what can we do to improve adherence in patients with diabetes

... going to the cinema? Can you swim? Do you like surfing the net? Can you dance? Do you like chatting with friends ? Can you speak French? Can you play the Guitar Friend Do you like reading? Can ... activities in your opinion is…………… ? Answer these questions for yourself and then ask two friends Use short answers for example yes I \ no I don’t \yes I can \ no I cant Name Me Friend Do you like going ... ski? Can you play chess? Do you like listening to music? Can you play volleyball? Now write about yourself and your friends and then tell the class I like ……………… but I don’t like………………… I can...

Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 21:55

... an increase in CI is not due to insufficient fluid loading Conclusion In patients with spontaneous respiratory movements, ∆PP and inspiratory variations in RAP failed to predict the response to ... ventilator in patients who were under pressure support ventilation In our study, some patients were receiving pressure support and we decided not to disconnect these patients from the ventilator to ... analysis did not improve the performance of the test Finally, small errors in measurements can interfere with this index Indeed, a positive test is defined as an inspiratory decrease in RAP by mmHg...

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Ngày tải lên: 27/08/2016, 07:14

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Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2013, 01:28

... neutralizing antibody, the vaccine dose will be too low to boost immunity Attempts at making recombinant protein vaccines for influenza have so far been unsuccessful, principally because the proteins ... seems to be from the long-circulating ‘human’ H1N1 viruses, then we may need to think in terms of incorporating a fourth component, adding to the time required The vaccine reserve that was made to ... possible in principle to make a vaccine that would protect against any new influenza virus variant? The holy grail with influenza immunization, and for those trying to make vaccines against HIV...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2016, 11:10

... refers to 33% of the prescription dose, i.e Gy dose-volume histograms only in those patients whose CT scans already were entered into the treatment planning system, i.e prostate cancer patients, ... from choosing MeV In and individuals, 12 MeV were necessary to cover the pre-pectoral region adequately In the prostate cancer patients, MeV was appropriate in cases, MeV in cases, 12 MeV in cases ... the heart dose The same methods were used to examine the first 17 patients with prostate cancer who were treated since the opening of the Radiation Oncology Unit at Nordlandssykehuset in June 2007...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... reports In order to determine the specificity and diversity of autoantibodies in patients with CFA, we used western blots Patients sera were applied to blots derived from cell lines that had originated ... obtained by venipuncture from patients attending the respiratory clinic at the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre in Perth, Western Australia Patients included 11 with CFA, eight with sarcoidosis, ... isolates were allowed to form plaques that were induced with isopropyl-β-thiogalactopyranoside, and the recombinant proteins were transferred to nitrocellulose membranes Replicate membranes were...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... cross-link proteins (e.g pentosidine, which links a lysine to an arginine on separate proteins) Hemoglobin-AGE (HbA1c) is the best studied glycated protein [4] and has been shown to correlate with ... cross-links that form in cartilage due to pentosidine, which cause the typical yellowing [12], are thought to contribute directly to the joint pathology and increases in urinary AGE detected in patients ... lower use of prednisone in the spondylarthropathy patients during the period between visits (Table 4) Interestingly, the patients with elevated IgG-AGE levels were found to have significantly increased...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... patients treated with patients treated with beads with liver dominant hepatic metastasis after ingDisease Free Survival failing standardSurvival ofIrinotecan drug elutingIrinotecan drug eluting ... Biodegradable mitomycin C microspheres given intra-arterially for inoperable hepatic cancer With particular reference to a comparison with continuous infusion of mitomycin C and 5-fluorouracil Cancer ... eluting beads with liver dominant faila) standard a) Disease Free Survival of patients treated with Irinotecan drug eluting beads with liver dominant hepatic metastasis after failing standard...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... month can significantly improve vitamin B6 status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis regardless of the etiology of such inadequacy In contrast, vitamin B6 supplementation was ineffective in suppressing ... ineffective in suppressing inflammatory cytokine production, or reducing ESR, plasma CRP or rheumatoid factor levels in these patients As improving vitamin B6 status did not alleviate inflammation, it ... supplements containing vitamin B6 were asked to stop for ≥ month before their participation in the study Study protocol This double-blinded, randomized and placebo controlled trial was conducted in the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... patients 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 ... are known to be linked to a lower persistence rate in the treatment with antidepressants [31] A reported better side effect profile in sertraline [11] may contribute to our finding However, these ... encouraged to receive treatment Indeed, participants in clinical trials have been suggested to represent a minority of patients in routine clinical practice in terms of psychopathology [10] In addition,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... altered in COPD patients [8,9,13] This finding can be explained by a reduction in fibre area as previously shown in COPD patients [10] This is also in line with a previous study [9] indicating a ... would be in line with a recent study showing a decrease in mitochondrial volume in patients with COPD [12] However, further studies on the relationship between capillarization and mitochondrial ... [3,7-9] and together with previous findings of a decrease in oxidative enzyme activities in COPD [6,7] our findings indicate the occurrence of a shift towards a more glycolytic profile in the limb...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... baseline; however, the majority (63%) of patients in Part B were taking NSAIDs prior to enrollment in the study Patients were required to discontinue NSAIDs within at least half-lives before randomization; ... OA.[13, 14] Finally, IL-1 antagonists may also play a role in the pain of OA.[15] In a small study of patients with OA, IA injections of the competitive inhibitor of IL-1, anakinra, were well tolerated ... placebo every weeks for 12 weeks (for a total of doses of investigational product) In Part B, 160 patients were randomized 1:1 to receive 300 mg AMG 108 SC or placebo, using the same dosing schedule...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... (recorded in 36% of patients) , followed by soft tissue infection (17%), intra-abdominal infection (12%), urinary tract infection (11%) and others (11%); sepsis of undetermined source was recorded in ... Missing data for continuous variables were estimated with simple imputations using the median nonmissing value In total, estimation procedures were performed in 2.6% (14 simple records) of baseline ... process with clinical findings that may represent an initial phase during the sepsis phenomenon – the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) Although the natural history seems to reflect...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... flow coincides with the beginning of the inspiratory flow In (c) the respiratory rate has been increased excessively and causes intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure: the inspiratory flow ... [50] A plateau inspiratory pressure can be maintained at 40 cmH2O for 40 s Stepwise increases and decreases in PEEP can be performed while maintaining a constant plateau inspiratory pressure of ... Recommendations concerning endotracheal suctioning in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome FIO2, inspiratory fraction of oxygen; I/E ratio, inspiratory to expiratory ratio; PEEP,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... hydrocortisone infusion specifically in patients with severe CAP The investigators in this trial also attempted to explore the role of corticosteroids in attenuating inflammatory response as assessed by ... to be elevated in the glucocorticoid group, thereby introducing the potential biases associated with inadequate blinding of the investigators As acknowledged by the authors, it is difficult in ... assessing the role of glucocorticoids in patients with CAP found no benefit in terms of inflammatory mediator release but these studies either used shorter courses of glucocorticoids or were not...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... two-week treatment with a potent COX-2 inhibitor, etodolac, increased the cough threshold to inhaled capsaicin in stable patients with sinobronchial syndrome No difference could be found in the ... not conducted in this study, abnormal finding in sinus Xp were observed in every patients After the administration of etodolac, none of the patients enrolled in this study complained of cardiovascular ... resulting from enzymes possessing COX activity [19] We also showed that non selective COX inhibitor, indomethacin, can modulate airway cough reflex sensitivity to inhaled capsaicin [9] Recently, we...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... likely to be expected as answers to the 12 questions relating to the indications for the use of MC For example, within this definition, it was considered unsuitable to offer MC to patients with ... new patients as compared to those who had more new patients [13] Other factors that we thought could influence chiropractors’ incentive to use MC were: gender (women perhaps being more caring ... identified as commonly accepted indications for offering MC to patients, we designed this current study to explore this finding in more specific detail We asked chiropractors in this pragmatic cross-sectional...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... chemotherapy, or wound care within 30 days of infection The patients were excluded if they The co-morbidities were defined according to the definition in the study by Fine et al [9], including neoplastic ... current scoring systems (for example, CURB-65 and PSI) in predicting adverse outcomes in patients hospitalized with CAP [25] We found that SCAP also works well with HCAP The discriminatory power of ... if we can apply the existing scoring systems to HCAP However, to the best of our knowledge, none of these prediction rules has been validated in patients hospitalized with HCAP Therefore, we...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21