... Pressures inpatientswithdiabetes and varying stages of PAOD with intra-class correlations (ICCs) ranging from 0.77 to 0.99 in intrarater reliability [28-31] and 0.85 to 0.93 in inter-rater ... pressure in the clinical setting [33] The role of the observer in recording the systolic pressure is eliminated and replaced with a digital device programmed to take readings at specific intervals In ... beginning to emerge as part of common practice on patientswith diabetes, so it is likely that clinicians would be considered to have minimal experience with the measurements using a PPG unit Finally,...
... complaints and suggestions to ascertain general learning points which are shared with the team); Med (A medication review is recorded in the notes in the preceding 15 months for all patients being ... specialisation within the clinicians) http://www.implementationscience.com/content/4/1/22 Data relating to individual staff's perceptions of the clinical care of their patientswith type diabetes, ... currently conducting a cluster RCT of a QI intervention targeting general practitioners (GPs) caring for patientswithdiabetesin Newcastle We have also conducted research in organizational...
... complaints and suggestions to ascertain general learning points which are shared with the team); Med (A medication review is recorded in the notes in the preceding 15 months for all patients being ... specialisation within the clinicians) http://www.implementationscience.com/content/4/1/22 Data relating to individual staff's perceptions of the clinical care of their patientswith type diabetes, ... currently conducting a cluster RCT of a QI intervention targeting general practitioners (GPs) caring for patientswithdiabetesin Newcastle We have also conducted research in organizational...
... diabetes and those without it Insulin may protect through anti -in ammatory effects [15] given that in the intensive insulin therapy era, many patients without diabetes are receiving insulin Also, a higher ... preexisting diabetes since this is often undiagnosed at the time of an event leading to hospital admission Various mechanisms are proposed to explain the similar outcomes of patientswithdiabetes ... 15 Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests 16 Published: March 2010 References Vincent J, Preiser J, Sprung C, Moreno R, Sakr Y: Insulin-treated diabetes...
... hypopnea Individuals with an apnea hypopnea index (AHI) >5 were diagnosed as OSAS and included in the study Determining of Arousals An arousal was defined as an increase in EEG and/or EMG activity ... triglyceride levels were increased inpatients above median arousal and TAC was reduced in these subjects Other demographic and laboratory findings were comparable in two groups According to the arousal ... was 43.5±10.5 years) Patients were divided into two groups according to the median arousal value and patients characteristics and laboratory findings were demonstrated in Table LP-PLA2, total...
... is associated in humans with reduced intracellular antioxidant (11) Interestingly, antioxidants improve insulin sensitivity and help in wound healing (16,17) Along with others, the investigators ... Int J Med Sci 2010, 30 Introduction Diabetesmellitus and cardiovascular diseases are challenging medical and social problems Patientswithdiabetesmellitus are at a higher risk of developing ... role in delaying wound healing in aged rate and diabetic rats (14) It has been found that chronic leg ulcers contain localized oxidative stress (15) The recent finding revealed that insulin resistance...
... toxicity in the treatment of ESCC [16] In this study, the effects of replacing CDDP with NDP on the pharmacokinetics of 5-FU 306 were investigated in ESCC patients treated with a definitive 5-FU/CDDP-based ... Forty-nine of 56 patients were treated with CDDP (the CDDP group), and the remaining patients were treated with NDP (the NDP group) This study was conducted with the authorization of the institutional ... summarized in Table In the CDDP group, the plasma concentrations of 5-FU were significantly higher in the patientswith CR than those with non-CR (P
... for an individual not included in the original data [33] Data collected from all patients were included in the model Patientswith missing HIV serology results were joined with the HIV negative ... remaining 290 patients Pulmonary TB diagnosis was confirmed in 26.5% (77/290) of the patients, with isolation of Mtb in 72 patients (48 had positive SSA) In addition, had chronic granulomatous inflammation ... common, with described rates of TB diagnosis ranging from 3.7 to 44% among patients admitted to RI [8-14] As a consequence, medical costs are increased due to the need for installing and maintaining...
... sparing in young women with ovarian tumors Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol, 37, 290-4 Gotlieb WH, Beiner MR, Shalmon B, et al (2003) Outcome of fertility sparing treatment with progestin in young patients ... lymphadenectomy remained the same as healthy women (Klemm et al., 2005) 5-years survival of the patientswith vaginal trachelectomy is 95% (Plante et al., 2004) Probability of bleeding from abdominal incisions ... upper intact, lymph nodes involvement ruled out by paraclinic (Dargent et al., 1994; Silva-filho et al., 2007) Some believed it’s better to perform radical abdominal hysterectomy inpatients with...
... polymorphic genes coding for cytokines or for cytokine receptors have been investigated in a case control study including a group of 40 Iranian PTB patients and 40 healthy individuals 126 IJI ... found In conclusion it is suggested that pro inflammatory cytokines and TGF-¾ decrease in PTB patients, however further studies with a larger sample size for better understanding of cytokine gene ... cluster increases and T allele at codon 10 of TGF-¾ decreases in PTB patients Key words: Cytokine, PCR-SSP, Polymorphism, Tuberculosis INTRODUCTION A recent study by Hussain et al using a diluted...
... observed between patientswith and without septic shock, with increased sFlt-1 concentrations inpatientswith septic shock (116.0 pg/ml, range 42.7-208.4 pg/ml) compared to patientswith non-complicated ... sFlt-1 and VEGF-A levels in FN Serum sFlt-1 and VEGF-A levels inpatientswith FN Box plots representing serial concentrations of sFlt-1 and VEGF-A inpatientswith FN with non-complicated sepsis ... evaluated in a smaller study withpatientswith FN, which observed higher VEGF-A levels inpatients that evolved to severe sepsis compared to patientswith noncomplicated sepsis [22] VEGF-A acts by binding...
... associated with increased use of venting and self-distraction of diabetes related emotional distress This finding is in conflict with that of other studies, in that prior findings indicate significant ... taking individual coping strategies into account when evaluating the impact of disease on psychosocial wellbeing Delineation of coping strategies might be useful for identifying patientsin need ... among patientswithdiabetesIn addition, further study is needed to investigate psychosocial interventions that decrease anxiety and facilitate useful coping strategies among patientswith diabetes...
... concentrations in the CSF and saliva of MS patients were further analyzed by subgrouping them into those with enhancing lesions vs those without enhancing lesions on brain MRI, with the understanding that ... reported a decrease in sHLA-I concentrations during exacerbations in MS, but an increase in CSF sHLA-I was observed inpatientswith lesional activity by MRI brain scan The variability in the studies, ... Beneficial effect of interferon-beta 1b treatment inpatientswith relapsingremitting multiple sclerosis is associated with an increase in serum levels of soluble HLA-I molecules during the first months...
... chemotherapy of oxaliplatin with/ without gemcitabine In the majority of cases oxaliplatin and gemcitabine were administered as combination therapy (n = 25 patients vs patientswith oxaliplatin monotherapy; ... of oxaliplatin in combination with gemcitabine or as a monotherapy inpatientswith MPM who were preteated with a pemetrexed/platin-combination therapy Pretreatment evaluation All patients underwent ... weeks) All patients were pretreated with a platin/pemetrexed-combination Out of these 29 patients, 15 were then treated (within this study) in second (51.7%), 10 in third (34.5%), in fourth (10.3%),...
... observed between patientswith and without septic shock, with increased sFlt-1 concentrations inpatientswith septic shock (116.0 pg/ml, range 42.7-208.4 pg/ml) compared to patientswith non-complicated ... sFlt-1 and VEGF-A levels in FN Serum sFlt-1 and VEGF-A levels inpatientswith FN Box plots representing serial concentrations of sFlt-1 and VEGF-A inpatientswith FN with non-complicated sepsis ... evaluated in a smaller study withpatientswith FN, which observed higher VEGF-A levels inpatients that evolved to severe sepsis compared to patientswith noncomplicated sepsis [22] VEGF-A acts by binding...
... At time of sampling, disease was active in 15 patients and inactive in 10 All patients were using colchicine, an immunosuppressant agent such as ciclosporin (n = 8), azathioprine (n = 2) and ... online http://arthritis-research.com/content/5/5/R262 [2–6] Histological findings in Behçet’s disease suggest a mixed or mainly mononuclear cell infiltration with a predominance of T cells in ... supplemented with a 0.5 ml medium containing 20 U/ml recombinant human interleukin (IL-2; Genzyme, Cambridge, MA, USA) Every 72 hours, 0.5 medium was replaced with a 0.5 ml fresh medium containing 20...
... 0.0001 in both cases) Interestingly, the prevalence of RF-positive patients increased to 37.5% inpatients affected by HCV presenting with articular involvement (3 of 8), and 66.7% inpatientswith ... involvement (8 patients) , and group 2, comprising patients without articular involvement (31 patients) To compare the prevalence of anti-CCP antibodies in HCV patientswith that inpatients affected ... importance in establishing the correct treatment to prevent joint erosions inpatientswith ‘true’ RA as well as chronic HCV infection and reducing the risk of immunosuppressive therapy inpatients with...
... [23] Ghrelin participates directly in hypothalamic regulation of nutrition, it causes weight gain by reducing food utilization, increasing food intake, and inhibiting leptininduced feeding reduction ... Association with between weight loss and levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, cytokins, APRP, adiponectin, ghrelin and leptin leves have not been explained yet We suggested that adiponectin, ghrelin ... Erkog R, Ozbek H, Noyan T, Yavuz M: Serum levels of leptin and proinflammatory cytokines inpatientswith gastrointestinalcancer Int J Clin Pract 2004, 58:545-549 Kemik et al World Journal of...
... sequencing was given in our previous report [8] PADI4 haplotype was most frequently found in the homozygous form (34.3%) and in combination with haplotype 2/3 (34.3%) in normal controls In contrast, ... been described [6,11,13,19], indicating the importance of antigen presentation in the induction of autoimmunity This finding clearly could be confirmed in our study With the exception of haplotype ... main PADI4 haplotypes Consistent with our previous findings in healthy individuals [8], this study also revealed additional variability in PADI4 exons 2–4 in RA patients As a result of this study,...
... manifestations or laboratory profiles In our study, the BB genotype is low in both 194 healthy controls and 101 patientswith SLE However, this is in accordance with previous findings in the Thai population ... participated in acquisition of data and helped in drafting and revising the manuscript SJ have been involved in drafting and revising the manuscript for important intellectual content and have given final ... Vitamin D3 metabolism inpatientswith rheumatic diseases: low serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 inpatientswith systemic lupus erythematosus Clin Rheumatol 1995, 14:397-400 Huckins D, Felson DT,...