... polymorphism in Renin Angiotensin System and other related genes in South Indian chronic kidney disease patients Clinica Chimica Acta 2009, 406:108-112 Griffin KA, Bidani AK: Hypertensive renal damage: insights ... CT, and Ca channel blockers in twenty-nine MHD and ten CT Subjects were taking their medication when ACE activity was measured and no influence of medication on the measurement In 1967, Ng and ... factor in regression of LVH in ESRD In the present study, linear regression analysis revealed that indexed DPB, TG concentration, serum urea, creatinine and CK-MB levels were the most important independent...
... polymorphism in Renin Angiotensin System and other related genes in South Indian chronic kidney disease patients Clinica Chimica Acta 2009, 406:108-112 Griffin KA, Bidani AK: Hypertensive renal damage: insights ... CT, and Ca channel blockers in twenty-nine MHD and ten CT Subjects were taking their medication when ACE activity was measured and no influence of medication on the measurement In 1967, Ng and ... factor in regression of LVH in ESRD In the present study, linear regression analysis revealed that indexed DPB, TG concentration, serum urea, creatinine and CK-MB levels were the most important independent...
... for Early Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults I Nutrition for Later Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults I Nutrition inChildrenwithChronic Kidney Disease For free single printed copies of this series, ... or Nutrition for Later Chronic Kidney imply that the Adults is unsatisfactory Disease in product I Nutrition inChildrenwithChronic Kidney Disease For free single printed copies of this series, ... for and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse Chronic Kidney Disease Series The NIDDK Nutrition for Chronic Kidney Disease Series includes three fact sheets: I Nutrition for Early Chronic...
... highest in our study were "getting up from a chair" and "walking indoors" and the lowest score was found for the item concerning climbing and descending a stair without a handrail, findings similar ... meters with his/her ordinary walking aid, turn around, walk back and sit down again in the chair and the result is measured in seconds The TUG test is easy to use in clinical settings and it ... (convergent and discriminative) andreliability (internal consistency and test-retest reliability) in a cross-sectional study conducted on a population of lower limb amputees attending training after...
... surgery/interventions (including ablations) 1.1 Without remaining findings (complete correction) 1.2 With minimal findings 1.3 With clinically significant findings 1.4 After palliative interventions: ... Cardiac function and hemodynamic findings under exertion BOX Findings after cardiac surgery and/ or interventions Minor remaining findings (1.2) – Scar after ventriculotomy – Incomplete right ... forms of exercise and games in childhood Types of exercise with a high dynamic/low static component Running, skipping, jumping, cycling, swimming, inline skating, skateboarding, running games, ball...
... in autoimmune diseases and neural dysfunction points to an involvement linking the nervous and the immune system In this context, neuropeptides, including tackykinins and neurotrophins have been ... tachykinins and neurokinins Trends Pharmacol Sci 2000;21: 173–175 6- Almeida TA, Rojo J, Nieto PM, Pinto FM, Hernandez M, Martin JD, et al Tachykinins and tachykinin receptors: structure and activity ... allergens, infectious agents and heavy metals), with a subequent increase in the release of this tachykinin from these cells Neuroendocrine hormones, including tackykinins, triggered during stress...
... paucity of research investigating patients with concomitant asthma and sickle cell disease Table 2: Results inchildrenwith sickle cell disease withand without asthma Patients with Sickle Cell ... (21 males and 27 females) consisted of 42 childrenwith HgbSS andwith HgbSC The control group (17 males and 31 females) included 41 childrenwith HgbSS andwith HgbSC The age of the children ... http://www.clinicalmolecularallergy.com/content/3/1/2 Vaso-occlusive pain was defined as pain that could not be explained by injury or infection requiring hospital admission and treatment with intravenous pain medication The criteria for...
... Kidney Int 2000; 58: 346-352 45 Kaysen GA, Chertow GM, Adhikarla R, Young B, Ronco C, Levin NW Inflammation and dietary protein intake exert competing effects on serum albumin and creatinine in hemodialysis ... findings led to the evaluation of novel cardiovascular risk factors like chronic inflammation and malnutrition as predictors of the CVD inchronic kidney disease This multifactorial disease introduces ... vascular events in this population (27) In a recent study C-reactive protein and low albumin has been shown to be the predictor of morbidity and mortality in CKD 3-5 patients in Spain (31) Our study...
... index including subjective reporting of abdominal pain, general well-being, and diarrhea and physical findings, including linear growth and laboratory parameters (hematocrit, serum albumin, and ... mucosal barrier It reverses the increased intestinal permeability induced by cow’s milk in young rats (23) and promotes intestinal barrier function inchildrenwith food allergy (24) These studies ... effective in ameliorating the disease activity inchildrenwith mildly to moderately active, stable Crohn’s disease A dose of 1010 CFU twice a day resulted in intestinal colonization in all the...
... psychological, and social component [4] Previous research has evaluated psychological and social problems inchildrenwith SCD Although findings were inconclusive, internalizing problems (such as anxiety and ... originally designed for children 8-18 years, we included children aged andchildren aged years We explored differences in HRQoL between children aged 6-7 (n = 12) and 8-18 years (n = 28) using independent ... HRQoL inchildrenwith SCD using a self-report measure and a control group of healthy siblings In general, the HRQoL of childrenwith SCD appeared similar to the HRQoL of healthy siblings, with...
... lower in the patients with CF compared to the patients with asthma and neuromuscular disease Mean FVC and FEV1 were significantly lower in the patients with CF and neuromuscular diseases than in ... sequence was observed in only patients with moderate asthma, in patients with CF with moderate lung disease, andin patients with neuromuscular diseases The RREPs lacked completely in asthmatic patients ... impaired cortical processing of afferent respiratory signals In addition, the RREPs abnormalities were more pronounced in asthmatic childrenandinchildrenwith CF than inchildrenwith a ventilatory...
... illness chronic Chronicity of sleep problems inchildrenwithand without Chronicity of sleep problems inchildrenwithand without chronic illness DIMS = difficulties initiating and/ or maintaining ... problems at wave and/ or in subgroups of chronic Sleep problems at wave and/ or in subgroups of chronic illness DIMS = difficulties initiating and/ or maintaining sleep tion, hyperactivity and emotional ... childrenwith ADHD andchronic sleep onset insomnia J Pineal Res 2009, 47(1):1-7 Braam W, Didden R, Smits M, Curfs L: Melatonin treatment in individuals with intellectual disability andchronic insomnia:...
... more substantial inchildrenwith CI than in their peers This was shown in a study by Perrin and collaborators, including 96 healthy childrenand 91 childrenwith different chronic conditions, ... substantial inchildrenwith CI than inchildren without CI Future studies should validate the clinical significance of the present findings and include other potential protective factors inchildrenwith ... childrenwith a FSIQ-level of 85 or above This finding is in accordance with the results of Goodman and collaborators, showing that healthy childrenwith low IQ within the normal range (defined as...
... Measuring health-related quality of life inchildrenwith cancer living in mainland China: feasibility, reliabilityand validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and ... The findings support the feasibility, reliabilityand validity of the Chinese Mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and 3.0 Cancer Module inchildrenwith cancer living in mainland ... testing responsiveness of the Chinese mandarin version scales in longitudinal studies andin other areas, particularly in rural areas Studies measuring HRQOL inchildren who have refused or abandoned...
... (hearing loss alone in three, facial numbness and hearing loss in one, vocal cord paralysis and hearing loss in one, and temporary imbalance and/ or vertigo in one) In 26 patients in whom hearing ... the treatment that included MRI and audiograms Follow-up included clinical neurological evaluation and MRI brain that were done regularly at monthly intervals in the first year and yearly afterward ... achieved using MRI performed with T1 axial and coronal-weighted sequence at mm slice thickness withand without contrast, T1- fat saturation sequence and also T2 axial sequence was used to eliminate...
... alcoholic liver disease and 22 patients non-alcoholic fatty liver disease The diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease cirrhosis was made in patients who had clinical features andliver biopsies ... times with Tween/PBS and generated after combining with chemiluminescence ELISA reagent (Boehringer Mannheim, Germany) according to the manufacturer’s instructions The intensities of the chemiluminescence ... diagnosis and treatment and monitoring of diseases [9,12,16,17] In this study, we aimed to demonstrate that sVAP-1 levels can be elevated in patients with alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases...
... assess the inter-laboratory variability of FibroTest and ActiTest, including their six serum liver components, in patients withchronicliver disease, and to identify factors associated with that ... [2], and has a high risk of sampling error [3] Biochemical markers for liver fibrosis (FibroTest) and necroinflammatory features (ActiTest) are an alternative to liver biopsy, in patients withchronic ... gold standard for the assessment of liver histology Even liverbiopsy is dependant on the inter- and intra-observer (pathologist) differences There are also potential problems withliver biopsy...
... 2001 and March 2004 with the key words "FibroTest" and "ActiTest" in Medline andin the abstract books of hepatology, gastroenterology, internal medicine and infectious diseases annual meetings ... had a liverbiopsyand METAVIR staging and grading performed Of these patients, 453 were from our center [11,14], including 130 patients coinfected with HCV and HIV [14] Eight hundred and seventy ... Sampling error and intraobserver variation inliverbiopsyin patients withchronic HCV infection Am J Gastroenterol 2002, 97:2614-2618 Colloredo G, Guido M, Sonzogni A, Leandro G: Impact of liver...
... are collected in tubes containing lithium and heparin, with heparin included to negate the effects of thrombin This heparinised sample is transferred to a vial containing heparinase to neutralise ... vitro administration of aspirin to help define aspirin ‘resistance’ (88) Dose of aspirin: The dosing of aspirin highlights one of the main difficulties with monitoring aspirin response in clinical ... ticlopidine in unstable angina suggested a benefit similar to aspirin (119) However, at this point, interest turned to the use of ticlopidine in combination with aspirin for patients undergoing coronary...