... system may help to reduce errors in the RR-intervals data extracted from foetal ECG recordings To date, there are no established standards in artifact processing and spectral analysis (e.g FFT or autoregressive ... LF/HF ratios calculated by F-EXTRACT 4.2 Comparison of time-domain parameters between Nevrokard and F-EXTRACT using Bland-Altman method Differences betweenfoetalHRV measured by the Nevrokard and ... artifact processing as well as for HRV analysis Summary This chapter evaluated the agreement of F-EXTRACT and Nevrokard HRV systems using Bland-Altman analysis With the exception of fHR and mNN, which...
... remove artifacts in foetal RR intervals, and automated computation of foetalHRV parameters as well as graphical visualization of the foetalHRV power spectra Heart rate variability of healthy ... the data An automated computation of time- and frequency-domain parameters of foetalHRV was necessary because manual measurement of RR-intervals from raw foetal ECG signal is time-consuming and ... respect tofoetal gestational age 4.2 FoetalHRV (frequency-domain analysis) at different gestational ages Visual inspection of the foetal spectrograms to evaluate the changes in power or variability...
... software A/ D- Analogue to digital converter; M- maternal ECG signal; MF’ and MF’’- 1st and 2nd derivatives containing both maternal andfoetal ECG signals; F’ and F’’- Foetal ECG signals after ... the raw abdominal ECG strip comprising of both maternal andfoetal ECG complexes, the online display of foetaland maternal heart rates, as well as the average foetal ECG complex, indicating ... non-invasive abdominal technique to measure foetal cardiac time intervals in normal singleton pregnancies In order to discriminate between normal and pathological changes in the fECG, a database...
... distorted the P and T waves A year later, Kaplan and Toyama (Kaplan S and Toyama S, 1958) used a cardiac catheterization electrode placed inside the amniotic sac in proximity to the foetus after the ... paralleled the gain in the weight of the foetal heart (Morgan M et al., 1991; Bramabati B and Pardi G, 1980; Organ LW et al., 1980) Bramabati and Pardi (Bramabati B and Pardi G, 1980) found that ... with foetal acidaemia at birth and it did not appear to be of any practical value for clinical use (Jenkins HM et al., 1986) In 1995, Mohajer (Mohajer MP et al., 1995) noticed that the area and amplitude...
... associated with mortality on univariate analysis and therefore was not entered into the multivariate model Mortalityis defined throughout as hospital, not ICU, mortality Statistical analysis was ... parameters found to be statistically significant at P < 0.1 on univariate analysis: age, modified APACHE II score (age component deleted to avoid colinearity with age in the multivariate analysis: ... Sciences, and Optiscan Biomedical Authors’ contributions JK wrote the initial and subsequent drafts of the manuscript and performed statistical analysis MS reviewed all drafts of the manuscript and assisted...
... relating to agonist-antagonist muscle pairs A single suprathreshold pulse of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) over the hand area of M1 results in a balance of inhibitory and excitatory processes ... study design was the lack of power to conduct a multi-factorial analysis that includes all the data (i.e., agonist and antagonist muscle data); therefore future studies with a larger sample size ... Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 4MIT, Boston, MA, USA 5Institut Guttmann, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 6Laboratory...
... postoperative adverse event associated with the initial cardiac surgery Statistical analysis Uni- and multivariate analysis for assessment of the relationships between potential prognostic factors ... Tripathy D, Garg R, Bandyopadhyay A, Calieri J, Hoffmeyer D, Syed T, Ghanim H, Aljada A, Dandona P: Anti-inflammatory and pro-fibrinolytic effect of insulin in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction ... contributions All authors actively participated in this study, read the manuscript and attest to the validity and legitimacy of the data and its interpretation Key messages • In non-diabetic cardiac surgical...
... Relationship between distal vastus medialis and lateralis cross-sectional areas and patella structures The associationbetween vastus medialis and lateralis crosssectional areas and patella structures, ... manuscript PAB and AJT performed the statistical analysis and interpretation of data and drafted the manuscript DMU participated in the analysis and interpretation of data and reviewed the manuscript ... smaller vastus medialis and vastus lateralis cross-sectional area than men in multivariate analysis BMI was positively associated with vastus medialis cross-sectional area in multivariate analysis,...
... participated in study design, was in charge of data collection and analysis and helped to draft the manuscript, OCC conceived of the study, and participated in its design and data analysis and ... Q-L, Abel P, Foster C, Lalani E-N: bcl-2: role in epithelial differentiation and oncogenesis Hum Pathol 1996, 27:102-110 Takaoka A, Adachi M, Okuda H, Sato S, Yawata A, Hinoda Y, Takayama S, ... possible to retrieve data from inaccurate patient charts, and pathology divisions, at least in our institutions, lack an appropriate database, which would facilitate the access to patient charts...
... Relationship between distal vastus medialis and lateralis cross-sectional areas and patella structures The associationbetween vastus medialis and lateralis crosssectional areas and patella structures, ... manuscript PAB and AJT performed the statistical analysis and interpretation of data and drafted the manuscript DMU participated in the analysis and interpretation of data and reviewed the manuscript ... smaller vastus medialis and vastus lateralis cross-sectional area than men in multivariate analysis BMI was positively associated with vastus medialis cross-sectional area in multivariate analysis,...
... genotypic resistance interpretation and manuscript revision HW realized the phenotypic resistance analysis PB and AT assissted in concept and design aspects and directed sample- and data acquisition ... Goffard JC, Lazzarin A, Wohrmann A, Katlama C, Wilkin T, Haubrich R, Cohen C, Farthing C, Jayaweera D, Markowitz M, Ruane P, Spinosa-Guzman S, Lefebvre E: Efficacy and safety of darunavir-ritonavir ... Results Patients with protease gene mutation L76V show increased susceptibility for Atazanavir and Saquinavir At first, the impact of L76V on ATV- and SQVresistance characteristics was assessed...
... regular medical treatment Patients failed to reach randomization for a number of reasons, for example failure to complete rehabilitation program and all postrehabilitation and randomization assessments, ... Solano JP, Gomes B, Higginson IJ: A comparison of symptom prevalence in far advanced cancer, AIDS, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and renal disease J Pain Symptom Manage ... COPD American Thoracic Society annual meeting, May 2004; Orlando, FL 53 Shekhar A, Sajdyk TJ, Gehlert DR, Rainnie DG: The amygdala, panic disorder, and cardiovascular responses Ann N Y Acad Sci...
... conditions and maintained at 25°C Thirty-two third instar larvae from each bottle were sampled and their salivary gland chromosomes analyzed, according to Fontdevila et al (1981) Observed karyotypic ... polymorphism in a natural population Evolution 40, 740-755 Ruiz A, Santos M, Barbadilla A, Quesada-Diaz JE, Hasson E, Fontdevilla A (1991) The evolutionary history of Drosophila buzzatii XVIII ... assumptions of lack of differential attraction of flies to the collecting baits and random mating can be accepted, and even the apparent weak gametic selection against 2st would not affect our previous...
... (Figure 1C) Associationbetween traditional cardiovascular risk factors and PWV The associations between PWV and clinical features at both baseline and the last visit (PWV assessment visit) are shown ... Paramore LC, Fraeman KH, Bala MV Cardiovascular disease and risk factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis J Rheumatol 2006;33:2167–72 Gladman ... Stevens BA, Tobias M, Reddi K, et al Traditional and nontraditional cardiovascular risk factors are associated with atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis J Rheumatol 2005;32:435–42 Shen et al Arthritis...
... concentrations were positively skewed; therefore, they were transformed logarithmically to approximate normal distribution, and such data were analysed statistically Statistical analysis of the data ... positive associationbetween elevated plasma tHcy and age There was no associationbetween the MTHFR mutation and either the presence of coronary heart disease or the high plasma tHcy in our patients ... Mukawa H, Tomida T, Suzuki T, Kamiya H, Matsui H, Hayakawa T Relation of a common methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutation and plasma homocysteine with intimal hyperplasia after coronary...
... M, Furukawa H, Yoshino S, Yukioka M, Tohma S, Matsubara T, Wakitani S, Teshima R, Nishioka Y, Sekine A, Iida A, Takahashi A, Tsunoda T, Nakamura Y, Yamamoto K: Functional haplotypes of PADI4, encoding ... The American Rheumatism Association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 1988, 31:315-324 Aho K, Palosuo T, Raunio V, Puska P, Aromaa A, Salonen ... rheumatoid arthritis: an application of the Risch theory Genet Epidemiol 1993, 10:311-320 Suzuki A, Yamada R, Chang X, Tokuhiro S, Sawada T, Suzuki M, Nagasaki M, Nakayama-Hamada M, Kawaida R, Ono M, Ohtsuki...
... Austrian Caucasian RA cases and 373 healthy Austrian Caucasian controls Materials and methods A total of 362 RA patients and 351 healthy controls, all Caucasians, were included in the study after ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/8/4/R97 Table MHC2TA -16 8A> G genotype and clinical characteristics of Austrian rheumatoid arthritis patients AA genotype AG genotype GG genotype P value Dominant, AA:AG ... of data WR, WM, TCW, BP and MG carried out the molecular genetic study WR and UL performed the statistical analysis WG and TM participated in coordination and interpretation of the data KB and...
... Unfortunately, no DNA is available from our patient cohort and for this reason we cannot correlate MBL genotype and risk of infections As far as data are available, differences in clinical and epidemiological ... variant MBL alleles is probably a minor risk factor for the presence of SLE, as shown by a recent metaanalysis of all available case-control studies In that study, a significant associationbetween ... (page number not for citation purposes) Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Bultink et al different assays andbetween assays and disease activity scores were evaluated by calculating Spearman's...
... walls anda pattern of thickened as well as thinned wall areas of the aorta and adjacent vessels The ascending aorta revealed a circumferential dissection distal from the coronary ostia associated ... the aortic arch Both subclavian and vertebral arteries are occluded The truncus bracheocephalicus is aneurysmatically dilated Page of inflammation comprising reddish alterations of the aortic walls ... (A) and sagittal (B) CT views of the aorta The dissection (arrows) is circumferential and begins distally to the coronary ostiae arrows: dissection membrane Weissen-Plenz et al Journal of Cardiothoracic...
... survival analysis and multivariate survival analysis and COX proportional hazard model analysis (data not shown) Table Correlations between LCMR1 expression and clinicopathologic characteristics ... clinical data, including gender, age, smoking status, pathological type, histologic grade, lymph node metastasis, and clinical stage Analysis of gender, age, smoking status, pathological type, histologic ... immunohistochemistry analysis CL and YL carried out qPCR YZ, ZY, and PW collected the cases and sections LC participated in the design and coordination and supervised the whole study All authors read and approved...