... observed in CF remains incompletely explained and most likely reflects the influence of multiple, interrelated factors These may include differences in CFTR mutation and presence of infective ... lung function and different combinations of infection The impact of different types of infection on progression of lung function is shown in Figure Age and the most frequent types of infection were ... [27] and chronic lung disease of infancy [25] Ranganathan et al demonstrated tracking between parameters of airway function and growth in infants and young children [25] Children with CF and better...
... function and hemodynamic findings Exercise echocardiography Cardiac function and hemodynamic findings under exertion BOX Findings after cardiac surgery and/ or interventions Minor remaining findings ... cardiac surgery/ interventions (including ablations) Group Patients after cardiac surgery/ interventions (including ablations) 1.1 Without remaining findings (complete correction) 1.2 With minimal findings ... www.aerzteblatt.de MEDICINE Tables andand box show classifications of postoperative findings or clinical findings and their categorization into degrees of severity Category group "0" includes patients...
... The Royal Children s Hospital Clinical Practice Guidelines combines advice for “rhinosinusitis”, defined as “inflammation of the epithelial lining in the paranasal sinuses” and noting that this ... Management of rhinosinusitis inchildren Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 1999 Oct 5;49 Suppl 1:S95-100) The role of rhinitis in asthma has also been the subject of intense scrutiny.43 In terms of paediatric ... Guidelines Clearinghouse Cincinnati Children' s Hospital Medical Center Evidence-based care guideline for management of acute bacterial sinusitis inchildren 1-18 years of age Cincinnati (OH): Cincinnati...
... predicts about the riskof developing malnutrition, showed a high rate of elderly at risk, pointing to the need for nutrition interventions In assessing the factors contained in MAN, which contributed ... in the average intake of vitamins and minerals [5] This imbalance in nutrient intake can prejudice the health of the elderly The lipids in the diet are critical for the supply of energy, giving ... dependence on care, including meals and purchase of food [19] The results of the Health, Welfare and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean Project, which evaluated 2.143 elderly in São Paulo, revealed...
... outcomes.9 We included two indicators of household economic status: an index of nine household assets and the number of rooms in the household The index measured whether the household had an in- home ... receiving increasing attention in sexuality education and life-skills training efforts in much of the world, relatively few studies have documented the impact of partner communication on sexual and ... Ghana and other Sub-Saharan African countries to deepen our understanding of the relative importance of the plethora offactors that appear to in uence adolescent risk- taking Given a multitude of...
... Aims and Scope Cancer is a complex problem The international effort to understand and control it involves clinicians trained in many branches of medicine and scientists from almost all of the ... www.bjcancer.com and comments; Colette Pryor for collating incidence data and Katrina Brown for invaluable support in preparing the report for submission Funding This work was undertaken by DM Parkin with financial ... made in reducing the number of young people who start smoking, andin helping those who smoke to escape their addiction in time to avoid most of the riskof premature death, tobacco still remains...
... carcinogen [51], in the leaching of nickel matte and electrowinning processing at Harjavalta [52] The wearing ofprotective breathing apparatus in the refinery's electrowinning halls became mandatory ... study of mortality in workers engaged in the mining, smelting, and refining of nickel I: Methodology and Page 25 of 27 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Occupational Medicine and ... and support our Differences in (1) land topography and footprints led to (2) differences in production intensity and to (3) differences in building architecture at the two refineries (including...
... sample of 24013 Chinese childrenand adolescents between the age ofand 16 years The cutting points for clinical designation are based on raw scores 12.9% of the children had scores in the clinical ... assist in the development of intervention and prevention strategies Methods Subjects The study was conducted in Department of Pediatric Surgery & Center ofChildren Medicine, Sichuan Provincial ... information could be included All of the interviews were conducted by authors They had been trained in interviewing and administering questionnaires Answers were recorded and collected after a...
... biệt mô tim hệ thần kinh trung ương) 15/ MÔ TẢ CÁC HIỆU QUẢ SINH BỆNH LÝ CỦA NGỘ ĐỘC CO ? CO kết hợp với hemoglobin với tính 230 lần lớn tính oxy Sự sản sinh carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO) làm giảm đáng ... 1,65 ml/kg • Amyl nitrate sodium nitrate biến đổi hemoglobin thành methemoglobin Methemoglobin nối kết với cyanide dạng cyanmethomoglobin Phép trị liệu thường không khuyến nghị hội chứng hít khói ... kết không đảo ngược với hemoglobin (với tính 200-300 lần tính oxy), làm xê dịch đường cong phân ly oxyhemoglobin phía trái - CO phát triển liên kết mạnh với protéine chứa hème khác, đặc biệt thể...
... determine genotypes 3.4 Several influencing factors on trasmission of HIV, HBV, HCV among survey objects 3.4.1 Duration of drug injecting of IDUs and FSWs: 3.4.1.1 Duration of drug injecting of ... HBV/HCV co-infection was significantly upward tendency in duration of drug injecting - The rate of HIV/HBV co-infection also was increased in duration of drug injecting The highest rate of infection ... relations between duration of drug injecting and the rate of HIV, HBV, HCV coinfection of IDUs Duration of drug injecting HIV/HBV co-infection HIV/HCV co-infection HBV/HCV co-infection n % n % n %...
... light intensity of 2.5 cd ․ s/m² in Miniature Schnauzer dogs The light stimulus is given at the beginning of each recording A) 1: of dark adaptation time; 2: 10 of dark adaptation time; 3: 20 of ... LED-electrode can move in conformity with movements of the animal's eyes The amplitudes and implicit times of a- and b-waves are important parameters of clinical ERG recordings At the beginning of the dark ... clinical conditions in conscious Miniature Schnauzer dogs In addition, the outcome of this study indicates that a high reproducibility of ERG recordings can be obtained by using signal averaging...
... number of studies [11–17] have examined the effects of various riskfactors acting together to promote the development of PTSD For example, one study [11] examined the following combination ofrisk ... part of the sex difference in the conditional riskof PTSD In other words, women are more vulnerable to PSTD following any kind of physical assault, sexual or otherwise [10] Multiple RiskFactors ... highest rates of chronic PTSD, whereas less intense events, such as death of a loved one or witnessing injury, are associated with lower rates of PTSD [7,30] PTSD and Coping Obtaining professional...
... clinical presentation of these tumors is gastrointestinal bleeding, otherwise they may cause intestinal obstruction, abdominal pain, a palpable mass, or can be incidentally detected during surgery ... with a median age of 55-60 years andincidenceof 10 to 20 new cases per million/year [3] GISTs represent 80% of mesenchymal gastrointestinal tumors and 0.1-3% of all gastrointestinal malignancies ... 50-70% in the stomach, 25-30% in the small intestine, 5-10% in the colon-rectum, < 5% in the esophagus, the remaining may arise within the omentum or within the peritonel layers (Extra-Gastro-intestinal...
... cytokine, including murine endostatin The minimum detectable concentration of endostatin was less than 12 pg/ml, and the interassay and intra-assay variances were less than 10% serum levels of ... key molecules in the induction of angiogenesis VEGF is involved in several steps of physiological and pathological angiogenesis including proliferation, survival and migration of endothelial ... concomitant increase of angiostatic factors, another strategy for the treatment of ischemic symptoms in SSc is the inhibition of angiostatic factors rather than a further increase of VEGF Angiostatic factors...
... that often occur in infants and young children [7] As such, in the clinical setting active range of movement of the child's affected limb is infrequently measured with a goniometer or inclinometer ... be calculated in SPSS, due to the lack of spread of data, they were calculated by hand using the formula outlined in Portney and Watkins [15] Results Our sample consisted of 30 children with ... estimates of motion Since decisions regarding the optimal management strategies, including whether surgery is indicated, are often made based on this type of assessment, clinicians should interpret...
... of screening tools for identifying suicide riskin the primary care setting, including tools for identifying those at high risk, physicians should remain alert to the possibility of suicide in ... which influences the future riskof consummated suicide Planned reduction of the riskof future suicide among those patients requires implementing care plans, mainly in the first two years following ... care setting, including tools for identifying those at high risk [52], physicians should remain alert to the possibility of suicide in high -risk patients, particularly if there is evidence of psychiatric...
... Heat-inactivated mouse sera including positive and negative controls, were serially diluted three-fold in PBS and incubated with a virus suspension containing about 30 plaque forming units (PFU) of ... antigenic determinants are located near the amino-terminus of the N protein of other viruses in the Bunyaviridae family [33,34], antigenic regions of the RVFV N protein were investigated in more detail ... use of cDNA encoding for the individual glycoproteins Challenge of gene-gun vaccinated mice To evaluate the degree of protection against RVFV infection after gene-gun vaccination, a new batch of...
... in quantifying and characterizing environmental riskfactors for atopy (including onset and length of period of exposure) make these studies a challenge Very high numbers of affected and unaffected ... that inconsistent findings in the genetic studies of asthma and atopy summarized in this article may partly be explained by ethnic differences in nature and frequencies of genetic Page of 15 ... degree of inconsistent findings, it is intriguing that chromosomal regions linked to asthma have also shown evidence for linkage to other inflammatory and autoimmune diseases (such as psoriasis, inflammatory...