... 0.141) Influence of risk factors on the clinical course We tested whether the duration of breastfeeding and of vitamin D supplementation influenced the clinical course of KD cases The clinical variables ... for the study was provided by the Ethics Committee of the University of Freiburg (Number of application EK Freiburg 43/11_130055), in accordance with the ethical standards of the Declaration of ... various risk factors among the case-control pairs Simple measures of association were used to assess the impact of these factors on the clinical course Results: There was no difference in lengths of
Ngày tải lên: 01/02/2020, 03:59
... enhanced our knowledge of the factors involved in the development of the disease and of the mechanisms responsible for its progression This has allowed identification of several new therapeutic targets ... effect on quality of life has helped the medical community to appreciate the real impact of the disease on the health of a steadily increasing number of patients In response to the need for better ... on the development of radiographic and clinical OA of the knees, hands and lumbar spine Running did not accelerate the development of radiographic or clinical OA of the knee, whereas 12% of all
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20
GT-repeat polymorphism in the heme oxygenase1 gene promoter and the risk of carotid atherosclerosis related to arsenic exposure ppt
... of the S/S or S/ L genotype vs carriers of the LL genotype) In the next combination analysis, the relative percentage change in the risk of atherosclerosis from carriers to non-carriers of the ... biological gradient of long-term arsenic exposure with the prevalence of carotid atherosclerosis [6], further providing evidence of the presence of atherosclerosis induced by arsenic Despite the well-documented ... play important roles in the development of athero-sclerosis [10] In the initiation phase of atheroathero-sclerosis, oxidant-elicited inflammation causes dysfunction of endothelial cells, while endogenous
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21
Báo cáo y học: "The association between systemic glucocorticoid therapy and the risk of infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: systematic review and metaanalyses" pptx
... of a priori sensitivity analyses In the main analysis, all GC-treated arms were combined Because of the low number of events and the sensitivity of the default Trang 3weighting (the inverse of ... remained a pro-blem Nonetheless, most analyses of observational studies reported an increased risk of infection, which conflicts with the result of the RCTs The dose of GC therapy varied both within ... Ten of 21 studies had no reported infec-tions in either arm, and four further studies had no infections in one of the two arms The estimated relative risk of infection associated with GC therapy
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22
Báo cáo y học: "The impact of the severity of sepsis on the risk of hypoglycaemia and glycaemic variability" ppt
... with both risk of severe hypoglycaemia and the risk of mortality. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Key messages • The risks and benefits of IIT are ... episodes; for the entire ICU stay; for each IIT protocol; and for the groups stratified by the sever- ity of sepsis. Insulin therapy The duration of continuous insulin application, the duration of overall ... Consequently, the coexistence of predisposing factors, which are also influenced by the severity of sepsis, could increase the risk of critical hypoglycaemia among these patients. Risk factors
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23
DSpace at VNU: An Exploration of How Perceptions of the Risk of Avian Influenza in Poultry Relate to Urbanization in Vietnam
... number of changes They noted howurbanization has changed the ‘‘coolness’’ of their envi-ronment, primarily by the removal of trees Other partici-pants reported that the amount and type of housing ... influenza risk in Southeast Asia Proceedings of the Na-tional Academy of Sciences 105:4769–4774 Lilian A, Kliskey A, Williams P (2007) The distancing effect of modernization on the perception of water ... activities Participants were informed about the purpose of the study, the nature of the questions, and that they could refuse to answer questions or withdraw from the study at any time Each participant
Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 08:32
Minimizing the risk of operating a small business
... Assume the risk Self insure Avoid the risk (don’t go into a high-liability business) Transfer the risk Reduce the risk - Educate Employees - Practice Safe Business Practices Trang 5Assume the ... business? Trang 3Risk Management: Asking the What IF Questions Risk Management is the identification of all exposure to financial loss of your business It includes the selection of techniques to ... investing our time, money and reputation Often times the higher the risk, the higher the reward The questions we need to ask ourselves include how much risk are we willing to take on? Are we
Ngày tải lên: 05/02/2018, 15:40
Minimizing the risk of operating a small business insurance
... California there are no exemptions for small businesses • The amount of insurance is based on the “risk level” of the job (construction is higher than clerical) • Costs are also determined by the “size” ... “size” of your payroll and the company’s safety record Trang 6Where to look for Workman’s Compensation Insurance Quotes • Check first with the State of California. • The State sets the rate for the ... 2Where to Start??• There are so many types of insurance that a business could go broke paying for the highest protection in all areas • The best place to start is to analyze the needs for your
Ngày tải lên: 05/02/2018, 15:40
Relying on ongoing monitoring to test controls performance to reduce the scope of separate testing
... reserves The control of the review of economic trends primarily depends on its being complete The control of the calculation of the reserve, and approval of it, depends on the accuracy of the calculation ... measuring its output In the example of maintaining the accounts receivable reserve, the result, or output, of the connected set of activities being performed is the update of the accounts receivable ... monitoring performed by the owner of the process or activity Then, independent testing separate evaluations can be done of this ongoing monitoring, and not of the performance of the controls as such
Ngày tải lên: 06/04/2018, 11:16
The risk of downward mobility in educational attainment
... the same class as their parents Second, the amount of upward mobility can be computed from the sum of the percentages of persons reaching higher classes than their parents Third, the amount of ... order to reach the educational level of their parents mo-There are different ways to measure social origin, and the education of the parents is only one of them Other common measures of social origin ... because they depend on the place within the class structure: whereas those at the bottom of the class structure cannot move further downward, those at the top cannot move further upward At the same
Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2018, 15:13
The risk of typhoon and storm surge along the coast of Vietnam
... the Center and South of Vietnam In the first half of the typhoon season, the track of typhoon is less complicated; however, the track of typhoon is often more complicated in the second half of ... 4shows that during the first half of the typhoon season, the typhoon directions tend to be Northwest, North and Northeast, and have a landfall in the Southeast China In the rest of the typhoon season, ... storm surge The results show that in the period of 1951–2016 there were many typhoons which landed and induced high storm surge on the coast of the North and the North of Center of Vietnam During
Ngày tải lên: 13/01/2020, 16:58
Drinking water and sanitation conditions are associated with the risk of malaria among children under five years old in sub-Saharan Africa: A logistic regression model analysis of national
... were excluded if there was no data or ambiguous data on their WS use (these variables in the DHS and MIS were always represented in the form of ‘‘do not know” or ‘‘others”) or if their age was over ... 2030[7,12], the primary hypoth-esis was whether the redoubling of efforts to improve WS and its recognition as a new policy for the prevention and control of malaria transmission can contribute to the ... compare the prevalence of unprotected water and piped water with that of protected water, and the prevalence of flush toilets and no facility sources with that of pit latrine toilets among the total
Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2020, 19:44
Auditors’ usage of non financial data and information during the assessment of the risk of material misstatement for an audit engagement: A field study
... Deloitte Touche) The authors assume that depending on the responses of auditors working at the branches of the big four auditing firms would enhance the creditability of the findings of the present ... reports of financial statements The results of the present study show that auditors seem to be making moderate use of non-financial data and information during the assessment of the risk of material ... fill the questionnaire and conduct interviews 5 Results and Discussions This section presents the results of the present study In the presentation of the results of the present study, the questions
Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2020, 17:58
Managing the risk of humanitarian crises
... RISK Global challenges and the changing risk landscape Worldwide, there is an increase in the number of people who need humanitarian assistance and the cost of helping them.20 The number of ... these [Typhoon Haiyan/ Yolanda] natural disasters Disasters are never natural They are the intersection of factors other than physical They are the accumulation of the constant breach of ... critical threat to the health, safety, security or well-being of a community or other large group of people, usually over a wide area.54 Risk is the combination of the probability of an event and
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2020, 09:06
Assessing the risk of fungal stem defects that affect sawlog quality in Vietnamese Acacia plantations
... considered the risk that the identified fungi might pose to the Acacia hybrid wood at the end of the rotation The specific questions asked were: are the fungi associated with rot the same as ... Institute of Agriculture College of Science and Engineering Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Tasmania April, 2018 Trang 2ii This thesis ... for sawlogs Thesis Hypotheses The following hypotheses were tested: (i) The risk of heart rot in pruned and thinned Acacia hybrid after pruning and thinning increases This hypothesis was tested
Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2020, 11:44
Silica and asbestos exposure at work and the risk of bladder cancer in Canadian men: A population-based case-control study
... lung cancer and mesothelioma [8, 9] However, the impact of these expo-sures on the risk of cancer at other sites remains unclear While extra pulmonary translocation mechanisms of inhaled particles ... from the time they were 18 years old to the time of the interview For each occupation, the information collected included job title, main tasks performed, type of industry, location, period of ... estimate of the relative scale between the semi-quantitative con-centration levels assigned by the Montreal industrial hy-giene experts across the range of agents [46] We categorized the continuous
Ngày tải lên: 17/06/2020, 03:18
Development and external validation of nomograms to predict the risk of skeletal metastasis at the time of diagnosis and skeletal metastasis-free survival in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
... Guangzhou 510060, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution ... plotted on the x-axis; actual rates of SMFS are plotted on the y-axis The dashed lines along the 45-degree line through the origin represent the perfect calibra-tion models in which the predicted ... confirm the superior independent discriminative ability of the nomo-grams over the standard TNM staging system The training cohort were evenly grouped into three risk groups by nomogram score, then
Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2020, 04:02
Chronic kidney disease and the risk of cancer: An individual patient data meta-analysis of 32,057 participants from six prospective studies
... effects of reduced kidney function and risk of cancer and cancer death The availability of individual data allowed for an assessment of the potential influence on estimates of competing risks and ... writing of the manuscript CB supervised the statistical analyses and contributed to the writing of the manuscript JCC conceived of and designed the study and contributed to the writing of the manuscript ... function there was also a significant trend towards reduced risk of prostate cancer (trend p = 0.03, Fig 3) In addition, dialysis patients had a twofold higher risk of death from cancers of the digestive
Ngày tải lên: 20/09/2020, 14:14
A novel variant on chromosome 6p21.1 is associated with the risk of developing colorectal cancer: A two-stage case-control study in Han Chinese
... genotype of the tagSNP rs2282151, the expression levels of HSP90AB1, and the risk of CRC As shown in Fig 3, the C allele of rs2282151 was associated with increased risk of CRC Meanwhile, the C allele ... indicated the activity of the transcription All these five candidate causal SNPs were located in the peak of H3K27Ac Notably, the polymorphisms of rs10948128 and rs3757283 (two of the five SNPs) ... of the population of Mainland China and about 18 % of the entire global human population We investigated 23 tagSNPs in six genes in the inflammation pathway for their associa-tions with CRC The
Ngày tải lên: 20/09/2020, 18:20
Factors infl uencing the risk of breast cancer – established and emerging ppt
... into the complicated origins of breast cancer I) THE COCKTAIL EFFECT Despite the theory of the role of oestrogen mimicking chemicals in breast cancer, it will be almost impossible to prove the ... the of cial views of the funders and the EU institutions Factors influencing the risk of breast cancer – established and emerging April 2008 Introduction Most of us will know of someone affected ... 27) the possession of certain so-called ‘breast cancer genes’2 These are known as ‘established risk factors’ However, all the established risk factors together can only explain about half of breast...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20