... unravel riskfactors for their causation or severity Environmental riskfactors Studies on environmental riskfactors for FM and CWP have focused on physical trauma and psychosocial factors Physical ... matrilin-3 Gout Environmental riskfactors Studies on environmental riskfactors for gout have focused mainly on the long-established riskfactors of high purine diet and diuretic use The incidence ... between and 5), or ‘substantial’ (OR or RR of greater than 5) Rheumatoid arthritis Environmental riskfactors Studies of environmental riskfactors in RA have focused on diet, smoking, and hormones...
... 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 riskfactors 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...
... 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,...
... 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...
... 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 riskfactors in RA patients and control individuals Riskfactors Controls Patients P Traditional riskfactors Age (years) 44 (20–87) 57 (27–81)
... median, proportions, and so on) The association between case/control status and cardiovascular riskfactors 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) Riskfactors The prevalence of cardiovascular riskfactors 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 riskfactors for development of idiopathic aortitis Factors...
... 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 – riskfactorsand 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 Riskfactors for chylothorax Table lists the potential riskfactors which have been analyzed in our database Additionally we assessed...
... information, vascular riskfactorsand psychological distress with SMC We then analysed the association between vascular riskfactorsand psychological distress For dichotomous and categorical variables, ... variables and the measure of psychological distress Model included demographic variables and vascular riskfactors The final model, Model 4, included demographic variables, vascular riskfactorsand ... Model - demographic variables and psychological distress; Model - demographic variables and vascular risk factors; Model - demographic variables, vascular riskfactorsand psychological distress...
... Society/European Respiratory Society statement: asthma control and exacerbations: standardizing endpoints for clinical asthma trials andclinical 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 ... clinicaland 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...
... (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 andclinicalphenotypes in adult and juvenile...
... addition, no study has evaluated riskfactors for and impact on outcome of ICUacquired S maltophilia Identifying riskfactors for S maltophilia colonisation and/ or infection could be useful for ... urinary infections, and two bacteremias Patient characteristics are presented in Table Riskfactors for ICU-acquired S maltophilia Riskfactors for ICU-acquired S maltophilia and for ICUacquired ... aminoglycoside, and metronidazole In patients with ICU-acquired S maltophilia, only exposure to potential riskfactors before S maltophilia acquisition was taken into account To determine risk factors...
... background data on mortality rate and under-five mortality rate in this area We aimed to identify the riskfactors of victimization during the conflict, andfactors 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...
... introduce the riskfactors of schizophrenia and its negative outcomes on patients’ comorbidities and on the life of their family members 1.3 Riskfactors of schizophrenia Riskfactors are conventionally ... to increase the number of studies on riskfactors Each study could contribute a portion to the understanding of risk factors, and a complete picture of riskfactors can be attained by integrating ... main chapters, with chapter and studying the demographic and genetic riskfactors for schizophrenia and chapter and studying the factors leading to tardive dyskinesia and poor offspring school...
... severe cases and deaths of pH1N1/2009 did not occur in the elderly group 5 1.3.2 Riskfactorsand high -risk groups Currently, there is not much research related to identifying riskfactors for ... China A/H3N2
... analysis of incidence and possible riskfactors Chest 1997, 111:1278-1284 Parquin F, Marchal M, Mehiri S, Hervé P, Lescot B: Postpneumonectomy pulmonary edema: analysis andriskfactors Eur J Cardiothorac ... intraoperative and postoperative period Licker and colleagues shows that both of high intraoperative ventilatory pressures and preoperative alcohol abuse were independent riskfactors 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...
... presence of riskfactors in the host and isolation of an Aspergillus sp., or suggestive clinicaland radiological findings [5] Serology is not useful in the diagnosis of aspergillosis, and data ... the urinary tract by fungal balls Riskfactors Various riskfactors before ICU admission and during the ICU stay were recorded These are summarized in Table Clinical features Patients with Aspergillus ... predisposing riskfactorsand in the absence of clinicaland radiological signs of pneumonia In these cases, isolation of Aspergillus spp should be interpreted as colonization Key messages • COPD and...
... characteristics and extrinsic riskfactorsRisk 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 riskfactors 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 riskfactors predisposing...
... 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 riskfactors for CAUTI mainly in the 1970s and ... CAUTI was to study riskfactors 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...
... Xu B and Song J Prevalence andriskfactors 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, riskfactorsand 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...