... 50 patients with nor-mal gastric mucosa including chronic gastritis and ulcer(normal group), 50 with IM including adenoma (high risk group), 40 with EGC (EGC group), 45 with AGC with- out distant ... subjects with can-cer were significantly higher than the levels in those with- out cancer (p < 0.05), and the HMGB1 levels were alsosignificantly greater in subjects in high- risk group com-pared ... levelstended to be elevated in patients with adenoma comparedto patients with IM (data was not shown).We also compared the sensitivity and specificity of serumHMGB1 with that of CEA, a well-known gastrointestinaltumor...
... mRNA expression within synovialtissue from RA versus OA patients is reflected by higherCXCR3/TCR-ζ mRNA ratios and is apparently associated withhigh CXCR3 mRNA levels on MCs within RA syn-ovial ... RA ascompared with OA tissues. However, CXCR3/TCR-ζmRNA ratio was higher in RA than in OA. AlthoughCXCR3 expression was previously demonstrated in syn-ovial tissue of RA patients, high CXCR3 ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/5/5/R241Research article High CXCR3 expression in synovial mast cells associated with CXCL9 and CXCL10 expression in inflammatory synovial tissuesof patients with rheumatoid arthritisPeter...
... is associatedwith latermyocardial morbidity. An elevated body mass index(BMI) is also associatedwith increased LV perfusiondefects, possibly because these patients have significantlyhigher ... to higher doses than EBRT. The volume oflung irradiated to lower doses was similar with both tech-niques. However, the volume of heart irradiated to lowerdoses was significantly higher with ... been correlated with late effect followingbreast cancer radiotherapy. Although the risk of late cardi-ovascular events and irradiation to higher doses has longbeen associatedwith EBRT, more...
... with bone area only14.84Bone area (+) age (-) smoking, alcohol0.22 0.43 compared with bone area and age0.86Bone area (+) age (-) smoking, alcohol, BMI0.22 0.53 compared with bone area, ... compared with the specified modelΔF with addition to the model (p value for ΔF is the same as for Δr2)Bone area only (+) 0.14 < 0.001 N/ABone area (+) age (-) 0.21 < 0.001 compared with ... values are provided where F =mean square (regression)/mean square (residual). In the mul-tiple regression analysis ΔF is provided, where ΔF= {sum ofsquares (regression)(variable in)-sum of squares...
... hand, 16 joint areas were scored for erosions (scorerange for each area 0 to 5) and 15 areas were scored for jointspace narrowing (range of score from 0 to 4 for each jointarea), giving a ... 4(page number not for citation purposes)Vol 10 No 2Research articleA high serum level of eotaxin (CCL 11) is associatedwith less radiographic progression in early rheumatoid arthritis patientsSilje ... significantly lower in patients with (193(119 to 247)) than without progression (265 (166 to 360)). Inthe univariate logistic regression analyses, eotaxin wasnegatively associated to radiographic...
... operat ive risk. However the absenceof statin treatment was associatedwith an increase inmortality in the subset of high risk patients with an esti-mated risk of mortality of 6% and greater.Multivariate ... statins preoperatively was not associated with a lower incidence o f post-operative complications.In a propensity matched subgroup analysis statin ther-apy was associatedwith a significantly lower ... WL, Laudon DA, Murphy JG, Jaffe ASl: Reducedrisks of death and CHF areassociatedwith statin therapy administeredacutely within the first 24 hours of AMI. Int J Cardiol 2006, 108:314-319.14....
... B-cell lymphoma (ABC-DLBCL) had higher levelof STAT3 mRNA than that in GCB-DLBCL. Detection with immunohistochemistry [15] showed that slightlymore cases withhigh nuclear expression of STAT3 ... =0.061).LamLTetal.[15]alsodemonstratedthathighSTAT3expressioninABC-DLBCL patients correlated with inferior overall survival, but not with GCB-DLBCLpatients. However, STAT3 -high and STAT3-low subsetswithin ABC-DLBCL did not differ in prediction ... frequencyof high nuclear expression of STAT3 in DLBCL was25.7% with 12.5% in GCB subgroup and 32% in non-GCB subgroup, but not reaching significance (P =0.061).LamLTetal.[15]alsodemonstratedthathighSTAT3expressioninABC-DLBCL...
... study strongly indicated that being infected with HCV genotype 1 was associatedwith treatment failure. The higher treatment response in our study compared to the US literatures may have occurred ... and HIV co –infection. Higher response rates among Asians have been noted before. This may be related to the IL28B gene poly-morphism as it is apparently associatedwith higher response to treatment ... stud-ies, weight loss usually began within the first few dosages of interferon treatment. It was also associated with fatigue, nausea, vomiting. The weight loss was usually sustained during...
... greater aspirin hydroly-sis can be associatedwith decreased cholesterol levels of high- density lipoprotein in type 2 diabetics (6). Although our present results are not strictly compa-rable to ... study’s main finding is that the changes in serum total cholesterol concentrations are clearly associatedwith those of aspirin esterase activ-ity during a period of physical activity modification ... circulating aspirin esterase ac-tivity as compared to that of BChE (8), and our study population did not include subjects with malnutrition nor there were any with nutritional modifications during...