Primary and secondary prevention in cardiovascular disease: an old-fashioned concept?

abstract：:Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency is an under-recognized hereditary disorder associated with the premature onset of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, liver cirrhosis in children and adults, and less frequently, relapsing panniculitis, systemic vasculitis and other inflammatory, autoimmune and neoplastic diseas...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： de Serres F,Blanco I

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal surfaces of the body serve as the major portal of entry for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). These tissues also house a majority of the body's lymphocytes, including the CD4(+) T cells that are the major cellular target for HIV infection. Mucosal surfaces are defended by innate and adaptive immune mechanism...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Shacklett BL,Critchfield JW,Ferre AL,Hayes TL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:It is well known that pulmonary function is associated with all-cause and cardiovascular (CV) death. Less is known about the association between respiratory symptoms and mortality and whether such an association is independent of physical fitness. In this study, we assessed the association of breathlessness ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Stavem K,Sandvik L,Erikssen J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to identify predictors of weight loss in obese men participating in a 2-year behaviour modification programme. DESIGN:Longitudinal, clinical intervention study of a behaviour modifying weight loss program. SETTING:University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. SUBJECTS:Forty-four ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Näslund E,Andersson I,Degerblad M,Kogner P,Kral JG,Rössner S,Hellström PM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the influence of fish oil on CyA-induced renal dysfunction, 13 patients with psoriasis (CyA group) received cyclosporin A (CyA) alone, and seven patients (CyA/EPA + DHA group) received a combination of cyclosporin A and fish oil (6g eicosapentaenoic acid, C20:5 omega-3, and docosahexaenoic acid, C22:...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Stoof TJ,Korstanje MJ,Bilo HJ,Starink TM,Hulsmans RF,Donker AJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Sweden, prophylactic treatment of boys with severe haemophilia has been practised since 1958 in an attempt to convert the disease from a severe to a milder form. The present study population consisted of 60 severe haemophiliacs (52 A, 8 B), aged 3-32 years. Treatment is started when the boys are 1-2 years of age, t...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Nilsson IM,Berntorp E,Löfqvist T,Pettersson H

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by accumulation of oxidized lipoproteins, increased cell death and hypertrophic degeneration of the arterial intima. The disease process is associated with local formation of modified self antigens that are targeted by both innate and adaptive immune resp...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Nilsson J,Hansson GK

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral toxoplasmosis is optimally treated with the combination of high doses of sulphadiazine and pyrimethamine. We described two patients with AIDS treated for cerebral toxoplasmosis who developed renal failure due to sulphadiazine-induced crystalluria. Symptoms and renal failure were rapidly reversed with urine al...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Fariñas MC,Echevarría S,Sampedro I,González A,Pérez del Molino A,González-Macías J

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International RET Mutation Consortium was first convened as part of the Fifth International Workshop on Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia, Stockholm, Sweden, in an attempt to analyse the relationship of RET mutation and disease phenotype in the autosomal dominantly inherited multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2) ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Mulligan LM,Marsh DJ,Robinson BG,Schuffenecker I,Zedenius J,Lips CJ,Gagel RF,Takai SI,Noll WW,Fink M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between autoimmunity and extranodal lymphocytic infiltrates in different lymphoproliferative disorders with immunoglobulin alterations. SUBJECTS AND DESIGN:A clinical review combined with a retrospective cohort study of 380 patients, 28 with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined s...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Jønsson V,Wiik A,Hou-Jensen K,Christiansen M,Ryder LP,Madsen HO,Geisler C,Hansen MM,Thomsen K,Vorstrup S,Svejgaard A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyhaemoglobins (PolyHb) and perfluorochemicals are in advanced phase III clinical trials and conjugated haemoglobins in phase II clinical trial. New recombinant human haemoglobin with no vasoactivity is being developed. A soluble macromolecule of PolyHb-catalase-superoxide dismutase is being studied as an oxygen car...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Chang TM

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsatile, intravenous insulin infusion designed to mimic the portal insulin concentrations that emerge physiologically after a meal, has been postulated to improve glucose tolerance in Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients. We studied the effects of insulin pulsing (10 i.v. pulses of human insulin of 0.035 U k...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Heinemann L,Sonnenberg GE,Hohmann A,Ritzenhoff A,Berger M,Benn J,Sönksen P,Kelley D,Gerich J,Aoki T

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Platelet-activating factor (PAF) is a phospholipid inflammatory mediator which is synthesized by a variety of cells, including monocytes and endothelial cells, and PAF can be retained in activated endothelial cell membranes. Furthermore, PAF-like lipids are produced in other phospholipid membranes as in oxidi...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Wu R,Lemne C,De Faire U,Frostegârd J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For nearly a decade since the mapping of the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) locus to 11q13 and the suggestion that it is a tumour suppressor gene, efforts have been made to identify the gene responsible for this familial cancer syndrome. Recently, we have identified the MEN1 gene by the positional cloning ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Guru SC,Manickam P,Crabtree JS,Olufemi SE,Agarwal SK,Debelenko LV

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The angiotensinogen (AGT) gene has been implicated as a candidate gene of high blood pressure. However, because the variants of the AGT gene are point mutations, it is difficult to detect them in large scale population studies. The aims of this study were to develop a rapid screening method for the point mut...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Morise T,Takeuchi Y,Takeda R

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ground-breaking discovery of genotype-phenotype relationships in hereditary medullary thyroid cancer has greatly facilitated early prophylactic thyroidectomy. Its timing depends not solely on a positive gene test but, more importantly, on the type of the REarranged during Transfection (RET) mutation and its underl...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Machens A,Lorenz K,Dralle H

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammation is involved in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) has a role in cardiovascular disease, but the association of IL-6 concentration and the functional IL-6 -174 polymorphism with cognitive decline has not been demonstrated unequivocally. The obje...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Mooijaart SP,Sattar N,Trompet S,Lucke J,Stott DJ,Ford I,Jukema JW,Westendorp RG,de Craen AJ,PROSPER Study Group.

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypovitaminosis D, a condition that is highly prevalent in older adults aged 65 years and above, is associated with brain changes and dementia. Given the rapidly accumulating and complex contribution of the literature in the field of vitamin D and cognition, clear guidance is needed for researchers and clini...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Annweiler C,Dursun E,Féron F,Gezen-Ak D,Kalueff AV,Littlejohns T,Llewellyn DJ,Millet P,Scott T,Tucker KL,Yilmazer S,Beauchet O

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Small LDL particle size has been shown to be associated with coronary artery disease. However, no previous study has been performed relating LDL particle size to ultrasound measurement of atherosclerosis in hypercholesterolaemic subjects. The main aims of the present study were therefore: (i) to investigate ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Hulthe J,Wiklund O,Bondjers G,Wikstrand J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) can occur as in isolated form (sporadic LAM) or as a pulmonary manifestation of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) (TSC-associated LAM). Recent studies, however, revealed that both forms of LAM are genetically related but that sporadic LAM is a distinct clinical entity caused by ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Sato T,Seyama K,Kumasaka T,Fujii H,Setoguchi Y,Shirai T,Tomino Y,Hino O,Fukuchi Y

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:No survival benefit of using blood stem cells instead of bone marrow (BM) has been shown in matched unrelated donor (MUD) transplantation. DESIGN AND METHODS:In a retrospective registry analysis, we compared the use of blood stem cells (n = 1502) and BM (n = 760) from unrelated donors in patients aged 18-60...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Ringdén O,Labopin M,Beelen DW,Volin L,Ehninger G,Finke J,Greinix HT,Kyrcz-Krzemien S,Bunjes D,Brinch L,Niederwieser D,Arnold R,Mohty M,Rocha V,Acute Leukaemia Working Party of European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantati

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Findings from animal studies indicate that growth hormone (GH) may stimulate the production of the putative metabolic regulator fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21). We investigated whether circulating FGF21 levels are altered in patients with GH deficiency and characterized how levels of this growth factor ar...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Lundberg J,Höybye C,Krusenstjerna-Hafstrøm T,Bina HA,Kharitonenkov A,Angelin B,Rudling M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that replacement of C-peptide to normal physiological concentrations in insulin-dependent diabetic (IDDM) patients on a short-term basis (1-3 h) results in decreased glomerular hyperfiltration, augmented glucose utilization and improved autonomic nervous function. More prolonged admini...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Wahren J,Johansson BL,Wallberg-Henriksson H,Linde B,Fernqvist-Forbes E,Zierath JR

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In healthy individuals, insulin resistance is associated with physiological conditions such as pregnancy or body weight gain and triggers an increase in beta cell number and insulin secretion capacity to preserve normoglycaemia. Failure of this beta cell compensation capacity is a fundamental cause of diabetic hypergl...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Thorens B

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular disorders including hypertension and associated renal disease are major health problems affecting more than 1.5 billion people worldwide. Apart from nonmodifiable factors such as ageing, family history and gender, both sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy dietary habits are considered as major risk factors...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Carlstrom M,Montenegro MF

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The systemic regulation of immune reactions by the nervous system is well studied and depends on the release of hormones. Some regional regulations of immune reactions, on the other hand, depend on specific neural pathways. Better understanding of these regulations will expand therapeutic applications for neuroimmune ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Kamimura D,Murakami M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of resuscitation on patients who died suddenly out of hospital were evaluated after the introduction of early defibrillation performed by ambulance personnel using semi-automatic defibrillators. Resuscitation attempts were initiated in 548 patients during the 1-year study period. Mean ambulance delay was 7...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Jakobsson J,Rehnqvist N,Nyquist O

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Study patient characteristics, morbidity patterns and drug regimens associated with fatal adverse drug events (FADEs) amongst medical department inpatients. DESIGN:An observational, descriptive study using aggregated medical records, autopsies and pre and postmortem drug analyses. SETTING:A department of in...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Buajordet I,Ebbesen J,Erikssen J,Brørs O,Hilberg T

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart failure is characterized by chronically increased adenosine levels, which are thought to express a protective anti-heart failure activation of the adenosinergic system. The aim of the study was to assess whether the activation of adenosinergic system in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) can be mi...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Laghi-Pasini F,Guideri F,Petersen C,Lazzerini PE,Sicari R,Capecchi PL,Picano E

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The contribution of plasma lipids to cardiovascular risk is usually evaluated by measuring plasma concentrations of total cholesterol, triglycerides and HDL cholesterol, and calculating LDL cholesterol concentration. We investigated plasma concentrations of apolipoproteins and lipoprotein particles in women ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Nielsen NE,Olsson AG,Swahn E

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00