... vulnerability of the fetal heart between 16 and 30 weeks of gestation, and anti-SSA/Ro antibodies were not considered pathogenic for the adult heart In support of this, Gordon and colleagues [20] ... newborn infants, Schwartz and colleagues [19] have shown that there was a physiological lengthening of the QTc interval at the second month of life This might explain why Cimaz and colleagues [2] found ... anti-SSA/Ro-negative mothers with CTD No difference was found for QTc, PR andheart rate, and this remained true at to months of life [8] Interestingly, the mean QTc interval recorded during the period from...
... and measurement of anthropometrics and other lifestyle factors Protocols for the SWHS were approved by the Institutional Review Boards of all institutes involved in the study Dietary intake and ... cardiovascular disease between the baseline and follow-up FFQs, only dietary data from the baseline FFQ were included in this analysis For other participants the average of the baseline and follow-up FFQ ... [17] To our knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI andthe risk of type DM...
... supervised by handing out a nutritional diary which was submitted at each of the further visits to the clinic After weeks the patients attended the clinic again and it is the lipid values and biometric ... gene counting and compared using the ²אtest The data was analysed using SPSS 12.0 software The association between the +294T/C polymorphism and serum lipids, coronary heart disease, and body mass ... for age, smoking, and BMI where appropriate Results The frequency of the C-allele was 0.24 andthe genotypes were distributed according to the Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium Overall the C allele frequency...
... of the value of the gift and $75, then the value of the advantage is considered to be zero For example, if the price to attend the benefit dinner is $200 andthe value of the dinner is $15, then ... dinner, the value of the dinner is $40 andthe value of a gift bag received is $45, then the total advantage is $85 or 85% of the ticket price and therefore cannot be receipted However if the value ... provides a service to the charity, the charity pays for the service andthe entity then returns the payment to the charity as a gift The CRA recommends that in this situation, the parties should...
... understanding of theheart as a muscular pump and of the interaction between theheartandthe vasculature The concepts of contractility, preload and afterload are paramount to this understanding and will ... contraction and instantaneous atrial volume) The pressure of the point at the bottom right corner of the loop is the pressure in the ventricle at the end of the cardiac cycle and is called the end-diastolic ... rises and falls during each beat and this underlies the cyclic rise and fall of muscle force The greater the peak calcium the greater the number of potential actin-myosin bonds, the greater the...
... nutrition, the brain, and behavior, the present book brings new information to the long-debated issue of the benecial and possible negative effects on the brain from the consumption of coffee, tea, ... chocolate Most of the book is devoted to the effects of coffee or caffeine, which constitute the majority of the literature and research on these topics Much less is known about the other constituents ... as the effect of caffeine on Parkinsons disease, ischemia, and seizures, and on the mostly unknown effects of the chlorogenic acids found in coffeeThe effects of caffeine on the stress axis and...
... including the Gretchen Piatt, Ph.D American Diabetes Association’s (ADA’s) Standards of Setting Medical Care in Diabetes5 andthe National Standards The key goal of the Healthy People 2010 diabetes ... living on the Hamakua Coast on the Island of Hawaii with her husband and daughter She has had type diabetes for 10 years and associated hypertension and hyperlipidemia She is under the care of ... with diabetes, and virtual home-based behavioral modification The program has served about 99 children and their families (44 with diabetesand 55 with other endocrine disorders) in Volusia and...
... sky near sunset As they walk, the grandfather tells tales of the Old Ones, the elders of the community, and of their wisdom As the boy absorbs the stories and begins to make their wisdom his own, ... groaning woods, the crying grass, andthe moaning rocks They are also in the woman's breast, the wailing child, the home, andthe crowd The last line tells us, "The dead have a pact with the living." ... of the ancestors in the voices of fire and water We are then told that those who have died "have never left" and that they are "not under the earth." Rather, they are in the rustling trees, the...
... Canada) The minor band (Fig 2) was reamplified by PCR and repurified The purified DNA fragments were cloned into the plasmid vector, pGEM-T (Promega, Madison, WI, USA), and three of the major band and ... AW077983) Both strands of the cDNA clones were sequenced, aligned andthe amino acid sequence for the zebrafish fabp3 was deduced The coding nucleotides are shown in uppercase andthe 5¢ and 3¢ UTRs ... gel-electrophoresis Three bands of 250 bp, 200 bp and 180 bp in the TAP+ reaction were excised from the gel and purified using the Qiaquick gel extraction kit (Qiagen) The two minor bands ( 250 bp and 180...
... requires further testing in other heterologous prime-boost vaccine protocols This asymmetry between priming and boosting vectors could very well be at theheart of both the mechanism and advantage ... the treatment of diseases such as HIV, other microbes and cancer [11,22-37] In addition, such protocols offer a more Page of 11 practical alternative for active immunotherapy of cancer and other ... vaccination against HIV has expanded and resulted in hundreds of preclinical and clinical studies Interestingly, the most promising clinical regimens to date include: i) the RV144 landmark HIV ‘Thai trial’...
... 5-18 years and 254 parents of children aged 2-18 years It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 92.52% of the sample, and it was the father in 7.48% of the sample No parent in the patient ... CsK and GM designed the study IP and MK collected the data LK performed the statistical analyses AB drafted the manuscript and participated in the statistical analyses JWV and GM revised the ... disease The challenges are the impact of the condition on daily life and functioning, the psychosocial consequences, andthe impact on individual psychological and social well-being [1] There is...
... design of the study, analysis of the data, interpretation of the results, and drafting the manuscript JAJ contributed to the conception and design, interpretation of the data, and revising the article ... in the UK and in Canada and complied with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki Standardised Descriptions of Health States The derivation of health states was split into developmental and ... name) and a description of the TTO process and a description of the probability board prop The interviewers presented the health states in different order and respondents were asked to order them...
... the conception, design and coordination of the SHIELD study and helped to draft the manuscript KF performed the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the ... high risk, and 3,849 of 5,000 for type diabetes) The sociodemographic characteristics of the baseline respondents who completed the EQ-5D in each group are shown in Table The low- and high-risk ... significantly higher than the mean for the high-risk group (p < 0.001) EQ-5D dimensions Examination of each of the dimensions of the EQ-5D showed similar rating scores for the type diabetesand high-risk...
... 2002B45 from the Netherlands Heart Foundation and in part by grant OG 98–026 from the Netherlands National Health Insurance Council The authors thank the Octopus study group for providing the data ... acute version of the SF-36) for the SF-6D The third difference is that the scoring range of the EQ-5D is twice that of the SF-6D The location of the baseline median scores in the scoring range ... between the median values andthe limits of agreement in the BlandAltman plot exceed the minimal clinically important difference of both SF-6D and EQ-5D [20,21] The lack of agreement is further...
... developed the concept of the publication and wrote the draft of the manuscript JC initiated the study and developed the details of the study together with HJH MD and HJH completed the study All authors ... 22.5 and 22.9 years, respectively The general practitioners had an average of 171 diabetes patients in their practices andthediabetes specialists had an average of 331 diabetes patients in theirs ... application andthe type of product These factors andthe factor levels were used for the following conjoint procedure Four steps to complete the conjoint measurement The participants of the study...
... means and SDs of the PedsQLTM 4.0 Generic Core Scales for children with and without diabetesand for the PedsQLTM 3.0 Diabetes Module It shows that all of the domains for both of the versions of the ... type diabetesand to test the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the PedsQLTM 4.0 Generic Core Scales andthe PedsQLTM 3.0 Diabetes Module Methods: Participants were 94 children and ... The authors declare that they have no competing interests Author Contributions: PJ analyzed and wrote the manuscript and researched the data, EF researched the data, ZB wrote the manuscript and...
... protein intake andthe highest carbohydrate intake) to 30 (the highest protein and fat intake andthe lowest carbohydrate intake) Therefore, the higher the score, the more closely the participant’s ... between 1980 and 1984, andthe lowcarbohydrate-diet score from the average of the 1980 and 1984 questionnaires was related to the incidence of coronary heart disease between 1984 and 1986 Incidence ... consumption and to represent dietary composition The points for each of the three macronutrients were then summed to create the overall diet score, which ranged from (the lowest fat and protein intake and...
... The new england journal i nflammation plays an essential role in the development of insulin resistance and type diabetes mellitus, the initiation and progression of atherosclerotic lesions, and ... reservoirs and promote inflammation in the absence of free TNF ligand.6 Nonetheless, only a few studies have examined the relationship between levels of sTNF-R1, sTNFR2, and interleukin-6 andthe risk ... autopsy records, by the 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...
... 1.7): the higher the proton density, the higher the amplitude of the signal 1.4.2 Relaxation The relaxation of the spin is caused by the exchange of energy between spins and between spins andthe ... images: from the management of the RF wave shapes andthe switching on and off of RF pulses, to the management of the gradients and data acquisition, processing, memorization, andthe search and presentation ... allow the reader an immediate correlation of the description of the methods and disease on one hand, andthe iconographic representation on the other This result has been achieved thanks to the...
... were Quercus robur and displayed regular and rapid growth throughout the core lengths The cores were cut into different sections according to the age of the heartwood from the heartwood-sapwood ... bolts, two staves were removed and used for this study These staves were cut from the outer heartwood, near the base of north and south facing sides of the bole Therefore, for each site a total ... during the first 30 years before declining The concentration of ellagitannins in each heartwood zone was then expressed as a percentage of that in the youngest heartwood (years 0-5) The means and...