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Cadmium as a risk factor for osteoporosis and fractures in women
(2011-09-02)
Cadmium is toxic and accumulates in the body, particularly in the kidneys. Cereals, vegetables and potatoes are the main sources of exposure, besides tobacco smoking. The critical effect of cadmium is considered to be renal ...
Regeneration of the auditory nerve : a cell transplantation study
(2011-11-28)
Since in mammals, the hair cells or the spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) in the inner ear do not regenerate, damage to these cells is an irreversible process. Presently the only aid for patients with severe to profound hearing ...
A treatment-strategy-based classification system for decision-making in patients with low-back pain : a biomedical approach: development and inter-examiner reliability
(2012-04-12)
clinical signs and symptoms (examination items), identified as important for classification. Agreement was substantial (80%, κ = 0.72) when the two pairs classified patients into one of the four classifications. Agreement on the five specific clinical signs...
Epidemiology, risk and protective factors of self-immolation : a study from Iran
(2013-04-04)
Background: Suicide by self-burning (self-immolation) is one of the suicide methods that is far more common in low-middle income countries than in high-income ones. Iran is one of the countries that has a high rate of ...
Computed tomography based assessment of treatment response in solid tumors
(2012-08-28)
than four target lesions might cause discrepancies when more than five target lesions were present (study I). Interobserver variation using RECIST and WHO-criteria were moderate: 0.53 (95%CI 0.33 - 0.72) and 0.60 (0.39 – 0.80), respectively...
Serotonergic mechanisms in atopic dermatitis
(2012-11-21)
Atopic dermatitis (AD) may be worsened by stress and anxiety. Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) is an important mediator in stress and anxiety.
In the present thesis serotonergic mechanisms were studied in atopic ...
Mifepristone for preoperative treatment of uterine leiomyoma
(2011-04-29)
.014). The controls (N=15) had a percentual n.s. increase in volume of mean (± 95% Confidence interval), +8% (-10%, +26%) over time. The mifepristone group (N=12) had a significant volume regression of -27% (-47%, -8%), p=0.028 within the mifepristone group...
Increasing access to medical abortion
(2012-11-12)
logistic regression. In the final models parity (p=0,003) and feeling calm after the administration of misoprostol (p<0,001) had a positive influence on the experience in relation to expectation whereas having a positive u-hcg test on follow up had a...
Intersubject variability in the processing of fearful faces in healthy adults
(2012-08-02)
Threatening stimuli have a privileged status in the brain, meaning they receive priority in the processing stream. This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective where quickly and accurately identifying threat is necessary ...
Optimization of intravenous contrast media at computed tomography
(2012-05-09)
) was observed with the use of LOCM than with IOCM (P< 0.001). There was no difference in subjective image quality between the two CM. The experienced heat sensation was stronger when receiving LOCM than when receiving IOCM (visual analogue scale = 36 mm and 18...