... 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...
... for diabetesand cardiovascular conditions was also extracted Care provider questionnaire Health professionals in the practices were asked about their role in diabetesand CHF care in general, and ... expertise could therefore be of importance to the team’s knowledge and skills, and as a result enhance efficiency of care delivery and clinical outcomes The degree centrality of the most central ... further research to refine the measure method and to examine associations between network parameters and received healthcare Acknowledgements We thank the patients and health professionals for their...
... 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...
... 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’...
... of the item content for the TRIM Diabetes/ Device began in 2002 with the development of the TRIAD Measures (The Diabetes Symptom Measure (DSM), Diabetes Productivity Measure (DPM) andtheDiabetes ... designed the study, conducted all interviews, assisted in the analysis and drafted the manuscript MH and TC assisted in the design of the study and in the drafting of the manuscript SL assisted in the ... analysis of the data andthe drafting of the manuscript DMB prepared the analysis plan, conducted the analyses and assisted in the preparation of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final...
... 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...
... posted in the Overton Brooks VA Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, andthe surrounding communities Approximately half of the subjects were patients at the VA hospital andthe other half from the surrounding ... consent andthe institutional review boards at the Shreveport VAMC and Louisiana Tech University approved the study protocol The subject’s primary care physician made the diagnosis of type II diabetes ... programmed to occur one-forth of the way into the move, zero acceleration at the middle of the move, and peak deceleration, three quarters into the move These smoothed acceleration profile produced...
... 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...
... study andthe editing of the article MEL participated in the conduct of the study andthe editing of the article KHL participated in the preparation and conduct of the study andthe editing of the ... participated in the preparation and conduct of the study, the statistical analyses andthe writing of the article All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors ... Ingolstädter Landstr 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany Authors’ contributions DAH participated in the statistical analyses andthe writing of the article RH participated in the preparation and conduct of the...
... of the item content for the TRIM Diabetes/ Device began in 2002 with the development of the TRIAD Measures (The Diabetes Symptom Measure (DSM), Diabetes Productivity Measure (DPM) andtheDiabetes ... designed the study, conducted all interviews, assisted in the analysis and drafted the manuscript MH and TC assisted in the design of the study and in the drafting of the manuscript SL assisted in the ... analysis of the data andthe drafting of the manuscript DMB prepared the analysis plan, conducted the analyses and assisted in the preparation of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final...
... 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...
... next to the hand in the somatotopic map and by anaesthetizing the forearm, the cortical hand area can rapidly expand over the forearm area resulted in improved sensory function of the hand in ... nerves The CSA of the median nerve was measured at the carpal tunnel (MA) and at cm proximal to the wrist (MB) The CSA of the ulnar nerve was measured at cm proximal to the wrist (UA) The CSA of the ... 0.01 cm2 in the SA The CSAs in the controls were 0.08 ± 0.02 cm2 in the MA, 0.07 ± 0.02 cm2 in the MB, 0.04 ± 0.01 cm2 in the UA, 0.10 ± 0.03 cm2 in the TA, and 0.04 ± 0.01 cm2 in the SA The CSAs...