Báo cáo y học: " Carotid Intima-media thickness in childhood and adolescent obesity relations to abdominal obesity, high triglyceride level and insulin resistance"

... bothperipheral and central lines, in critically ill patients inemergency situations. As part of their HEMS trainingprogramme, intraosseous training was given using man-ual needles, Bone Injection Guns, and ... simpleand reliable method in both cadaver and clinical studies[9,11,14]. The aim of this study was to evaluate the useof intraosseous access in emergency situations handledby physicians in a pre-hospital ... and participated in its design andcoordination, and in drafting the manuscript. BEH participated in the designof the study and the statistical analysis, and participated in drafting themanuscript....

... Out of14 main PHC centers in Erbil city, 8 were selected to beincluded in the study and these were purposivelyselected to represent sectors of different socioeconomiclevels in Erbil city.A convenience ... differentchanges in the health and population environments andto appropriately respond to different challenges andneeds [2].The history of formal health care system in Iraq beganin early 1920s, but ... significantly devastated the national Iraqi health systemwhile the necessity for adopting a new health care system is increasingly recognized since 2004. This study aims toexamine the regional health system...

... Patients wererandomly assigned to receive either intensive insulin therapy tomaintain glucose levels between 80 and 110 mg/dl (4.4 to 6.1mmol/l) or standard insulin therapy to maintain glucose levelsbetween ... hypoglycaemia (≤ 40 mg/dl)was 1.7% in the standard insulin therapy group and 8.5% in theintensive insulin therapy group (RR: 5.04; 95% CI: 1.20 to2 1.12).Conclusions IIT used to maintain glucose levels ... two protocolsand one patient who belonged to the intensive insulin groupwho received the conventional insulin protocol. According tothe intention -to- treat principle, they were analysed in the...

... Edinburgh Handedness Inventory 29. Such an inventory has been used in two previous Chinese studies 30,31. Each of the 12 items of the in- ventory were scored 1, 2 or 3 according to the left-hand, ... (infrequency or lie) were randomly inserted into the test body. Any score above 3 on the infre-quency scale suggests either inattention to the content of the items and acquiescence or a very ... asymmetry at rest is related to a tendency to engage in sensation-seeking and risky behaviors in young adults 23. Likewise, the associa-tion of left hemisphere predominance and risk-taking in...

... insulin action is considered to be the mitochondrial electron transport chain. Hyper-glycemia and lipotoxicity in obesity and related dis-orders are associated with mitochondrial dysfunction and ... bilaterally with poor capillary re-fill. The left foot was red and inflamed up to and in- cluding the medial malleolus. The lateral aspect of the great toe and second toe turned black. Laboratory investigation ... mitochondria and markedly blunt insulin secretion (34). Recent studies suggested that ß-cell lipotoxicity is enhanced by concurrent hyperglycemia and that oxi-dative stress may be the mediator...

... rods, and Candida albicans as a delegate of fungi were examined, and one standard strain and 2 or 3 clinical isolates of each species were employed. To identify which microorganism can grow in TPN ... all strains employed were examined in a commercial TPN solution without lipid in the 1st experiment. To identify which factor is ef-fective to inhibit microbial growth, the growth of the standard ... standard strain ATCC13880 and 2 clinical isolates (N4, N5) of Serratia marcescens, the standard strain ATCC11778 and 3 clinical isolates (H1, H2, H3) of Bacillus cereus, and the standard strain...

... that in- volve the main muscle groups with the objective of improving the mobility of joints and reducing trophic muscle. Myolymphokinetic Activities Myolymphokinetic activities are day -to- day ... leg lymphedema in the outpatients clinic. Indian Journal Dermatology 2010; In press. 20. Bordin HA, Godoy MdF, de Godoy JMP. Mechanical lymphatic drainage in the treatment of arm lymphedema. Indian ... on the skin which are slid along the route of the lymphatic vessels, promotes the formation of lymph. Thus, using the principles of hydrodynamics, physi-ology, physiopathology and anatomy, a new...

... been shown to be highly expressed in hematopoietic malignancies including acute and chronic myelogenous leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, and a majority of solid ... antibodies in the CFSE-labeled target cy-totoxicity assay. These findings revealed that MLPC cells possess cytotoxicity specific to the WT1 antigen and restricted to MHC class I. By repeated administration ... flow cytometry (BD Bios-ciences) and 10,000 events were collected, the data of which was analyzed by FACSDiva software (BD Bi-osciences). Cytotoxicity assay To estimate anti-WT1 cytotoxicity of...

... following history and physical examination. Computed tomography was used to determine the presence of lung compli-cations due to FB in late period. The most frequently presented symptom was coughing ... Presenting history of signs and symptoms Symptoms No. of patients Percentage (%)Coughing 741 73.03 Cyanosis 134 13.18 Dyspnea 47 4.64 Wheezing 33 2.2 Unsolved pulmonary infection 22 1.73 Choking ... suggestive history of choking, although the classic clinical presentation, with coughing, wheezing, and diminished air inflow, is seen in less than 40% of the patients; other symptoms include cyanoses,...