báo cáo hóa học: " The longitudinal link between visual acuity and health-related quality of life in patients with diabetic retinopathy" doc

... and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearch The longitudinal link between visual acuity and health-related quality of life in patients with diabetic retinopathyLouis S Matza*1, Matthew ... examine the rela-tionship between change in visual acuity defined as a con-tinuous variable and change in the VFQ-25 scales,controlling for age, gender, and visual acuity at baseline. In all ... this link over time. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to examine the degree of change in HRQL that is associated with visual acuity changes among patients with diabetic retinopathy. Patients...

báo cáo hóa học:" The longitudinal link between visual acuity and health-related quality of life in patients with diabetic retinopathy pot

... and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearch The longitudinal link between visual acuity and health-related quality of life in patients with diabetic retinopathyLouis S Matza*1, Matthew ... this link over time. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to examine the degree of change in HRQL that is associated with visual acuity changes among patients with diabetic retinopathy. Patients ... characterized the degree of change in health-related quality of life (HRQL) associated with change in visual acuity among patients with diabetic retinopathy.Methods: Data are from a randomized,...

báo cáo hóa học: " The laval questionnaire: a new instrument to measure quality of life in morbid obesity" docx

... PMparticipated in the conception and design of the study and the revision of the manuscript. NT and SB carried out the patients enrolment and the datacollection. DR conceived and designed the study. ... period)participated in this study. The analysis of the discriminative function of the questionnaire showed moderate-to-highcorrelations between the scores in each domain of our instrument and the corresponding ... waslimited.We previously described the impact of morbid obesityon the quality of life of patients seeking surgical therapy[19]. This study identified the domains of quality of life most frequently affected...

báo cáo hóa học: " The possible link between the elevated serum levels of neurokinin A and anti-ribosomal P protein antibodies in children with autism" pot

... proliferation, invasion into living cells and starting apoptosis, a defect in the synthesis of apolipoprotein B resulting in accumulation of lipids inside the cell, and downregulation of the ... allergens, infectious agents and heavy metals), with a subequent increase in the release of this tachykinin from these cells. Neuroendocrine hormones, including tackykinins, triggered during stress ... is an initial report that warrants further research to determine the pathogenic role of neurokinin A and its possible link to autoimmunity in autism. The therapeutic role of tachykinin receptor...

Báo cáo hóa học: " Autologous tumor-derived heat-shock protein peptide complex-96 (HSPPC-96) in patients with metastatic melanoma" potx

... and tested in cancer and melanoma patients since the 1960s[11,12]. After cleaning the skin with acetone, 2000 and 50 μgofDNCBin100μl of acetone were layered on the skin of the volar aspect of ... Administration In the Melanoma Medical Oncology Clinic at M. D.Anderson, a vial of HSPPC-96 was thawed and the con-tents drawn up into a tuberculin syringe and injectedintradermally into either the patient’s ... whole-cell vaccine trials [15], preferring toremain open-minded regarding an immune response toHSPPC-96 being independent of a DTH reaction.Three of the 5 patients with increasing S FCs by the IFNg...

báo cáo hóa học: " Predictors of health-related quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer" doc

... predictor of health-related qual-ity of life in head and neck cancer patients. Qual Life Res 2000,9:951-960.48. Schultz AA, Winstead-Fry P: Predictors of quality of life in rural patients with ... cross-sectional or included patients with otherdiagnoses. The objectives of this study were to identify predictors of HRQL in patients with colorectalcancer and interpret the clinical importance of the results.Methods: ... forward and stepwise regression to determinewhether the same model was identified. Multicollinearity in the final models was assessed with the variance infla-Health and Quality of Life Outcomes...

báo cáo hóa học: " Adalimumab improves health-related quality of life in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis compared with the United States general population norms: Results from a randomized, controlled Phase III study" pdf

... Dooley LT, Griffiths CE: Improvement in quality of life with infliximab induction and maintenance therapy in patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis: a randomizedcontrolled trial. Br J Dermatol ... criteria.Assessing the impact of treatment on health-related quality of life in psoriasisSF-36 summary scoresUsing age-, sex-, and race-adjusted data from the 2002MEPS sample, patients receiving adalimumab ... Stiefel,Doak, and Novartis.Authors' contributionsDAR, MK, NH, and MKW designed and interpreted the analysis of health-related quality of life data. AM and SFassisted Abbott Laboratories with the...

Báo cáo hóa học: " The Armeo Spring as training tool to improve upper limb functionality in multiple sclerosis: a pilot study" ppt

... often limited, princi-pally being indicated in highly disabled MS patients whohave a multiplicity of symptoms requiring treatment. On the other hand, training duration and training intensityare ... to train the affected upper limb, being the self-reported dominant side in 8 out of 10 subjects. It is a 5degree -of- freedom (3 in the shoulder, 1 in the elbow, 1 in the forearm) orthosis without ... before-after single group research designwas applied to examine the feasibility, that is to say the proof of principle, of the training intervention.An experienced and independent occupational thera-pist...

báo cáo hóa học:" The positive mental health instrument: development and validation of a culturally relevant scale in a multi-ethnic asian population" pdf

... led the team. EA led the statistical and psychometric analyses. MOE guided, trained and performed the psychometric analyses and interpreted the findings. LP led the field work and training of interviewers ... show ceiling effect and scoring required dichotomizing of the responses. To avoidcompromising the responsiveness of the instrument, the Vaingankar et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011, ... of self-reported measures of well-being and quality of life bedeveloped in the en d-user [15,16]. In addition, most of the instruments either study a particular domain in greater detail using a lengthy...

báo cáo hóa học:" The PedsQL™ Present Functioning Visual Analogue Scales: preliminary reliability and validity" potx

... would be lower in individuals when in the healing garden environment than in individuals when in the hospital inpatient and clinicenvironment [33]. Although these data suggest the initialconstruct ... measure the patient's perceptions of the impact of disease and treatment as clinical trial end-points, and include multi-item health-related quality of life (HRQOL) instruments, as well as single-item ... measurement perspective, the VAS is con-sidered a direct scaling method and a form of cross-modality matching in which the length of the line isadjusted to match the intensity of the pain [18,19]. Priceet...

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