Mammalian NPC1 genes may undergo positive selection and human polymorphisms associate with type 2 diabetes.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical apps are widely available, increasingly used by patients and clinicians, and are being actively promoted for use in routine care. However, there is little systematic evidence exploring possible risks associated with apps intended for patient use. Because self-medication errors are a recognized source...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Huckvale K,Adomaviciute S,Prieto JT,Leow MK,Car J

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated interactions between genetically and autoimmune-mediated coagulopathies by inducing experimental antiphospholipid syndrome (eAPS) in mice carrying the factor V Leiden (FVL) mutation. METHODS:eAPS was induced in heterozygous and homozygous FVL transgenic mice (C57BL/6 background) by immunizat...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Katzav A,Grigoriadis NC,Ebert T,Touloumi O,Blank M,Pick CG,Shoenfeld Y,Chapman J

更新日期：2013-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The inverse equity hypothesis asserts that new health policies initially widen inequality, then attenuate inequalities over time. Since 2004, the UK's pay-for-performance scheme for chronic disease management (CDM) in primary care general practices (the Quality and Outcomes Framework) has permitted practices...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Lowrie R,McConnachie A,Williamson AE,Kontopantelis E,Forrest M,Lannigan N,Mercer SW,Mair FS

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute kidney injury (AKI) is independently associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Ischemia is the leading cause of AKI, and short of supportive measures, no currently available therapy can effectively treat or prevent ischemic AKI. This paper discusses recent developments in the understanding of ischemic A...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Munshi R,Hsu C,Himmelfarb J

更新日期：2011-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vaccination has reduced the global incidence of measles to the lowest rates in history. However, local interruption of measles virus transmission requires sustained high levels of population immunity that can be challenging to achieve and maintain. The herd immunity threshold for measles is typically stipula...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Funk S,Knapp JK,Lebo E,Reef SE,Dabbagh AJ,Kretsinger K,Jit M,Edmunds WJ,Strebel PM

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa remains challenging to measure relying on epidemiological modelling to evaluate the impact of investments and providing an in-depth analysis of progress and trends in malaria response globally. In malaria-endemic countries of Africa, there is increasing use of rout...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Alegana VA,Okiro EA,Snow RW

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Australia was one of the first countries to introduce a publicly funded national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program that commenced in April 2007, using the quadrivalent HPV vaccine targeting 12- to 13-year-old girls on an ongoing basis. Two-year catch-up programs were offered to 14- to 17- year-o...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Gertig DM,Brotherton JM,Budd AC,Drennan K,Chappell G,Saville AM

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extended use of combined pharmacotherapies to treat tobacco dependence may increase smoking abstinence; few studies have examined their effectiveness. The objective of this study was to evaluate smoking abstinence with standard nicotine patch (NRT), extended use of combined formulations of nicotine replaceme...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Tulloch HE,Pipe AL,Els C,Clyde MJ,Reid RD

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This comment relates to articles published in archived content of the journal Head and Neck Oncology and is not related to the content of BMC Medicine in any way. ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： BioMed Central.

更新日期：2014-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The likelihood of recurrence in patients with breast cancer who have HER2-positive tumors is relatively high, although trastuzumab is a remarkably effective drug in this setting. Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 protein (STAT3), a transcription factor that is persistently tyrosine-705 phosp...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Sonnenblick A,Brohée S,Fumagalli D,Vincent D,Venet D,Ignatiadis M,Salgado R,Van den Eynden G,Rothé F,Desmedt C,Neven P,Loibl S,Denkert C,Joensuu H,Loi S,Sirtaine N,Kellokumpu-Lehtinen PL,Piccart M,Sotiriou C

更新日期：2015-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Severe iodine insufficiency in pregnancy has significant consequences, but there is inadequate evidence to indicate what constitutes mild or moderate insufficiency, in terms of observed detrimental effects on pregnancy or birth outcomes. A limited number of studies have examined iodine status and birth outco...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Snart CJP,Threapleton DE,Keeble C,Taylor E,Waiblinger D,Reid S,Alwan NA,Mason D,Azad R,Cade JE,Simpson NAB,Meadows S,McKillion A,Santorelli G,Waterman AH,Zimmermann M,Stewart PM,Wright J,Mon-Williams M,Greenwood DC

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to show the non-inferiority of home fortification with a daily dose of 3 mg iron in the form of iron as ferric sodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate (NaFeEDTA) compared with 12.5 mg iron as encapsulated ferrous fumarate in Kenyan children aged 12-36 months. In addition, we updated a recent meta-analysi...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Teshome EM,Andang'o PEA,Osoti V,Terwel SR,Otieno W,Demir AY,Prentice AM,Verhoef H

更新日期：2017-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We now know that depression is associated with a chronic, low-grade inflammatory response and activation of cell-mediated immunity, as well as activation of the compensatory anti-inflammatory reflex system. It is similarly accompanied by increased oxidative and nitrosative stress (O&NS), which contribute to ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Berk M,Williams LJ,Jacka FN,O'Neil A,Pasco JA,Moylan S,Allen NB,Stuart AL,Hayley AC,Byrne ML,Maes M

更新日期：2013-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The placebo response in patients with diabetes mellitus is very common. A systematic evaluation needs to be updated with the current evidence about the placebo response in diabetes mellitus and the associated factors in clinical trials of anti-diabetic medicine. METHODS:Literature research was conducted in ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Lin C,Cai X,Yang W,Lv F,Nie L,Ji L

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In a climate of economic uncertainty, cost effectiveness analysis is a potentially important tool for making choices about health care interventions. Methods for such analyses are well established, but the results need to be interpreted carefully and are subject to bias. Making decisions based on results of cost-effec...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Hill SR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrazine (2-chloro-4-ethytlamino-6-isopropylamine-1,3,5-triazine; ATR), is the most commonly applied broad-spectrum herbicide in the world. Unintentional overspray of ATR poses an immune function health hazard. The biomolecular mechanisms responsible for ATR-induced immunotoxicity, however, are little unders...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Zhang X,Wang M,Gao S,Ren R,Zheng J,Zhang Y

更新日期：2011-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent reviews on placebo effects in clinical trials suggest that objective changes following placebo treatments may not exist or, at least, have been considerably overestimated. However, the possibility that yet unidentified subsets of parameters are responsive to placebo treatments has not been taken into ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Meissner K,Distel H,Mitzdorf U

更新日期：2007-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Migraine aura may be difficult to differentiate from transient ischemic attacks and other transient neurological disorders in pregnant women. The aims of the present study were to investigate and diagnose all pregnant women with transient neurological disorders of suspected central nervous system origin, and...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Ertresvg JM,Stovner LJ,Kvavik LE,Johnsen HJ,Zwart JA,Helde G,Bovim G

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last 100 years, several persistent misconceptions or 'false beliefs' have built up around allergen immunotherapy and its use in allergic rhinitis. This is perhaps because enthusiastic physicians administered complex allergen extracts to a diverse population of patients suffering from heterogeneous a...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Calderón MA,Frankland AW,Demoly P

更新日期：2013-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual fifth edition (DSM-5) provides new criteria for delirium diagnosis. We examined delirium diagnosis using these new criteria compared with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual fourth edition (DSM-IV) in a large dataset of patients assessed for delirium and related presen...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Meagher DJ,Morandi A,Inouye SK,Ely W,Adamis D,Maclullich AJ,Rudolph JL,Neufeld K,Leonard M,Bellelli G,Davis D,Teodorczuk A,Kreisel S,Thomas C,Hasemann W,Timmons S,O'Regan N,Grover S,Jabbar F,Cullen W,Dunne C,Kam

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:All rigorous primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines recommend absolute CVD risk scores to identify high- and low-risk patients, but laboratory testing can be impractical in low- and middle-income countries. The purpose of this study was to compare the ranking performance of a simple, non-...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Gaziano TA,Pandya A,Steyn K,Levitt N,Mollentze W,Joubert G,Walsh CM,Motala AA,Kruger A,Schutte AE,Naidoo DP,Prakaschandra DR,Laubscher R

更新日期：2013-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical pathologies draw us to envisage disease as either an independent entity or a diverse set of traits governed by common physiopathological mechanisms, prompted by environmental assaults throughout life. Autoimmune diseases are not an exception, given they represent a diverse collection of diseases in terms of t...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Castiblanco J,Arcos-Burgos M,Anaya JM

更新日期：2013-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric nosology is widely criticized, but solutions are proving elusive. Planned revisions of diagnostic criteria will not resolve heterogeneity, comorbidity, fuzzy boundaries between normal and pathological, and lack of specific biomarkers. Concern about these difficulties reflects a narrow model that assumes mo...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Nesse RM,Stein DJ

更新日期：2012-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Network meta-analyses using individual participant data (IPD-NMAs) have been increasingly used to compare the effects of multiple interventions. Although there have been many studies on statistical methods for IPD-NMAs, it is unclear whether there are statistical defects in published IPD-NMAs and whether the...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Gao Y,Shi S,Li M,Luo X,Liu M,Yang K,Zhang J,Song F,Tian J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the current study was to assess the antidepressant efficacy and safety of Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort) extract WS 5570 at doses of 600 mg/day in a single dose and 1200 mg/day in two doses. METHODS:The participants in this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center clinic...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Kasper S,Anghelescu IG,Szegedi A,Dienel A,Kieser M

更新日期：2006-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interventions to alleviate stigma are demonstrating effectiveness across a range of conditions, though few move beyond the pilot phase, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Implementation science offers tools to study complex interventions, understand barriers to implementation, and genera...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Kemp CG,Jarrett BA,Kwon CS,Song L,Jetté N,Sapag JC,Bass J,Murray L,Rao D,Baral S

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health-related research funders, regulators and journals expect that de-identified individual-level health data be shared widely, with as few restrictions as possible; yet, in reality, the volume of shared data remains low. MAIN BODY:Health researchers and other data producers are reluctant to share their d...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Waithira N,Mutinda B,Cheah PY

更新日期：2019-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, medical practice has followed two different paradigms: evidence-based medicine (EBM) and values-based medicine (VBM). There is an urgent need to promote medical education that strengthens the relationship between these two paradigms. This work is designed to establish the foundations for a c...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Altamirano-Bustamante MM,Altamirano-Bustamante NF,Lifshitz A,Mora-Magaña I,de Hoyos A,Avila-Osorio MT,Quintana-Vargas S,Aguirre JA,Méndez J,Murata C,Nava-Diosdado R,Martínez-González O,Calleja E,Vargas R,Mejía-Arangure JM,C

更新日期：2013-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Skin toxicity is a common side effect of radiotherapy for solid tumors. Its management can cause treatment gaps and thus can impair cancer treatment. At present, in many countries no standard recommendation for treatment of skin during radiotherapy exists. In this study, we explored the effect of topically-a...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Pajonk F,Riedisser A,Henke M,McBride WH,Fiebich B

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A sizeable fraction of tuberculosis (TB) cases go undiagnosed. By analysing data from enhanced demographic, microbiological and geospatial surveillance of TB registrations, we aimed to identify modifiable predictors of inequitable access to diagnosis and care. METHODS:Governmental community health workers (...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： MacPherson P,Khundi M,Nliwasa M,Choko AT,Phiri VK,Webb EL,Dodd PJ,Cohen T,Harris R,Corbett EL

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00