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... Ischemic risk factors Ischemic heart disease risk factors were ascertained by medical record review and were defined as follows: cholesterol ever ≥ 200 mg/dl and/or treated by a physician for hypercholesterolemia, ... staining was performed using anti-CD4FITC and anti-CD28PE antibodies (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA) Data was collected on a FACScan flow cytometer (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, CA, USA), and the ... in risk of death (risk ratio = 2.9, 3.0 and 4.6 for 1, and vessels, respectively; P = 0.06) Also, history of diabetes (risk ratio = 1.9; P = 0.05) and age is associated with an increase in risk...

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... of the study and acquisition and analysis of data, and drafted the manuscript TA-K, JL, and HS participated in the design of the study and the analysis of data and drafted the manuscript PO participated ... remained a significant risk factor for hospital mortality even after adjustment for the APACHE II and SOFA scores and age ICU-acquired infection also increases resource use and the length of hospital ... mortality [6] Our multivariate analysis showed that an ICU-acquired infection remained an independent risk factor for hospital mortality even after adjustment for SOFA score and age Successive SOFA...

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... study design, analysed and interpretated data, and drafted and revised the article RLL, PVdN, MLM, EH, PD and JD conceived of the design, analysed and interpretated data, and drafted and revised ... patients? Nephrol Dial Transplant 1996, 11:1250-1255 Kanagasundaram NS, Paganini EP: Critical care dialysis: a gordian knot (but is untying the right approach?) Nephrol Dial Transplant 1999, 14:2590-2594 ... therapy is an independent risk factor for mortality in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury Critical Care 2010 14:R221 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage...

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... patients and is also an independent risk factor for bacteremia A baumannii has a high level of antibiotic resistance, but with a low virulence [25,26] A recent study that compared risk factors and ... infectionrelated factors such as etiology are associated with higher risk for B-NP Recognition of these risk factors is relevant for clinical practice, as bacteremia is an independent risk factor for worse ... shock) [10] and Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment score [11] for the day of admission to the ICU for community-acquired pneumonia and HAP, and for the day of clinical suspicion for VAP and microbiology...

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... isolated and can be read Step four involves collating the evidence to answer the question In searches one may find answers that were not known to exist, and information that may challenge an already ... 20% for men and 10% for women [22] (Table 3) Overweight individuals demand more from their cardio-respiratory and musculoskeletal systems [22] It is known that more than 50% of adult Americans ... date span of the literature search, (ex: 1998 to 2003), and to select either English language or articles in foreign languages Once the search has been completed, the articles, which may answer...

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... of a risk factor for schizophrenia than maternal age Birth rank and short birth interval were previously found to be risk factors for schizophrenia [30-32] The effect of higher birth order/rank ... Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran 3Mental Health Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4Tehran ... necessary for DNA and RNA synthesis and other cellular processes (for example, epigenetic changes to RNA and proteins, energy transduction, and signally) The success of genetic studies on rare human...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... pancreas: a factor in postoperative pancreatic fistula Ann Surg 2007, 246:1058-1064 Kovanlikaya A, Mittelman SD, Ward A, Geffner ME, Dorey F, Gilsanz V: Obesity and fat quantification in lean ... significance All of the factors that were significant in the univariate analysis were included in the logistic regression analysis All analyses were performed using the SPSS program version 11.0.1J for ... hilum and along the splenic artery [4,41,42], and total gastrectomy without splenectomy has been performed for early gastric cancer which maneuver around pancreas is omitted by reduced range of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... of JIA and young age were found to be risk factors for development of PP ANA presence and sex seemed not to influence risk In their smaller cohorts, de Silva and coworkers [10] and Lang and Finlayson ... alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase and γglutamyl transferase) were not observed in any group There were no significant differences in mean immunoglobulin levels (IgG, IgA and ... found to be risk factors Our study cannot confirm the observations of de Silva and coworkers [10] and Wallace and colleagues [33] that blue/ gray eye colour represents a risk factor for development...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... ring Liao KK, Li X, Ranjit J, Amayta DM, Joyce LD, Park SJ, Bianco R, Bolman RM: Mechanical stress: An independent determinant of early bioprosthetic calcification in humans Ann Thorac Surg 2008, ... calcification is a multifactorial process; contributing factors include the type of implant used, mechanical stress, preservation method, patient age and technical correctness of the implantation procedure ... Choupana, Santiago de Compostela 15706, Spain Authors’ contributions JMMC drafted the manuscript and did the patients follow-up JRA conceived of the study and participated in its design and coordination...

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... investigated, followed-up and managed the patient, and determined the medical significance SM and TK wrote the manuscript TK and NS revised the manuscript NS and MS provided important suggestions regarding ... after any other abdominal surgeries, and thus we must be cautious about this possibility in dealing with pregnant women after abdominal surgery Conclusions Myomectomy may be a risk factor for uterine ... surgery as a risk factor for delayed diagnosis of uterine rupture: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:523 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of:...

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... Meta-analysis and additional genotyping of a bipolar and unipolar sample from the US, the UK, Ireland, and Netherlands, found no association of variants in ANK3 and unipolar depression Another ... Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) and by grant FI2009-00229 from the Generalitat de Catalunya We thank Nalisoa Randriamahefa for her excellent technical assistance We also thank DFG for support Author details ... Würzburg-97080, Germany Authors’ contributions AG and MS performed the experiments and drafted the manuscript, ND and GS conceived the study and participated in the coordination BP and GS carried...

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... gratefully thank Michiel Berenschot for assisting with data collection and Glaxo Smith Kline, The Netherlands, for providing financial support for this study References 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 R442 van den ... TC, Out TA, Obertop H, van Lanschot JJ: Immune responses and prediction of major infection in patients undergoing transhiatal or transthoracic esophagectomy for cancer Ann Surg 2003, 237:35-43 ... were available than for others, and this may have influenced our results However, glucose measurements were taken randomly with each arterial blood gas analysis, and because mean postoperative...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... articles were analysed Finally, articles were screened for their contents and relevant data was analysed Figure search for the terms cough and tobacco smoke exposure PubMed1 PubMed search for the terms ... exposure, and large indoor areas in men For women, significant values were found for heavy ETS exposure in small spaces and in large indoor areas and for total ETS exposure [60] Figure search for the ... Venners SA, Wang B, Ni J, Jin Y, Yang J, Fang Z, Xu X: Indoor air pollution and respiratory health in urban and rural China Int J Occup Environ Health 2001, 7(3):173-181 Braun-Fahrlander C, Vuille...

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... expectancy and risk factors for early death N Engl J Med 1994, 330:1639-44 Powars D, Weidman JA, Odom-Maryon T, Niland JC, Johnson C: Sickle cell chronic lung disease: prior morbidity and the risk ... for vaso-occlusive pain crisis and exchange transfusions were not statistically significant between groups Patients with reactive airway disease and sickle cell disease have a lower transcutaneous ... males and 31 females) included 41 children with HgbSS and with HgbSC The age of the children ranged from to 18 years old with a mean age of 10.1 years (median 10 years) for the case patients and...

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... the controls and an odds ratio (OR) of two, we planned to recruit 150 pairs (alpha and beta risks were respectively fixed at 5% and 20%) ORs were estimated from discordant pairs, and exact 95% ... are designed to establish an association between an event and a risk factor and to quantify the risk involved Most of the casecontrol studies relevant to the present investigation concerned the ... production in animal and human studies [24,27,28], and because the mortality rate for sepsis correlates with high interleukin-6 and tumour necrosis factor- α levels, the use of prostaglandin inhibitors...

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... is reduced when antenatal antibiotics are given.16 Pneumothorax is also described as a risk factor for IVH2 but was not found to be a significant risk factor in the multivariate analysis Suctioning ... preterm infant Early Hum Dev 1996;44:1–16 Heuchan AM, Evans N, Henderson Smart DJ, Simpson JM Perinatal risk factors for major intraventricular haemorrhage in the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal ... 1996;39:235A Shankaran S, Bauer CR, Bain R, et al Prenatal and perinatal risk and protective factors for neonatal intracranial hemorrhage Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 1996;150:491– 497 Verma U, Tejani N,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2015, 13:07

... more stable than others over time This is an important consideration, since financial conditions and regulatory regimes change, and products come and go Therefore, it is important for the EWS researcher ... Supervision and Regulation – Statistical assessment of bank risk: An early warning model for banks December Frye, J., Pelz, E., 2008 BankCaR (Bank Capital-at -Risk) : A credit risk model for US commercial ... institutions can efficiently estimate risk and hedge it, while sustaining the financial system’s balance and growth How can a policymaker make an informed judgment that institutions’ estimates of risk...

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... exposures and case status were adjusted for age (as median dichotomized categorical variable) and stratified for sex in logistic regression analysis, and only Caucasians were included in the analysis ... not a risk factor for systemic scleroderma; only in the subgroup of males a trend for increased risk can be noted Conversely, occupational hand-arm vibration is associated with an increased risk, ... occupational risk factors, quantified with the odds ratio (OR) as derived from three separate logistic regression analyses, adjusted for age ( = overall median) Females...

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... were depicted and Chi-square analyses were performed to evaluate the thresholds of each risk factor and thecombined factors in order to provide more meaningful information for surgeons for clinical ... Possibilities for femoral failures within the ranges of these independent risk factors were predicted based on this reduced model and plotted to determine their effects Finally, the significant risk factors ... collected the data, and drafted the manuscript FL designed this study, analyzed the data, performed statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript All of the authors read and approved the final...

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