... decrease in their body mass index in an average of 8.1%±2.0% Changes in total body water had inverse correlation with changes in fat mass (r=0.86) and positive correlation with an increase in fat ... extracellular water, intracellular http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2011, water and body mass index were determined for each participant before dieting intervention and each six days following intervention ... level of intracellular water (ICW) correlated with fat mass and fat free mass changes during dieting Intracellular water levels showed linear relation with fat free mass (r=0.9) and an inverse...
... was no difference in the prevalences of smoking, hypertension, and diabetes inpatientswith or without aortic abnormalities Interestingly, at the time of screening, patientswith aneurysm/aortic ... mediate vascular inflammation in predisposed individuals Inpatientswith inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysms, active smoking and female gender were associated with high-grade tissue inflammation ... diabetes mellitus in cases versus controls Table Comparison of cardiovascular riskfactorsin cases with idiopathic aortitis and control patientswith non-inflammatory ascending thoracic aortic...
... related increased oxidative activity in RA patients Anti-CCP antibodies are directed against antigens containing the nonstandard amino acid citrulline, for example, citrullinated fibrin, which ... from patientswith rheumatoid arthritis Clin Rheumatol 2000;19:275-277 29 Bandt MD, Grossin M, Driss F, Pincemail J, Babin-Chevaye C, Pasquier C Vitamin E uncouples joint destruction and clinical ... blood, serum and synovial fluid oxidant and anti-oxidant capacity inpatientswith RA Methods RA patientswith anti-CCP (+) (n=25) and anti-CCP (-) (n=24) were recruited into the study All patients...
... invited to participate, and were included after accepting and signing an informed consent form Methods Visits in both groups included the usual care and individual counseling, based on the CHPE ... encouraged -Facilitators: factors influencing the level of easiness or difficulty the patient and his/her family have in undertaking a given behavior -Reinforcing: factors arising after the patient ... Researchers in the experimental group received training in the PRECEDE model before patients were included in the study This specific training involved two steps: first they were instructed about...
... including stress urinary incontinence (SUI), urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, neurogenic incontinence, functional incontinence or overflow incontinence [8] This study is restricted to patients ... the domains of physical well-being, social well-being, emotional well-being and functional well-being Incontinence Quality of Life Instrument (I-QOL) The Incontinence Quality of Life Instrument ... people with urinary incontinence Journal of Clinical Nursing 2001, 10:15-24 Temml C, Haidinger G, Schmidbauer J, Schatzl G, Madersbacher S: Urinary Incontinence in Both Sexes: Prevalence Rates and...
... disease with handling of feelings of anger, guilt or escape and integration of the disease as a permanent 'note' into the self-concept, is of out-standing importance In fact, in outpatients with schizophrenia, ... chronic disease and the complex process-oriented therapeutic approaches Education and training help patients to develop living patterns that incorporate self-management According to this informative ... confidentiality, and gave informed consent to participate The patients were recruited consecutively in three German clinics, i.e Oberberg Clinics Schwarzwald, Weserbergland, and Berlin/Brandenburg The...
... explain disability in chronic pain Hasenbring hypothesized that, in addition to patients using avoidance strategies as a coping mechanism, other patientswith pain will have the tendency to cope with ... based on a linear regression analysis The 111 patients participated in this study: 54 patientswith fibromyalgia, 22 patientswith CRPS and 35 patientswith CLBP Of the patientswith fibromyalgia, ... ratio In addition, although all patients had a chronic pain condition, patientswith fibromyalgia and CLBP had pain for a longer period in comparison with CRPS patients However, differences in pain...
... NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2009, 6:13 Background Postural instability is one of the cardinal symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), and persons with PD run an increased risk of falling [1,2] ... with clinical performance tests, subjective ratings of fear of falling and posturography Materials and methods Patients Ten patients (median age 66, range 59–69 years) with PD were included in ... falls occur during functional activities, e.g walking and turning [3], and it is common to experience near falls and a fear of falling [2,4,5] Contributing factors to falls are numerous and affect...
... domain, imputing that value for missing items in that domain, rounding imputed values to the nearest integer, and then recalculating the SF-6D We performed parametric and non-parametric testing ... differences in median values, scoring range and sensitivity to change after intervention and the low agreement show that the EQ-5D and SF6D yield incomparable scores Even within a group of patientswith ... further point of interest may be the difference in methodology applied in deriving a utility score, which could imply that utilities with different "meaning" are obtained, thus resulting in confusion...
... fulfilling the inclusion criteria were randomised within three weeks stratified by gender and age A person not participating in the study created a randomisation list The investigator randomised and ... sessions of individual counselling with a diabetes nurse specialist, who had a bachelor’s degree in education and was trained in motivational interviewing [19] Using the patients own stories patients ... too low HbA1c Main reasons for missing data after randomisation and during the intervention period were dropout due to time constraints and disappointment with randomisation and lost questionnaires...
... gastrointestinal diseases and conditions, and presence or history of other non-gastrointestinal serious diseases and conditions Patients treated with proton pump inhibitors or prokinetic drugs during ... translation of the gastrointestinal symptom-rating scale and quality of life in reflux and dyspepsia questionnaire inpatientswith gastro-oesophageal reflux disease Clin Drug Invest 2004, 24:205-215 ... 1) increased by between 1.5 points (Physical/Social functioning) and 2.5 points (Vitality), indicating a clinically relevant improvement inpatients daily functioning Discussion The primary aim...
... process involving increased arterial inflow and restricted venous outflow, coordinated with corpus cavernosum and penile arterial smooth muscle relaxation Any problem in this mechanism results in ... reasons predominate in the etiology of ED and it frequently appears along with atherosclerosis It is known that atherosclerotic lesions prevent blood flow into cavernosal tissues resulting in ED Pistachio ... Central and West Asia and distributed throughout the Mediterranean basin In Turkey, the pistachio is grown mainly in the city of Gaziantep.[4] Pistachio nuts are rich sources of plant proteins,...
... underlying factors [1,2,4,5] Therefore, understanding, prediction and prevention of suicidal behaviour is today one of the most challenging tasks in society in general andin psychiatry in particular ... suicide risk factor in cases of current major depressive patients [6,8] and there is also evidence of familial aggregation of suicide pointing to genetic factors, a finding also confirmed by twin and ... secondary and tertiary suicide riskfactors indicate high suicide risk almost exclusively only in the presence of primary riskfactors [6,8] Unfortunately, the association of riskfactorsand suicide...
... subgroups such as those with VEs and without spinal inflammation or withand without definite radiographic damage and progression Furthermore, subgroups of VEs with signs of inflammation as well ... that spinal inflammation and new bone formation are both uncoupled and linked in AS since (a) the majority of syndesmophytes developed without MRI evidence of spinal inflammation at BL and (b) ... D van der: Combining information obtained from magnetic resonance imaging and conventional radiographs to detect sacroiliitis inpatientswith recent onset inflammatory back pain Ann Rheum Dis...
... active people with a clustering of cardiovascular riskfactors appears to have comparable risk of premature death as inactive individuals without riskfactors [9] In the same cohort men with VO2peak ... ml·kg-1·min-1 in HUNT general men, 35.2±1.8 in HUNT inactive women and 40.0±3.2 ml·kg-1·min-1 in HUNT general women Conventional riskfactorsRisk factor assessment was lost in one male patient Riskfactors ... in clinical practice Finally, these finding represent an urging need for developing effective physical training interventions for patientswith schizophrenia 16 Competing interests The authors...
... to identify patientswith harmful alcohol use [23] It has a scoring range 0-40 with scorings ≥8 indicating problem drinking The questionnaire was administered as interview The AUDIT and SCID-1 ... organic brain pathology from the clinical examination, EEG or MRI examinations Pathological findings at clinical examination were divided into significant (related to CNS pathology) and insignificant ... Three patients used lamotrigine, one used valproate, while three used carbamazepine Six patientsin the AUDS group and three patientsin the MDE group used benzodiazepines The indications were mainly...
... in education and was trained in motivational interviewing [19] Using the patients own stories patients received personalized information and guidance about type diabetes, medications, risk factors, ... fulfilling the inclusion criteria were randomised within three weeks stratified by gender and age A person not participating in the study created a randomisation list The investigator randomised and ... participated in three individual counselling sessions with a dietician who was also trained in motivational interviewing [18] At the initial hour-long visit, patients set personal goals and, in collaboration...
... and insulin were measured using immunoassay (ADVIA Centaur) 25-hydroxy (OH)-Vitamin D was measured using direct competitive luminescence (Diasorin Liason) Corrected calcium, creatinine, fasting ... levels were seenin five patientsand eight controls All patientswith A1ATD had normal liver function tests There were patientsand controls with total fasting cholesterol >6.2 mmol/l, and one patient ... polymerisation of AAT in A1ATD subjects, present not just in hepatocytes but circulating andin the lung and systemic endothelium are pro-inflammatory and inactivate the protein as an inhibitor of proteases...
... loss of response for 115 patientswith AS and 29 patientswith PsA, and intolerance for 56 patientswith AS and nine patientswith PsA (Tables and 2) Patient disposition and exposure to adalimumab ... therapy (Figure 1) For patientswith psoriatic nail dystrophy at baseline, the median change in NAPSI was similar inpatients without andinpatientswith prior treatment with IFX and/ or ETN (Table ... therapy, and 326 (26%) patients had been treated with at least one TNF antagonist (162 patientswith IFX, 85 patientswith ETN, and 79 patientswith both IFX and ETN [not concurrently] (Table 1), including...
... the study and helped with data analysis and drafting the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... UK) according to previously established guidelines [41] Following ten minutes of rest, endothelium-independent responses were examined by administration of a 500-μg sublingual glyceryl trinitrate ... function in healthy individuals have reported mixed findings, with some reporting an association between microvascular and macrovascular endothelial-dependent function [22,23] and others reporting...