... Results Main clinical findings Statistical analyses All analyses were performed according to the intentionto-treat principle [17] Data management and analyses were performed with SPSS 12 (SPSS Inc., ... http://ccforum.com/content/14/3/R97 Page of 11 demand and 115 planned strategy), and data on the 1-year follow-up, for 22 5 patients (1 12 on-demand and 113 planned strategy) Demographic and clinical baseline characteristics of ... (defined as malignancy, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, renal disease, or diabetes) , patientswith high ( >20 ) versus patientswith lower (1 120 ) APACHE-II scores, and between patients...
... Jr: ACC/AHA guidelines for the managementofpatientswith unstable angina and non-STsegment elevation myocardial infarction A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association ... defined according to the usual criteria [25 ] Acute coronary syndrome, unstable angina and myocardial infarction were defined according to the ACC/AHA criteria [26 ,27 ] Statistical analyses MedCalc™ ... Shimatani Y, Kurisu S, Hata T, Nakama Y, Kijima Y, Kagawa E: Is admission hyperglycaemia in non-diabetic patientswith acute myocardial infarction a surrogate for previously undiagnosed abnormal...
... Challenge ofType Diabetes: Prospects of Medicinal Plants 375 Rokeya Begum, Mosihuzzaman M, Azad Khan AK, Nilufar Nahar and Ali Liaquat Chapter 21 Nutritional Therapy in Diabetes: Mediterranean ... function Ina randomized, controlled trial, sensory re-learning in combination with cutaneous forearm anesthesia, using an anesthetic cream, EMLA® containing 2. 5% lidocain and 2. 5% prilokain, improved ... and Lung 303 Kei Nakajima, Toshitaka Muneyuki, Masafumi Siato and Masafumi Kakei Chapter 18 Implications ofType II Diabetes Mellitus on Gastrointestinal Cancers 323 Diana H Yu and M Mazen Jamal...
... all ages to maintain an active life-style that can attenuate the negative physiologic changes that accompany advancing age, leading to T2D The main limitation of this study was that the prevalence ... Brancati LB The burden and treatment ofdiabetesin eldely individuals in the U.S Diabetes Care 20 06; 29 :24 15 -24 19 International Diabetes Federation Global strategic plan to raise awareness of ... Adipocytokines Attenuate the Association Between Visceral Int J Med Sci 20 07, 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Adiposity and Diabetesin Older Adults Diabetes Care 20 04; 27 : 1375-1380...
... Gornik et al Critical Care 20 10, 14:444 http://ccforum.com/content/14/5/444 Page of 22 07 patients admitted to medical ICU 385 witha history of DM, IFG or IGT 1 822 27 4 died in hospital 1548 screened ... 21 1 refused participation - 20 3 terminally ill - 29 receiving corticosteroids 669 436 NORMOGLYCAEMIA HYPERGLYCAEMIA 76 excluded: - newly diagnosed DM, IGT or IFG 669 360 started follow-up 1 02 ... treatment 193 47 IGF / IFG 33 DM 113 normoglycaemic Figure Flow diagram showing the loss ofpatients from initial screening to the end of five-year follow-up ...
... pre-meal International Diabetes Center S S Insulin Lispro 21 A- chain S S S S B28 B29 LYS PRO 30 B-chain S S 21 Insulin Aspart A- chain S B-chain S S S B28 ASP 30 International Diabetes Center Free Insulin ... Sensitizer Combination Oral Agent/Insulin Stage Combination Oral Agent/Insulin Stage ~2- 4% Oral Agent + Insulin Physiologic Insulin Stage Basal/Bolus Insulin RA - RA - RA - G > 4% International Diabetes ... 0 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 Time (Hours) International Diabetes Center Insulins Types Examples Bolus (Meal) Insulin Rapid-acting Short-acting Insulin lispro, Insulin aspart Regular Basal (Background)...
... collection, storage, and availability are not endangered in case of problems with the central system Data security and availability are ensured anytime [24 ] Data protection All participating patients ... consultations are, technical, organisational, and financial, less demanding but maybe perceived as more impersonal as video consultations An advantage is the broad and permanent availability of mobile ... only 26 % of all patients had any contact with health care services [4] In Germany, the German Health Interview and Examination Survey showed health care utilization of 30% for patients without...
... - Injury type 137 ± 104 OA HR, beats per minute HCl Time HCl aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa TMa a Page of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 12 No Varelmann et al Table ... thank Eva-Maria Hedin, Anne Abrahamson, and Agneta Roneus, all technicians at the Department of Clinical Physiology, and the x-ray laboratory team (Marianne Almgren, Ann Erikson, and Ewa Larsson, ... only against baseline ALI (BL-ALI) Post hoc testing was always performed if a significant F ratio for a factor or the interaction of factors was obtained by repeated measures analysis of variance...
... 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Page of infusion for severe community-acquired pneumonia: a preliminary randomized study Am J Respir Crit Care Med 20 05, 171 :24 2 -24 8 Snijders D, Daniels JMA, de Graaff ... patientswith CAP and admitted because of: 1) large pulmonary consolidation; and 2) acute respiratory failure Our results indicate that the administration of an adjuvant steroid therapy in combination ... of macrophages and granulocytes, the main cell host defences against bacteria [25 -27 ] In this context, it seems clear that advances in the knowledge of cytokines release and kinetics, gamma interferon...
... 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 women and men witha recent clinical fracture J Bone Joint Surg Am 20 08, 90 :24 1 -24 8 Wei TS, Hu CH, Wang SH, Hwang KL: Fall characteristics, functional ... Norwegian version of the Quality of Life Scale (QOLS-N) A validation and reliability study inpatients suffering from psoriasis Scand J Caring Sci 1998, 12: 215 -22 2 Altman DG: Practical statistics ... days (interquartile range; 13) for wrist fracture patients and four days (interquartile range; 2) for hip fracture patients Thirty of the patientswitha wrist fracture and 25 1 of those with a...
... cases where fluvoxamine was effective in treating blonanserin-associated akathisia inpatientswith schizophrenia Case reports Table shows the characteristics of five patientswith blonanserin-associated ... Barnes Akathisia Scale [17] was Substantial relief of akathisia was noted after 14 days of fluvoxamine (50 mg) treatment His global score on the Barnes Akathisia Scale was Case The patient was ... a plastic cast, and he was admitted Treatment with blonanserin (8 mg) and flunitrazepam (2 mg, at night) was initiated for auditory hallucination At week later, the blonanserin was increased...
... Table β Baseline characteristics of subjects in placebo and active-drug arms ofatrialof interferon-β- 1a inpatientswith rheumatoid arthritis Characteristic Mean age (range) Women (%) Placebo ... [10,11] Patientsin the IFN-β- 1a treatment arm and the placebo arm were well matched for baseline characteristics (Table 1), with the exception ofa statistically significant larger percentage ofpatients ... placebo and interferon groups were analyzed using Fisher’s exact test The primary analysis of efficacy end points was based on an intention-to-treat (ITT) approach All patients were analyzed according...
... 16 Almadrones LA: Treatment advances in ovarian cancer Cancer Nurs 20 03, 26 :16S -20 S Ozols RF: Update on the managementof ovarian cancer Cancer J 20 02, 8(Suppl 1):S 22- 30 Carmignani CP, Sugarbaker ... Burger RA, Clarke-Pearson D: Intraperitoneal catheter outcomes ina phase III trialof intravenous versus intraperitoneal chemotherapy in optimal stage III ovarian and primary peritoneal cancer: a ... III trialof carboplatin and paclitaxel compared with cisplatin and paclitaxel inpatientswith optimally resected stage III ovarian cancer: a Gynecologic Oncology Group study J Clin Oncol 20 03,...
... make a further follow-up of our patients (for example, after one year), mainly because of the typeof renal disease (III and IV) predominant in them As in other clinical trials [25 -27 ], we have ... methods Patients Twenty-two patients (19 females and males) witha diagnosis of SLE according to the criteria of the American College of Rheumatology were studied The main clinical data of these patients ... Vigna-Perez M, Abud-Mendoza C, Portillo-Salazar H, AlvaradoSanchez B, Cuevas-Orta E, Moreno-Valdes R, Baranda L, Paredes-Saharopulos O, Gonzalez-Amaro R: Immune effects of therapy with Adalimumab...
... Incapacitating Disease and Social Support) study, a Norwegian arm of the cohort was followed longitudinally At inclusion in 19 92, 23 8 patients aged from 20 to 70 years, witha clinical diagnosis ... early involvement of bone measured by DXR ina longitudinal study ofpatientswith RA of short disease duration Materials and methods Patients As part of the EURIDISS (European Research on Incapacitating ... sedimentation rate; OR = odds ratio A weakness of this study is a lack of available data on important factors that influence the BMD There were no available data on use of vitamin D, calcium supplements,...
... ofpatientswith RA This work forms part of an ultrasound based research programme investigating the clinical relevance of soft tissue inflammation within the forefoot ofpatientswith RA Materials ... Ultrasonography of the metatarsophalangeal joints in rheumatoid arthritis: comparison with magnetic resonance imaging, conventional radiography, and clinical examination Arthritis and rheumatism ... musculoskeletal ultrasound in rheumatology Annals of the rheumatic diseases 20 01, 60(7):641-649 Filippucci E, Unlu Z, Farina A, Grassi W: Sonographic training in rheumatology: aself teaching approach Annals...
... st and th metatarsal heads (n = 13) PPH (callus) was a distinct area of thickened and hardened upper layer of the skin having distinct boundaries with normal skin, and a regular oval outline ... example neuropathic plantar foot ulceration in people withdiabetes There are clearly a great number of assumptions in this popular clinical paradigm of foot function Rather than break the paradigm ... dorsiflexion in late stance In both groups, the first metatarsal underwent a small amount of plantarflexion motion after forefoot loading, with the metatarsal of group plantarflexing more than that of...
... muscle, which is an important postural muscle active daily for long periods and involved in balance control and foot stability during walking [22 ], under local anaesthesia (Xylocaine 2% ) as previously ... identification of capillaries in several studies and a comparison between CD 31 staining and α-amylase-PAS for identifying capillaries showed that the use of both methods results ina similar number of ... Statistic analysis Statistics were performed using Statistix®8 (Analytic Software, Tallahassee) All data are presented as mean ± standard deviation For comparison between groups the Kruskal-Wallis...
... disease and with normal functional parameters (Table 1) Statistical analysis was performed for all measured functional parameters using GraphPad Prism version 4.00 for Windows (GraphPad Software, ... Respiratory Research 20 08, 9:8 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 http://respiratory-research.com/content/9/1/8 Nishimura Y, Tsutsumi M, Nakata H, Tsunenari T, Maeda H, Yokoyama ... correlation with weight and age, probably because our patients had reached approximately 60 years of age with the same normal body weight For these reasons our study shows a significant linear relationship...
... treatment of atelectasis and retained secretions inpatientsina stable state, as occurs ina wide variety of conditions, including cystic fibrosis and neuromuscular disease [17 -22 ] Ravez et al ... the t-test Repeated-measures analysis of variance was used to compare the partial pressure of arterial oxygen, PaCO2, RR, and bicarbonate values measured at base line and at the end of the first ... physical examination, and chest radiograph) [25 ], and a respiratory rate (RR) ≥ 25 /min, PaCO2 > 45 Torr after the patient had been breathing room air for at least 10 minutes, and 7.35 ≤ pH ≤ 7.38 without...