Predictive validity of preadolescent type A determinants for type A dimensions in young adulthood--a 6-year follow-up.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Ischemic stroke (IS) in a young patient is a disaster and recurrent cardiovascular events could add further impairment. Identifying patients with high risk of such events is therefore important. The prognostic relevance of ECG for this population is unknown. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A total of 690 IS patient...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Pirinen J,Putaala J,Aarnio K,Aro AL,Sinisalo J,Kaste M,Haapaniemi E,Tatlisumak T,Lehto M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human airways are protected from invading micro-organisms by the highly efficient innate immune system. Antimicrobial peptides that are produced by inflammatory cells and airway epithelial cells are key elements in this innate immune system. A major subgroup of the antimicrobial peptides is the family of defensins...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Aarbiou J,Rabe KF,Hiemstra PS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation is a common cardiac arrhythmia with rapid and irregular atrial activity. Instead of uniformly contracting as one chamber, the atrial compartment fibrillates. Several studies have demonstrated that this arrhythmia contributes substantially to cardiac morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this revi...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Miyazaki S,Shah AJ,Scherr D,Haïssaguerre M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 50 different pharmacological and mechanical interventions have been tested to date for prevention of vascular restenosis without success. Intracoronary radiotherapy is the first one showing promise of significantly attenuating neointimal proliferation, causing positive vascular remodelling and thus inhibitin...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Kaluza GL,Ali NM,Raizner AE

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe around 1970 there were only a few small and often poorly known epidemiological studies on risk factors and the incidence of coronary heart disease. In order to enhance the utilization of the information contained in them, the Medical Clinic in Heidelberg offered uniform data analysis to qualifying contributi...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Lamm G

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid prototyping (RP) is a common name for several techniques, which read in data from computer-aided design (CAD) drawings and manufacture automatically three-dimensional objects layer-by-layer according to the virtual design. The utilization of RP in tissue engineering enables the production of three-dimensional sc...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Peltola SM,Melchels FP,Grijpma DW,Kellomäki M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large granular lymphocytic (LGL) leukemia is an incurable chronic disease, characterized by clonal expansion of cytotoxic T- or NK-cells in blood and bone marrow. Cytopenias (anemia, neutropenia) and autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis are the most common clinical manifestations of LGL leukemia. Recently...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Rajala HL,Porkka K,Maciejewski JP,Loughran TP Jr,Mustjoki S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the reliability hospital discharge register data in the assessment of acute myocardial infarction trends. In the FINMONICA study areas, trends in age standarized attack rates for the years 1983-90 were calculated independently from two sources: the nationwide Finnish hospital discharge register and the FI...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Mähönen M,Miettinen H,Pyörälä K,Molarius A,Salomaa V,Kuulasmaa K

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Prospective data on development of venous obstruction after electrode implantation are limited. We performed a prospective study on 150 patients undergoing first pacemaker implantation. METHODS:Venographies at base-line and 6 months postimplantation in all patients, 50 patients included into a long...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Korkeila P,Ylitalo A,Koistinen J,Airaksinen KE

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Study of the growth and development of cartilage and bone has been difficult because the structure of the tissues makes biological experiments hard to conduct. Recent advances in molecular biology have offered new possibilities for studying these processes. Many cartilage and bone specific cDNAs have been cloned and c...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Sandberg MM

更新日期：1991-08-01 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：:Atherosclerosis is a multifactorial pathological process. In recent years, the immune factors associated with its initiation and progression have been investigated intensively. Several autoantigens and their respective autoantibodies have been suggested as factors in atherogenesis. This manuscript provides a review of...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Shoenfeld Y,Sherer Y,George J,Harats D

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To appraise effective predictors for COVID-19 mortality in a retrospective cohort study. METHODS:A total of 1270 COVID-19 patients, including 984 admitted in Sino French New City Branch (training and internal validation sets randomly split at 7:3 ratio) and 286 admitted in Optical Valley Branch (external va...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Guan X,Zhang B,Fu M,Li M,Yuan X,Zhu Y,Peng J,Guo H,Lu Y

更新日期：2021-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the last two decades, the importance of genetic factors in the aetiology of major mental illness has been firmly re-established and psychiatric research has now firmly embraced the era of molecular genetics. Despite a number of false starts in the study of schizophrenia and affective disorder, there have been suc...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： O'Donovan MC,Owen MJ

更新日期：1992-06-01 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：:Susceptibility to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) correlates with the absence of aspartic acid in position 57 of the DQB1 and/or the presence of arginine in position 52 of the DQA1. It has been postulated that transcomplementation between the DQ alpha and beta chains of the two haplotypes could create new m...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Tuomilehto-Wolf E,Tuomilehto J,Hitman GA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Commercial nucleic acid amplification tests, designed for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA/RNA in respiratory samples, are often applied also in nonrespiratory specimens in order to verify the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. AIM. To evaluate the value of the Abbott LCx Mycobacterium ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Rantakokko-Jalava K,Marjamäki M,Marttila H,Mäkelä L,Valtonen V,Viljanen MK

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregates of dysfunctional proteins and peptides in or between brain neurons are key neuropathological features of dementia and are believed to directly cause or substantially contribute to the development of these diseases. Fundamental parts of the mechanisms underlying the dysregulation of proteins in Alzheimer's d...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Ingelsson M,Hyman BT

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transvaginal ultrasonic monitoring of the lower uterine segment was performed in 15 pregnancies in which the mother had previously had three or more caesarean sections. The typical findings were thinning of the myometrium, asymmetric isthmal structures and ventral ballooning of the isthmus. An image of the other of th...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Kirkinen P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin (EPO) is of special interest in the perinatal period in the mother and fetus. On the one hand, thanks to the recent development of highly sensitive radio-immunoassays and the ability to monitor endogenous EPO production, we can now study the physiological aspects of maternal and fetal erythropoiesis and...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Huch R,Huch A

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with an increased risk of mortality and morbidity from stroke and thromboembolism. Endothelial damage or dysfunction may contribute to this increased risk of thromboembolism via the mediation of a prothrombotic or hypercoagulable state. However, the precise pathophysiological mec...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Krishnamoorthy S,Lim SH,Lip GY

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroids diffuse through polysiloxone at a constant rate, and steroids placed in the vagina rapidly pass through the vaginal epithelium into the circulation. Combining these principles led to the development of contraceptive vaginal rings (CVR) consisting of various progestins, with and without oestrogen, placed in fl...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Mishell DR Jr

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Troglitazone is a novel once-daily oral antidiabetic agent for the treatment of type 2 diabetes patients. Here, we report the overall dose response characteristics of troglitazone, with respect to effects on metabolic control, using a pharmacodynamic model. Data from week 12 from two previously reported double-blind, ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Young MA,Eckland DJ,Eastmond R,Lettis S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) has been considered essential for normal ovarian follicular development and spermatogenesis. Although this concept remains valid, the recent reports of defects in genes encoding FSH and its receptor (FSHR) have altered the concepts, particularly with regard to the role of FSH in sper...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Tapanainen JS,Aittomäki K,Huhtaniemi IT

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We aimed to assess the prospective association of serum albumin with venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk and evaluate if the association is independent of or modified by inflammation, as measured by high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP). DESIGN:We analysed data of 2176 men aged 42-61 years free from VTE in...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Kunutsor SK,Seidu S,Katechia DT,Laukkanen JA

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:As individuals age, the prevalence of neurocognitive and mental health disorders increases. Current biomedical treatments do not completely address the management of these conditions. Despite new pharmacological therapy the challenges of managing these diseases remain.There is increasing evidence that the ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Halverson T,Alagiakrishnan K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of biochemical markers in maternal serum have been proposed for first trimester screening for Down's syndrome. The most promising four are pregnancy associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A), the free beta sub-unit of human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) (free beta glycoprotein sub-unit), unconjugated oestriol (uE3...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Wald NJ,Kennard A,Smith D

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geneticists have been predicting that advances in their discipline will revolutionize the understanding of human disease and behavior. While there has been considerable progress in disorders showing simple, Mendelian patterns of inheritance, expectations have yet to be fulfilled for disorders and traits showing comple...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： van den Bree MB,Owen MJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00