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Studies on arterial endothelial function and intima-media thickness using ultrasound technique
(2008-05-09)
and brachial B-mode scanning and FMD in 58 patients who had undergone coronary angiography. In a randomized study 67 patients with early, active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were randomized to either 7.5 mg prednisolone daily (n=34) or no prednisolone (n=33...
Acute and early chronic responses to resistance exercise using flywheel or weights
(2008-05-15)
Weight training typically offers constant external load during coupled shortening (concentric) and lengthening (eccentric) muscle actions in sets of consecutive repetitions until failure. However, skeletal muscle inherently ...
Storage and transfusion of platelets : in vitro and in vivo studies in healthy volunteers and in allogeneic hemapoetic progenitor cell transplant recipents
(2009-03-13)
Early studies in the 1960´s showed that platelet (PLT) transfusions
significantly reduced the incidence of fatal hemorrhages. Together with
the advances in the hematology and transplantation field, easily
accessible ...
Brain MRI and CT morphology in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease
(2010-02-05)
Background: The brain atrophy in individual Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients includes not only specific atrophy from AD pathology, but also atrophy induced by normal aging and cerebral vascular diseases. Although medial ...
Bystander initiated and dispatcher assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
(2009-11-13)
criteria. Six hundred and eleven (620) patients were randomly assigned to receive instructions for compression only CPR and 656 patients for standard CPR. Survival in both groups was similar with 8.7% (54/620) of the patients who received compressions only...
Population-based family studies : genetic contribution to cancer development and survival?
(2008-10-09)
Cancer affects essentially everyone, directly or indirectly. The aim of
this thesis was to study the genetic and environmental factors in cancer
development and survival. Our studies were based on a record linkage
between ...
Clinical aspects of Mycoplasma genitalium infection
(2010-01-15)
The microorganism Mycoplasma (M.) genitalium was first isolated by culture in 1980. Further attempts to culture this mycoplasma were difficult because of its slow growing nature. The development of polymerase chain reaction ...
Screening for intimate partner violence in healthcare in Kano, Nigeria : barriers and challenges for healthcare professionals
(2010-05-05)
Background: Though there has been increased advocacy for screening for Intimate
partner violence (IPV) in healthcare over the past decades, data from
developed country context suggest that only one in ten healthcare
providers ...
Serum antibodies against Staphylococcus aureus antigens in healthy individuals and patients with invasive infections
(2010-03-05)
patients with septicaemia due to Staphylococcus aureus. We detected alpha-toxin in 22% (6/27) of the sera taken on admission from patients whith symptoms presented for ~7 days. In all, alpha-toxin was found in 20 % (8/41) serum samples taken on admission...
The risk of malignancy in women with endometriosis
(2010-03-05)
) and when all visible endometriosis had been removed (OR 0.37 and OR 0.30, respectively). The only association between hormonal treatment and ovarian cancer was a borderline significance for months of danocrine use and ovarian cancer risk in the univariate...