseases, birth defects, ... estimates of the burden of disease attributable to environmental lead exposure are presented Similarly in section 10 and 11 estimates are given of the burden of disease due to exposure to air pollution ... risk factor to calculate the impact fraction for the particular health outcome To date the estimates of burden of disease attributable to environmental factors provided by the WHO are of limited...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20
... preferential utilization of fat stores to conserve protein stores for energy in the malnourished state • To optimize the accuracy of anthropometric measurements, it is best to utilize a single observer ... with cholestasis • In order to alleviate the malabsorption of fatsoluble vitamins in chronic liver disease, a doubling of the daily dose of an aqueous preparation of vitamins A, D, E and K may ... Clinical history concentrate on family history of inherited metabolic diseases or exposure to virus or toxins causing cirrhosis • Physical exam – – – – – Ascites Liver size and contour Nutritional...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Assignment of the [4Fe-4S] clusters of Ech hydrogenase from Methanosarcina barkeri to individual subunits via the characterization of site-directed mutants pdf
... reduction of methanofuran and CO2 to formylmethanofuran The overall reduction of CO2 and methanofuran by H2 is endergonic and is driven in vivo by reverse electron transport [10] Reduction of ferredoxin ... while the other four subunits are expected to extrude into the cytoplasm Amino acid sequence analysis of the cytoplasmic subunits points to the presence of two [4Fe-4S] clusters in EchF and one ... of the proton translocating machinery which delivers protons to proton transfer pathways formed within the membrane part The protons required for H2 formation at the active site are thought to...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20
GLOBAL HEALTH RISKS: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks doc
... highest disease burden due to lack of contraception – accounting for around 0.5% of deaths and 1.0– 1.2% of DALYs in those regions (Figure 10) Figure 10: Burden of disease attributable to lack of ... about 71% of lung cancer, 42% of chronic respiratory disease and nearly 10% of cardiovascular disease It is responsible for 12% of male deaths and 6% of female deaths in the world Tobacco caused ... risk factor, and thus may be prevented by reducing any of the risk factors responsible for them As a result, the sum of the mortality or burden of disease attributable to each of the risk factors...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20
THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE DUE TO OUTDOOR AIR POLLUTION ppt
... part of its ongoing Global Burden of Disease project The burden of disease in terms of deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) was estimated for 26 major risk factors by age, sex, and disease, ... worldwide and for each of 14 world regions The burden of disease attributable to urban outdoor air pollution was estimated, along with the burdens of other environmental factors such as indoor air ... therefore, to make assumptions concerning factors such as the transferability of risk functions, exposure of the population, and its underlying vulnerability to air pollution, while trying to ensure...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to indoor air pollution from household use of solid fuels in South Africa in 2000 pdf
... levels of recurring respiratory symptoms among children and high levels of indoor air pollution (with levels of CO, SO2 and NO2 up to 12 times those of international guidelines).24 One of the ... scarce In order to avoid possible overestimation of the burden of disease attributable to indoor smoke, PAFs for lung cancer and COPD caused by exposure to indoor smoke were applied to disease burden ... million DALYs (or about 3% of the global burden of disease) were attributable to indoor air pollution from household use of solid fuels in 2000 This risk factor appears to be of less serious public...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The soluble form of the membrane-bound transferrin homologue, melanotransferrin, inefficiently donates iron to cells via nonspecific internalization and degradation of the protein pdf
... concentrations of sMTf, up to 0.5 mgÆmL)1, also resulted in linear uptake of Fe as a function of ligand concentration (data not shown) The internalized 59Fe uptake from sMTf varied from 26 to 44% of the total ... to cells via binding to specific Tf-binding sites [15] At present nothing is known concerning the biological function of MTf or sMTf, and this is the first study to assess the ability of sMTf to ... Internalization of 125I-sMTf as a function of time is less marked than that of 125I-Tf To determine whether SK-Mel-28 melanoma cells could internalize sMTf, experiments were performed to assess the uptake of...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Investigation of utilization of nanosuspension formulation to enhance exposure of 1,3dicyclohexylurea in rats: Preparation for PK/PD study via subcutaneous route of nanosuspension drug delivery" doc
... order to overcome this issue, the delivery of DCU via intravenous (IV) infusion route was explored Similar to oral delivery, IV delivery of DCU was limited by the poor aqueous solubility of DCU ... valuable option [13] However, due to the complexity of the setup, such technique is only suitable for short term study (i.e., 2-4 h) The tool of Page of delivering DCU to a chronic model for preclinical ... MiniFlex II desktop X-ray powder diffractometer Radiation of Cu Ka at 30 kV-15 mA was used with a 2θ increment rate of 3°/min The scans ran over a range of 2-40° 2θ with a step size of 0.02° and...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo y học: "Acute phase reactants add little to composite disease activity indices for rheumatoid arthritis: validation of a clinical activity score" potx
... sequence of analyses to determine model contribution and colinearity of individual component variables to the DAS28 and the DAS28-CRP To allow construction of the perfect fit model, introduction of ... refers to comparison with other measures of disease activity; discriminant validity in this setting relates to the correlation of changes in the scale with changes in other measures of disease ... as surrogates of the disease process, as well as predictors of disease outcome, are well recognized and irrefutable [36-38] However, APRs did not seem to contribute information to composite scores...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22
Báo cáo y học: "Do synovial biopsies help to support evidence for involvement of innate immunity in the immunopathology of Behçet’s disease" pot
... inflammatory diseases in order to obtain greater insight into the immune-related etiology of BD and to develop more specific, molecular based immunotherapies Examples may include targeting cytokines ... the presence of perforin, presumably secreted by CD3+ T cells It might therefore be of interest to conduct further studies of these naïve T cells and cytokines in sterile SF in order to relate these ... stage and treatment of the disease A more recent study of synovial fluid (SF) from BD patients identified increased levels of chemokines (C-X-C chemokine ligand-9 and -10) related to Th1-directed...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo y học: " Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and protective effects of food intake: from hypothesis to evidence?" docx
... association of several dietary factors with indicators of asthma (airway reactivity, IgE, asthma symptoms) and COPD (lung function, COPD symptoms), although the consistency of the evidence is a matter of ... 139 ml higher FEV1 and a 50% lower prevalence of COPD symptoms than an unfavourable intake of these foods [20] The contribution of each of these foods to the overall beneficial effect was largely ... observed protective effect of diet on respiratory disease Smoking has great impact on respiratory disease, and dietary habits of smokers are less favourable than those of nonsmokers, even more...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo y học: "Two distinct variants of simian foamy virus in naturally infected mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and cross-species transmission to human" pptx
... transmission of SFV from mandrills to humans is possible [15,16,34] The aim of our study was to evaluate the natural history of mandrill SFV in this free-ranging colony, including the prevalence, modes of ... infected with SFV We evaluated the natural history of the virus in a free-ranging colony of mandrills and investigated possible transmission of mandrill SFV to humans Results: We studied 84 semi-free-ranging ... prevalence, modes of transmission, genetic diversity and origin We also investigated cross-species transmission of mandrill SFVs to people occupationally exposed to these animals Page of 12 Results...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Bench-to-bedside review: The role of glycosaminoglycans in respiratory disease" potx
... or inflammatory cells to exert its anti-inflammatory effects Heparin competitively inhibits the binding of antithrombin to other GAGs and eliminates the anti-inflammatory effects of antithrombin ... these diseases may be due, in part, to surfactant inactivation caused by leakage of plasma and inflammatory products into the alveoli In this context, because of the direct interactions of hyaluronic ... role in airway remodelling via upregulation of the receptors that mediate responses to hyaluronic acid Deposition of hyaluronic acid and the expression of its receptor is a key ECM axis in which...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo y học: " Dendritic cell-mediated HIV-1 transmission to T cells of LAD-1 patients is impaired due to the defect in LFA-1" docx
... PBL were added to allow transmission of HIV-1 To prevent production of new virions, the cells were cultured in the presence of SQV (single-cycle transmission assay) days after transmission, PBL ... use of cells isolated from unique patients, this study provides more insight into DC-mediated HIV-1 transmission, which may offer new options to inhibit HIV-1 transmission Results DC-mediated transmission ... susceptible to HIV-1 in the absence of DC, demonstrating that the DC-mediated transmission itself is impaired, instead of the ability of HIV-1 to infect these cells The importance of the ICAM-1—...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo y học: "Donnan effect on chloride ion distribution as a determinant of body fluid composition that allows action potentials to spread via fast sodium channels" pot
... physiology (left fields A2 to A9), neuron reactivity (middle top fields B1 to B3), gas traffic in blood (right top fields C1 to C3) or circulation (bottom right fields D1 to D4) The pivotal role ... the center of Figure Individual excitable cell homeostasis The following discussion refers to the left hand side of Figure 1, paths A1 to A9: from the spreading of action potentials to cellular ... effect of plasma proteins enhances capillary filtration and hinders reabsorption of Cl- ions, so interstitial chloride ions are forced to remain in the tissue to be returned to the blood only via...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20
Maternal polyunsaturated fatty acid status and offspring allergic disease up to the age of 18 months
... wheeze 94 Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood, and is 95 defined as a chronic inflammatory disease of the lower airways, leading to 96 symptoms of recurrent wheezing ... pregnancy, parental history of atopy and/or asthma, presence of older siblings, term of gestation, season of birth, gender, birth weight, mode of delivery, child exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, ... family history of allergic 630 diseases to rule out the possibility of genetic susceptibility as a confounding 631 factor 31 632 633 To control for type error due to the performance of multiple...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 10:11
153 The role of marketing activities to bankcard and actual state of Ngân hàng nông nghiệp và phát triển nông thôn (AgriBank) cards
... directly to big accumulation of 12 months The growth of total profit showed that the Department has continuously made an effort to diversify the variety of services to meet and satisfy better customers’ ... of the bank to more customers In addition, the branch has to have clear fee, price, policies of products and services, customer policies and has professional staff to present to customers these ... directly contribute to proceed non – cash payment scheme in society According to statistics of State Bank of Vietnam, up to 1st quarter of 2010, non – cash payment made up 85% of total banking payments...
Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 12:13
494 The role of marketing activities to bankcard and actual state of Ngân hàng nông nghiệp và phát triển nông thôn (AgriBank) cards
... giá khuyến khích to n băng tiền mặt to n nhanh: Đó việc giảm giá cho khách hàng to n nhanh tiền mặt to n nhanh cho hoá đơn mua hàng Mục đích chiết giá khuyến khích khách hàng to n nhanh, giảm ... hội học, thống kê, tâm lý học thống kê, to n học… 1.2 Nội dung nghiên cứu thị trường Nghiên cứu cầu sản phẩm: Cầu loại sản phẩm phản ánh phận cầu có khả to n thị trường sản phẩm Nghiên cứu cầu ... mới, khung giá, giá giới hạn thời hạn to n….đó việc xác định mức giá cụ thể cho mặt hàng, kiểu kênh phân phối, thời gian địa điểm tiêu thụ, phương thức to n Ra định thay đổi giá bao gồm định...
Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2013, 17:01