... eigenvalue >1 “Having trouble concentrating in class” and “Can not manage to be calm in class” indicating attention problems, and “Arguing with the teacher”, “Having fistfights” and “Getting scolded ... and gender corrected) Discussion Summary of main findings Both health-related problems and alcohol intoxications in early adolescence showed influence on frequent alcohol use and initiation of ... above as having high levels of pain and tension symptoms [37] Alcohol intoxications Baseline alcohol experience was defined using number of lifetime alcohol intoxications before the age of 16 The...
... of follow- up samples, they were classified into Group A and Group B Recipients from whom peripheral blood samples could be obtained at one month and after were classified under Group A Mean follow ... containing × 10 leucocytes prepared from ml of EDTA anticoagulated blood within six hours of receipt of the specimen Smears were fixed in methanol for 10 minutes Immunofluorescence staining was ... the two in- group IV, patient was followed up to three months and remained negative Yet another patient turned positive with 9092 copies/ml during the second month and could not be followed up further...
... neuroticism, frequency of lack of leader support, severity and frequency of time pressure, severity of physical demands and severity of operational demands After adjusting for emotional exhaustion ... stressors and ambulance specific stressors at baseline However, after adjusting for initial level of health complaints, there were few significant predictors of increased health complaints at follow- up ... Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011, 6:10 http://www.occup-med.com/content/6/1/10 Page of Sterud et al Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011, 6:10 http://www.occup-med.com/content/6/1/10...
... frequencies in patient groups ordered according to temporal occurence of any side effects of the skin during the period of radiation therapy Box area, 50% of data [lines in box denote medians; bars include ... conception and design of the study HZ has made substantial contributions to conception and design of the study, and the interpretation of data He has been involved in drafting the manuscript and revising ... discrimination of patients is done using cut-off levels The median t(Ba) frequency in the group of patients showing a skin reaction already after 10 Gy (short latency) is 0.21 per cell In the group...
... pretreatment and each follow- up time point (post-treatment and 3- and 12-month follow- ups) in terms of the QoL scores (eight domains of the SF-36) as well as the SAD symptomatology scores (SPS, SIAS and ... maintained for up to 12 months of follow- up, with an effect size of 0.44 (small effect), of 0.29 (small effect), andof 0.32 (small effect) at 12-month follow- up, respectively However, in terms of ... changes in QoL at follow- ups In order to elucidate the baseline predictors of the treatment outcomes at post-treatment and the 3- and 12-month follow- ups, multiple regression analyses using a stepwise...
... from industry members; the results of ongoing Commission monitoring of television, print, and Internet advertising; and comments from third parties regarding the rating and labeling systems In ... purchases in the 2003 survey The ESRB continues to lead all three industries in providing clear and prominent disclosures of rating information in television, print, and online advertising Still, ... Code that increase the visibility and usefulness of its ratings information, by, for example, increasing the size of the rating icon in print ads, changing the size, design, and prominence of its...
... implantation, leaving only nine dogs in the subsequent control group, and two of these dropped out It is possible that the remaining dogs in the control group had minimal pain signs and therefore ... present study Of the 42 dogs in the placebo group in the six-month study, 33 received gold bead implantation and nine continued in the 18-month follow- up period as a control PC group (Table 1) ... conception of the study, its planning and the clinical design They participated in writing the tables and the manuscript LM was the leader of the project SL participated in the design of the study and...
... subsequent follow- ups None of these 10 patients had any evidence of disease at the final follow- up Therefore, we suggest use of additional measurement of SCC-Ag in patients who have a single SCC-Ag ... In summary, measurement of ΔSCC-Ag provided good clinical performance in the detection of recurrent uterine cervical cancer following CCRT We suggest that clinicians consider performing routine ... The use of sequential serum determinations appears to increase the sensitivity and specificity of serum SCC-Ag in predicting tumor recurrence The results reported here and those of others indicate...
... after explaining the aim in details and obtaining patient consent through the right femoral artery with Philips Integris H 3000 and Philips Integris HM 3000 C devices equipped with Quinton monitorization ... series and providing the longest follow- up data in the litterature on this topic The data and results obtained from the study are in accordance with other sequential LITA bypass studies [1,2,15] and ... Company, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) All stenoses of LITA greater than 50% were defined as “graft stenosis”, and the non-visualization of the contrast material after a certain point of the graft,...
... process of designing the study, provided advice and follow- up during the collection of data, and has given supervision regarding data analysis and writing of the manuscript OH participated in the ... The lack of association between weight loss and improvement in quality of life and the finding of no differences in weight loss between the three groups of patients are probably explained by the ... face-to-face interviews or telephone interviews Patients were interviewed by M.I.N.I and SCID-II and filled in self-report instruments measuring HRQOL at both preoperative assessment and at follow- up one...
... 337-71 Andreasen, F M & Andreasen, J O Luxation injuries of permanent teeth; General Findings In: Andreasen, J O.; Andreasen, F M & Andersson, L (editors) Textbook and Color Atlas of Traumatic Injuries ... resulting in stretching or sectioning of the root’s pulp tissue, and the consequent loss of vitality The different types of root fracture healing in permanent teeth have been widely documented in ... injury According to Andreasen et al., during the initial stages of pulp healing, hard dental and pulp tissues of traumatized permanent teeth can stimulate an inflammatory response, and initiate the...
... are different types of UI including stress urinary incontinence (SUI), urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, neurogenic incontinence, functional incontinence or overflow incontinence [8] This study ... majority of patients suffering from UI have weakened pelvic floor muscles In the case of SUI an increase in intraabdominal pressure (induced by activities such as coughing, laughing, sneezing, lifting ... physical and sexual aspects of well-being [3,6] Incontinent women often avoid social contact because of feelings of shame, which negatively influences their quality of life (QOL) Incontinence sufferers...
... giving a follow- up response of 73.7% among persons who were eligible and had consented to the follow- upand representing 51% of the original responding population at baseline Those lost to follow- up ... baseline indicated at least one aspect of life restricted by three year follow- up, and 90% of women in this age-group with a baseline restriction continued to indicate restriction at three-year follow- up ... restrictions in any aspect of their lives In addition many of those who continue to indicate restriction in at least one aspect of life at three years, have indicated recovery and onset of restriction in...
... infection in 2–10% of adults andin approximately 90% of infected infants Approximately 10% of these chronic patients develop progressive liver damage including cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma ... described inof 12 fulminant hepatitis patients [20] andin genotype B strain [27] In one of the paired samples from this study andin another from reference [6], the V131I mutation appears in time ... 6516 lines 10 and 11, sample 6541 lanes 12 and 13 The samples 467 and 6516 treated with SspI presented two bands of 507 and 109 bp, lanes and 10 (arrows) confirming the deletion Details in sequence...
... limit of detection in these assays is ng/ml of ficolin-2 and ng/ml of ficolin-3 The inter-assay coefficient of variation (CV) is 7.1% and 4.7% and the intra-assay CV 4.3% and 3.9% for the ficolin-2 ... difference in the ficolin-3 levels was small 8 Follow- up ficolin-3 levels correlated with the indirect measures of stroke severity and infarct size Ficolin-3 concentrations measured in the follow- up ... the binding of ficolin-3 to dying cells may be responsible for the selective clinical correlation with the levels of this protein Further studies, including simultaneous measurement of ficolin-3...
... infection in 2–10% of adults andin approximately 90% of infected infants Approximately 10% of these chronic patients develop progressive liver damage including cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma ... described inof 12 fulminant hepatitis patients [20] andin genotype B strain [27] In one of the paired samples from this study andin another from reference [6], the V131I mutation appears in time ... 6516 lines 10 and 11, sample 6541 lanes 12 and 13 The samples 467 and 6516 treated with SspI presented two bands of 507 and 109 bp, lanes and 10 (arrows) confirming the deletion Details in sequence...
... self-reported initiating/ingesting of the medications and bringing infants for six-week followup Analyzing medication initiated by the mothers during pregnancy, we used abortion and death of a mother ... Six-hours followup • Routine early postpartum services for mothers and their infants • Infant feeding counselling Six-days follow- up service • Routine postpartum care for mothers and infants • Infant ... using “the proportion of mothers’ receiving medication during pregnancy” as the indicator of PMTCT programme success in these settings Our findings suggest that exposed infant followup was inconsistent...
... IADL index, which considers more complex skills like using the telephone, shopping, Page of 10 preparing meals, housekeeping, doing laundry, taking medications, managing transportation and handling ... assessed by means of the scale for the Basic Activities of Daily Living (BADL) (i.e transferring, eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, continence) [24] Comorbidity was assessed by means of the Cumulative ... gender, years of schooling, yearly family income and living alone Subjects were considered to be “living alone” if they were living in their principal place of residence without sharing this residence...
... therapy (HRT) use was defined at baseline by last month of using HRT and at 8-year follow- up during year 2008 use during last six months Categories in both baseline and follow- up surveys were similar- ... was drawn of adults aged 30 and over and living in mainland Finland A total of 7,419 subjects (93% of the 7,977 subjects originally drawn from the population register) participated in one or ... home interview and to the self-administered questionnaire were included into this study (n=1,165) In the 8-year follow- up study most of the questions and indicators were similar to those in the...
... disorders in children of bipolar parents during 14-month follow- up J Affect Disord 2005, 87:253-263 24 Billings AG, Moos RH: The role of coping responses and social resources in attenuating the ... al.: Impact of recent life events on the health related quality of life of adolescents and youths: the role of gender and life events typologies in a follow- up study Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... events and HRQoL on the Psychological Well-being and School Environment dimensions and the Overall score in boys, and on the School Environment and Physical Well-being dimensions in girls In the...