topics related to analysis of case control association

... Diagnosis of SLE and classification of the patients into clinical subsets were carried out according to the American College of Rheumatology criteria for SLE [22] There was no overlap in cases or controls ... levels of autoantibodies [25] STAT4 has been shown to be involved in the induction of IFNγ, differentiation of Th1 and Th17 cells, and signal transduction from type I IFN receptors [15] Th1 cytokines, ... Hara M, Tomatsu T, Yamanaka H, Horiuchi T, Tao K, Yasutomo K, Hamada D, Yasui N, Inoue H, Itakura M, Okamoto H, Kamatani N, Momohara S: Association of STAT4 with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... (0.69 to 2.5) Craft workers 2.5 (1.0 to 6.2) 1.5 (0.87 to 2.7) 1.2 (0.59 to 2.5) 0.66 (0.39 to 1.1) Operators and unskilled labour 1.4 (0.5 to 3.8) 1.4 (0.78 to 2.6) 1.4 (0.66 to 2.9) 0.60 (0.34 to ... 3.0 (1.9 to 5.0) Men 2.3 (1.2 to 4.4) 1.6 (0.9 to 2.8) Women 1.3 (0.8 to 2.2) 1.2 (0.8 to 1.8) Men 2.3 (0.6 to 8.2) 1.6 (0.9 to 2.8) Women 1.7 (0.7 to 4.1) 1.0 (0.7 to 1.6) Managers and professionals ... surgery One of the objectives of the main study was to search for genes associated with OA To facilitate this search we used first degree relatives of cases as controls All cases were asked to supply...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:21

... with healthy controls a Figure Association analysis of Toll-like receptor genotypes with mRNA expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells Association between Toll-like receptor (TLR7) single-nucleotide ... 0.04) (Figure 1) To examine the contribution of each SNP to susceptibility to SLE, conditional logistic regression analysis was conducted As shown in Table 2, the association of Page of rs3853839 ... 1.65 (1.04 to 2.62) 0.014 1.40 (1.07 to 1.84) 0.025 1.40 (1.04 to 1.89) rs179019 Recessive 0.016b 2.02 (1.15 to 3.54) 1.0b 0.89 (0.29 to 2.73) 0.029b 1.93 (1.07 to 3.48) 0.011b 2.25 (1.21 to 4.18)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... released into the aqueous phase A total of 274.8 mg of crude extracellular polymer was obtained from 600 ml of activated sludge by sonication for 10 Figure 1A shows the elution profile of the crude ... milligram of the partially purified polymer contained 309.7 µg of protein, 160.2 µg of neutral sugar, 58.5 µg of hexosamine, 30.8 µg of uronic acid and 3.8 µg of phosphorus Constituent neutral sugar analysis ... expressed as the extent of flocculation calculated by the following formula Extent of flocculation (%) = (A-B)×100/A A: A660 of the total mixed liquor B: A660 of the upper layer Effect of pH on flocculating...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 20:20

... attention to the provisions of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the related case law of the European Court of Human Rights Member states may also find it useful to refer to ... prerequisite to be part of and take part in the Information Society Access to the Internet is one of the basic prerequisites to the right to freedom of expression and the right to impart and ... according to a EuroBarometer Survey of 2008, reporting to the hotlines seems to be low and users seem to prefer to report illegal content they come across to the police rather than to hotlines...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

... of women of the same age from the general population, as many of the survivors’ symptoms are those of menopause and aging It is important to distinguish effects due to cancer from those due to ... 5(1), (2010) Factors related to quality of life in long-term survivors of gynecological cancer the long-term effects of more toxic multimodal cancer therapy on women’s QoL will have to be illuminated ... consequently, attention to the economic consequences of cancer has grown as the number of cancer survivors has increased Factors related to positive outcomes A review of natural correspondence...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... level of quality of life into advanced age is a growing public health concern as the older adult population continues to increase In fact, one of the primary goals of Healthy People 2010 is to improve ... number of years of healthy life [2] Quality of life is frequently measured in investigations to evaluate the health of both clinical and general populations [3], and is therefore termed healthrelated ... but who were free of clinical manifestations of chronic diseases [13] The lack of association between physical activity and the other domains of HRQL may have occurred due to the narrow range...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... calculated using volume 2.5 Analysis Data were separated into two distinct data bases prior to analysis The “Area -of- Control database included the four area -of- weed -control treatments plus the ... regression These methods of analysis provide different perspectives, both of which we felt provided only a partial picture of the results Analysis of variance provides a useful tool to rank treatments ... response to area of weed control only control at Summit resulted in a gain of 81% (6.5 dm3) compared to a non-significant 17% (1.4 dm3) at Marcola Largely as a result of the different response to woody...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... finding “Anatomic to balloon” length miss-match was found in 68.2% of the cases, with subsequently severe adverse effects Finally, clinical reports of intra-abdominal ischemia due to “anatomicto-balloon” ... review of risk factors related to complications of the intraaortic balloon pump Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2011 6:147 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: ... consecutive patient cases concluded that the rate and severity of complications of the percutaneous insertion of intra aortic balloon pump is similar to those of the conventional insertion of an IABP...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... a 2008 study of 340 clinics in six of the poorest districts across four of the nine provinces: “The number of doctors was only 7% of that required, and while the total number of professional nurses ... fear of stigmatization, lack of infrastructure, and the unavailability and high workload of healthcare workers Most of the patientrelated factors that the managers perceived to contribute to low ... numerous positive factors that enabled patients to opt for this service The main factors viewed by the interviewed nurses to encourage TB patients to take up HCT related to the facilities, staff,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... operation 50 to 59 years 60 to 69 years 70 to 79 years 80 to 89 years 90 to 99 years Unspecified N comorbidities or unspecified or ≥3 AAA diameter 40 to 49 mm 50 to 59 mm 60 to 69 mm 70 to 79 mm ... http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/2/1/317 although these associations could not be established significantly To the best of the authors' knowledge this is the first metaanalysis of case reports Case ... complications of conversion to open AAA repair or aortoduodenal fistula Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008, 2:317 http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/2/1/317...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... experiment If one wishes to look at the response of genes to perturbation, then it is a good experiment The problem is whether the methods of Whitfield et al lead to an understanding of what happens in ... does not appear to be the case, which is again support for the notion that one should be wary of accepting the results of Whitfield et al as a synchrony experiment Summary The work of Liu, Gaido ... statistical analysis of a well-regarded paper [2] on the pattern of gene expression during the cell cycle of eukaryotic cells There are no fundamental problems with the statistical analysis, but...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... 409 (17%) and 118 out of 812 (15%) of the genes, respectively, belong to 'Regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent' A total of 123 unique genes related to 'Regulation of transcription' were ... relation to the set of non-redundant spliced RefSeq sequences EST clusters with overlap to exons of RefSeq genes* Spliced EST contigs Number of exons of spliced EST contigs (median) Total number of ... (the top 10%) in each tissue, only 1% to 5% were detected simultaneously from both strands of the same introns in protein-coding genes Among the top 50% of intensities, over 83% to 90% of intronic...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:22

... transient (top) and stationary part (bottom) of E2 piano tone 98 Fig 4.7 Onset transient (top) and stationary part (bottom) of A3 piano tone 99 Fig 4.8 Onset transient (top) and stationary part (bottom) ... transient of, for example, an oboe tone, is spliced together with the sustained stationary portion of the tone of another instrument such as a violin tone, listeners will often identify the combined tone ... of F5 piano tone 75 Fig 3.22 The measurement of B0 piano tone 77 Fig 3.23 The measurement of G7 piano tone .79 Fig 3.24 Onset durations of all piano tones (from A0 to C8) as...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 14:27

... contribution) FPSTORM – total storm-induced additional runoff, primarily in the form of overland flow, measured at the outlet of the floodplain FPSTORM-SOF – storm-induced additional runoff, primarily ... implications related to sustainable use and development of headwater catchments in tropical areas It is important to note that introductory paragraphs specifically related to the respective topics ... corresponds to those of Figure 3-5c 48 Figure 3-6 a) precipitation, b) responses of total ZOB flow and combined pipe flow, c) response of total head of Psat, d) responses of individual...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:08

... shift of 0.4σ0 / n) that has an incontrol ARL of 1000 We then add a Shewhart chart with an in -control ARL of 1000 to the EWMA chart to obtained a combined EWMA-Shewhart scheme The ARL of a scheme ... use 25 sample of measurements of inside diameter of forged piston rings used in an automobile engine (Montgomery, 2005) to demonstrate the design procedure of a 4–EWMA scheme The in -control mean ... Simultaneous Scheme With Respect to the Number of Charts in a Scheme 59 Figure A2 Steady-State Out -of- Control ARL of a Simultaneous Scheme With Respect to the Number of Charts in a Scheme 60 Figure...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 10:24

... proved Now we are going to complete the proof of Theorem Proof of Theorem and Propositions 1.6 Let f˜ = (f1 , , fN +1 ) and g˜ = (g1 , , gN +1 ) be reduced representations of f and g, respectively ... Distribution Theory and Related Topics, Advanced Complex Analysis and Application, Vol 3, Kluwer Academic, Boston, MA, 2004, 219-231 [7] Y.T.Siu and S.K.Yeung, Defects for ample divisors of Abelian varieties, ... equation P (f ) = Q(g), Value Distribution Theory and Related Topics, Advanced Complex Analysis and Application, Vol 3, Kluwer Academic, Boston, MA, 2004, 201-208 [5] Hayman,W.K,Meromorphic Functions,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2015, 16:18

... Secondly, English idioms related to parts of human body carry their own meaning and explanation Thirdly, the main function of English idioms related to parts of human body is to paraphrase what is ... group three related to the lower part of human body The tables 4, and below show the results of the questions of three groups respectively 24 Table 4: the results of the questions related to the upper ... materials, to study, to search, to exchange information, to build a mentality within this vast sphere of knowledge and this, of course, should be done under the supervision and control of the teacher...

Ngày tải lên: 24/06/2016, 21:21

... than in the cases (cases 14 (13.5%) and controls 77 (27.1%); p = 0.005) Use of selective COX-2 inhibitors was comparable (cases 17 (16.4%) and controls 50 (17.6%); p = 0.77) Use of the preferential ... estimated mean total direct cost of a serious NSAID ulcer complication was € 8,375 per patient (95% CI 7,067 to 10,393) [5] From the remaining cohort of NSAID users a total of 284 controls were ... in the controls than in the cases because insufficient numbers of controls could be found for some of the more senior patients Concomitant use of PPIs was significantly higher in the controls...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22