Increased plasma interleukin-1 receptor antagonist levels in men with visceral obesity.

abstract：:Sleep and wakefulness are complex behaviors that are influenced by many genetic and environmental factors, which are beginning to be discovered. The contribution of genetic components to sleep disorders is also increasingly recognized as important. Point mutations in the prion protein, period 2, and the prepro-hypocre...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Tafti M,Maret S,Dauvilliers Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide. Maternal obesity has consequences for the offspring's later health. Only few studies have focused upon the long-term consequences of maternal obesity on the offspring's later health. METHODS:A total of 13,345 men and women born in Helsinki during 1934-44...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Eriksson JG,Sandboge S,Salonen MK,Kajantie E,Osmond C

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:This meta-analysis examined the effect of probiotics on the reduction of lipid components and coexisting risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease. All randomized controlled trials published in English on PubMed and Scopus from 2000 to 2014 were systematically searched. Using the PEDro scale to assess the qu...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Sun J,Buys N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review highlights recent progress in our understanding of the beneficial effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in cardiovascular disease (CVD). The fact that HRT is increasingly advocated has raised concern about possible adverse effects weighed against the potential benefits of HRT regimens. Both favourab...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Taskinen MR

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiosurgery is an increasingly popular method for treating a variety of intracranial tumours. A great deal of treatment data has been accumulated suggesting that radiosurgery may be the treatment of choice for small acoustic schwannomas. Moreover, radiosurgery promises excellent tumour control and minimal risk in the...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Friedman WA,Foote KD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:H+/K+-ATPase is the target autoantigen in autoimmune gastritis (AIG), an organ-specific autoimmune disease with a strong hereditary component. AIM:To detect possible polymorphisms in H+/K+-ATPase alpha- and beta-subunits in AIG patients. METHODS:Blood samples from 12 Finnish AIG patients were sequenced for...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Oksanen AM,Lemmelä SM,Järvelä IE,Rautelin HI

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlamydia pneumoniae infection has been associated with atherosclerosis by sero-epidemiological, histopathological and interventional studies, and animal experiments. We hypothesized that if chlamydial infection is causative of atherosclerosis, the occurrence of antibodies against C. pneumoniae should be ass...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Janatuinen T,Friberg J,Viljanen MK,Raitakari OT,Nuutila P,Vainionpää R,Oksi J,Peltonen R,Engblom E,Laine H,Knuuti J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hyperglycaemia has emerged as an important risk factor for death in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between blood glucose (BG) levels and in-hospital mortality in non-critically patients hospitalized with COVID-19. METHODS:This is a retrospective mu...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Carrasco-Sánchez FJ,López-Carmona MD,Martínez-Marcos FJ,Pérez-Belmonte LM,Hidalgo-Jiménez A,Buonaiuto V,Suárez Fernández C,Freire Castro SJ,Luordo D,Pesqueira Fontan PM,Blázquez Encinar JC,Magallanes Gamboa JO,de la Peña Fernánde

更新日期：2021-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite intensive research in spondyloarthritis pathogenesis, some important questions still remain unanswered, particularly concerning enthesis new bone formation. Several evidences suggest that it prevalently occurs by endochondral ossification, however it remains to identify factors that can induce and influence it...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Neve A,Maruotti N,Corrado A,Cantatore FP

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：: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：AIM:As the capability of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) to engraft, differentiate and improve myocardial function cannot be studied in humans, exploration was performed in a xenomodel. METHODS:The rats were divided into three groups depending on the type of rats used (Rowett nude (RNU) or Fischer rats +/- immunos...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Grinnemo KH,Månsson-Broberg A,Leblanc K,Corbascio M,Wärdell E,Siddiqui AJ,Hao X,Sylvén C,Dellgren G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common and lethal form of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. The disease, which occurs primarily in middle-aged and older adults, is thought to arise following an aberrant reparative response to alveolar epithelial cell injury characterized by secretion of excessive amou...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Spagnolo P,Sverzellati N,Rossi G,Cavazza A,Tzouvelekis A,Crestani B,Vancheri C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews current diagnostic techniques for Helicobacter pylori infection and critically questions their value under different diagnostic circumstances. As long as we do not have general treatment recommendations for H. pylori infection, endoscopy is still the basis for primary diagnosis because it assesses t...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Braden B,Caspary WF

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three randomly selected plasma samples from apparently healthy, middle aged men were analysed for coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), alpha-tocopherol (AT) and free cholesterol (FC) in: 1) whole plasma, 2) the HDL lipoprotein fraction after LDL precipitation (VLDL + LDL). CoQ10, AT and FC in plasma averaged 0.69 +/- .11, 6.7...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Johansen K,Theorell H,Karlsson J,Diamant B,Folkers K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the effects of canrenone compared to placebo on blood pressure control, some non-conventional biomarkers in cardiovascular stratification, and on metalloproteinases in patients affected by metabolic syndrome. METHODS:A total of 156 Caucasian patients were treated with placebo or canrenone, 50 mg once a...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Derosa G,Romano D,Bianchi L,D'Angelo A,Maffioli P

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：: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：: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：:MicroRNAs are small non-coding RNAs that bind to multiple target mRNAs to control gene expression post-transcriptionally by inhibiting translation. In mammalian cells, microRNAs play important roles in a diverse array of cellular processes (e.g. cell proliferation and differentiation). However, alterations in their le...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Tay HL,Plank M,Collison A,Mattes J,Kumar RK,Foster PS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naltrexone is the first safe and effective pharmaceutical adjunct for use in the treatment of alcohol abuse. Theoretically it could be effective also as a means for terminating methadone maintenance and in the treatment of other forms of substance abuse. Two general types of protocols have been used with naltrexone. O...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Sinclair JD

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the relationship between the FRAX index and the Barthel index/MiniMental State Examination in older people. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Observational descriptive study. Demographic data, comorbidity, dependency and cognitive state, and risk of osteoporotic fracture were collected. RESULTS:A total of 375 ...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： González Silva Y,Abad Manteca L,de la Red Gallego H,Álvarez Muñoz M,Rodríguez Carbajo M,Murcia Casado T,Ausín Pérez L,Abadía Otero J,Pérez-Castrillón JL

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Female sex, old age, and time to cardioversion increase the risk of thromboembolic complications (TEC) after cardioversion of atrial fibrillation (AF) < 48 h. The interaction of these variables is not known. We investigated the interaction of sex, age, and time to electrical cardioversion (ECV) on TEC in ant...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Bah A,Nuotio I,Grönberg T,Ylitalo A,Airaksinen KE,Hartikainen JE

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：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：:Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and specific inhibitors of cyclooxygenase (COX)-2, are therapeutic groups widely used for the treatment of pain, inflammation and fever. There is growing experimental and clinical evidence indicating NSAIDs and COX-2 inhibitors also have anti-cancer activity. Epidemiologi...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Rüegg C,Zaric J,Stupp R

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:Nitric oxide (NO), derived from the vascular endothelium and other cells of the cardiovascular system, has important roles in physiological regulation of blood flow and may have pathophysiological functions in cardiovascular disease. The mechanisms involved in NO-induced vasodilatation and cytotoxicity are briefly rev...

journal_title：Annals of medicine

authors： Dusting GJ,Macdonald PS

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00