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... 1b shows Kaplan-Meier plots of survival by number of diseased vessels Survival probability was lowest for patients with three diseased vessels and was progressively higher as the number of diseased ... of diseased vessels was treated as a four-level categorical variable The first component of the analyses was the exploration of baseline factors associated with RA diagnosis and number of diseased ... risk factor for increased CAD severity Table shows the ordinal logistic regression model results for number of diseased vessels One model includes only RA diagnosis and the other also includes...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23

... Hosmer-Lemeshow test Two-tailed p values are reported, and the analyses were performed using SPSS software (version 12.0.1, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) Results Characteristics of ICU admissions ... parameters The following information was collected for all study patients: age, gender, cause of admission, severity of underlying diseases, and organ dysfunction on admission as assessed by means of ... infection It has also been reported that, in addition to the severity scores recorded on admission, daily increase of the illness severity score within the first four days post-admission was associated...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... the lowest class to 64% in the highest class (Table 3) Mean ICU LOS was 14 days, mean hospital LOS was 34 days Within the three classes of the SHARF score, mean ICU length of stay increased from ... (eGFR) and stages of chronic kidney disease were defined according to the NKF K/DOQI guidelines [23] Statistical analysis The data analysis was performed using SPSS, version 12.0 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, ... classification Indeed, in our long-term follow-up study of hospital survivors of this cohort, we observed that 13 out of the 27 patients considered as ESKD at hospital discharge became dialysis...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... assess the effect of bacteremia on mortality, a stepwise logistic regression was performed adjusting for admission category and severity of illness (SAPS II) Results are presented as the odds ... patients Each clinical episode of pneumonia was described separately For patients with a clinical diagnosis of pneumonia, data collection included clinical signs, sepsis severity (sepsis/severe sepsis/septic ... test or Kruskal-Wallis test were used for continuous variables, when appropriate Backward logistic regression was used to assess the risk factors for bacteremia Variables significantly associated...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... increased weight Body mass index Before an in-depth discussion of low back pain and obesity can ensue, the concept of Body Mass Index (BMI) needs to be discussed BMI is a measure of fatness and is ... diagnoses used to explain back symptoms Annular tear Fibromyalgia Spondylosis Degenerative joint disease Disc derangement/disruption Adult spondylolysis Disc syndrome Lumbar disc disease Sprain Myofascitis ... minimal risk of developing low back pain while those persons whose BMI increases to over 30 are a moderate risk of developing low back pain We also suggest, based on the findings of the Melissas study...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... adjust for covariates The analysis was performed using SPSS software (V.11.5; SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA) Results A greater number of cases (Table 1) had a birth rank of ≥3 versus controls (35% versus ... disorders, number of children, birth rank within siblings, and age of disease onset Both the patients and their carers were asked about the presence of similar disorders in first-degree and second-degree ... test) for continuous variables Probability values of P < 0.05 were considered statistically significant Multiple logistic regression analysis was performed with adjustment for independent association...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... as means ± SD and were analyzed with Student 's t-test Frequencies were analyzed using the χ2 test or Fisher 's exact test Two-sided p values of less than 0.05 were considered to indicate statistical ... limitations of our study First, a major limitation of our study was the low-power statistics because of the small number of patients enrolled to this study At our institution, although most patients ... for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL) This study was approved by our institutional review board Results Clinicopathological characteristics of patients Pancreatic fistula was diagnosed in of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... of tanning after UV light exposure, the following SPT categories are defined: SPT I, always burns, never tans; SPT II, usually burns, sometimes tans; SPT III, sometimes burns, usually tans; SPT ... moderately affected Either skin fragility or 5– 10 skin lesions occurred as blisters and erosions followed by persistent scars Scars were often initially erythematous, then depressed, and had linear, ... burns, always tans; SPT V, rarely burns, tans profusely; and SPT VI, never Page of (page number not for citation purposes) burns, tans deeply.) Data including the medications used, dosages and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... bioprosthesis ring Liao and colleagues [4] observed similar results with bioprostheses removed from left ventricular assist devices Distortion of the bioprosthesis ring may be due to technical problems ... compression Figure Radiographic evaluation showed a misshapen bioprosthesis ring Figure Preoperative coronary angiography showed a misshapen bioprosthesis ring Table Bioprosthesis size Valve Size ... the same picture was observed in two patients with SVD The percentage of distortion of the bioprosthesis ring in patients without SVD was 76%, but no all patients had the same degree of distortion...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... assisted fundal pressure at delivery The diagnosis was made 32 hours postpartum; postural hypotension was the sign that attracted the physicians’ attention, leading to the diagnosis The present ... have masked the Page of symptoms typical to uterine rupture, possibly preventing early diagnosis To the best of our knowledge, no previous report describes this phenomenon The course of our patient ... note the similarity between these two cases and the present case Although it could not be determined whether intestinal adhesion delayed the diagnosis of rupture, we must consider this possibility...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... genetic association findings of ANK3 as a possible common risk factor for schizophrenia and affective disorders in a case control study of > 2000 subjects of German descent Analysis of previous associated ... Leonhard s classification Analyzing association of SNPs with schizophrenic spectrum divided into subgroups systematic schizophrenias, unsystematic schizophrenias and cycloid psychosis provided no significance ... Leonhard divides psychoses into five main groups, systematic schizophrenias, unsystematic schizophrenias and cycloid psychoses Affective psychoses are subdivided into bipolar manic depression and monopolar...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... great postoperative stress) Postoperative infections were defined as signs of infection and positive culture [9] History of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, weight loss, ASA class, postoperative ... of patients with high postoperative stress and a low frequency of risk factors for obstructive vascular disease Conclusion Despite the limitations associated with the retrospective analysis of ... analysis because it was the main aim of the study to determine their relationship with outcome Logistic regression analysis was used for infectious complications, and linear regression analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... inflammation and to assess the detrimental effects of ETS Regarding the mechanisms between smoke exposure and chronic cough, recent studies have assessed capsaicin responsiveness [75-77] It was shown that ... studies had both the terms "cough" and "environmental tobacco smoke" Important methodological issues arise in the assessment of associations between ETS exposure and respiratory diseases such as ... Other data describing the effects of ETS often used nonsmoking wives and smoking discordant husbands Here, it was also shown that wives with never-smoked husbands had lower frequencies of chronic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... transfusions and cerebral vascular accidents Chi-squared analysis was used to evaluate the number of exchange and chronic transfusions Statistical significance was given to p values 0.05 or less Results ... asthma and sickle cell disease had increased hospital admissions for pain crises and acute chest episodes compared with patients with only sickle cell disease [9] Our results are unique because ... Asthma (n = 48) Admissions for Acute Chest Syndrome Number of Cerebral Vascular Accidents Total Blood Transfusions Chronic Blood Transfusions Vaso-occlusive Pain Crises Exchange Blood Transfusions...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... and NSAID users and nonusers were compared using the log-rank test [14] Data were analyzed using SAS 9.1 software (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA) Unless otherwise stated, values are expressed ... CI]: days, days to days for NSAID users versus days, days to days for NSAID nonusers; P = 0.02; Figure 2) Among the cases, the mortality rate in NSAID users was 27% and that in nonusers was 23% ... therapy is not effective, and whether NSAID use increases the morbidity of bacterial infections such as fasciitis or extensive abscesses, rather than the frequency of severe sepsis and septic shock...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... bloodstream cultures with accompanying clinical signs of sepsis The diagnosis of sepsis caused by Staphylococcus-coagulase–negative was determined according to the Vermont Oxford Network Database2 8; ... necrotizing enterocolitis, retinopathy of prematurity (stage, zone), and presence of sepsis (early or late sepsis; early defined as within 72 hours of birth18) Sepsis was defined as positive microbial ... test, as appropriate Statistical significance was defined as P Յ 05 Those variables in which the univariate analysis was demonstrated as P Ͻ were entered into a stepwise logistic regression model...

Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2015, 13:07

... of this paper is structured as follows: Section discusses the conceptual organization of elements of the systemic banking risk EWS Section discusses the methodology of the SAFE EWS models and ... results Section discusses the research implications and case studies based on our models Section concludes with a discussion of interpretations and directions for future research EWS elements ... financial stress indexes were available The comparison of CFSI with alternative financial stress series is discussed in Oet et al (2009, 2011).15 The financial stress series in the SAFE EWS is constructed...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 04:21

... solvents Since then several case reports and series [12-17] as well as epidemiologic studies [18-21] have found systemic sclerosis to be positively associated with exposure to solvents Supportive of ... confirmed a significant positive association between exposure to solvents and systemic sclerosis This metaanalysis was based on case-control-studies and one cohort study, the number of cases varying ... method of exposure assessment in their case-control study In the study of Garabrant et al [20] an expert in exposure assessment was asked to review and classify the exposure histories and to assign...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... times higher] The following weaknesses of our study were recognized Firstly, all of the cases in this study were done through a vascular sparing posterior approach Numerous studies have suggested ... Some studies have showed increased complication rates with this procedure, especially for inexperienced surgeons [2, 7] While a number of studies have suggested an association between various ... was 0.09±1.4 (range from 2.4 to 6.7) The primary diagnosis was osteoarthritis in 290 hips (78%) followed by dysplasia in 52 hips (14%), osteonecrosis in 14 cases (4%), post-traumatic arthritis...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20