sleep endocrine changes in patients with depression

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Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... using a highresolution ultrasound machine, according to the International Brachial Artery Reactivity Task force Guidelines [30] Two patients were taking statins, one was taking an angiotensinconverting ... RA patients with chronic inflammatory effects on vessels In another study, reversal of endothelial dysfunction in patients with long-standing severe RA was only transient in response to TNF inhibitors, ... smoking and older age may interact to damage the endothelium and smooth muscle in asymptomatic patients in the same way as they are known to interact to determine the risk of clinical CV endpoints...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... with depression in the clinical outpatient setting Porer compliance to medications in patients with depression than in those with schizophrenia or epilepsy points to a necessity of targeting the ... Psychiatry 2009, 9:38 their physicians One interesting survey, including telephone interviews in 401 patients with depression and written surveys in 137 prescribing physicians, showed that 72% of physicians ... 6-month persistence rate of 65.9% in 85 patients with a major depressive disorder who were treated with either fluoxetine or paroxetine in a double-blind, randomized clinical trial However, these high...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... disinfection with popidone iodine, bed rest, and administration of ritodrine and an ulinastatin vaginal suppository were continued as a new follow-up modality for pregnant patients who received RT Finally, ... artificial intrauterine insemination She was admitted to our hospital with a diagnosis of threatened abortion at 17 weeks of gestation In spite of bed rest, disinfection therapy, and the administration ... discussed Patients and methods In the period from January 2003 through December 2009, a total of 20 women with early-stage invasive uterine cancer underwent vaginal RT with lymphadenectomy in Sapporo...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:48

... were found in our study Discussion In the present study, patients scored higher on Neuroticism-Anxiety (with GAD patients scoring highest) and on depression (with TRD patients scoring highest) ... in our GAD patients was due to the severity of anxiety itself merits further investigation In our TRD patients, the depression score was correlated negatively with Magnitude This finding is in ... their written informed consent Handedness was determined using a Chinese translation of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory 29 Such an inventory has been used in two previous Chinese studies 30,31...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 08:57

... Researchers in the experimental group received training in the PRECEDE model before patients were included in the study This specific training involved two steps: first they were instructed about ... subsequently trained in the procedure to be used in the study in three sessions These covered the criteria for including/excluding patients, collecting variables, collecting biochemical/ Salinero-Fort ... mmHg), indicating that our results cannot be compared However, on comparing the increase in the proportion of patients with metabolic control in the PRECEDE model obtained in our study with those...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21

... analysis showed that the minimal important difference of the HADS is approximately 1.5 points in COPD patients Investigators and those interpreting clinical research can use this minimal important difference ... differ from patients included in the analyses The mean age of included patients was 68.7 (SD 8.9) years, 59 (67.0%) were males, patients had moderate to very severe COPD with a mean FEV1 in % predicted ... HADS Patients completed the self-administered and validated German version of the HADS[19] The HADS measures depression and generalised anxiety in in- and outpatients and in community settings...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... people in Austria suffer from UI, 850 000 of these are women There are different types of UI including stress urinary incontinence (SUI), urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, neurogenic incontinence, ... SUI an increase in intraabdominal pressure (induced by activities such as coughing, laughing, sneezing, lifting of heavy loads or using stairs) causes involuntary urinary leakage without contraction ... by Swithinbank et al [6] According to their study incontinence may cause withdrawal from social activities and the women with incontinence have less social interaction than women without involuntary...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... for pain relief in patients with painful DPN The Medical Outcomes StudySleep Scale (MOS -Sleep) was administered to patients in order to assess the impact of the pregabalin treatment on patients' ... randomization, patients had to complete the sleep interference diary, in which patients described how their neuropathic pain had interfered with their sleep It consists of a single-item with an 11-point ... 11-point numerical rating scale, ranging from (pain does not interfere with sleep) to 10 (pain completely interferes with sleep) that allows the calculation of a weekly mean sleep interference score...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... conditions including FM [14] A recent study in patients with FM suggests sleep disturbance may be predictive of pain [15] Not surprisingly, both pain and sleep are considered core domains essential ... evaluation in FM clinical trials [16] A variety of sleep instruments are available for evaluating sleep disturbance and its impact [17], including a new scale for evaluating restorative sleep (Sleep ... of sleep alteration in patients with fibromyalgia? J Rheumatol 2004, 31(6):1193-1199 McKracken LM, Iverson GL: Disrupted sleep patterns and daily functioning in patients with chronic pain Pain...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... were males In terms of the clinical data, over two thirds of subjects were angina The finding of high proportions of Chinese CHD patients screening positive with anxiety and depression using the ... of the original translation process, which may also explain inconsistencies between the underlying factor structure of the instrument between Mandarin-speaking Chinese CHD patients in the current ... province of China Mandarin is spoken Due to the pictorial nature of Chinese writing, both Cantonese and Mandarin-speaking Chinese would be able to read the Chinese version of the HADS In Europe,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 7.6-point decrease (improvement) in the MOS Sleep Problem Index 9, 11.9-point decrease in MOS Sleep Disturbance, and 1.6-point decrease in Sleep Interference (Figure 1) A 2-point decrease in pain ... compared the magnitude of within-patient change in pain severity with corresponding changes in function and health status The cutpoint analysis indicated that pain severity ratings of 1-3, 4-6, and ... responsive to clinical changes, with improvements being greater as the pain and sleep of patients improved Minimal improvement in health status (on measures of pain, sleep, patient or clinical van...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... cognitions in patients with FMS Since it has been suggested that FMS is intrinsically related to depression, a group of psychiatric outpatients with major depressive disorder (MDD) was included ... among the patients with FMS To test this possibility the patients with FMS were subdivided into three subgroups, one consisting of those with a concurrent MDD (N = 13), and one with those without ... HC were included if they reported no history of psychiatric disorder, reported no distribution of pain intensity and scored nine or lower on the Beck Depression Inventory [24] indicating normal...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... of bipolarity within depression [2,4] In the case of these patients (as well as in overt bipolar patients) , antidepressant monotherapy may induce not only rapid cycling and switching to mania ... Promoting suicide prevention in major depressive disorder thus requires improving the training and skills of non-psychiatric healthcare professionals, especially GPs, in recognising and treating depression ... threshold is present In addition to serotonin, behavioural inhibition may be regulated by noradrenalin and dopamine, which play a role in the regulation of serotonin release [35] Research indi- http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/6/1/23...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... verified by studies performed with patients with respiratory failure, with depression being observed in 30% of patients with moderate failure and in 50% in patients with severe obstructive pulmonary ... p > 0.05) Patients with COPD had the higher depression scores, followed by patients with BA, whereas patients with TB had the lowest depression scores Anxiety was higher in patients with COPD ... [3,4] According to findings from worldwide research, 20% of patients with somatic disease suffer from major depression [4] In relevant studies in Greece, 28.1% of patients hospitalized in general...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... issues jointly; that is, to investigate plasma homocysteine levels in patients with MS and depression Accordingly, the present study was designed in order to assess Hcy plasma levels in MS patients ... results With a single exception [10], these studies concluded that Hcy levels are increased in MS patients [8,9] In most cases, however, Hcy increases were observed in MS patients with vitamin B12 ... metabolism in MS and investigated whether Hcy levels are related to depression in this disease It is concluded that Hcy is increased in patients with RR-MS without concomitant signs of vitamin B12...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... could reliably assess inflammation and structural damage of SI joints in patients with short-term inflammatory back pain Methods Patients Patients with inflammatory low back pain present for two ... patients show structural changes in at least one SI joint, indicating that MRI might be a useful tool to diagnose sacroiliitis in patients with inflammatory back pain Competing interests The authors ... changes on the MRI scan (11/68 patients) Although the number of patients with structural changes is low, this finding indicates that MRI might be a useful tool in the assessment of patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... matter hyperintensities that were associated with attentional deficits [51] These findings suggest that cognitive changes in patients with SLE may relate to subtle changes in white matter In a subsequent ... These findings are consistent with preliminary work done by Denburg and Denburg [26], suggesting that patients with SLE and depression are more cognitively impaired than depressed outpatients without ... citation purposes) tains 15 pain-related words divided into sensory and affective categories in a pain-rating index Individuals are asked to give each description of pain a rating from ('none') to ('severe')...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... these patients were judged to show repair by the experts viewing only the joint-of-interest in Exercise I; in the remaining six cases, the two independent readers did not score repair in the joint-of-interest, ... Bio-Imaging Technologies (Newtown, NJ, USA) The meeting started with a thorough training session discussing many examples of joints and features showing repair These features were filling -in of ... previous findings In another study by Rau and colleagues, 74 joints out of 1,292 joints showed repair phenomena [7] The authors also found that, in the group of patients with repair phenomena in single...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... NSCLC Patients Actigraphy Parameters Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Sleep Duration Sleep Disturbance Sleep Medicine Use PSQI Daytime Dysfunction Global Score Inpatients Outpatients Inpatients Outpatients ... best-fitting straight line to a data set when searching for a linear increasing or decreasing trend and subsequently determining the probability that the slope of the best-fitting line is different ... long sleep interruptions (long wake episodes > = minutes), proportion of sleep span spent actually sleeping (% sleep) , sleep latency, sleep efficiency, frequency of long sleep episodes (long sleep...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20