the characteristics of nicotine addiction among patients with schizophrenia

... assessed the patients for participation in the study and included them after informed consent A total of 800 patients were enrolled for the study After inclusion, the patients were examined by the ... surgery with the use of surgeon-performed US at the bedside when a patient presents with abdominal pain [7-10] The results shown in this study seem to support routine use of the method in the ED ... that the data on hospital care and the short-term follow-up by the blinded nurse are correct The strengths of this study are the randomization procedure and the large number of comparable patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:21

... supportive of the construct validity of the PIPP, given the expected relationship among the various aspects assessed None of the correlations were so high as to indicate redundancy, with the highest of ... Methods The study was conducted in urban, rural and remote areas of Khon Kaen Province in the Northeast Region (Isaan), the setting of the Thai arm of the RESILIENCE study The Isaan region, with ... Discussion The aim of this study was to validate the use of the PIPP among people with a disability in Thailand The PIPP was initially developed as a multidimensional generic measure of the impact...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... supportive of the construct validity of the PIPP, given the expected relationship among the various aspects assessed None of the correlations were so high as to indicate redundancy, with the highest of ... Methods The study was conducted in urban, rural and remote areas of Khon Kaen Province in the Northeast Region (Isaan), the setting of the Thai arm of the RESILIENCE study The Isaan region, with ... Discussion The aim of this study was to validate the use of the PIPP among people with a disability in Thailand The PIPP was initially developed as a multidimensional generic measure of the impact...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... hypertension, two of the components of the Framingham risk score, differed among patients with early RA, patients with long-standing RA, and control subjects There were more smokers among patients with early ... gender with the entire group of RA patients and thus predictably did not exactly match with either the early or late RA groups Minor differences between the groups were dealt with by the use of multivariable ... women, the utility of the Framingham risk score in this patient population is of interest, particularly considering that in patients with SLE, the Framingham risk score does not differ among patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... meta-analysis [10,16,19] There have been a number of hypothesized explanations for the differences in the risk of certain malignancies in patients with RA compared with patients without the disease Possible ... identification of populations Other limitations include the possibility of misclassification and the wide variation in follow-up There may have been misclassification of the inclusion of patients into the ... conclusions about the risk associated with anti-TNFs with the currently available data [26] It has been suggested that a minority of RA patients (those with the worst disease) carry much of the increased...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... not been developed for SLE With the exception of the live attenuated vaccines, other vaccinations should be kept up-to-date in patients with SLE Caring for patients with SLE includes commonsense ... high risk patients Based on an estimated prevalence of 29% for serious infections among patients with SLE and the findings of Ruiz-Irastorza and colleagues, the number needed to treat with an anti-malarial ... adverse effects of anti-malarial drug therapy in SLE concludes that hydroxychloroquine should be given to most patients with SLE during the whole course of the disease, irrespective of severity,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... (1.7) Other Asian (1.5) (1.3) Half of the observed relapses occurred during the first months of the study The cumulative probability of relapse was 10.6% (95% CI: 8.2% to 13.6%) by the end of the ... of the follow-up period, the patient withdrew from the study, or the patient was lost to follow-up An exploratory analysis was conducted to evaluate the impact of RLAT discontinuation among patients ... if they deemed it necessary for their patients After enrollment, however, specific clinical interventions were not mandated other than the initiation of RLAT at the beginning of the study; therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... GonzalezGay MA: Increased prevalence of severe subclinical atherosclerotic findings in long-term treated rheumatoid arthritis patients without clinically evident atherosclerotic disease Medicine (Baltimore) ... correlates with accelerated atherogenesis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis J Rheumatol 2005, 32:1219-1223 Gonzalez-Juanatey C, Llorca J, Martin J, Gonzalez-Gay MA: Carotid Page of intima-media ... management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of inflammatory arthritis Ann Rheum Dis 2010, 69:325-331 doi:10.1186/ar3186 Cite this article as: Gonzalez-Gay MA, et al.: Role of carotid...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... abnormalities of the upper respiratory tract, and/or (2) if patients were using prescribed or over the counter anti-tussive medications within 24-hours of the start of the study The protocol was ... was housed within the recorder unit Patients were invited to wear the LS system for a maximum of 24 hours Video surveillance Patients spent the testing period in an assigned room where the video ... output from algorithm The shaded bar contains the cough event Cough is indicated by a single solid line at the end of the breath that contains the cough Note the change in the posture from supine...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... than the controls but the number of years of education was slightly higher in the control group The mean duration of illness was 11.3 ± 5.8 years, ranging from to 20 years A total of 24% of the patients ... Subject characteristics There were a greater proportion of females in the schizophrenia group compared to the control group, but the difference was not statistically significant The mean age of the ... function [15] The findings of the present study show that cognitive deficits are persistent even during periods of remission, suggesting the 'trait' nature of the deficits The similarity of cognitive...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... how important the actual monitoring of vital signs and blood values is in patients with schizophrenia, as seemingly, a large proportion of these patients were neither aware of their somatic health ... 7) Table shows the proportions of patients (FAS) with blood test values out of the reference range at baseline Within the Prev-AP cohorts, the percentages for PrevNone were at the lower end for ... circumference the properties of the respective substance and the patients individual risk factors The prevalence of MetS in the FAS of 42.8% (AHA/ NHLB definition) at baseline was comparable to the findings...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... assessment of the content of the items on the scales, we hypothesized that (1) the Bodily Page of pain (BP) scale of the SF-36 and the Pain scale of the WOMAC would represent similar constructs as the ... correlations of the BPI function interference index with BP and PF scales, as hypothesized, but low correlation with the RP scale Further, the correlations of the BPI function interference index with the ... proportion of the respondents grade themselves at the minimum score and a ceiling effect when a high proportion of the respondents score at the maximum of the instrument Because the patients ...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... year at the time patients were included into the study No more medical details on the course of the disease in the previous year, on the type of brain lesion of stroke or the severity of the CVD ... low level of education were significantly associated with worse scores of quality of life in primary care patients with obesity [31] Limitations of the study The duration of treatment of hypertension ... clinic visits During the period of the study no one of the controls developed a stroke These patients with a diagnosis of hypertension received health care follow-up because of anti-hypertensive...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... improve the performance of a clinical system to be most effective, they must take into account not only the nature of the system, but also the nature of the disease The purpose of this paper is twofold ... presence of CAS characteristics and effectiveness of interventions were also assessed, and the association between the two was performed with Fisher’s exact test, with and without studies with unit of ... characteristics of the organization be considered, but so must the characteristics of the disease and its treatment Interventions must be appropriately matched to the level of complexity of not only the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... chart of patients included in the analysis Page of 13 Table 1: Baseline characteristics of patients Patients with prior malignancy Biologic n Female n (%) Age (mean, SD) Control Patients without ... cancer), and the one patient under treatment with anakinra (lung cancer) died All other patients with recurrences were still alive at the time of the analysis Incidence of tumors in patients without ... 14 out of the 15 recurrences the observed malignancies were true recurrences of the prior tumor with the same type and site Only in one of our patients with pulmonary and bone metastases the origin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... explanation of the purpose of the study, the respondents were offered the option of either selfadministration or interview as mode of questionnaire completion, thus allowing the inclusion of respondents ... properties among Thai patients with DM is still lacking Based on the aforementioned gaps, the main objective of the current thesis is to explore the feasibility of improving the management of T2DM in Thailand ... knowledge of DM  compare the level of DM knowledge among the residents in Bangkok (the capital and the largest city in Thailand) and that of the residents in other central provinces The second...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:56

... comparison of KaplanMeier curves with Gehan's generalization of the Wilcoxon test [22], whose weighting scheme reduces the relative contribution of patients with prolonged LOS due to other (non-VAP) ... covariates In the subset of patients with P aeruginosa at baseline, this pathogen was eradicated or presumed eradicated from 16 (67%) of 24 patients in the doripenem group and from 10 (42%) of 24 patients ... Authors' contributions MK had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis MK contributed to study concept...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... Validation of the PROFAD-SSI among Sjogren's syndrome patients in the United States The data provided represent the statistical validation of the PROFAD-SSI among Sjogren's syndrome patients in the ... well-being, the dominant unique predictor of quality of life was depression, accounting on its own for 25% of the variance in the index among the PhysR-PSS patients The contributions of both depression ... quality of life in 42 Swedish women with PSS[5] All scales of the SF-36 were significantly decreased and the percentage of patients not working due to disability was similar among patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... compared the results of the present sample of patients with type diabetes with data of the general population extracted out of the German National Health Interview and Examination Survey [16] Therefore, ... The revealed high burden of patients with osteoarthritis is in accordance with other studies and congruent with the clinical experience of primary care physicians [33-36] Major problems for patients ... in the number of patients suffering from diabetes from 135 to 300 million patients until the year 2025 [1] Most diabetes patients suffer from type diabetes Quality of life (QoL) in patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... and table 2) When the total number of nerve ending densities were compared between patients with arthrosis and those without arthrosis, the mechanoreceptors of the cadavers without arthrosis ... fine and without any set pattern In the case of the patients with arthrosis, there was a significant reduction of Golgi corpuscles (0.008/mm2) when compared with Pacini corpuscles (0.013/mm2) ... the tissue was removed and the degree of arthrosis examined on the basis of Bombelli’s classification [21] This study was approved by Ethics Committee No 007.06.01 of the Federal University of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20