how to identify depression in patients with ckd

... treatment of depression, good adherence to medications is prerequisite to maintain those therapeutic benefits Despite this self-evident fact, the available evidence has generally shown low adherence ... in a sample of 4,312 privately insured outpatients in the US [1] Similarly, the Vantaa Depression Study showed a one-year continuation rate as low as 50% in Finland (n = 269) [3] Moreover, Hunot ... respectively [14] Sulpiride has been approved for the treatment of depression as an antidepressant drug in Japan and has been shown to be frequently prescribed [15] One of the primary outcome measures...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... modified arterial catheter (PiCCO; Pulsion, Munich, Germany) For inclusion, each patient had to show spontaneous breathing movements Exclusion criteria were the following: age less than 18 years, ... expansion ap < 0.01, and bp < 0.05 compared with baseline Results Patient characteristics are shown in Table Nine patients were ventilated in pressure support mode and 12 were breathing spontaneously ... the patients required more than four aliquots Seventeen patients survived The effects of VE are shown in Table Cardiac index (CI) increased from 3.0 (2.3 to 3.5) to 3.5 (3.0 to 3.9) l minute-1...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... Women had higher anxiety and depression scores than men (two-tailed t test, p < 0.05); 49.2% of the sample had moderate to severe depression, and 44.0% of men had depression symptoms compared ... (BA), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or tuberculosis (TB) Methods Depression was assessed with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), which is widely used, and has been standardized and ... assess differences in anxiety or depression between genders and among BA, COPD or TB patients Pearson's correlation was used to assess the impact of anxiety on depression (and vice versa) as well...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... separate proteins) Hemoglobin-AGE (HbA1c) is the best studied glycated protein [4] and has been shown to correlate with both microvascular and macrovascular complications in diabetic patients AGE-damaged ... Not only cartilage but also antibodies can be damaged during inflammation Previous studies have shown that AGE-damaged IgG can be detected in patients with arthritis of long duration [13–16] AGE ... chain), the data for the immune response to IgG3-AGE are also presented In preliminary studies (not shown), investigations into the specificity of the assay for RFs were done Sera containing RF and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... dose of 300 mg or greater However, none of these patients suffered any serious adverse events associated with the treatment The clinical and laboratory evaluation showed no significant variations ... multi-institutional registry of 55 patients with liver dominant metastatic colon cancer (MCC) Table shows the participating sites in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia This registry was non-controlled, ... African-American Race Fifty-five patients with CRHM underwent 99 total treatments at the sites shown in Table Forty were Caucasian, African American, and other The median age of the patients was...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... before the start of androgen suppression might decrease the likelihood of gynecomastia [7,9,10] However, depending on the anatomical situation, left-sided PMRT might lead to a certain exposure ... diseases in patients treated with androgen suppression, e.g., changes in lipid metabolism [11] However, we hypothesised that administration of PMRT might further contribute to long-term toxicity ... mean doses in general are low Studies in electron boost treatment for breast cancer have also shown that the heart might be exposed to unexpected radiation doses in a proportion of these patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... fibre This explanation would be in line with a recent study showing a decrease in mitochondrial volume in patients with COPD [12] However, further studies on the relationship between capillarization ... COPD patients [8,9,13] This finding can be explained by a reduction in fibre area as previously shown in COPD patients [10] This is also in line with a previous study [9] indicating a parallel ... used in human studies since muscle samples need to be perfused and fixed in order not to collapse However, capillary-to-fibre ratio for an individual fibre (C:Fi) can be assessed by determining...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... patients with OA of the knee Patients who received AMG 108 showed statistically insignificant but numerically greater improvements in pain; however, minimal, if any, clinical benefit was observed ... synovial fluid to serum drug concentration ratios for non-lavage samples showed a range from approximately 2% to 45%; however, samples sizes in this analysis were extremely small (n=1–3 in each ... approximately -40.0 for each tertile; however, the differences were not statistically significant for any tertile (P=0.45, 0.39, and 0.13, respectively) The placebo group showed greater, but statistically...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... sera showed some unique reactivities, but also potential common reactivities to antigens expressed by A549 (Fig 1) The pattern of reactivity was identical in the two cell lines (data not shown) ... WA, Howie SE, Krajewski AS, Lamb D: The immunological architecture of B-lymphocyte aggregates in cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis J Pathol 1996, 178:323–329 Wallace WA, Schofield JA, Lamb D, Howie ... elegans named F35A5.8 The function of this gene in the worm is not clear Analysis of SAGE libraries shows that the gene is highly expressed in normal epithelial cells and fibroblasts The third recombinant...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... based on pairwise comparisons (P = 0.037) Figure shows the comparison of observed and predicted deaths with both methods Discussion The present study shows that it is possible to obtain a simple indicator ... better fit than logistic regression, as measured using the Hosmer-Lemeshow test, at 800 admissions At under 800 admissions, however, the fit was poor with both approaches The authors concluded ... – observed mortality versus that predicted with the score – was evaluated using the HosmerLemeshow goodness-of-fit test The test result, under a χ2 distribution, provides a P value in which higher...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... should be positioned on the expiratory limb, before the Y piece Richecoeur and colleagues have shown that optimizing mechanical ventilation by selecting the appropriate respiratory rate and minimizing ... from external lung compression [38] By preventing expiratory bronchiole collapse, PEEP has been shown to prevent surfactant loss in the airways and avoid collapse of the surface film [38] As a ... oxygenation by boosting the ventilatory cycle onto the deflation limb of the pressure– volume curve [42] However, in different experimental models of lung injury, recruitment manoeuvres not provide similar...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... http://www.coughjournal.com/content/6/1/7 We showed the modulating role of thromboxane, the family of metabolites resulting from enzymes possessing COX activity [19] We also showed that non selective COX inhibitor, ... mean with geometric standard error of the mean (GSEM) Forced vital capacity (FVC) and FEV1 were shown as arithmetic mean values ± SEM The cough threshold, the FVC and the FEV1 values were compared ... before each treatment (run-in and washout period) and after treatment with etodolac and placebo are shown in figure Geometric mean values for the cough threshold were 25.9 (GSEM 1.4) μM in run-in period,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... in this study However, those were beyond the scope of the study Conclusions The utility of the scoring indices for risk assessment in patients with healthcare-associated pneumonia shows that the ... CURB-65, SOAR and SMRT-CO Scoring indices to predict mortality and ICU admission hospital LOS As shown in Table 5, the scoring indices originally designed for CAP were tested to be applied to HCAP ... nosocomial pneumonia, higher than that of CAP, and lower than ventilator-associated pneumonia [13] As shown in Table 1, each subgroup contributes to different parts of overall HCAP mortality There is...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... anxiousness and depression, are more relatively associated with the right hemisphere activation, particularly the frontal lobe 6,9-11 Moreover, the greater right hemisphere activation in depression ... people with depression also employ a maladaptive problem-solving method, which contributes to the maintenance of negative emotions they perceived 18,19 One question therefore arises how patients ... question therefore arises how patients with GAD, or with the treatment-resistant depression (TRD), a severe form of depression, would perform in the line bisection task The possible answers might...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 08:57

... the WHO; however, they were not authorized to stage patients using WHO staging criteria or interpret CD4 lab results [12] (a CD4 count measures how strong a person's immune system is, how far ... (data not shown) Conclusion In this study the CD4 nurse intervention was not positively associated with reduced time to HAART or increased number of adult patients starting HAART per month However, ... of MD/MO capacity), and the number of monthly new enrollees at the clinic (a measure of demand) However, we chose to include study month and study site in the final analyses since the number of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... repeated doses of rh-HGF for 14 days; however, these histological findings were in the slight-to-mild range, and still identified as reversible changes (data not shown) In a clinical trial, the clinical ... ~30% (Figure 4) All patients showed slight to mild increase in urinary excretion of albumin at enrollment and a decrease in urine volume during the rh-HGF study period However, repeated doses of ... administration (for 20 min), and was immediately recovered after the rh-HGF injection Echocardiography showed that ejection fraction (EF) and left ventricular end-diastolic volume (LVEDV) were reduced...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... statements or how often they apply (for example "most of the time, often, from time to time or not at al") There are seven statements for each depression and anxiety Domain scores range from (no depression ... symptoms For any treatment of depression and anxiety in diseases such as COPD evidence is still lacking to provide strong recommendations However, the treatment of depression in disease such as ... trials investigating these treatments The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a widely used instrument to assess symptoms of depression and anxiety It is not a tool to diagnose mood disorders...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... individual MPI scales However, Bergström and co-workers[14,15] showed that for their modified Swedish version of MPI, the MPI-S, only the first sections (impact and responses, see above) showed an acceptable ... have shown that multiprofessional rehabilitation programs can provide valuable help (see[2]), but there is little systematic knowledge of patient selection criteria to enter programs and how programs ... (MANOVA) Wilks' lambda was 0.014 (p < 0.001), showing significant differences between the scale centroids Follow-up univariate Ftests of the MPI-S scales showed that significant differ- Relation of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Depression Scale (HADS) [34] is a widely used self-rating scale for detecting anxiety and depression and has been shown to have good psychometric properties [35,36] The anxiety (HADS-A) and depression ... weeks after treatment however the surgical treatment group showed notably lower average scores regarding anxiety (2.6) and depression (2.3) The findings of our study concerning depression are somewhat ... score showed high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha 0.95) and high retest-reliability (0.91) Each subscale also showed acceptable alpha values (0.87–0.93) [33] Hospital Anxiety and Depression...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Mental and Physical Component Summary scores of the Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) [16,17] However, the meaning associated with the magnitude of change in HRQOL scores is not well-characterized ... with the general population based on the age-, sex-, and race-matched 2002 MEPS data (data not shown) At Week 16, mean PCS scores for those receiving adalimumab were significantly greater than ... differ from those observed based on SF-36 summary scores in a previous psoriasis clinic sample [5]; however, the earlier study did not control for differences in age, sex, or ethnicity in the data...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20