This study aimed to examine the participation of Australian Chinese in cardiovascular risk factor and cancer screening. A telephone survey of a random sample of Chinese in New South Wales, Australia, was conducted. The presence of, and participation in screening for,... | PMID: 21819359

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Scapular winging is a rare disorder often caused by neuromuscular imbalance in the scapulothoracic stabilizer muscles. Lesions of the long thoracic nerve and spinal accessory nerves are the most common cause. Numerous underlying etiologies have been described. Patients report diffuse... | PMID: 21807913

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Major depressive disorder, the most common psychiatric illness, is often chronic and a major cause of disability. Many patients with major depressive episodes who have an underlying but unrecognized bipolar disorder receive pharmacologic treatment with ineffective regimens that do no... | PMID: 21810644

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We have found that IMP3, an oncofetal RNA-binding protein, is a biomarker to predict aggressive tumors. To investigate whether IMP3 can be used as a new biomarker to predict the recurrence and overall survival of patients with meningiomas. One hundred seven patients w... | PMID: 21809995

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Recognition of trauma-induced coagulopathy by conventional coagulation testing (CCT) is limited by their slow results, incomplete characterization, and their poor predictive nature. Rapid thrombelastography (r-TEG) delivers a more comprehensive assessment of the coagulation system bu... | PMID: 21825945

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Colorectal cancer represents a major public health problem due to its frequency and mortality rate. Adjuvant chemotherapy has improved the prognosis of colon cancer. Six months of oxaliplatin and fluoropyrimidine in combination is the standard adjuvant treatment in stage III patients... | PMID: 21810511

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We investigated the role of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) I/D and -240A>T, angiotensinogen (AGT) M235T, and angiotensin type 1 receptor (AGTR1) 1166A > C polymorphisms in modulating the susceptibility to the disease. Eight hundred twenty-one consecutive patients with severe car... | PMID: 21819925

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Compared to other chronic inflammatory diseases, gout appears to based on a rather "simple" pathophysiology and therefore the amount of teaching time in medical school and during internship is rather limited. On the other hand, several problems in short- and long-term management stil... | PMID: 21833886

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Stress cardiomyopathy (SC) is a transient form of acute heart failure triggered by stressful events and associated with a distinctive left ventricular (LV) contraction pattern. Various aspects of its clinical profile have been described in small single-center populations, but larger,... | PMID: 21771988

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Various early arthritis clinics have provided extensive data on presentation, disease course and outcomes of early inflammatory arthritis (EIA). The present Review summarizes the epidemiological data from these early arthritis cohorts (EACs), which provide information about the frequ... | PMID: 21670767

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We present the results from the first two rounds of the program. The program is open for laboratories using commercially available kits for Aβ, T-tau, or P-tau. CSF samples (aliquots of pooled CSF) are sent for analysis several times a year from the Clinical Neurochemistry Laborator... | PMID: 21784349

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We found 35 brains with deposits of 3 proteins (tau, β-amyloid, and α-synuclein). In these two series of brains, the high incidence of deposition of multiple proteins in neurodegenerative disorders is shown. Our results are in agreement with previous findings showing that tau, β-amyloid, and α-s... | PMID: 21618706

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We assessed hepatovenous pressure gradient (HVPG), liver stiffness (transient elastography), and interleukin (IL)-28B polymorphisms (rs12979860) in 90 cirrhotic patients with HCV infection (82% genotype 1 or 4) before antiviral therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin. Efficacy and safety wer... | PMID: 21397726

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A National Diabetes Register was established in the National Board of Health in 2006 following a pilot study showing the feasibility of doing so based on existing registers. The register contains data of birth, date of inclusion, and date of death as well as informati... | PMID: 21775353

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We investigated the influence of prognostic factors on CAP severity and outcome using a logistic regression model to obtain the coefficient, and a contingency table. The optimal cutoff points for age and BUN were calculated from receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves. The influence of respir... | PMID: 21842684

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We critically appraise the literature to identify unifying features and determine whether specific management can be recommended. We found 18 clinical reports of anaesthesia including a total of 28 patients, most under general anaesthesia. Those with an implanted defibrillator should have it deactiv... | PMID: 21823372

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We conducted a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of preexposure isoniazid prophylaxis against tuberculosis in HIV-infected children and uninfected children exposed to HIV during the perinatal period. We randomly assigned 548 HIV-infected and 804 HIV-uninfected infant... | PMID: 21732834

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We detected no increased risk for perinatal events with fluoxetine therapy compared to the short half-life antidepressants. clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00279370. © Copyright 2011 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc.... | PMID: 21824458

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We performed myeloablative bone marrow transplantation from an unrelated donor during the patient's first complete remission. After engraftment, he developed acute graft-versus-host disease involving the gastrointestinal tract on day 32. Steroids and mycophenolate mofetil were initiated from day 39.... | PMID: 21821990

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