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RESULTS |
Two miRNAs of interest were dysregulated in the urine from cancer patients with miR-125b showing an average 10.42-fold decrease (p < 0.01) and miR-126 showing an average 2.70-fold increase (p = 0.30) in the cancer samples compared to the normal controls. The sensitivity and specificity of the cytology on the same urine... |
DISCUSSION |
This preliminary study of candidate urinary miRNA in patients with low- and high-grade urothelial cancer demonstrated a significantly improved diagnostic accuracy over cytology. These results provide rationale for further studies on discovery and validation of candidate miRNAs in voided urine and may potentially lead t... |
To the Editor.— The article by Schweitzer et al in the AugustArchives(35:982-985, 1978) was interesting and thought-provoking. Preliminary studies of our own, however, along with earlier results obtained by Gur et al,1lead us to raise some serious questions related to the interpretations offered by Schweitzer et al of ... |
A Welshman who was 40 hanged himself after searching unsuccessfully for work for 10 months. The next day a letter arrived offering him a job. The letter the dead man left said: "I can't go on like this, reading and watching television all day. I'm drinking my unemployment money away." Was it unemployment or poverty tha... |
Prosthetic treatment of the edentulous patients is often a big challenge for a clinician. |
In many cases, it must be preceded by preparatory treatment before prosthetic treatment, becoming interdisciplinary. It should be remembered that the healing process does not end at the moment of hand over final prosthetic restorations. Equally important is patient education about the use of prostheses, the time of th... |
Oral status and its association with obesity in Southern Brazilian older people. |
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE |
The loss of a functional dentition imposes eating difficulties and food avoidance, which may be detrimental in terms of nutritional status and health. The objective of this study was to investigate whether tooth loss and edentulism that were not rehabilitated with dental prostheses were associated with obesity among el... |
MATERIALS AND METHODS |
A random sample of 872 independently living elderly was evaluated by means of a cross-sectional study. Socio-demographic, medical history and behaviour data were assessed using a standardised questionnaire. Two trained dentists assessed the number of teeth and use of prostheses in accordance with the WHO criteria. Heig... |
RESULTS |
Multivariate logistic regression revealed that edentulous persons wearing only upper dentures (OR = 2.34, 95% CI 1.18-4.27) and dentate participants with one to eight teeth wearing 0-to-1 prosthesis (OR = 2.96, 95% CI 1.68-5.19) were more likely to be obese. |
CONCLUSION |
The results show that a poorer oral status, represented by having fewer teeth that were not replaced by dental prostheses, was associated with obesity in Southern Brazil older people, suggesting a close relationship between poor oral status and systemic conditions that may have important clinical implications.Clinical ... |
This communication reports the clinical features of 92 children with Japanese encephalitis diagnosed on the basis of viral isolation from brain or cerebrospinal fluid and/or a 4-fold or higher rise in antibody titre in paired sera by haemagglutination inhibition (HI) test, followed by detection of specific IgM HI antib... |
Based on the model tests and the results of theoretical research, considered elasto-plasticity of the soil and highly nonlinear behavior of contact with columns and soil, more reasonable numerical model on multi-element composite foundation of concrete column and lime column was built. By changing the design parameters... |
In remote sensing and environmental mapping, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been used extensively to capture images. For many years, digital maps are generated by using a method called image stitching. It is a method of combining multiple images to produce a segmented panorama. Since this method has been commonly us... |
Abstract A science meeting is an opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues, to hear of new results and to learn from comprehensive reviews of a topic. Much of it happens in the meeting room and much of it also happens in the corridors of the meeting venue and in restaurants and perhaps bars near the meeting locatio... |
Intensifying drought is increasingly linked to global forest diebacks. Improved understanding of drought impacts on individual trees has provided limited insight into drought vulnerability in part because tree moisture access and depletion is difficult to quantify. In forests, moisture reservoir depletion occurs throug... |
Crystals of the Mn xBa12(BO3)8-2 xF8 x phase were grown from a high-temperature solution. This new fluoride borate is built of positively charged [Ba12(BO3)6]6+ blocks, the so-called "anti-zeolite" pattern. Using X-ray single-crystal diffraction, the bulk atomic arrangement in the centrosymmetric tetragonal unit cell i... |
This article estimates the effects of personal, clinical, physician, and hospital characteristics in a simultaneous equations model of length of stay and ancillary services use for five narrowly defined medical and surgical conditions. These are tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, gastroenteritis and colitis, inguinal her... |
There is no doubt that capitalism is one of the dominant economic systems today, has been transformed into a new ideology. If the beginning only revolved around free markets, unlimited private ownership, then now it is more of a new culture, lifestyle and even civilization. That dictates all aspects of human life. As a... |
BACKGROUND |
infarction (AMI) can be reduced by the use of sacubitril/valsartan. However, the therapeutic effects of sacubitril/valsartan in clinical settings are inconsistent. In this paper, the related research on the application of sacubitril/valsartan in AMI was comprehensively searched, in order to explore the clinical efficac... |
METHODS |
English databases, including American National Library of Medicine, Medline, and Embase, and Chinese databases, including Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang, and VIP, were searched using a combination of the following search terms: AMI, acute ST-segment ele... |
RESULTS |
A total of 5 articles were included in the meta-analysis. The total incidence of adverse cardiovascular events in the sacubitril/valsartan group was significantly lower than that in the control group {relative risk (RR) =0.61 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.46, 0.82], significance testing Z=3.36, and P=0.0008}. The di... |
DISCUSSION |
Sacubitril/valsartan was found to inhibit ventricular remodeling after AMI, improve cardiac function, and reduce the incidence of adverse cardiovascular events after myocardial infarction, the rehospitalization rate, and the mortality rate.SP0038 FACTORS IMPORTANT FOR MEDICAL ADHERENCE |
Factors important for medical adherence in rheumatic diseases Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are the cornerstone for the treatment of inflammatory arthritis and fundamental to prevent radiologic progression in patients with rheumatoid/psoriatic arthritis. However, the full benefit of DMARDs can only be ... |
Grandparents caring for grandchildren has become a common experience in China. However, the health implications of grandparenting, especially for health self-management, remain unclear. A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the effects of grandparenting on health self-management in older adults in China.... |
Generalized neural predictive control is a kind of receding horizontal control method, in which the minimum cost function is used to optimize the control input, but large calculation is needed in the minimization of the cost function. In this paper, time-delay neural network is imposed in the neural predictive control,... |
Passive liquid surfaces in wastewater treatment plants may be potential sources of odorous emissions. This study investigates the occurrence and significance of deviations that may originate from the use of the effective diameter as fetch parameter in the empirical correlations utilised by the WATER9 model to estimate ... |
We address the problem of grouping points or features common to a single object. In this paper we consider the processing of a sequence of two-dimensional orthogonal projections of a three-dimensional scene containing an unknown number of independently-moving rigid objects. We describe a computationally inexpensive alg... |
A procedure was developed to purify plasma membranes from cardiac tissue. Canine ventricular tissue was homogenized relatively gently in hypotonic buffer, extracted briefly with 0.15 M sodium perchlorate at 4 degrees C, and membranes were collected in an intermediate pellet by centrifugation at 27,500 X gmax. At this s... |
Purpose of review Transpulmonary thermodilution (TPTD) devices invasively measure not only cardiac output but also several other haemodynamic variables estimating cardiac preload, cardiac preload, systolic function, the lung oedema and systolic function, the lung oedema and the pulmonary permeability. In light of the r... |
This article investigates the performance of identity and the concept of a ‘good’ leader reflected in the discourse of the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a controversial yet significant politician in Thai contemporary politics. The analysis focuses on how Thaksin constructed his political self, and how it re... |
The application of ion chromatography with the column-switching technique for the simultaneous analysis of peroxydisulfate and conventional inorganic anions in a single run is described. With this method, conventional inorganic anions were separated by consecutive elution through both the guard column and separation co... |
This paper deals with the 3D FEM analysis of a novel magnetic levitation (maglev) train driven by an air-cored tubular linear induction motor. This new maglev system originates from Electromagnetic Launcher (EML) technology, especially the Linear Induction Launcher (LIL) type. Some 2D magnetic analyses based on current... |
This study investigates the relationships between self-construal, perceived control in communication interaction, and communication predispositions (e.g., argumentativeness and communication apprehension [CA]). The results indicate that the independent self-construal constitutes a significant predictor of perceived int... |
With the screening equipment becoming larger and larger, more and more people are paying attention to the dynamic characteristics of large-scale vibrating screen. The paper utilizes finite element software ANSYS to carry on modal analysis and dynamic stress analysis of 3175 elliptical vibrating screen, and finds out th... |
Microbial keratitis is one of the major causes of blindness in China. The rapid and unequivocal identification of the causative organism is the key point for the rational antimicrobial therapy and restoration of the vision. It is difficult for the physician to choice the first step in the management of microbial kerati... |
Transcription-activator-like effector (TALE) proteins consist of concatenated repeats that recognize consecutive canonical nucleobases of DNA via the major groove in a programmable fashion. Since this groove displays unique chemical information for the four human epigenetic cytosine nucleobases, TALE repeats with epige... |
The optimization problems of industrial process attracted many researches since the early 90's of the last century. The production volume increase, lifespan shorten of the products and technological advances pushed the industries to seek for low cost and quick implementation solutions. One of the processes that became ... |
Phase states of nickel silicides in a complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) device were investigated using energy-filtering transmission electron microscopy (EF-TEM). Differences in plasmon energy at each location of the device were identified in two dimensions using a plasmon energy map to analyze the phase s... |
The upper Paleocene, deep-marine succession from Itzurun beach (Zumaya, Northern Spain) has been studied using a bed-by-bed analysis. Seventeen ichnogenera were recognized and grouped into eight ichnoassemblages. Most of the ichnotaxa and ichnoassemblages are closely related to a particular lithology. Of the trace foss... |
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