... interphalangeal joints (DIP), the proximal interphalan-geal joints (PIP), the interphalaninterphalan-geal joint of the thumb (IP), the metacarpophalangeal joints (MCP), the thumb carpometacarpal joint (CMC) ... reminder postcard shortly prior to the appointment The postcard will be mailed in an envel-ope to maintain confidentiality about the nature of the appointment Participants who do not attend the ... clinic for their specified appointment will be sent another letter asking them to re-contact the Research Centre and book another appointment if they still wish to participate Assessment clinics
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24
... awareness lessons in some schools InUkraine during the 1990s media reporting of HIV/ AIDS had the effect of instilling fear in society rather than providing informative commentary [5] Intervie-wees’ ... An investigator triangulation approach was adopted: multi-ple researchers contributed to analysing the findings to reduce bias and enhance the internal validity of the synthesis The synthesis involved ... NGOs (needle/syringe exchange, awareness-raising and social support programmes) oper-ating in three contrasting settings selected in each coun-try for fieldwork In Ukraine these were the capital
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
Báo cáo y học: " Epidemiologic heterogeneity of common mood and anxiety disorders over the lifecourse in the general population: a systematic review" ppsx
... sec-ond column, the timeframe of interviews in the third col-umn, and the main findings in the fourth column These tables aim to highlight the most meaningful conclusions from the studies collected ... enrolled in the WIC program in Pittsburgh also identified four trajectories of symptoms of anxiety, including low, low-increasing, high-declining, and high-increasing groups [52] In contrast to the ... stronger evidence for intra-individual heterogeneity in the longitu-dinal course of a single disorder than heterogeneity result-ing from havresult-ing distinct clinical subtypes in the population Several
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20
báo cáo khoa học:" Multimorbidity and health-related quality of life in the older population: results from the German KORA-Age study" ppsx
... was involved in the interpretation of data AD participated in the coordination of the study PM commented on drafts of paper AP was involved in the conception of the study RH was involved in the ... of the study and assisted in writing the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... report the results of both main effects and interaction models, which include the same disease interactions as the EQ-5D index model In particular, this approach allows us to investigate whether the
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo y học: " Level and course of FEV1 in relation to polymorphisms in NFE2L2 and KEAP1 in the general population" pps
... the level, but not the longitudinal course of FEV1 in the general population Therefore, it remains for future con-siderations whether these SNPs play a role in the develop-ment or growth of the ... on the pooled cohorts including over 2,500 subjects with over 11,000 FEV1 measurements In our opinion the most convincing association shown in the current study was that the rs11085735 SNP in ... the importance of both genes in the regulation of oxidative stress in the lung, fur-ther studies focusing on the NFE2L2-KEAP1 pathway are warranted Competing interests MS has no conflict of interest
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo y học: " Glutathione S-transferase genotypes modify lung function decline in the general population: SAPALDIA cohort study" pps
... remaining subjects, comprising participants reporting at both sur-veys former smoking (n = 944), quitting smoking during follow-up (n = 387), starting smoking during follow-up (n = 38), non-smoking ... smoking intensity (pack-years up to baseline and during follow-up in ever smokers), as well as BHR and age, was assessed by includ-ing accordinclud-ing multiplicative interaction terms in the ... smoking during follow-up (n = 387), starting smoking during follow-up (n = 38), non-smoking at baseline and former smoking at follow-up (n = 29) and former smoking at baseline and current smoking
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20
Effects of anti malaria drug artesunate in the treatment of rhinovirus induced asthma exacerbation
... have been shown to be the binding sites of the receptors and thus block the binding of the neutralizing binding sites of antibodies (Kim, Smith et al 1989) Blockage of the binding site with several ... Further investigation revealed a deficiency in interferon-β in these asthmatic epithelial cells Thirdly, and paradoxically, there are studies indicating viral infection can indeed prevent the ... dependent on the interaction between the pathogen and the host—these outcomes can be inception, exacerbation or prevention During infancy, certain kinds of viruses, including human rhinovirus and
Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:16
Pharmacology of gemcitabine in the asian population 1
... to allow the interfered receiving node toreduce the effect of the interference to a certain extent, or allow the pairing sender of the interfered receiving node to effectively utilize the non-causally ... onrate splitting and the DF coding strategy for the channel The coding schemeallows the senders to perform cross decoding of the information sent by each other in one block, such that the two senders ... ex-ploit the feedback to improve the transmission rates between the source and thedestination It is shown that the new achievable rates obtained for the first caseinclude the existing results on the
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:04
Pharmacology of gemcitabine in the asian population
... gemcitabine in combination with carboplatin as long as the ratios were ≥ 500 due to fast deamination of gemcitabine This finding has provided a useful marker in evaluating the efficacy of gemcitabine ... opportunity to investigate pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic interactions, including their genetic determinants in order to optimise clinical use Firstly, the progress in gemcitabine research ... cytidine deaminase (CDA) in blood, liver, kidney and other tissues to the inactive metabolite 2’-deoxy-2’, 2’-difluorouridine (dFdU) which will be excreted mainly in the urine This rapid deamination
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:04
Evaluation of the impact of polymorphisms on candidate genes of allergic rhinitis and asthma on disease outcomes in the singapore population
... Gene is the segment of DNA involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it includes regions preceding and following the coding region (leader and trailer) as well as intervening sequences (introns) ... an individual Haplotype: Hapotype is the particular combination of alleles in a defined region of some chromosome, in effect the genotype in miniature In other words, Haplotype is the linear, ... from reduced recombination in the region or from a founder effect, in which there has been insufficient item to reach equilibrium since one of the markers was introduced into the population Mutation:
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:58
Identification of polymorphisms in the nuclear receptors (PXR, CAR and HNF4X) genes in the local population
... domain located at the amino-terminal and AF-2 domain at the carboxy-terminal The DNA binding domain (DBD) is connected to the ligand binding domain (LBD) by a flexible hinge Upon ligand binding ... species They generally have two transcription activation function domains (AF-1 and AF-2) located at the amino and carboxyl termini respectively, a zinc finger DNA binding domain and a ligand binding ... binding domain as illustrated in Figure 4 NHRs are able to induce or regulate drug metabolism by binding to small lipophilic ligands Following ligand binding and dimerization, they then bind to DNA
Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:06
Memory-related subjective cognitive symptoms in the adult population: prevalence and associated factors – results of the LIFE-Adult-Study
... cued recall The test requires individuals to recognize the ten words presented earlier in the Word List Learning test among ten other distractor words The maximum score is 20 including the ten correctly ... al [6] for the SCD-syndrome as a po-tential prodromal stage in AD, the likelihood of pre-clinical AD in individuals with SCD is increased by the following features: SCD onset within the last 5 ... acquain-tances or friends than in the past?” The following questions provided more detailed infor-mation on memory-related SCS: (viii) “Since when do you have the feeling your memory is becoming
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 12:31
Are subjective cognitive complaints related to memory functioning in the working population
... tasks were administered in which the participants were instructed to generate aloud as many words as possible in 1 min The first task was to produce words beginning with the letter A The second ... difficulties going back to sleep?) and the Awakening index (AI) reflecting feelings of be-ing insufficiently restored (e.g How often have you been troubled by not feeling rested at wake-up?) during the ... experiencing the 4 cognitive problems“Seldom” or less on average, and be-longs to approximately the bottom 50% of the distribu-tion of SCC scores in the gainfully working part of the SLOSH population
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 13:16
Physical activity in adolescents with psychiatric disorders and in the general population
... (45.8%) The age distribution is given in Table 1 A few adolescents (n = 15) were 19–20 years at the time of completing the question-naire, and in further analysis these are included in the age ... activity can increase the synthesis of new hippocampal neurons, which in-duces a mood-elevating effect [62] Physical activity also increases levels of dopamine, increasing the feeling of motivation, ... ad-olescents in the general population, they had a three-fold increased risk of lower physical activity, similar for not participating in individual and team sports There were no sex differences in the
Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2020, 19:08
Genetic variants in ATM, H2AFX and MRE11 genes and susceptibility to breast cancer in the polish population
... predisposing breast cancer susceptibility variant in populations in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Poland [29] In another study, two protein-truncating mutations in the ATM gene were found in two ... groups Results ATM variants in BC patients In the group studied, we found six changes (five in the BC patients and two in the control group) in the func-tional domain of theATM gene (c.6067G > ... role of variants in theATM, H2AFX and MRE11 genes in determining breast cancer (BC) susceptibility Methods: We examined the whole sequence of the ATM kinase domain and estimated the frequency of
Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2020, 02:43
Identifying Cases of Undiagnosed, Clinically Significant COPD in Primary Care Qualitative Insight from Patients in the Target Population
... were instructed to read the instructions aloud and explain them to the interviewer, in their own words If the instructions were unclear or the interpretation was not consistent with the intent, ... if they had participated in the elicitation phase of the project, had been hospitalised for a respiratory infection the prior 30 days, or, in the judgment of the clinician or clinical coordinator, ... cognitive interviews were designed to gather data on the clarity of the instructions and candidate items, including the extent Trang 4to which each item was understood and interpreted as intended
Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 18:34
Associations between ambient air pollution, obesity, and serum vitamin D status in the general population of Korean adults
... seen in smokers might be due to accumulation of cadmium in the kidney [37] However, findings regarding the vitamin D status in smokers are conflicting [38] The mechanisms behind the finding need ... (Perkin Elmer, Turku, Finland) and a 25-hydrox-yvitamin D 125I RIA kit (DiaSorin Inc., Stillwater, MN, USA) The central testing institute in Seoul, Korea partic-ipated in the proficiency testing ... adaptive “winter response”, and that the decline in vitamin D skin synthesis, due to reduced sun exposure, contributes to the tendency to increase fat mass during the cold season [34] Other studies
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2022, 03:17
drug costs in the management of metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer in canada
... varying (increasing and/or decreasing) the percentage of pa-tients receiving the most expensive therapies These scenarios were suspected to have the most important impact on the cost estimates In ... reported for men in the general population [47] Furthermore, as the sequence of treatment is not well defined in the OtherTx state (patients can participate to clinical trials or receive either docetaxel ... complex and the associated drug treatments are increasingly costly The objective of this study was to estimate the cost of drug treatments over the mCRPC period, in the context of the latest evidence-based
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 09:24
Addressing the impact of economic sanctions on iranian drug shortages in the joint comprehensive plan of action: promoting access to medicines and health diplomacy
... coverage (including for rural populations,) the integration of health services and medical education, and improving services in hospital settings [33, 34] With the second largest population in the ... example includes the routine child vaccine that protects against the bacterium haemophilus influenzae, which causes severe pneumonia and meningitis in infants, in critically short supply in Iran ... However, despite these efforts, pharmaceutical firms and international banking institutions remain cautious about doing business with Iran, leaving the country faced with continuing shortages We
Ngày tải lên: 19/11/2022, 11:36
LiverScreen project: study protocol for screening for liver fibrosis in the general population in European countries
... par-ticipate in the study, they will be given an appointment at the primary care center or research facility where they will be informed about the details of the study and enrolled if they meet the inclusion/exclusion ... biopsy are pain at the puncture site, intraabdominal bleeding, perforation of the gallbladder com-plications is intraabdominal bleeding, which occurs in 2.2 out of 1,000 biopsies In the current ... both, using the continuous forms of the variables with t tests (or non-parametric tests in the case these variables vio-late the necessary assumptions), and using the Chi squared test In addition,
Ngày tải lên: 29/11/2022, 14:04