Discontinuation of adjuvant hormone therapy among breast cancer patients not previously attending mammography screening.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The vascular contributions to neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation may be assessed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonography (US). This review summarises the methodology for these widely available, safe and relatively low cost tools and analyses recent work highlighting their potential utili...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Malojcic B,Giannakopoulos P,Sorond FA,Azevedo E,Diomedi M,Oblak JP,Carraro N,Boban M,Olah L,Schreiber SJ,Pavlovic A,Garami Z,Bornstein NM,Rosengarten B

更新日期：2017-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study investigated the extent to which approaches to work, workplace climate, stress, burnout and satisfaction with medicine as a career in doctors aged about thirty are predicted by measures of learning style and personality measured five to twelve years earlier when the doctors were applicants to medic...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： McManus IC,Keeling A,Paice E

更新日期：2004-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary care clinicians and researchers are growing increasingly aware of the prevalence of multimorbidity among long-term conditions, and the impact on patient experience, health, and utilisation of care. The correspondence paper by Muth et al. entitled 'The Ariadne principles: how to handle multimorbidity in primary...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Bower P

更新日期：2014-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mediterranean diet has been linked to a number of health benefits, including reduced mortality risk and lower incidence of cardiovascular disease. Definitions of the Mediterranean diet vary across some settings, and scores are increasingly being employed to define Mediterranean diet adherence in epidemiological st...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Trichopoulou A,Martínez-González MA,Tong TY,Forouhi NG,Khandelwal S,Prabhakaran D,Mozaffarian D,de Lorgeril M

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The major psychoactive cannabinoid compound of marijuana, delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), has been shown to modulate immune responses and lymphocyte function. After primary infection the viral DNA genome of gamma herpesviruses persists in lymphoid cell nuclei in a latent episomal circular form. In respon...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Medveczky MM,Sherwood TA,Klein TW,Friedman H,Medveczky PG

更新日期：2004-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the late 1980s, genetic discrimination has remained one of the major concerns associated with genetic research and clinical genetics. Europe has adopted a plethora of laws and policies, both at the regional and national levels, to prevent insurers from having access to genetic information for underwrit...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Joly Y,Ngueng Feze I,Simard J

更新日期：2013-01-31 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: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:Comorbidity between depressive and anxiety disorders is common. A hypothesis of the network perspective on psychopathology is that comorbidity arises due to the interplay of symptoms shared by both disorders, with overlapping symptoms acting as so-called bridges, funneling symptom activation between symptom ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Groen RN,Ryan O,Wigman JTW,Riese H,Penninx BWJH,Giltay EJ,Wichers M,Hartman CA

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate and timely cause of death (COD) data are essential for informed public health policymaking. Medical certification of COD generally provides the majority of COD data in a population and is an essential component of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems. Accurate completion of the med...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Hart JD,Sorchik R,Bo KS,Chowdhury HR,Gamage S,Joshi R,Kwa V,Li H,Mahesh BPK,Mclaughlin D,Mikkelsen L,Miki J,Napulan R,Rampatige R,Reeve M,Sarmiento C,War NS,Richards N,Riley ID,Lopez AD

更新日期：2020-03-09 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：:There has been increasing interest in the role of malaria drugs in preventing malaria transmission from humans to mosquitoes, which would help augment malaria control and elimination strategies. Nevertheless, only one stage in the malaria parasite life cycle, the gametocyte, is infectious to mosquitoes. The Worldwide ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Karunajeewa HA,Mueller I

更新日期：2016-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine candidate recently completed Phase III trials in 11 African sites. Recommendations for its deployment will partly depend on predictions of public health impact in endemic countries. Previous predictions of these used only limited information on underlying vaccine properties and...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Penny MA,Galactionova K,Tarantino M,Tanner M,Smith TA

更新日期：2015-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resistance and tolerance to Plasmodium falciparum can determine the progression of malaria disease. However, quantitative evidence of tolerance is still limited. We investigated variations in the adverse impact of P. falciparum infections among African pregnant women under different intensities of malaria tr...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Ndam NT,Mbuba E,González R,Cisteró P,Kariuki S,Sevene E,Rupérez M,Fonseca AM,Vala A,Maculuve S,Jiménez A,Quintó L,Ouma P,Ramharter M,Aponte JJ,Nhacolo A,Massougbodji A,Briand V,Kremsner PG,Mombo-Ngoma G,Desai M,

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although neutrophils have been linked to the progression of cancer, uncertainty exists around their association with cancer outcomes, depending on the site, outcome and treatments considered. We aimed to evaluate the strength and validity of evidence on the association between either the neutrophil to lympho...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Cupp MA,Cariolou M,Tzoulaki I,Aune D,Evangelou E,Berlanga-Taylor AJ

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The treatment of patients with haematological malignancies by means of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is often accompanied by life threatening infections. With emerging antimicrobial resistance there is an increased need for new agents, with a beneficial safety profile. Therefore we evaluate...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Velden WJ,van Iersel TM,Blijlevens NM,Donnelly JP

更新日期：2009-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cost-effectiveness of universal rotavirus (RV) vaccination is controversial in developed countries. As a result, RV vaccination programs do not currently exist in most European countries. Hospitalization is the main driver of RV disease costs, and prematurity, low birth weight (LBW) and underlying medica...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Bruijning-Verhagen P,Mangen MJ,Felderhof M,Hartwig NG,van Houten M,Winkel L,de Waal WJ,Bonten MJ

更新日期：2013-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical pathways (CPs) are used to improve the outcomes of acute stroke, but their use in stroke care is questionable, because the evidence on their effectiveness is still inconclusive. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether CPs improve the outcomes and the quality of care provided to patients ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Panella M,Marchisio S,Brambilla R,Vanhaecht K,Di Stanislao F

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Monogenic diabetes (MgD) accounts for 1-2% of all diabetes cases. In adults, MgD is difficult to distinguish from common diabetes causes. We assessed the diagnosis rate and genetic spectrum of MgD using next-generation sequencing in patients with late adolescence/adult-onset diabetes referred for a clinical ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Donath X,Saint-Martin C,Dubois-Laforgue D,Rajasingham R,Mifsud F,Ciangura C,Timsit J,Bellanné-Chantelot C,Monogenic Diabetes Study Group of the Société Francophone du Diabète.

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A decade ago celiac disease was considered extremely rare outside Europe and, therefore, was almost completely ignored by health care professionals. In only 10 years, key milestones have moved celiac disease from obscurity into the popular spotlight worldwide. Now we are observing another interesting phenomenon that i...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Sapone A,Bai JC,Ciacci C,Dolinsek J,Green PH,Hadjivassiliou M,Kaukinen K,Rostami K,Sanders DS,Schumann M,Ullrich R,Villalta D,Volta U,Catassi C,Fasano A

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexity of tissue and the alterations that distinguish normal from cancer remain a challenge for translating results from tumor biological studies into clinical medicine. This has generated an unmet need to exploit the findings from studies based on cell lines and model organisms to develop, validate and clinic...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Kampf C,Bergman J,Oksvold P,Asplund A,Navani S,Wiking M,Lundberg E,Uhlén M,Ponten F

更新日期：2012-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The consumption of free sugars in the UK is more than double the guideline intake for adults and close to triple for children, with soft drinks representing a significant proportion. The aim of this study was to assess how individual soft drink companies and consumers have responded to calls to reduce sugar ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Bandy LK,Scarborough P,Harrington RA,Rayner M,Jebb SA

更新日期：2020-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite our substantial understanding of molecular mechanisms and gene mutations involved in cancer, the technical approaches for diagnosis and prognosis of cancer are limited. In routine clinical diagnosis of cancer, the procedure is very basic: nuclear morphology is used as a common assessment of the degre...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Capo-chichi CD,Cai KQ,Simpkins F,Ganjei-Azar P,Godwin AK,Xu XX

更新日期：2011-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mucin 4 (MUC4) plays an important role in protecting and lubricating the epithelial surface of reproductive tracts, but its role in the pathogenesis of endometriosis is largely unknown. METHODS:To correlate MUC4 polymorphism with the risk of endometriosis and endometriosis-related infertility, we performed ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Chang CY,Chang HW,Chen CM,Lin CY,Chen CP,Lai CH,Lin WY,Liu HP,Sheu JJ,Tsai FJ

更新日期：2011-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tobacco smoking is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality. Evidence on the relation of smoking to different subtypes of CVD, across fatal and non-fatal outcomes, is limited. METHODS:A prospective study of 188,167 CVD- and cancer-free individuals aged ≥ 45 years from the Aust...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Banks E,Joshy G,Korda RJ,Stavreski B,Soga K,Egger S,Day C,Clarke NE,Lewington S,Lopez AD

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common chronic liver illness with a genetically heterogeneous background that can be accompanied by considerable morbidity and attendant health care costs. The pathogenesis and progression of NAFLD is complex with many unanswered questions. We conducted genome-w...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Namjou B,Lingren T,Huang Y,Parameswaran S,Cobb BL,Stanaway IB,Connolly JJ,Mentch FD,Benoit B,Niu X,Wei WQ,Carroll RJ,Pacheco JA,Harley ITW,Divanovic S,Carrell DS,Larson EB,Carey DJ,Verma S,Ritchie MD,Gharavi AG,

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In childhood, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by age-inappropriate levels of inattentiveness/disorganization, hyperactivity/impulsiveness, or a combination thereof. Although the criteria for ADHD are well defined, the long-term consequences in adults and children need to be m...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Shaw M,Hodgkins P,Caci H,Young S,Kahle J,Woods AG,Arnold LE

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Managing hearing communication for residents living with hearing loss and dementia in long-term care settings is challenging. This paper explores how care can be effective in optimising hearing communication for residents living with dementia. We argue that the underlying notion of permission or authorisatio...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Crosbie B,Ferguson M,Wong G,Walker DM,Vanhegan S,Dening T

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-stroke dementia (PSD) or post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) may affect up to one third of stroke survivors. Various definitions of PSCI and PSD have been described. We propose PSD as a label for any dementia following stroke in temporal relation. Various tools are available to screen and assess cognition, wi...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Mijajlović MD,Pavlović A,Brainin M,Heiss WD,Quinn TJ,Ihle-Hansen HB,Hermann DM,Assayag EB,Richard E,Thiel A,Kliper E,Shin YI,Kim YH,Choi S,Jung S,Lee YB,Sinanović O,Levine DA,Schlesinger I,Mead G,Milošević V,Ley

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exercise started shortly after breast cancer diagnosis might prevent or diminish fatigue complaints. The Physical Activity during Cancer Treatment (PACT) study was designed to primarily examine the effects of an 18-week exercise intervention, offered in the daily clinical practice setting and starting within...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Travier N,Velthuis MJ,Steins Bisschop CN,van den Buijs B,Monninkhof EM,Backx F,Los M,Erdkamp F,Bloemendal HJ,Rodenhuis C,de Roos MA,Verhaar M,ten Bokkel Huinink D,van der Wall E,Peeters PH,May AM

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00