... Phytalgic® a goldmine for osteoarthritis patients or istheresomething fishy about this nutraceutical? A summary of findings and risk-of -bias assessment Arthritis Research & Therapy 2010, 12:105 ... York, NY, USA), Roche (Basel, Switzerland), sanofi-aventis (Paris, France), Scandinavian Clinical Nutrition (Stockholm, Sweden), and Wyeth (Madison, NJ, USA) Published: February 2010 Page of References ... detection bias Assessment of the trial reporting in terms of risk of bias, the use of random assignment, and subsequent concealment of allocation would qualify as adequate (that is, low risk of...
... breathe in is cool and fresh The air you breathe out is moist and warm Sit up straight, relax, and put your hands on your belly Feel how it moves in and out, expanding when you breathe in and relaxing ... thing that happened and what is going wrong, and we forget what is good and what is going right It helps to remember our mindful walking and mindful breathing Our mindfulness is like magic that ... this: calm enough and happy being in the here and now Where you live and what you there? I live in a community in the southwest of France called Plum Village There are many monks and nuns there...
... factors and their returns need to be disaggregated by type, including caste, gender and skill Given total output and the input-output coefficients, total factor demand is given, and this is confronted ... middle and elite classes None of this should be construed as saying that all criticism of trade liberalization is misguided and biased, but it is a warning that the volume of opinion is not a ... buyer; the status quo is that often thereis no buyer at all or, if there is, the terms of trade are so poor that transactions occur on a barter basis It is difficult to disentangle the relative...
... non-existence Harris argues that if it is possible for a parent to have a child who is not disabled, and that parent chooses to bring to birth a disabled child, the parent is choosing to bring disability ... male Who is harmed/wronged by disability? Harris argues that a child denied an eVective cure for his deafness is both harmed and wronged He also argues that a child with incurable deafness is harmed ... brought into existence but not wronged He is brought into existence in a ‘harmed’ state but has not been wronged as this is the only state he could exist in In both cases Harris claims that the...
... the exercise price See Schmidt-Hebbel and Werner (2002) for more on this This section provides a brief description of the derivatives mechanism A more comprehensive discussion of this issue can ... sales is 200 million, which took place on September 10, 1998, andis almost equivalent to the highest amount of exercised options On this day, there was also a USD 278 million discretionary and ... Bayes criteria distribution whose distribution function is f ( x ) = e preferred this conditional density over a GED, normal or t distributions This analysis is not included in the paper, although...
... households riskiness if the latter is measured by the share of Bad Loans The coefficient of Collateral is negative and statistically significant In this case, therefore, collateral is used by ... customer riskiness is controlled for At this stage, the link between guarantees and interest rates is not robust; future developments will include an analysis with income and cost variables and information ... information at bank-customer level andis only estimated for firms and producer households A description of variables and descriptive statistics is reported in Appendixes and 4.1 Model – data at bank...
... Fenton reaction, H2O2 is detoxified in the mitochondrial matrix by glutathione peroxidase (GPx1; Fig and Eqn 4) and peroxiredoxins III and V (PrxIII and PrxV; Fig and Eqns and 6, respectively; ... cells [56], and two – GPx1 and GPx4 (PHGPx4) – are ubiquitously expressed [56–58] GPx1 is found in both the cytosol and the mitochondrial matrix, and its preferred substrate is H2O2 GPx4 is most ... level of antioxidants and the efficiency of mtDNA repair That said, it is important to note that mtDNA mutagenesis is a stochastic process, and as long as ROS are produced, thereis a finite probability...
... “disappear” in order to spread fear among other potential dissidents, this was state terrorism And as Israeli and U.S political scientists Neve Gordon and George López, respectively, say, “Israel’s ... terrorism to be humiliated when they fail and to be thus provoked into even more unjustified violence Of course, thereis no good terrorism All terrorism is awful, just as all war is awful, and it is ... same and necessarily evil and that the so-called war on terrorism must stamp it out once and for all or that all responses to terrorism should be the same is worse than unrealistic and misleading...
... FVL and VTE is well known [11], while the association between FVL and atherothrombosis is still matter of discussion [12] On the other hand, the association between diabetes and atherothrombosis ... Patients and methods Diabetes is well known risk factor for thrombotic events [1] In particular, since Framingham Study has been published diabetes is recognised as one of the more common risk factor ... CL and SG selected patients enrolled for the study; PF and IQ performed all laboratory tests; PDM and LL performed scientific up-date; CL and LLR perfomed study design and statistical analysis...
... whether this pattern characterises the athlete population A pair of answers is congruent if thereis an agreement between an athlete's self-reported supplement use and rationale The connection is not ... whether it is a hypothesis driven statistical analysis or structured/unstructured data mining, results from subsequent analyses should contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon In this case, ... Echinacea and magnesium supplements To illustrate the complexities of studying this field, some thirty thousand individual commercially-available supplements exist [1] and over 60 supplements were listed...
... and Swaziland) have statistically significant worsening with fractional changes ranging from 8.6% to 3.3% Discussion To our knowledge, this is the first study to compare PEPFAR focus and non-focus ... are not explicitly HIV related [26] This is a critical gap in our understanding of the effects of this programme The IOM report states that the "benefits and unintended consequences [of PEPFAR] ... Rwanda between 2000 and 2006 increased from 46 to 52 years The fractional change is calculated at 0.13, but changed to -0.13 to reflect an improvement A second analysis comparing PEPFAR focus and...
... the genetic and environmental risk factors for six major psychiatric disorders in women Phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, bulimia, major depression, and alcoholism Arch Gen ... were (a) of either sex and aged over 18 years, (b) had a diagnosis of GAD according to International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10) criteria ... questionnaire These consisted of general and concomitant treatment, clinical impact, disability, and self-perceived health The general and medication-related variables were age (continuous and ranges of...
... access device, andis associated with inconvenience and higher incidence of thrombosis and infection Furthermore, cisplatin can cause nephrotoxicity, ototoxicity, and severe emesis The benefit ... frequency of loco regional and distant recurrences and relatively low 5-year survival for symptomatic Stage II-III and Stage IV cancer (20-50% and 5-10%, respectively), there has been a need to ... in favor of 3+ immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining (Figure 1) Staging workups, including computed tomography (CT) scan of chest, abdomen and pelvis showed a circumferential and irregular thickening...
... treatment, is responsible for abnormally elevated EBV serologic responses and viral loads Understanding the timing and directionality of the EBV–RA relationship is crucial to distinguishing inciting ... genetically predisposed Alternatively, an innate or acquired immune defect in those with or at risk for RA could handicap the host’s ability to suppress this chronic viral infection Thereis mounting ... arthritis and their unaffected siblings Arthritis Rheum 1996, 39:904913 Kotzin BL: The role of B cells in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis J Rheumatol Suppl 2005, 73:14-18 Hernandez-Avila...
... arthritis: lymphoma risk and characteristics after exposure to tumour necrosis factor antagonists Ann Rheum Dis 2005, 64:14141420 Symmons DP, Silman AJ: Anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha therapy and ... antibody therapy in rheumatoid arthritis and the risk of serious infections and malignancies: systematic review and meta-analysis of rare harmful effects in randomized controlled trials JAMA 2006, ... reduce lymphoma risk [5] It is perhaps also surprising there were no lymphomas in the comparison patients, given the previously reported increased risk, especially in those with severe disease treated...
... carcinoma, dInvasive Paget’s disease, eDistance metastasis patients had lung metastasis and two had liver metastasis One patient had mediastinal involvement On the other hand, patients had DM in RT ... BU, and KI Data analysis was done by RC, CU, NT and MS The manuscript was prepared by RC and AO Corrections and/ or improvements were suggested by CU, BD, MS, AO, SU, AS, VYC and ZK Major revisions ... recurrence outside these areas was defined as DM Statistical Analysis LRR and DM rates were calculated by first event analysis If a distant metastasis developed, then subsequent local failures were...
... genotypic resistance interpretation and manuscript revision HW realized the phenotypic resistance analysis PB and AT assissted in concept and design aspects and directed sample- and data acquisition ... in genotype- and phenotype-based resistance predictions for LPV and APV, there were wide discrepancies in the weighting of resistance for ATV and SQV, mostly overestimation of resistance in genotype-based ... including acquisition-, analysis- and interpretation of data and finally drafting the manuscript JV assisted as consultant in patient-specific aspects and was involved in manuscript revision GN was...
... Toraks 2010, 58(2):173-6 doi:10.1186/1749-8090-6-32 Cite this article as: Tagarakis et al.: Poland’s syndrome and recurrent pneumothorax: isthere a connection? Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2011 ... is justified Whether this clinical suspicion also justifies the routine performance of thorax CT to all patients with Poland’s syndrome is yet to be determined, based on each doctor’s sense and ... member of the surgical team and controlled the paper; KK was the anesthesiologist in one of the cases and controlled the paper; KS was the anesthesiologist in on of the cases and controlled the paper;...
... and performing standardized interviews to probe for presence and severity of a complete list of symptoms The quality of the clinical chart is notoriously variable, so there may exist errors and ... Results of stepwise regression Positive symptoms (conceptual disorganization, grandiosity, hostility, suspiciousness, hallucinations and excitement) Unstandardized b Standard Error Standardized b ... only within our own data at this stage (including the derived stepwise regression, multivariate regression and, particularly, “the modified seven-item BPRS”) andthereis no guarantee that the results...