epidemiology risk factors and clinical phenotypes

... unravel risk factors for their causation or severity Environmental risk factors Studies on environmental risk factors for FM and CWP have focused on physical trauma and psychosocial factors Physical ... matrilin-3 Gout Environmental risk factors Studies on environmental risk factors for gout have focused mainly on the long-established risk factors of high purine diet and diuretic use The incidence ... between and 5), or ‘substantial’ (OR or RR of greater than 5) Rheumatoid arthritis Environmental risk factors Studies of environmental risk factors in RA have focused on diet, smoking, and hormones...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, and stroke [5-11] In addition to established cardiovascular risk factors, systemic inflammation, increased oxidative stress, and altered hemodynamics associated ... cells in circulation and the decrease of the values of cardiovascular risk factors According to our study, the circulating progenitor cell number can be improved by diet and weight loss Acknowledgements ... function, and cardiovascular risk New England Journal of Medicine 2003; 348: 593-600 43 Vasa M, Fichtlscherer S, Aicher A, Adler K, Urbich C, Martin H, Zeiher AM, Dimmeler S Number and migratory...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... investigate the nature and method of pesticide use and application which included the brand of pesticide, the active ingredients, and the concentration of the mixture and the individual component ... the rest of Luzon Island which makes certain physiologic profile of farmers different The agricultural crops grown between the lowland and highland would also be different, and thus, would have ... neurobehavioral and motor dysfunction (Miranda, McConnell, Delgado, Cuadra, 2002;, Miranda, McConnell, Delgado, Cuadra, 2004) [3,4], deficits in verbal abstraction, attention, and memory (Farahat,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... calls to family and friends around the country, making it evident that he was traveling His reported statements contained delusions of grandeur and wealth, and reflected impulsivity and poor judgments ... year-old right-handed male, presented to our hospital, confused, with delusions of grandeur and elevated mood He was initially found wandering our hospital lobby at night somewhat bewildered and lethargic ... vitamin B12, serum folate, and thryroid measures were normal, and RPR was non-reactive ESR, ANA, and rheumatoid factor were within normal limits Hepatitis C and B and HIV serology were negative...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... Switzerland) The intra-assay and inter-assay coefficients of variation (respectively) were 5.1% and 8.6% for IL-1, 3.4% and 5.2% for IL-6, 6.9% and 7.4% for TNF-α, 3.1% and 5.2% for VCAM-1, 4.1% and ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/7/3/R634 Table Cardiovascular risk factors in RA patients and control individuals Risk factors Controls Patients P Traditional risk factors Age (years) 44 (20–87) 57 (27–81)

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... median, proportions, and so on) The association between case/control status and cardiovascular risk factors was examined by means of logistic regression models Each cardiovascular risk factor was ... aortitis (OR 0.44, 95% CI 0.12 to 1.64; P = 0.22) Risk factors The prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors is summarized in Table Female gender was a risk factor for development of idiopathic aortitis ... cases and controls were masking the differences in cardiovascular risk Discussion To our knowledge, this is the first study to identify risk factors for development of idiopathic aortitis Factors...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... diagnoses and operations, and the retrospective design Due to these limitations, we could not methodically analyze the impact of the loss of pro- and anti-coagulation factors, total protein and immunoglobulins ... heart disease in newborns and infants – risk factors and efficacy of MCT-diet Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2010 5:127 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage ... appearance of chylothorax was clearly observable at day postoperative Risk factors for chylothorax Table lists the potential risk factors which have been analyzed in our database Additionally we assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:23

... information, vascular risk factors and psychological distress with SMC We then analysed the association between vascular risk factors and psychological distress For dichotomous and categorical variables, ... variables and the measure of psychological distress Model included demographic variables and vascular risk factors The final model, Model 4, included demographic variables, vascular risk factors and ... Model - demographic variables and psychological distress; Model - demographic variables and vascular risk factors; Model - demographic variables, vascular risk factors and psychological distress...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... Society/European Respiratory Society statement: asthma control and exacerbations: standardizing endpoints for clinical asthma trials and clinical practice Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009, 180(1):59-99 ... our aims were (1) to choose variables that were measured in clinical practice and contributed to the clinical evaluation of asthma, and to avoid choosing different variables that were representative ... clinical and physiological data Treatment beta-agonist on demand, n (%) Patients and criteria of selection from the cohort We selected a sample of children, meeting the criteria of clinical (episodic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... (in most cases with a weaker 140-kDa band) and a 155-kDa/140-kDa complex were first reported by Targoff and colleagues [31] and Kaji and colleagues [32] Targoff and colleagues screened a cohort of ... Gunawardena and colleagues [35] screened 116 JDM cases by radiolabeled IPP and found anti-p155/140 autoantibodies in 23% of the patients Similarly, both Espada and colleagues [36] and Targoff and colleagues ... blotting: clinical associations Ann Rheum Dis 2010, 69 (Suppl 3):425 doi:10.1186/ar3275 Cite this article as: Betteridge ZE, et al.: Novel autoantibodies and clinical phenotypes in adult and juvenile...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... addition, no study has evaluated risk factors for and impact on outcome of ICUacquired S maltophilia Identifying risk factors for S maltophilia colonisation and/ or infection could be useful for ... urinary infections, and two bacteremias Patient characteristics are presented in Table Risk factors for ICU-acquired S maltophilia Risk factors for ICU-acquired S maltophilia and for ICUacquired ... aminoglycoside, and metronidazole In patients with ICU-acquired S maltophilia, only exposure to potential risk factors before S maltophilia acquisition was taken into account To determine risk factors...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... background data on mortality rate and under-five mortality rate in this area We aimed to identify the risk factors of victimization during the conflict, and factors contributing to the subsequent ... Conflict and Health 2010, 4:11 http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/4/1/11 Page 14 of 16 Table 5: Lifetime exposure to violence and human rights violations and family members with injury and pain ... and their children after the war [4,26] Emotional disturbance can be contagious among Wang et al Conflict and Health 2010, 4:11 http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/4/1/11 Page of 16 a) and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... introduce the risk factors of schizophrenia and its negative outcomes on patients’ comorbidities and on the life of their family members 1.3 Risk factors of schizophrenia Risk factors are conventionally ... to increase the number of studies on risk factors Each study could contribute a portion to the understanding of risk factors, and a complete picture of risk factors can be attained by integrating ... main chapters, with chapter and studying the demographic and genetic risk factors for schizophrenia and chapter and studying the factors leading to tardive dyskinesia and poor offspring school...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:56

... severe cases and deaths of pH1N1/2009 did not occur in the elderly group 5 1.3.2 Risk factors and high -risk groups Currently, there is not much research related to identifying risk factors for ... China A/H3N2

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 13:57

... analysis of incidence and possible risk factors Chest 1997, 111:1278-1284 Parquin F, Marchal M, Mehiri S, Hervé P, Lescot B: Postpneumonectomy pulmonary edema: analysis and risk factors Eur J Cardiothorac ... intraoperative and postoperative period Licker and colleagues shows that both of high intraoperative ventilatory pressures and preoperative alcohol abuse were independent risk factors for ARDS ... resection and showed in multivariate analysis that excessive fluid administration, high intraoperative ventilatory pressures, pneumonectomy, and preoperative alcohol abuse were independent risk factors...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... presence of risk factors in the host and isolation of an Aspergillus sp., or suggestive clinical and radiological findings [5] Serology is not useful in the diagnosis of aspergillosis, and data ... the urinary tract by fungal balls Risk factors Various risk factors before ICU admission and during the ICU stay were recorded These are summarized in Table Clinical features Patients with Aspergillus ... predisposing risk factors and in the absence of clinical and radiological signs of pneumonia In these cases, isolation of Aspergillus spp should be interpreted as colonization Key messages • COPD and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... characteristics and extrinsic risk factors Risk factor Number (%) of patients Number (%) of patients with HSV-1related tracheobronchitis or pneumonia Without risk factor With risk factor Without risk factor ... if clinical symptoms were evocative The variables analysed as risk factors for HSV-related tracheobronchitis or pneumonia and fatal outcome are presented in Tables and The variables pneumonia and ... in six patients and with pneumonia in four patients This cluster prompted us to investigate the clinical impact of HSV-related tracheobronchitis or pneumonia and to identify risk factors predisposing...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... 2.2 Risk factors: A small number of prospective studies (Garibaldi et al 1974; Shapiro et al 1984; Platt et al 1986; Johnson et al 1990) examined the risk factors for CAUTI mainly in the 1970s and ... CAUTI was to study risk factors for CAUTI, particularly the impact of noncompliance with recommended precepts of urinary catheter care on the risk of CAUTI 2.3 Clinical Features and Symptoms associated ... sheep-blood agar plates (Stark and Maki 1984) After aerobic incubation at 37°C for 24 to 48 hours, each colony type was enumerated and fully identified using standard techniques and criteria (Balows et...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 21:28

... Xu B and Song J Prevalence and risk factors of overactive bladder syndrome in Fuzhou Chinese women Neurourol Urodyn 2006; 25:717 Teleman PM, Lidfeldt J, Nerbrand C, Samsioe G, Mattiasson A and ... Overactive bladder: prevalence, risk factors and relation to stress incontinence in middle-aged women BJOG 2004; 111:600 Coyne K, Margolis M, Zyczynski T, Elinoff V and Roberts RG Validation of ... 20:327 Dallosso HM, Matthews RJ, McGrother CW, Donaldson MM, Shaw C and Leicestershire MRC The association of diet and other lifestyle factors with the onset of overactive bladder: a longitudinal study...

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