the problem of coronary heart disease

... listing of coronary heart disease as the cause of death on the death certificate, and by the availability of evidence of previous coronary heart disease Those deaths in which coronary heart disease ... moderately increased risk of coronary heart disease (P for trend for the comparison of the 10th decile with the 1st decile = 0.06) For the comparison of the 10th with the 1st decile, there was a significant ... documented 1994 new cases of coronary heart disease After multivariate adjustment, the relative risk of coronary heart disease comparing highest and lowest deciles of the low-carbohydrate-diet...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... listing of coronary heart disease as the cause of death on the death certificate, if coronary heart disease was the underlying and most plausible cause, and if evidence of previous coronary heart disease ... between the levels of soluble TNF-a receptors and the risk of coronary heart disease (Table 3) Men in the highest quintile of interleukin-6 had a 57 percent increase in the risk of coronary heart disease, ... relationship to coronary heart disease remain matters of controversy.11-17 We prospectively examined the association between inflammatory markers and the risk of coronary heart disease and the role of potential...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... segments at peak stress The clinical utility of the method then depends on the magnitude of the increase from baseline to peak stress The same group addressed the diagnostic accuracy of tissue Doppler ... and the velocities within a myocardial segment is the net result of motion caused by contractions in that segment, motion due to tethering to other segments, and overall motion of the heart The ... velocities there is a significant problem with random noise The signal-to-noise ratio can be improved by increasing the offset distance (strain length), which increases the velocity difference The problem...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 11:20

... Marian AJ Effects of PPARα, γ and δ haplotypes on plasma levels of lipids and progression of coronary atherosclerosis and response to statin therapy in the lipoprotein coronary atherosclerosis study ... associations of PPARδ with HDL-C levels could be masked by the profound effect of overweight on HDL-C in the patients with high BMI To establish whether differences regarding the BMI affected our data the ... plasma lipids and coronary lesions were primarily due to the influence of the +T294C SNP The C allele frequency of 0.24 in our high risk patient group was similar as the frequency of 0.21 reported...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:03

... participated in the design of the study and assisted in the drafting of the manuscript VL participated in the design of the study and assisted in the drafting of the manuscript CM participated in the design ... underlying factor structure of the HADS The HADS clearly cannot be both bi-dimensional and tri-dimensional within the same data set and further clarification of the structure of the instrument is desirable ... extensively in the studies of patients with CHD as an index of both outcome and the effect of therapeutic intervention [21-23] There have also been reports that the Chinese version of HADS may have...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... of both instruments is different: today for EQ-5D, versus the last four weeks (or one week in the acute version of the SF-36) for the SF-6D The third difference is that the scoring range of the ... the valuation task and the valuation technique Two-thirds of the respondents valued the worst possible health state health state of the SF-6D as better than dead, causing the lower limit of the ... twice that of the SF-6D The location of the baseline median scores in the scoring range was quite different: in the top quarter for EQ-5D, halfway for the SF6D A fourth difference was that the distributions...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... towards the lower end of the EQ-5D index range There was a further nuance in prediction of the EQ-5D index between studies shown by these estimates - the prediction model under-predicted values of the ... covariates in the final model The variables in the base model - age, sex and disease stage proxy - only explained 4% of the variation in the EQ-5D index and gave an RMSE of 0.288 When either of ETT ... to the base model, this was reduced to 0.226 or 0.249, respectively, and just under 30% of the variability was explained The addition of the ECS scale of the SAQ to the model accounted for the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... information in the internet  Necessity to ask more advanced people for help  Waste time  Difficulties in employment assistance Causes  Lack of useful information in the course of information ... learning  Lack of access to computer  Dissatisfactory school base  Insufficient allocation of application programs Alternatives  Correction of information science course  Simplification of access ... Correction of information science course  Simplification of access to computer classes  Increase the motivation ...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 17:15

... at minimising the impact of disease At least 30% of patients require surgery in the first 10 years of disease and approximately 70–80% will have surgery in their lifetime 3.3 Other disease sites ... differentiation between CD and UC [1] 1.1 Development of guidelines [2-4] These guidelines are the work of the IBD working group of the British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition ... or there is controversy, the evidence based evaluation by the authors of the BSG guidelines for adults with IBD has been used together with the ECCO consensus document [4] Guidelines for the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20

... clusters corresponds to one of the senses of palm, and the words closest to the geometric centers of the clusters should be good descriptors of each sense However, as matrices of the above type can be ... frond and the rest of the vocabulary In the case of sake the beverage sense is extremely rare in the BNC and therefore was not represented among the top 30 associations For this reason the clustering ... that often improves the results The approach that we suggest in this paper involves reducing the number of columns (contexts) and then applying a clustering algorithm to the row vectors (words) of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... of assuming a verbal tag in the third (The "choice" colunm is explained below.) The average performance of PARTS for this task is 89%, which is lower than the general average performance of the ... adjectives This confirms my hypothesis that PARTS will have a problem solving the N/V ambiguity in cases where the lexical probability of the word points to a noun These are the very cases that should ... other element that is not a verb) .The tagger will experience fewer problems handling this construction when the ambiguous element is a verb in the vast majority of instances If this is true, the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 21:20

... dedicated their professional careers to the care of individuals with sickle cell disease The names of the authors, their affiliations, and their e-mail addresses are listed in the front of the book ... certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics or the American Board of Genetic Counselors However, the number to be counseled far exceeds the supply and the availability of these professionals ... and then reviewed by several others in the field Additional experts reviewed the entire volume This book is not the result of a formalized consensus process but rather represents the efforts of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... cell disease, there is clearly a need for further research on the barriers to the use of this drug These studies should aim to identify barriers at the level of the patient, at the level of the ... Most of the therapies offered to patients with sickle cell disease are supportive and little to change the underlying pathophysiology of the disease These supportive measures include the use of ... barriers to the use of this drug for sickle cell disease Therefore, we sought information on barriers to the use of other therapies for treatment of sickle cell disease, including the receipt of routine,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... membrane of cells in the brain, reducing the statistical count quality of the image); and placing the patient’s brain symmetrically with respect to the plane of the ring of detectors, so that the ... however, the MMSE or assessments of delayed recall fall outside of the normal range for age and education, then the patient may have either MCI or dementia The distinction of MCI versus dementia is often ... psychosis, often emerge as the disease progresses Depressed mood often occurs with AD Brain autopsies of persons with AD indicate an accumulation of the neuropathologic hallmarks of the disease, ...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... (COX) In these enzymes, the redox potential of the metals is harnessed to provide the enzymes with their electron transfer capabilities Paradoxically, it is the same redox potential of the metals ... no doubt lessen the burden of the disease, the biological mechanisms that caused them to develop will remain unchecked The fundamental research aim in AD research is to identify the up-stream biological ... events With the loss of biometal homeostasis placed central to all of these AD-related neurodegenerative mechanisms, the modulation of metal bio-availability has strong potential in the therapeutic...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20

... the results of the vector comparisons Fortunately, the problem of data sparseness can be minimized by reducing the dimensionality of the matrix An appropriate algebraic method that has the capability ... occurrence of a word obtains a separate row vector in table The problem with the resulting extremely sparse matrix is that most vectors are either orthogonal to each other or duplicates of some other ... each word from the centroid of its closest cluster, and to assign the differential vector to the most appropriate other cluster This process can be repeated until the length of the differential...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... number of clitics which are suffixes as far as the phonology is concerned (i.e., they undergo Vowel Harmony with the word to which they attach) are separate words from the point of view of the syntax ... point of view m i,e, the morphemes are in the right order and the relevant phonological rules have applied correctly over the appropriate domains n we then pass the morphological analysis off to the ... with the sequence of lexical segments in the underlying morphemes and that the surface string is well-formed Also exemplary of the division of duty between the morphophonological parser and the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... or Nursing Mothers Councils They can also foster the creation of mother-to-mother support groups in community health centers and advertise these groups, particularly as part of the hospital discharge ... information about the food they purchase The percent of the U.S population that reports “often” reading a food label the first time they buy a product increased from 44% in 2002 to 54% in 2008 Of those ... Moreover, the FTC criticized the program for applying these standards only to certain forms of advertising It recommended, among other things, that the CFBAI improve the quality and consistency of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... space the position of the heart and the orientation of its apex Cardiac Description the segmental anatomy of the heart the classification of the cardiac lesion the description of the cardiac lesion ... Both great arteries Coronary arteries Cardiac Description the segmental anatomy of the heart the classification of the cardiac lesion the description of the cardiac lesion The International Paediatric ... Cardiac Description the segmental anatomy of the heart the classification of the cardiac lesion the description of the cardiac lesion Left and Right For cardiac chambers:...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... mechanisms, and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias The first of these was establishing the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, and the strategic plan ... class of drugs approved by the FDA for treating Alzheimer’s disease In 1984, the first clinical criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease was published, and the first five Alzheimer’s Disease ... in the diagnosis and that distinguish them from Alzheimer’s disease In this sense, the field of cognitive neuroscience has improved the diagnosis of dementia syndromes; in turn, the study of neurodegenerative...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20