Báo cáo y học: " Risk of malnutrition is associated with mental health symptoms in community living elderly men and women: The Tromsø Study" pdf

... this article as: Kvamme et al.: Risk of malnutrition is associated with mental health symptoms in community living elderly men and women: The Tromsø Study. BMC Psychiatry 2011 11:112.Submit your ... for the association between mental health problems (in four categories) and the risk of malnutrition (combiningmedium and high risk) in 1558 elderly men and 1553 elderly women, The Tromsø Study.aAdjusted ... (61/1558) of men and 9.1% (142/1553) of women. Mental health and the risk of malnutrition The SCL-10 score was significantly associated with anincreased risk of malnutrition in both men and women(Table...

Báo cáo y học: " Peripheral endothelial dysfunction is associated with gas exchange inefficiency in smokers" pdf

... to the conception, design and acquisition of the data as well as the analysis and interpretation of the data, were involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectualcontent ... mild-to-moderate COPD mainlyconsist of the thickening of the intima in pulmonarymuscular arteries, which interferes with lumen size [38].Interestingly, studies conducted in smokers with normallung ... definition of the World Health Organization[26]or the use of antihypertensive medications at the time of enrolment, and diabetes. Thus, the apparently healthystudy population comprised of 985...

Báo cáo y học: "Risk of acute myocardial infarction with nonselective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: a meta-analysis" ppsx

... fur-ther examine whether the inclusion of all studies was biasing the results, the analysis was repeated with the study with low-est AMI risk [18], and there was no difference in overall risk. Another ... most other independently funded studies. This largelyexplains the between-study heterogeneity in our analysis, aspreviously established by Juni and coworkers [29]. An interimanalysis of an ... forms independently by tworeviewers (GS and RM), during which the quality of the studieswas also assessed. This systematic review included a variety of study types. In order to maintain consistency...

Báo cáo y học: "Nucleosome rotational setting is associated with transcriptional regulation in promoters of tissue-specific human genes" pot

... human TSSs display periodic purine-purine (RR) and pyrimidine-pyrimidine (YY) frequencies. The periodic signal is correlated with CpG islandsDespite our attempts, the periodic RR and YY signal ... Importantly, the signal is centered over the position of experimentallymapped nucleosomes. This result contrasts with a recentstudy describing the mapping of H2A.Z-containingnucleosomes in the human ... between purinesfacilitating the collapse of the minor groove, and weakerinteractions between the complementary pyrimidinesfacilitating their deformation in the major groove [15]; the GG = CC and...

Báo cáo y học: " Early lactate clearance is associated with biomarkers of inflammation, coagulation, apoptosis, organ dysfunction and mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock" docx

... cell shrinkage (pyknosis) and nuclear fragmentation (karyorrhexis) [52]. The regula-tion of apoptosis in sepsis is complex, as the infectingpathogen may inhibit or induce apoptosis, involvingboth ... anti-inflammatory cyto-kines. The coagulation pathway is also activated by LPS-mediated signaling and further regulated by the cyto-kines, inducing the production of tissue factor, pro-thrombin conversion ... the magnitude and duration of global tissue hypoxia, is useddiagnostically, therapeutically and prognostically. This study examined the association of early lactate clearance with selected inflammatory,...

Báo cáo y học: " Colour of sputum is a marker for bacterial colonisation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" pps

... of pro-inflammatory cytokines in patients with bacterialcolonisation. Different reasons may explain this finding,including a small number of patients with valid samplesfor analysis, the inter-individual ... patients.Therefore, the identification of patients colonised byPPMs using a non-invasive and relatively inexpensivetechnique such as the analysis of sputum may play animportant role in the management of severe ... study, and participated in the analysis and interpretation of data. AM and SV recruited the patients, col-lected data and participate in the design and analysis. CR participated in the design and...

Báo cáo y học: "Investigation of infectious agents associated with arthritis by reverse transcription PCR of bacterial rRNA" ppsx

... associated with ReA, and the dissemination of commensal Campylobacter spp. toinflamed joints along with other components of gut flora. The latter is more likely in view of the isolation of Campylo-bacter ... species of bacteriathat definitely play a role in triggering arthritis are in adistinct minority among all of the sequences detectedwithin ReA SF raises questions about the role of intra-articular ... similar findings in our previous study of RA and other forms of chronic arthritis [14]. The source of these organisms is not known but may be environmentalor from the indigenous microflora. As...

Báo cáo y học: "Lack of autoantibody production associated with cytomegalovirus infection" pdf

... subject contained these antibodies and none of the sera of the vaccinees contained these antibodies.These results indicate that CMV infection induces theseautoantibodies infrequently and that autoimmune ... mayplay a role in eliciting either or both of these signals.Infection with CMV is ubiquitous within the human popula-tion, and nearly 100% of humans eventually acquire aCMV infection. On the ... El-Roeiy A, Gleicher N, Isenberg D, Kennedy RC, Shoenfeld Y: Acommon anti-DNA idiotype and other autoantibodies in sera of offspring of mothers with systemic lupus erythematosus.Clin Exp Immunol 1987,...

Báo cáo y học: "Adalimumab clinical efficacy is associated with rheumatoid factor and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody titer reduction: a one-year prospective study" potx

... blocking agents.Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests.Authors' contributionsFA and MC participated in the design of the study and in the clinical ... evaluation of the patients. DDA, GC and CC per-formed the immunoassays. PSP and PM participated in the design and coordination of the study and helped to draft the Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol ... baseline and after 6 and 12 months of adalimu-mab treatment. The sera of the control group of patients with RA were analyzed twice with a 1-year interval.Table 2Clinical characteristics of patients...

Báo cáo y học: "Spectrum of peripheral neuropathies associated with surgical interventions; A neurophysiological assessment" pot

... symptoms and patients with inconclusive, normal or neurophysiology not in keeping with symptoms were excluded from further anal-ysis. Only patients whose symptoms started within oneweek of surgery ... neuropathy in thesepatients in this study was underlying chronic renal fail-ure, as all patients having AVFs formed were for renaldialysis therapy. A larger study of neuropathy followingAVF ... neurophysiological assessment of patients with suspected post-operative nerve injuries not only allowsdiagnosis of the anatomical nerve lesion, but also classifi-cation of the type of nerve injury...

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