Promotion of vascular integrity in sepsis through modulation of bioactive adrenomedullin and dipeptidyl peptidase 3.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hypocitraturia is a risk factor for calcium nephrolithiasis. 1,25(OH)2D3 influences renal citrate handling and enhances citraturia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between vitamin D receptor (VDR) allelic variant and urinary citrate excretion in recurrent stone formers (SF) patients. ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Mossetti G,Vuotto P,Rendina D,Numis FG,Viceconti R,Giordano F,Cioffi M,Scopacasa F,Nunziata V

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of consistently replicated associations between genetic markers and complex disease risk, including cancers. Alone, these markers have limited utility in risk prediction; however, when several of these markers are used in combination, the predictive performance...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Turner AR,Kader AK,Xu J

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) are often asymptomatic. Angiogenesis is implicated in the physiology of vascular repair and cardiac remodelling, and is one of many pathophysiological processes implicated in heart failure. We hypothesized that plasm...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Patel JV,Abraheem A,Chackathayil J,Gunning M,Creamer J,Hughes EA,Lip GY

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Sunlight exposure of the skin is known to be the most important source of vitamin D. The aims of this study were: (i) to estimate vitamin D status amongst sunlight-deprived individuals (veiled Arab women, veiled ethnic Danish Moslem women and Danish controls); and (ii) through food intake analysis to estimat...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Glerup H,Mikkelsen K,Poulsen L,Hass E,Overbeck S,Thomsen J,Charles P,Eriksen EF

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study serum homocysteine concentration for its prediction of major coronary heart disease events amongst women. DESIGN:A case-control study nested within a follow-up study. Subjects. A total of 74 and 75 major coronary events (coronary deaths or nonfatal myocardial infarction) which occurred in women wit...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Knekt P,Alfthan G,Aromaa A,Heliövaara M,Marniemi J,Rissanen H,Reunanen A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the prognostic value of exercise testing performed soon after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients treated with thrombolytic therapy. DESIGN:A 1-year prospective follow-up of 185 subjects treated with thrombolytic therapy who survived AMI, and who performed exercise testing 3 weeks afte...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Abboud L,Hir J,Eisen I,Markiewicz W

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To analyse whether there is an association between country of birth in first-generation immigrants and first hospitalization for or death from coronary heart disease (CHD) and to analyse whether this association remains in second-generation immigrants. DESIGN:In this follow-up study, the MigMed database at ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Sundquist K,Li X

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to review the current status of meta-analysis, the process of combining the results of similar investigations, which was described in 1976. It has evolved rapidly, and thousands have already been published. Meta-analysis may be performed in a narrative form or in the preferred statistical format, whi...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Conn HO

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a healthy Nordic diet (ND) on cardiovascular risk factors. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS:in a randomized controlled trial (NORDIET) conducted in Sweden, 88 mildly hypercholesterolaemic subjects were randomly assigned to an ad libitum ND or control diet (subjects'...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Adamsson V,Reumark A,Fredriksson IB,Hammarström E,Vessby B,Johansson G,Risérus U

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine to what extent traditional biomedical risk factors and social factors can predict, separately or jointly, first-ever stroke event, and to explore to what extent other risk factors might add to hypertension/elevated blood pressure as a stroke risk factor. DESIGN:An incident case-referent study. S...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Ohgren B,Weinehall L,Stegmayr B,Boman K,Hallmans G,Wall S

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current strategies for prevention of cardiovascular disease focus on risk factor intervention. Although these have been proven both safe and effective results from randomized clinical trials suggest that it is difficult to achieve relative risk reductions exceeding 40% with this approach. To further improve efficacy f...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Nilsson J,Fredrikson GN,Björkbacka H,Chyu KY,Shah PK

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions represent a group of proteins with a unique capacity to fold into different conformations. One isoform is rich in beta-pleated sheets and can aggregate into amyloid that may be pathogenic. This abnormal form propagates itself by imposing its confirmation on the homologous normal host cell protein. Pathogenic pr...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Norrby E

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic transplantation was performed in three patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in whom recurrent and severe episodes of hypoglycaemia had been found to be due to defective glucose counterregulation. Thus in these patients the spontaneous blood glucose recovery after insulin-induced hypoglycaemia (...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Bolinder J,Wahrenberg H,Persson A,Linde B,Tydén G,Groth CG,Ostman J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the effects of one-year antihypertensive treatment on plasma lipids and lipoproteins, 65 patients whose diastolic blood pressure was in the range 95-120 mmHg were randomly allocated to groups that received either hydrochlorothiazide or metoprolol, or both drugs when the response to one of them was...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Monmany J,Domingo P,Gomez JA,Sanz F,Roca-Cusachs A,Nolla J,Jane F

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There is uncertainty amongst clinicians about the definitions of cobalamin and folate deficiency and therefore about the indications for treatment. In this report we present the results of systematic cobalamin and folic acid treatment based upon serum cobalamin, total homocysteine (tHcy) and methylmalonic ac...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Björkegren K,Svärdsudd K

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of antiretroviral therapy in treating HIV infection has greatly prolonged life expectancy in affected individuals, transforming the disease into a chronic condition. A number of HIV-associated non-AIDS comorbidities have emerged in the ageing HIV-infected population, including osteoporosis and increased ri...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Compston J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred consecutive patients with femoral neck fractures (FNF) and 200 controls matched by age, sex, nursing home residency and number of admissions within the last 2 years, were interviewed about recent drug use. The matching criteria were chosen to achieve case and control groups that were comparable with regard...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Jensen J,Nielsen LH,Lyhne N,Hallas J,Brøsen K,Gram LF

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is a relatively common heterogenous and multifactorial disorder, traditionally classified as neurogenic (less common but often more severe) or nonneurogenic (more common, with no direct signs of autonomic nervous system disease). The different clinical variants of orthostatic intolerance i...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Fedorowski A,Melander O

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syndrome defined as "idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia' (ICL) is a rare disease of unknown aetiology, often associated with severe depression of immune defences and the occurrence of opportunistic infections. A case is reported wherein a severe immunodeficiency syndrome with persistent idiopathic CD4+ lymphopenia dev...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Bordin G,Ballaré M,Paglino S,Ravanini P,Dulio D,Malosso MC,Boldorini R,Monteverde A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mitochondrion, inherited defects have been identified in the electron transport system by which ATP is formed, as well as in the transport and metabolism of fuels. Clinical findings in diseases due to these defects can be related to abnormal accumulations of metabolic intermediates and inadequate or inefficient...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Luft R,Landau BR

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of zinc status in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) have shown contradictory results. Zinc is essential for many enzymes involved in the human metabolism and may play a role in the biosynthesis and storage of insulin in the B-cell. We therefore prospectively followed 26 patients (14 males and 12 femal...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Melchior T,Simonsen KW,Johannessen AC,Binder C

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether furosemide treatment in congestive heart failure (CHF) patients is associated with thiamine deficiency. DESIGN:Patients without heart failure and without diuretic treatment were included to compare with patients with CHF belonging to New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class II...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Yue QY,Beermann B,Lindström B,Nyquist O

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：:Chronic nonvalvular atrial fibrillation is associated with an overall risk of thromboembolic complications of 4.5% per year. Advancing age, prior stroke or transient cerebral ischaemia, diabetes, hypertension, and impaired function of the left ventricle are known risk factors. Placebo-controlled trials have demonstrat...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Koefoed BG,Petersen P

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apart from being an acute phase reactant, fibrinogen appears to play an important although not widely recognized role in athero-/thrombogenesis. Arteriosclerotic diseases are associated with elevated levels of plasma fibrinogen. Strategies that lower the cardiovascular risk also lower fibrinogen levels. Virtually all ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Ernst E

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are one of a growing class of noncoding RNAs that are involved in the regulation of a wide range of metabolic processes including cellular differentiation, cell proliferation and apoptosis. The generation of miRNA is regulated in complex ways, for example by small interfering RNAs (small nucleolar a...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Nolte-'t Hoen EN,Van Rooij E,Bushell M,Zhang CY,Dashwood RH,James WP,Harris C,Baltimore D

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The classical end-point to terminate the 72-h fast in a patient evaluated for a hypoglycaemic disorder is the occurrence of hypoglycaemic symptoms in association with a low plasma glucose level. However, neither the symptoms nor the plasma glucose level have been exactly defined. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Wiesli P,Brändle M,Schwegler B,Lehmann R,Spinas GA,Schmid C

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a major clinical problem in intensive care. The mortality in septic shock is high, and predominantly due to cardiovascular collapse and multiple organ dysfunction. In sepsis high levels of circulating hyaluronan have been found, correlating to disease severity and prognosis. The reason behind the increased l...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Berg S

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac pheochromocytoma is a rare tumour and may be difficult to localize. We present a 32-year-old male with a cardiac pheochromocytoma that was successfully resected. An initial unenhanced CT did not reveal the tumour. MIBG-scintigraphy indicated the location, but to get full information, a dynamic contrast-enhance...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Jönsson A,Hallengren B,Manhem P,Lilja B,Stavenow L,Ståhl E,Törnquist C

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been associated with abnormalities of adrenocortical function, and hypoaldosteronism due to hyporeninaemic hypoaldosteronism (HHA). We here report the case of a woman with AIDS associated with orthostatic hypotension, persistent hyponatraemia and hyperkalaemia, in whom...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Cobbs R,Pepper GM,Torres JG,Gruenspan HL

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00