... with CAD and the control group are shown in Table Compared with the control group, serum concentrations of retinol, tocopherol, cholecalciferol and iron were significantly lower in patients with ... increased in patients with CAD Blood Pb level was not found to be associated with coronary heart disease incidence (28) The cardiovascular effects of Pb have been associated with increased blood ... in patients with CAD (14) In contrast, in our study, the serum Cu concentrations tended to be lower in patients with CAD Epidemiological investigations that associate body Fe stores with CAD risk...
... dietary intervention study on patients with rheumatoid arthritis Nutr J 2003;2:5 Ostrakhovitch EA, Afanas’ev IB Oxidative stress in rheumatoid arthritis leukocytes: suppression by rutin and other antioxidants ... in a transgenic mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 2002;46:522-532 30 Hitchon CA, El-Gabalawy HS Oxidation in rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Res Ther 2004;6:265-278 31 Dai L, ... 28 mm/h Ten patients in anti-CCP(+) group and 12 patients in anti-CCP(-) group were ESR negative While only ESR negative patients compared between the groups, there were no significant differences...
... and PES treated groups In hospital incidence of MACE was 1.7% in ZES treated group and 1.9% in PES treated group (p:0.6) Long-term clinical outcomes Two-year clinical follow-ups were completed ... end of the two years, the incidence of MACE in the group treated with ZES was 10% and 17.8% (p:0.003) was recorded for the group treated with PES The incidence of CABG (2.6% vs 6.9%, p:0.002), ... American Heart Association) classification (14) Overall, most lesions were located in the left anterior descending artery and were of the B1 and C type The median stent for the ZES treated group was...
... SES groups seems to be associated with much number of patients prematurely taken off klopidogrel in PES group PES treatment still was associated with poor overall clinical outcomes compared with ... present study is that the SES was associated with better long-term safety and efficacy than the PES in unselected Turkish patients with coronary artery disease However, despite our study and ... enrolled and over months, patients treated with the PES showed higher rates of MACE and binary restenosis rates than those treated with the SES The superiority of the SES over the PES in clinical...
... emotional reasoning that upsets the causal priority of judgment and belief over emotion This makes sentimental emotions corrupt on a most basic level Sentimental art is art that provokes a sentimental ... narrative art This points us towards what is really wrong with sentimental art IV SENTIMENTALITY AND MORAL CLARIFICATION Carroll argues that it is possible to make moral assessments of narrative art ... washup to championship contender, we overlook the extreme improbability of the event in order to preserve the good feelings it rouses A war memorial is sentimental when it is designed with a particular...
... segmentation of documentswith inherently parallel structure We start by clarifying our assumptions about their structure We assume that a document x consists of K parallel parts, that is, x ... segments, at most one segment per part Similarly, each part-specific language model corresponds to a single segment of the single corresponding part Note that all the documents are modeled independently, ... each part of the document consists of segments, (k) x(k) = {si }i=1:I Note that the effective number of fragments I is unknown Each segment can either be specific to this part (drawn from a part(k)...
... interest in working with patients with RA to those with experience within a Rheumatology multidisciplinary team The average number of years since qualification within the group was 17.8 (SD = 9.8) ... for focus group interviews [10,13] Results Twelve participants consented to participate All had experience in managing people with RA and ranged from newly qualified podiatrists with an interest ... people with RA The use of group education can provide a supportive environment in which patients can discuss common issues together with Page of the use of individualised verbal information supported...
... dating documents has come from the IR and knowledge management communities interested in dating documentswith unknown origins de Jong et al (2005) was among the first to automatically label documents ... documentswith dates They learned unigram language models (LMs) for specific time periods and scored articles with log-likelihood ratio scores Kanhabua and Norvag (2008; 2009) extended this approach with ... fiction) all train on news articles from a particular time period, and test on articles in the same time period This leads to possible overlap of training and testing data, particularly since news...
... document, start with all untagged PDF documents or all tagged PDF documents Combining tagged and untagged PDF documents results in a partially tagged PDF document that is not accessible to people with ... people with disabilities will experience your accessible PDF documents, consult this guide’s companion document, Using Accessible PDF Documentswith Adobe Reader 7.0: A Guide for People with Disabilities ... accessibility workflow The three starting points for scans When you convert scans to accessible Adobe PDF documents, you will start with one of the following three documents: • An image-only PDF...
... outcome scales [20] have been examined in depth patients with CLI, with ALDS scores to be expected higher in patients with IC than in patients with CLI From the ALDS itembank, two questionnaires were ... lowest with the impairments in terms of ABI and TP [24,25] Clinical validity (also known as known-groups validity) refers to the ability of an instrument to discriminate between patient groups with ... with claudication (ALDS score 80) than in patients with CLI (ALDS score 64) Similar results were obtained for the VascuQol total score (4.5 in patients with claudication and 3.1 in patients with...
... Questionnaire (HAQ), by comparing measured and predicted values in groups of patients with inflammatory arthritis with varying arthritis states and degrees of disease severity Methods Patients and ... of utility values from the HAQ in studies of patients with inflammatory arthritis should be undertaken with caution, particularly in those with active disease On the basis of the difference between ... overestimated values cross-sectionally and underestimated change in patients with active arthritis, particularly those with very early disease These differences were clinically significant; the...
... functioning The participants had access to physiotherapy and occupational therapy services for exercises and provision of assistive or adapted devices This, coupled with attending Arthritis Clinic ... others, both within the family and beyond played a significant role in determining participants' experiences Within their close family, participants commonly felt accepted, understood and supported ... and looking down upon themselves 'I not keep in touch with them (friends), since I got sick, I feel unworthy and look down upon myself and feel I not belong with them' Other participants felt...
... infection among patients with rheumatoid arthritis versus patients with osteoarthritis or soft tissue rheumatism Arthritis Rheum 1988, 31:667-671 Ostensson A, Geborek P: Septic arthritis as a non-surgical ... patients with PASA The ESR was on the average 90 mm/hr with no difference observed when comparing rheumatoid with nonrheumatoid groups A value of >100 mm/hr was present in 49% of those with PASA ... Fairbrother RW, Barnes KL: Suppurative arthritis complicating rheumatoid arthritis Br Med J 1958, 1:1193-1199 Epstein JH, Zimmerman B, Ho G: Polyarticular septic arthritis J rheumatol 1986, 13:1105-1107...