lcpufa are associated with armd risk

... was associated with a higher risk of CVD; however, patients with these characteristics are also likely to receive more aggressive treatment with DMARDs, which were found to be associated with ... software package for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) Results Rheumatoid arthritis patients with and without cardiovascular disease The baseline characteristics of the RA patients with and without ... Corticosteroids are known to cause insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, weight gain, fluid retention and hypertension, all effects that are associated with an increased cardiovascular risk [23] The...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... criteria are maintained, and those at high risk for drug side effects or complications are usually excluded Conversely, in daily clinical practice, it is especially at -risk patients who are likely ... post hoc analysis these patients with probable NSAID ulcers were compared with the 98 patients with definite NSAID ulcers Significant differences between patients with probable or definite NSAID ... not associated with a significantly reduced risk for serious NSAID ulcer complications (p = 0.74); neither was the use of preferential COX-2 inhibitors (p = 0.22) Concomitant use of PPIs was associated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... are associated not only with RA inflammation and autoantibody production, but also with the recruitment of classical vascular risk factors to end-organ damage This association with vascular risk ... and inflammation are difficult to separate in RA [69] As we observed here, increasing sRAGE levels are associated with a favorable vascular risk profile, potentially associated with concomitant ... were also negatively associated with serum sRAGE among diabetic subjects with CV disease [51] In contrast, no association with serum HDL and sRAGE was found in patients with essential hypertension...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... polymorphism was associated with the low risk of the infection independent on severe atrophy Although the Gab1 polymorphism prevented H pylori infection, it was associated with the risk of atrophy ... with histological assessment are needed to confirm the association The functional changes caused by Gab1 polymorphism are not known and may be linkage disequilibrium with another gene These are ... Seropositive individuals with the PTPN11 G/G and Gab1 G/A+A/A demonstrated the highest risk of gastric atrophy with significance relative to PTPN11 G/A+A/A and Gab1 G/G, the lowest risk combination,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 15:37

... protected with only two immunizations (such as those immunized with peptide 24148), reacted strongly with 70 kDa and 42 kDa molecular mass molecules This data suggests that immunization with peptides ... washed and treated as described previously [12] The slides with the dry parasites were blocked for 10 with 1% nonfat milk and incubated for 30 with appropriate dilutions of monkey sera (starting at ... XWIN-NMR software Structure calculations Peptide structure was determined by Molecular Simulations Inc (MSI) software Cross-peak volume was obtained by integration using FELIX software on the NOESY...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... relationship with their parents Children who live with both biological parents or two adoptive parents are most likely to have a high-quality relationship with their parents Quality of Parent -Child ... children’s family structure and parenting stress Children living with both biological parents or two adoptive parents have parents with the lowest parenting stress levels Parenting Stress by Children's ... association with religious attendance is about equal to that with family integrity An intact two-parent family and regular religious participation are also associated with the parent reporting less parenting...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... Testing for Within-Individual Declines in Performance and Factors Associated with These Declines Within-individual declines in breeding success in the years before death were tested for with a generalized ... response variable, with indicating successful (i.e., raised a chick to the age at which it would leave the colony; chicks are taken to sea by the male parent after ∼3 weeks and are still flightless) ... analyses to test our main hypothesis that rates of within-individual decline in reproductive performance may be associated with earlylife reproduction and with environmental conditions experienced early...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... persons with disabilities, with asthma, with diabetes, who are unemployed or unable to work, women, smokers, and the elderly These subgroups are identifiable and potentially reachable with creative ... symptomatic durations are associated with higher levels of activity limitation [12,21] Detailed definitions of the nine indicators are available in our previous paper [6] or are accessible via CDC's ... was associated significantly with older age, being female, unable to work, disabled, or unemployed, having no leisure time physical activity, or having asthma or diabetes Class was associated with...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... were positively associated with better mental well-being On the other hand, greater seasonal changes and poor illumination indoors are significant factors which were associated with worse mental ... region or catchment area, 16 health care districts were sampled as clusters (80 health care districts in the whole country, including 160 municipalities) The 15 biggest health care districts in ... behavior can be alleviated or even prevented with the use of scheduled light exposures [17] These practices may converge, and both risk factors may be alleviated with innovations taking advantage of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... BLAST homology searches (99–100% nucleotide and amino acid identities with the Indian G1 rotavirus strain, ISO-4) To compare them with the typeable G1 sequences, the VP7 genes of two typeable G1 strains, ... of techniques Serotyping was introduced by Ward et al [28] with specimens collected during 1985–1986 in Dhaka using neutralization with hyperimmune antisera against prototype rotavirus strains ... perfect matches at the 3' end, it could detect 25% of the G1 rotaviruses When we compared the target sequence with the Gouvea G1 primer sequence (forward primer, aBT1; 5'CAAGTACTCAAATCAATGATGG-3';...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... total cholesterol lipid profile variables are associated with disability changes in MS patients Associations with MRI Higher HDL levels were associated with a lower probability for the presence ... exhibited a trend with total cholesterol to HDL ratio (p = 0.047) levels The EDSS change was not associated with higher HDL (p = 0.79) Similarly, worsening MSSS changes were associated with higher ... triglycerides and total cholesterol levels are associated with increased disability progression in MS Higher HDL levels and lower levels of triglycerides were associated with decreased CEL activity whereas...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... concentration of ficolin-1 is much lower [25] Similar to MBL, the ficolins are associated with a set of three serine proteases, termed MBL -associated serine proteases (MASPs), enabling activation of the ... those with a NIH scale of 16 with poor expected outcome, and the ficolin-3 levels were compared accordingly There were significantly ... patients with high baseline NIHSS scale had much worse outcome than those with low NIH scale, and patients with unfavorable outcome had higher serum S100β concentrations at 72 hours than those with...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... using Neighbor-joining or parsimony methods with Kimura 2-parameter as a model of nucleotide substitution with the MEGA 3.1 [26] and Phylip v3.65 softwares The statistical significance of the tree ... grouped within one of the four lineages previously reported by Jin et al [5] (Fig 1) The typeable and untypeable G1 strains reported by Rahman et al [19], grouped within the lineage I with a high ... Azim T: Typing of human rotaviruses: nucleotide mismatches between the VP7 gene and primer are associated with genotyping failure Virol J 2005, 2:24 Martella V, Terio V, Arista S, Elia G, Corrente...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... BLAST homology searches (99–100% nucleotide and amino acid identities with the Indian G1 rotavirus strain, ISO-4) To compare them with the typeable G1 sequences, the VP7 genes of two typeable G1 strains, ... of techniques Serotyping was introduced by Ward et al [28] with specimens collected during 1985–1986 in Dhaka using neutralization with hyperimmune antisera against prototype rotavirus strains ... perfect matches at the 3' end, it could detect 25% of the G1 rotaviruses When we compared the target sequence with the Gouvea G1 primer sequence (forward primer, aBT1; 5'CAAGTACTCAAATCAATGATGG-3';...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... levels of GPX3 than women with early stage disease These results are summarized in Table Since most ovarian cancer cases are diagnosed in postmenopausal women, we next compared the levels of GPX3 ... patients diagnosed with late stage (p = × 10-4) and recurrent disease (p = × 10 -3 ) when compared to those diagnosed with early stage disease was again present These results are summarized in ... women with serous ovarian cancer in a stage-dependent manner In addition, we demonstrate that serum levels are also decreased in women with recurrent disease and the stage-dependent decreases are...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... to infection with HIV-1 subtype C compared with other viral subtypes [26] Elevated CRP and other inflammation biomarkers are associated with endothelial dysfunction and an increased risk of cardiovascular ... ferritin and hsCRP levels were associated with increased mortality; compared with a ferritin value of 25 μg/L, a baseline serum level of 250 μg/L was associated with an approximate 67% increased ... was associated with a nearly 10-fold increased hazard (AHR 9.28 [3.13, 27.50]) A baseline hsCRP level of 15 mg/L was associated with a nearly two-fold increased hazard of death compared with...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... area (LMA) and leaf area ratio of the shoot (LARshoot , leaf area divided by the dry mass of stems + branches + petioles + leaves); (4) leaf area of individual leaves to calculate mean leaf area ... suber) DISCUSSION The reduction of leaf size and total foliage area, thick leaves, high leaf mass per area, and other features are associated to plant species from hot and dry environments These ... differed markedly on their pattern of leaf emergence Whether these developmental patterns are associated with other architectural features and how they specifically influence light harvesting is...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... sclerosis (SSc) patients with and without fingertip ulcers Compared with healthy controls, serum levels of VEGF were increased in patients with fingertip ulcers In patients without fingertip ulcers, ... increased in patients with anti-topoisomerase antibodies and diffuse SSc, which are associated with a more rapid and severe disease course [38] These results are consistent with findings from Kikuchi ... patients with diffuse SSc as well as patients with limited SSc showed significantly increased levels of VEGF compared with healthy controls (P < 0.001) (Fig 1b) In addition, patients with diffuse...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... p-AKT activation would be associated with worse survival On the contrary, patients with tumor p-ERK expression above the median had significantly longer survival compared with those below (12.5 ... patients with the wild-type (WT) KRAS gene These drugs are now used in the treatment of mCRC, with response rates ranging from 8% with single agent cetuximab[36] to 23% in combination with irinotecan, ... group, when compared to the pLR (p = 0.03, 0.07 respectively) p-ERK activation is associated with survival, but not pAKT AKT activation status, but not ERK activation status, correlates with KRAS mutation...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... patients compared with control individuals Although the reduced proportion of NKT cells was not as pronounced as that seen in the probands (P = 0.0009 for relatives as compared with probands), ... were determined using the Wilcoxon test In panel a differences are as compared with control individuals, and in panel b comparisons are between indicated populations mAb, monoclonal antibody; NK, ... disease were independently and cumulatively associated with a reduced proportion of NKT cells Nevertheless, the proportion of NKT cells was reduced as compared with normal control individuals, even...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:21