Genetics, molecular mechanisms and management of long QT syndrome.

abstract：:This is a brief overview of the cytokine network within juvenile chronic arthritis, introducing the concept of the production of T-helper 1 (TH-1) or TH2-cell differentiation as a result of cytokine production, as well as the concept of the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines. The balance of TH1 and T...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Woo P

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rapidly progressing disease characterized by an over- expression of endothelin. In addition to its potent pulmonary vasoconstrictor effects, endothelin has been shown to produce many of the aberrant changes, such as hypertrophy, fibrosis, inflammation, and neurohormonal activation ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Clozel M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term fibromyalgia describes a complex syndrome characterized by pain amplification, musculoskeletal discomfort, and systemic symptoms. Although its existence has been controversial, nearly all rheumatologists now accept fibromyalgia as a distinct diagnostic entity. In fact, in the United States it is the third or ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Wallace DJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical experience has indicated that the effects of RU 486 can be divided into dose-dependent and dose-independent effects. Examples of the dose-dependent effects include the antiglucocorticoid effects of RU 486, whereas pregnancy termination or dilatation of the cervix can be considered dose-independent with the va...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Heikinheimo O,Kekkonen R

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense oligonucleotides represent a novel class of potential drugs for highly selective blocking of genes. The basic concept of antisense strategy is simple: an antisense molecule recognizes a complementary mRNA (or DNA) by sequence-specific base pairing, and hence prevents translation (or transcription), resulting...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Lönnberg H,Vuorio E

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major discoveries in modern genetics is the phenomenon of genomic, or parental, imprinting. The parent-of-origin effects seen after transmission of an imprinted gene from parents to their children do not follow the genetic rules postulated by Gregor Mendel. This has obvious consequences for genetic counsell...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Mannens M,Alders M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukotriene-forming enzymes are expressed within atherosclerotic lesions and locally produced leukotrienes exert pro-inflammatory actions within the vascular wall by means of cell surface receptors of the BLT and CysLT receptor subtypes. The migration and accumulation of inflammatory cells that follow leukotriene rece...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Bäck M,Hansson GK

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate dyslipidemia as predictor of myocardial infarction (MI) in subjects with or without chronic kidney disease (CKD). METHODS:In 142,394 middle-aged Swedes referred for laboratory evaluation, glomerular filtration rates (GFR) were estimated using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease study equation. CK...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Holzmann MJ,Jungner I,Walldius G,Ivert T,Nordqvist T,Ostergren J,Hammar N

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aetiology of insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM) involves genetic predisposition, a major component of which has been mapped in the HLA complex, near to or identical with genes encoding class II molecules. In Caucasian populations IDDM is strongly associated with the serologically defined HLA-DR3 and DR4 antigens, w...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Deschamps I,Beressi JP,Khalil I,Robert JJ,Hors J

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a national Belgian nutritional study (the B.I.R.N.H. Study), the authors review how far the Belgian population is from the recommended nutritional goals and ideal serum cholesterol. They also make comparisons between genders and look at differences according to the linguistic background (French- or Dutch-speaking s...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Kornitzer MD,Dramaix MM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concepts of eating disorders have altered so that anorexia nervosa is now recognized as an important but uncommon syndrome within a spectrum of disordered eating. Behaviours used by dieters constitute the mild end of the eating disorder spectrum. Dieting in young women is for the most part a transient and benign activ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Patton GC

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statins are the first-line choice in Lipid-lowering therapy to reduce cardiovascular risk. In a continuous attempt to optimise treatment success, there is a need for additional research on genes and related molecular pathways that can determine the efficacy and toxicity of lipid-lowering drugs. Several variations with...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Ahangari N,Doosti M,Ghayour Mobarhan M,Sahebkar A,Ferns GA,Pasdar A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The expression of disintegrin and metalloprotease ADAM-9, ADAM-15, and ADAM-17 has been associated with cell-cell, cell-platelet, and cell-matrix interactions and inflammation. They are possibly implicated in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis. METHODS AND RESULTS:Whole-genome expression array ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Oksala N,Levula M,Airla N,Pelto-Huikko M,Ortiz RM,Järvinen O,Salenius JP,Ozsait B,Komurcu-Bayrak E,Erginel-Unaltuna N,Huovila AP,Kytömäki L,Soini JT,Kähönen M,Karhunen PJ,Laaksonen R,Lehtimäki T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clock generates oscillations in physiology and behavior, known as circadian rhythms. Links between the circadian clock genes Periods, Bmal1, and Cryptochromes and aging and cancer are emerging. Circadian clock gene expression is changed in human pathologies, and transgenic mice with mutations in clock ge...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Khapre RV,Samsa WE,Kondratov RV

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question why low-density lipoprotein (LDL) stranded in the subendothelium of arteries should acquire the proinflammatory properties that initiate and sustain atherogenesis has puzzled researchers for decades. The most popular concept contends that oxidative processes are crucial because oxidized LDL (ox-LDL) produ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Bhakdi S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of patients with low back pain offer no objective clinical findings on which to make a diagnosis on the basis of physical examination. Therefore a diagnostic categorization of complaint based on duration and location is proposed. The justification for this organization is the assumption that the majority ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Mooney V

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations between candidate gene polymorphisms and coronary heart disease (CHD) are complex as a consequence of pleiotropy, variation with age, selection due to the high lethality of the disease, and interactions with other genes and with environmental factors. Identification of the gene variants that contribut...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Cambien F

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocytochemical studies using antibodies to cytoskeletal proteins have provided conflicting data on the components of paired helical filaments (PHF), due solely to immunological cross-reactivities. To avoid such ambiguity, we developed a protein chemical approach to the identification of the PHF components. After t...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Ihara Y,Kondo J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Aiming at identifying biomarkers for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the serum proteome was explored through a two-dimensional gel-based proteomic approach (2D-DIGE) coupled with mass spectrometry and database interrogation. METHODS:Serum samples from 20 male HCM patients and their sex- and age-matched...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Orenes-Piñero E,Hernández-Romero D,de Torre C,Vilchez JA,Martínez M,Romero-Aniorte AI,Climent V,García-Honrubia A,Valdés M,Marín F

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain bacterial infections have been demonstrated to be causative of reactive arthritis. The most common bacterial trigger of reactive arthritis is Chlamydia trachomatis. Chlamydia pneumoniae is another known cause, albeit far less frequently. Although Chlamydia-induced reactive arthritis will often spontaneously re...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Carter JD,Inman RD,Whittum-Hudson J,Hudson AP

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vulvodynia is a complex multifactorial and multidisciplinary clinical syndrome of unexplained vulvar pain, sexual dysfunction, and psychological disability. Because of the absence of abnormal physical findings among such patients, vulvodynia was long thought to be solely a psychosomatic syndrome. The incidence or prev...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Paavonen J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) represents the most common form of genetic predisposition to colon cancer. Even in kindreds with several affected members it is, however, difficult to rule out chance clustering and other nonhereditary factors since colon cancer is so common in the general population. ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Peltomäki PT

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE:There is limited information about the durability of glycaemic control when different oral glucose-lowering therapies (GLTs) are used as add-on treatments to metformin (MET) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). OBJECTIVE:To compare time to treatment failure between different classes of oral GLT...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Mamza J,Mehta R,Donnelly R,Idris I

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common among the severe cardiac arrhythmias and carries a significant risk of mortality and morbidity in the general population. The most important complication is represented by development of one or more thrombi in the left atrium of the dyskinetic heart, and their successive cer...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Danese E,Montagnana M,Cervellin G,Lippi G

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years a revival of interest has emerged in the health benefits of intermittent fasting and long-term fasting, as well as of other related nutritional strategies. In addition to meal size and composition a new focus on time and frequency of meals has gained attention. The present review will investigate the e...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Wilhelmi de Toledo F,Grundler F,Sirtori CR,Ruscica M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Ambient air pollution is associated with adverse cardiovascular events. This meta-analysis aimed to investigate the short-term association between air pollution and cardiovascular effects on healthy volunteers. METHODS:We searched databases to identify randomized trials with controlled human exposures to ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Vieira JL,Macedo FY,Benjo AM,Guimarães GV,Contreras JP,Bocchi EA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adding to the difficulty of interpreting the human genome sequence and annotating protein sequence databases is the observation that a single protein can 'moonlight' or perform multiple, apparently unrelated, functions. This review summarizes examples of moonlighting proteins in cellular activities and biochemical pat...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Jeffery CJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to test the applicability of exercise echocardiography in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. The results were compared to findings of coronary angiography. 118 patients, 100 males and 18 females, who were all referred to coronary angiography for suspected ischaemic heart disease, u...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Luotolahti M,Saraste M,Hartiala J

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone fractures affecting elderly people are a true public health burden, because they represent one of the most important causes of long-standing pain, functional impairment, disability, and death among this population. Compromised bone strength (osteoporosis) and falling, alone, or more frequently in combination, are...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Kannus P,Uusi-Rasi K,Palvanen M,Parkkari J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of different clinical conditions on urinary dolichols was studied in 219 hospital patients and in 24 pregnant women. Significantly increased urinary dolichol levels were found in patients with severe bacterial infections (mean +/- SEM, 37.5 +/- 8.0 micrograms/mmol creatinine, P less than 0.001), in patients...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Roine R,Humaloja K,Hämäläinen J,Nykänen I,Ylikahri R,Salaspuro M

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00