... presented as the proportion of the sample within each group The QOL scores of the investigated instruments are reported as Tukey’s values Before testing the ability of the instruments to discriminate ... 0.55) of QLQ-C30 The functional well-being of the FACT-G was highly correlated with the role functioning (r = 0.61) and the physical functioning (r = 0.58) of the QLQ-C30 The social domains of QLQ-C30 ... preference-based instruments, which incorporate broad domains covering all aspects of QOL Furthermore, most items in the investigated instruments, except those in the HUI2/3, incorporate aspects of coping...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
... presented as the proportion of the sample within each group The QOL scores of the investigated instruments are reported as Tukey’s values Before testing the ability of the instruments to discriminate ... 0.55) of QLQ-C30 The functional well-being of the FACT-G was highly correlated with the role functioning (r = 0.61) and the physical functioning (r = 0.58) of the QLQ-C30 The social domains of QLQ-C30 ... preference-based instruments, which incorporate broad domains covering all aspects of QOL Furthermore, most items in the investigated instruments, except those in the HUI2/3, incorporate aspects of coping...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22
Báo cáo y học: "The epidemiology of intensive care unit-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia in medical-surgical intensive care unit"
... care to the residents of the city of Calgary and surrounding areas (population 1.2 million) in the province of Alberta, Canada [14] All critically ill adult patients in the CHR are managed in ICUs ... care without cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), comfort care) Severity of illness at inception (within the first day of ICU admission) was assessed using the APACHE II score and intensity of ... with ICU stay* ues outside of intensive care during the first 50 days ofserum sodium Proportion of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with serum sodium valvalues outside the normal range during...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31
Tài liệu Misconceptions about the Causes of Cancer pptx
... and opinions expressed by them are, therefore, their own and not necessarily reflect the opinions of the members or the trustees of The Fraser Institute Printed in Canada National Library of Canada ... According to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, each of the top 10 stories of public interest in the United States during 1999 were about bad news With the exception of the outcome ... work, its interest lies in finding the reasons Where competitive markets have been replaced by government control, the interest of the Institute lies in documenting objectively the nature of the improvement...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu The Burden of Cancer in American Adults ppt
... that of women 65 and older; however, the incidence of breast cancer in middle-aged women is almost as great as the incidence of lung and colorectal cancer in older women The Burden of Cancer in ... diagnosed within the past year Of the estimated 6.5 million women with cancer history, 15% were diagnosed within the past year Among middle-aged adults, those aged 40 through 64, 4% of men and 6% of ... respectively The Burden of Cancer in American Adults Mortality and survival Cancer mortality is a function of both the incidence and survivability of cancer Cancer is the second leading cause of death in...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu The role of cancer registries docx
... should be taken as their incidence date Information on the most valid basis of diagnosis is of great interest in assessing the quality of the registration data The minimum requirement of a cancer registry ... way of obtaining information on the burden and patterns of cancer in developing countries, as well as providing a focus for research into etiology and prevention The discussion in the rest of ... registries play an important role in epidemiology by quantifying the incidence and prevalence of the disease in the community and as a source of ascertainment of cancer cases in intervention, cohort...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Misconceptions About Environmental Pollution, Pesticides and the Causes of Cancer doc
... smokers Men with inadequate diets or who smoke may damage the DNA of their sperm as well as the DNA in the rest of their cells When the level of dietary Vitamin C is insufficient to keep seminal fluid ... from the major task of improving public health through increasing scientific understanding about how to prevent cancer (e.g., the role of diet), increasing public understanding of how lifestyle influences ... “Predictions of ecological doom, including recent ones have such a terrible track record that people should take them with pinches of salt instead of lapping them up with relish For reasons of their...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20
The Burden of Cancer in Asia doc
... than 4% of the world’s new cases of each of these cancers occur in the United States In of these Asian countries, lung cancer has the highest incidence rate (age-standardized) of all cancers in males, ... countries is highest in Taiwan, Singapore, and Philippines in comparison, incidence in the United States is much higher than in any of the Asian countries In China, the female all-cancer incidence rate ... almost half (47%) of all new cases of uterine cervix cancer, with India alone diagnosing 27% of these cases 25 The burden of cancer in Asia Percent of new worldwide cases of cancer in females by...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Mycobacterium tuberculosis possesses a functional enzyme for the synthesis of vitamin C, L-gulono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase doc
... recombinant protein contained an engineered enterokinase cleavage site in the junction between the GST tag and the Rv1771 sequence Upon h of induction of the pDEST15_Rv1771 E coli strain with isopropyl-b-dthiogalactopyranoside ... participates in the covalent binding of the FAD molecule [22] (Fig 2) Analysis of the denatured Rv1771 protein by SDS ⁄ PAGE according to the method of Nishikimi et al [23] did not reveal the presence of ... protein band, thus pointing to the absence of a covalently bound flavin moiety in the recombinant product Moreover, as in the case of the plant l-galactono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase [12], the native...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
Virut gamma-herpes gây ung thư (Gamma – Herpes is the cause of cancer) potx
... đợc cấy trì in vitro trớc chứng minh virut kính hiển vi điện tử tế bào nuôi cấy hoạt tính sinh học Việc sử dụng kính hiển vi điện tử để nghiên cứu bệnh phẩm sinh học lúc cha có kinh nghiệm cha ... Các công trình nghiên cứu cuối chứng minh glycoprotein tinh khiết MA (gp 340) cảm ứng sản xuất kháng thể trung hoà virut đáp ứng Tc tiêm MA cho khỉ đầu (Saguinus oedipus oedipuss) sau ngời ta biết ... chứng minh gây nhiễm trùng sinh sản cấp tính cho tiếp xúc nguyên phát dạng tiềm ẩn kéo dài đời sống tế bào B tế bào khác với việc chậm gây tăng sinh 105 limphô và/hay biến chứng tăng sinh limphô...
Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 00:20
THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE USE OF ELDERLY CARE AND THE NEED FOR RESOURCES BY 2030 IN FINLAND pot
... elderly in general have been declining in the late 90’s As the DiffAGE85+ parameter is indefinite in sign results not indicate a pressure to increase the supply of care in homes for the elderly The ... Simulations The growth in operating costs is of the same order of magnitude as the rise in the number of care personnel The € 508 million operating cost of the domicile elderly care in the year 1999 is ... from the analysis of the Figure 2, that a lot of interesting features are hidden in probability structures of the estimated models However, the main goal of the models presented here is in their...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20
Diet, nutrition and the prevention of cancer ppt
... concentrations of oestradiol and the reduction in serum concentrations of sex hormone-binding globulin; in premenopausal women, the mechanism probably involves the increase in anovulation and consequent increased ... the first IARC Handbook of Cancer Prevention10 Review of the role of diet in the aetiology of the major cancers Cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx and oesophagus Cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx ... explain such an association are that a high fat intake may increase the levels of cytotoxic free fatty acids or secondary bile acids in the lumen of the large intestine However, the results of...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A guide to taming a toxin – recombinant immunotoxins constructed from Pseudomonas exotoxin A for the treatment of cancer ppt
... against the inclusion of lysine residues in the protein sequence of the A fragment but not the B fragment of PE Because only the A fragment must traffic to the cytosol for activity, the lack of ... of the role of domain II in PE intoxication It has been suggested that domain II assists in the translocation of the toxin into the cytosol [16,87] and that it plays a role in proper folding, stability ... potentially in uence cytotoxicity in a variety of ways, from changing the number of receptor sites per cell to altering the rate of internalization of the receptor or in uencing the intracellular...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21
Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions doc
... delivered with an understanding of the inherent interactions between the mind/brain and the rest of the body With respect to the quality of M/SU health care, the committee’s analysis shows that the ... by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the ... Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21
Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective doc
... since the 1960s.20 The incidence of cancer of the cervix increased during the 1960s and remained high in the 1970s, but has since declined (for age-standardised rates of these cancers, see the ... present the findings of these reviews The Panel’s judgements are displayed in the form of matrices that introduce five of these chapters, and in the summary matrix on the fold-out page inside the ... increased since the 1960s Cancer of the oesophagus has remained steady since the 1960s, although the incidence of cancer of the pancreas has increased since then.20 In women, breast cancer is the most...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21
The Fraction of Cancer Attributable to Lifestyle and Environmental Factors in the UK in 2010 docx
... transmitted in any form or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographics reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the ... consumption of alcohol in the UK in 2010 DM Parkin S19 12 Cancers in 2010 attributable to ionising radiation exposure in the UK DM Parkin and SC Darby Tobacco-attributable cancer burden in the UK in 2010 ... 2010 DM Parkin S14 11 Cancers attributable to infection in the UK in 2010 DM Parkin S77 S6 10 Cancers attributable to exposure to hormones in the UK in 2010 DM Parkin S73 The fraction of cancer...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21
Misconceptions About the Causes of Cancer ppt
... only in the PDR for Herbal Medicines (106) Poisoning epidemics by pyrrolizidine alkaloids have occurred in the developing world In the U.S poisonings, including deaths, have been associated with ... 133) There was no carcinogenic effect in monkeys There was also no effect on the urine or urothelium, no evidence of increased urothelial cell proliferation or of formation of solid material in the ... from the major task of improving public health through increasing scientific understanding about how to prevent cancer (e.g., the role of diet), increasing public understanding of how lifestyle influences...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21
Child Health And The Quality Of Medical Care by Sarah L. Barber University of California, Berkeley ppt
... long-term constraints The reduced-form is obtained by substituting the determinants of the chosen health behaviors into equation (1) for the xht To derive the determinants of the xht, we make the standard ... at the time of the survey (Figure 4) An increase in the number of years of maternal education were significantly associated with the odds of height for age information being available, and the ... significant in predicting the distribution of height (Figure 10), an increase in child care quality is significantly associated with a decrease in the proportion of children in the tail end of the height...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20