... including stress urinary incontinence (SUI), urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, neurogenic incontinence, functional incontinence or overflow incontinence [8] This study is restricted to patients ... people with urinary incontinence Journal of Clinical Nursing 2001, 10:15-24 Temml C, Haidinger G, Schmidbauer J, Schatzl G, Madersbacher S: Urinary Incontinence in Both Sexes: Prevalence Rates and ... were addressed in detail: 1.) Is surgical treatment superior to pelvic floor training inpatientswith clinically proven SUI with regard to QOL? Hypothesis: Patients undergoing surgery show higher...
... vitamins A (retinol), D (cholecalciferol) and E (α-tocopherol) inpatientswith CAD MATERIALS AND METHODS The study population included 30 patients having angiographically demonstrated CAD and ... vitamins (retinol, tocopherol and cholecalciferol), and trace elements and heavy metals (Zn, Cu, Fe, Cd, Pb and Mn) inpatientswith CAD and the control group are shown in Table Compared with the ... increase in urine Cu levels inpatients suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) (15) Reunanen et al (1996) found increased levels of serum Cu inpatientswith CAD (14) In contrast, in our study,...
... survival for patientsin a randomized study failing first line trastuzumab therapy was 25.5 months for patients receiving continuous trastuzumab combined with capecitabine [54] In another randomized ... clinical study with only six patients completing all three cycles of vaccine and cytokine administration, this precludes any conclusion regarding the clinical efficacy Further complicating interpretations ... binding activity of patients evaluable at all time points (patient #3, 4, 8, pre, post and late) C Binding activity in the serum of all patients at all available individual time points (pre- and...
... IL-9 and IFN-g plasma levels with the patients echocardiographic parameters, such as LVEF and LVIDd, andwithdisease duration Interestingly, in ICM patients, IL-9 levels inversely correlated with ... levels in both ICM and NIDCM groups vs controls Interestingly, IL-5 plasma levels inversely correlated withdisease duration in NYHA III/IV ICM patientsIn fact, patientswith longer disease ... interleukins and 6, TNF-a, matrix metalloproteinases, neuroepinephrine, renin, galectin-3 [16-18], some of which are also important tools in the diagnosis and pathogenesis of heart failure, in the...
... HADS Patients completed the self-administered and validated German version of the HADS[19] The HADS measures depression and generalised anxiety in in- and outpatients andin community settings ... approximately 1.5 points in COPD patients Investigators and those interpreting clinical research can use this minimal important difference to determine whether treatment effects are in a range that ... patientswith other diseases Patients included in our study might, however, represent patientswith advanced chronic disease because mean HADS anxiety (7.03) and depression scores (7.63) were in the...
... greater in weight bearing bones (5.1% at lumbar spine and 2.5% at femoral neck) that non-weight bearing non-dominant distal radius (0.9% in tBMD, 0.2% in iBMD, and 0.1% in cBMD) This finding was ... Orthopaedic Surgeryand Research 2007, 2:9 http://www.josr-online.com/content/2/1/9 Table 2: BMD data at baseline, 6- and 12-months Comparison of BMD at baseline and its changes at 6- and 12-months inpatients ... Orthopaedic Surgeryand Research 2007, 2:9 http://www.josr-online.com/content/2/1/9 Table 3: Bone formation and resorption markers Bone Alkaline Phosphate (BALP) and Deoxypyridinoline (DPD) level in patients...
... IL-9 and IFN-g plasma levels with the patients echocardiographic parameters, such as LVEF and LVIDd, andwithdisease duration Interestingly, in ICM patients, IL-9 levels inversely correlated with ... levels in both ICM and NIDCM groups vs controls Interestingly, IL-5 plasma levels inversely correlated withdisease duration in NYHA III/IV ICM patientsIn fact, patientswith longer disease ... interleukins and 6, TNF-a, matrix metalloproteinases, neuroepinephrine, renin, galectin-3 [16-18], some of which are also important tools in the diagnosis and pathogenesis of heart failure, in the...
... [10,28,29], in individuals with CVD [30] in individuals with risk factors for CVD [31,32] andin men with diabetes [33] HRR is positively associated with insulin sensitivity as measured with a hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic ... Jorgen FH: Increased heart rate and reduced heart- rate variability are associated with subclinical inflammation in middleaged and elderly subjects with no apparent heartdisease Eur Heart J 2004, 25:363-370 ... testing is significantly and closely associated to inflammatory markers, i.e CRP and WBCs These findings could suggest that in women with PCOS several alterations could act in concert contributing...
... province of China Mandarin is spoken Due to the pictorial nature of Chinese writing, both Cantonese and Mandarin-speaking Chinese would be able to read the Chinese version of the HADS In Europe, ... screening and case detection utility and accuracy [16] The present study was designed to examine the underlying factor structure of the Chinese version of the HADS in a mainland Mandarin-speaking ... were males In terms of the clinical data, over two thirds of subjects were angina The finding of high proportions of Chinese CHD patients screening positive with anxiety and depression using the...
... clinical measures in combination in a single model to predict the EQ-5D index In this case, disease severity was taken into account using a single variable, and more implicitly from the point of view ... diagnosis of cardiac diseaseand interventions inpatients ranging from early disease managed medically to end-stage heart failure and are described briefly in Table Measurements in the different ... described in Tables and There were 1106 records in the estimation data with non-missing covariates in the final model The variables in the base model - age, sex anddisease stage proxy - only explained...
... between QTc interval and albuterol levels Recorded QTc interval and (R)-, (S)- and total albuterol levels and are shown in (a), (b) and (c) respectively (R)-, (S)- and total albuterol levels in subjects ... function and QTc interval inpatientswith acute severe asthma and COPD in the emergency department International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:30 Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit ... assays when measuring albuterol in a clinical setting Recent reviews have raised concerns about the safety of using large doses of b2-agonists, especially inpatientswith underlying cardiovascular...
... baseline serum creatinine of 67 ± 15 μmol/L with a peak inpatient serum creatinine of 217 ± 86 μmol/L compared with a baseline serum creatinine of 69 ± 20 μmol/L and a peak serum creatinine of ... Hypocalcemia and hypercalcemia inpatientswith rhabdomyolysis withand without acute renal failure J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1986, 63:137-142 29 Prince RL, Hutchison BG, Bhagat CI: Hypercalcemia during ... Research Baseline creatinine was defined as the lowest creatinine from the 365 days before admission until the episode of AKI for AKI subjects For control subjects, baseline creatinine were the...
... methods, including verifying the clinical attendance records andwith direct telecommunication with the patient or their family Statistical Analysis Disease- free interval (DFI) was defined as the interval ... the patients were non-keratinising or undifferentiated carcinoma (WHO type II or III) The distribution of patients within the T classifications were 83 T1-T2 patients (41.9%) and 115 T3-T4 patients ... subset included the patientswith 0-2 independent prognostic factors (score 0-2), the intermediate-risk subset included the patientswith 3-4 independent prognostic factors (score 3-4) and the...
... QOL inpatientswith head-andneck cancer [11] It contains seven symptom scales and six symptom items It is designed to be used together with the core QLQ-C30 and has been validated in 622 head-andneck ... scales and single items of questionnaire for patientswith cancer of the head- and- neck treated with radiotherapy with or without surgery A significant outcome presents a significant change in time ... The number of patientswith a flow ratio between 25% and 75%, became smaller and the number of patientswith a flow ratio >75% (and exceeding 100%) became larger in time (table 3) In subanalyses...
... patients of the clinical centers specializing in the care of SSc patients participating in the network, but also of patients who are seen only once a year in a clinical center participating in ... other extracellular matrix proteins, resulting in thickening of the skin and fibrosis of the affected organs (for example, gastrointestinal tract, lung, heart, and kidney) The etiology of SSc ... Hunzelmann et al Introduction Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare autoimmune disease involving the skin and internal organs The disease hallmark is an overproduction and accumulation of collagen and other...
... joints was 4.8 ± 1.2 in naïve RA patientsand was 5.6 ± 1.2 in RA patients who were nonresponders to MTX The Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index score [17] was 55 ± 22 in SpA patients ... response inpatientswith RA or SpA at baseline or after treatment with MTX or anti-TNF drugs In contrast to other studies [23,24], we did not find increased EBV viral load in PBMCs of patientswith ... viral load anddisease activity (Disease Activity Score for 28 joints for RA patients, P = 0.54; Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index for SpA patients, P = 0.84) or disease duration...
... Daytime Dysfunction Global Score Inpatients Outpatients Inpatients Outpatients Inpatients Outpatients Inpatients Outpatients Inpatients Outpatients (n = 35) (n = 33) (n = 35) (n = 33) (n = 35) ... for a linear increasing or decreasing trend and subsequently determining the probability that the slope of the best-fitting line is different from zero Using the same technique, the cosinor method ... VAMC patients, actigraphy data were obtained in the outpatient/home setting prior to the initiation of chemotherapy Henceforth, we refer to MRMC patients as inpatients while VAMC patients as outpatients...
... 24 listed in Table Patients who have Hp β and α-1 chains indicate a Hp 1-1 type; patientswith Hp β and α-2 chains are Hp 2-2 type andpatientswith all the Hp β, α-1 and α-2 chains indicate a ... methodically eliminated in proteomic profiling studies Increased serum Zn-alpha-glycoprotein and decreased complement C4 inpatientswith cGVHD in our study were in agreement with this report [18] In contrast, ... reactions involving primers A and B in the first reaction (lanes 2, 4, 6) and primers C and D in the second reaction (lanes 3, 5, 7) The reactions in lanes and contained DNA from the individual with...
... Guangdong Province, PR China RNA extraction and cDNA synthesis RNA was extracted using the Trizol kit (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and reverse transcribed into the first-strand cDNA using random hexamer ... probe, and PCR buffer containing 4.5 mM MgCl2 After an initial denaturation at 95°C for min, 50 cycles consisting of 95°C for 15 s and 64°C for were performed Primers and probes for BCL11B and b2M ... and both participated in the same protein-protein interactions, acting as apoptosis regulators along with a competitive target protein downstream In BCL11Bknockdown T-cell lines, when exposed to...
... plasma levels of anti-inflammatory and inflammatory cytokines including interleukin-6 (IL6), IFN-g, IL-10 and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-b) inpatientswith peripheral arteriosclerosis obliterans, ... aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), urea and creatinine of patientsand control subjects are shown in Table Patientsand control subjects presented levels within the normal range Thus, ... pro-inflammatory cytokines, high levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines (IL-10 and TGF-b) were also found inpatients evaluated in this study These findings are in agreement with others that have...