Bone mineral density in patients with Crohn's disease during long-term treatment with azathioprine.

abstract：:Since 2006, the advent of increasingly larger genome-wide association studies and their meta-analyses have led to numerous, replicated findings of genetic polymorphisms associated with many diseases and traits. Early studies suggested that the identified loci generally accounted for a small fraction of the genetic var...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Kaprio J

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fight against doping in sports commenced as a result of the death of a Danish cyclist during the Rome Olympic Games in 1960. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) established a Medical Commission (IOC-MC) which had the task of designing a strategy to combat the misuse of drugs in Olympic Sport. Some Internatio...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Catlin DH,Fitch KD,Ljungqvist A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) secondary to transient risk factors may develop VTE recurrences after discontinuing anticoagulation. Identifying at-risk patients could help to guide the duration of therapy. METHODS:We used the RIETE database to assess the prognostic value of d-dimer testing after...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Avnery O,Martin M,Bura-Riviere A,Barillari G,Mazzolai L,Mahé I,Marchena PJ,Verhamme P,Monreal M,Ellis MH,RIETE Investigators.

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the prophylactic efficacy of aspirin and a high-dose antioxidant vitamin combination in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in terms of reduction of the risk of a first vascular event (myocardial infarction, stroke, vascular death) and critical limb ischaemia. DESIGN:Randomized, placebo...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Critical Leg Ischaemia Prevention Study (CLIPS) Group.,Catalano M,Born G,Peto R

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroendocrine tumour of the small intestine (SI-NET), formerly known as midgut carcinoid tumour, is the most common small intestinal malignancy. The incidence is rising, with recent reports of 0.67 per 100 000 in the USA and 1.12 per 100 000 in Sweden. SI-NETs often present a challenge in terms of diagnosis and treat...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Stålberg P,Westin G,Thirlwell C

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The serum levels of the catabolic cytokine TNF-alpha are often raised in malnourished chronic heart failure patients as well as in chronic renal failure (CRF) patients. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are often used in these patients and may decrease TNF-alpha and IL-1beta levels in vitro and ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Stenvinkel P,Andersson P,Wang T,Lindholm B,Bergström J,Palmblad J,Heimbürger O,Cederholm T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasopressin (AVP) plays a major role in the regulation of water and sodium homeostasis by its antidiuretic action on the kidney, mediated by V2 receptors. AVP secretion is stimulated by a rise in plasma osmolality, a decline in blood volume or stress. V1a receptors are expressed in vascular smooth muscle cells, but th...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Bankir L,Bichet DG,Morgenthaler NG

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:As reported by major clinical series in the literature, about 2% of patients receiving unfractionated heparin (UFH) develop immune-mediated (type II) heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) that may be complicated in 30-75% of cases by a paradoxical thrombotic syndrome (HITTS), either arterial or venous. HITT...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Fabris F,Luzzatto G,Soini B,Ramon R,Scandellari R,Randi ML,Girolami A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Millions of people worldwide receive agents targeting the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) to treat hypertension or statins to lower cholesterol. The RAS and cholesterol metabolic pathways in the brain are autonomous from their systemic counterparts and are interrelated through the cholesterol metabolite 27-hydroxychole...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Petek B,Villa-Lopez M,Loera-Valencia R,Gerenu G,Winblad B,Kramberger MG,Ismail MA,Eriksdotter M,Garcia-Ptacek S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus infection is now one of the most important causes of chronic liver disease. Primary care physicians play an important role in the diagnosis and initial work-up of patients infected with this virus. Understanding which patients may be at risk is the first step. By understanding the correct use of hepa...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Larson AM,Carithers RL

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine whether intermittent oral 1 alpha(OH)D3 treatment of patients on haemodialysis with secondary hyperparathyroidism (HPT) was able to maintain the marked suppression of PTH, which previously had been induced by an intermittent intravenous administration of 1 alpha(OH)D3. Simultaneously, the effect o...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Brandi L,Daugaard H,Egsmose C,Tvedegaard E,Kjaerulff Nielsen P,Olgaard K

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the relationships between plasma renin activity and metabolic cardiovascular risk factors in patients with essential hypertension. SUBJECTS AND DESIGN:Patients with uncomplicated essential hypertension (n = 36) with a diastolic blood pressure of 95-115 mmHg were studied. Assessment of plasma renin ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Allikmets K,Parik T,Teesalu R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Algorithms to predict the future long-term risk of patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) are rare. The VIenna and Ludwigshafen CAD (VILCAD) risk score was one of the first scores specifically tailored for this clinically important patient population. The aim of this study was to refine risk predi...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Kleber ME,Goliasch G,Grammer TB,Pilz S,Tomaschitz A,Silbernagel G,Maurer G,März W,Niessner A

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the determinants of maximal intima-media thickness of common carotid arteries in a population-based sample of 1224 Eastern Finnish men aged 42, 48, 54 or 60 years. A high-resolution B-mode ultrasonographic examination was performed as part of the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD)....

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Salonen R,Salonen JT

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare foreign- and Swedish-born diabetic subjects regarding health care utilization, complications, clinical and socio-economic characteristics. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. SETTING:All known diabetic patients living in six defined primary health care districts. SUBJECTS:Of 1861 identified subjects ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Hjelm K,Apelqvist J,Nyberg P,Sundquist J,Isacsson A

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six consecutive patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) from northern Sweden were studied regarding the occurrence and features of Sjögren's syndrome (SS). In more than 50% of the patients the rose bengal dye test showed conjunctival and/or corneal staining. In six patients keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Uddenfeldt P,Danielsson A,Forssell A,Holm M,Ostberg Y

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiopulmonary diseases are major causes of death worldwide, but currently recommended strategies for diagnosis and prevention may be outdated because of recent changes in risk factor patterns. The Swedish CArdioPulmonarybioImage Study (SCAPIS) combines the use of new imaging technologies, advances in large-scale 'om...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Bergström G,Berglund G,Blomberg A,Brandberg J,Engström G,Engvall J,Eriksson M,de Faire U,Flinck A,Hansson MG,Hedblad B,Hjelmgren O,Janson C,Jernberg T,Johnsson Å,Johansson L,Lind L,Löfdahl CG,Melander O,Östgren CJ,

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the hypothesis that higher levels of total daily physical activity can eliminate the increased mortality rate associated with overweight and obesity. DESIGN:Population-based prospective cohort study. SETTING:Central Sweden. SUBJECTS:A total of 37,633 men at baseline 45-79 years of age and free...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Orsini N,Bellocco R,Bottai M,Pagano M,Michaelsson K,Wolk A

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We created the GIFTs, fusions of granulocyte-colony macrophage-stimulating-factor with IL-2, or IL-15 or IL-21, in order to stimulate distinct, but complimentary elements of the immune response. We found that the physical coupling of two functionally distinct cytokines as a bifunctional hybrid allowed for synergistic ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Williams P,Galipeau J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanisms explaining morphological electrocardiogram (ECG) changes and increased troponin T (TnT) in acute stroke are unclear. The aims of the present study were to assess the prevalence of ECG and TnT changes in acute ischaemic stroke, to investigate whether ischaemic-like ECG changes correlate to a ri...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Fure B,Bruun Wyller T,Thommessen B

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:Asthma and gastro-oesophageal reflux (GER) are both characterized by airway inflammation. DESIGN:The purposes of this work were (i) to study airway inflammation in patients troubled by gastro-oesophageal reflux (GER) and GER associated with asthma, (ii) to ascertain whether GER can aggravate asthma by...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Carpagnano GE,Resta O,Ventura MT,Amoruso AC,Di Gioia G,Giliberti T,Refolo L,Foschino-Barbaro MP

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Swedish Twin Registry (STR), which today has developed into a unique resource, was first established in the late 1950s to study the importance of smoking and alcohol consumption on cancer and cardiovascular diseases whilst controlling for genetic propensity to disease. Since that time, the Registry has been expand...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Lichtenstein P,De Faire U,Floderus B,Svartengren M,Svedberg P,Pedersen NL

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excess body weight and a sedentary lifestyle are associated with the development of several diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer in women. One proposed mechanism linking obesity to chronic diseases is an alteration in adipose-derived adiponectin and leptin levels. We investigated t...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Abbenhardt C,McTiernan A,Alfano CM,Wener MH,Campbell KL,Duggan C,Foster-Schubert KE,Kong A,Toriola AT,Potter JD,Mason C,Xiao L,Blackburn GL,Bain C,Ulrich CM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 57-year-old male with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and occult blood loss. Septal alcohol ablation reduced the left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and eliminated recurrent bleeding. The case resembles Heyde's syndrome, i.e. the association between occult gastrointestinal bleeding and aor...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Riis Hansen P,Hassager C

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to investigate the association between the proximal level of the clot and the severity of pulmonary embolism (PE). METHODS:The cohort consisted of 99 consecutive patients with PE diagnosed by multi-detector computed tomography. A new score was constructed by calculating the mean val...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Ghanima W,Abdelnoor M,Holmen LO,Nielssen BE,Sandset PM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the long history of development of haemoglobin (Hb)-based O2 carriers (HBOCs), many side effects of Hb molecules have become apparent. They imply the physiological importance of the cellular structure of red blood cells. Hb-vesicles (HbV) are artificial O2 carriers that encapsulate concentrated Hb solution with...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Sakai H,Sou K,Horinouchi H,Kobayashi K,Tsuchida E

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Chronic Chlamydia pneumoniae infection is considered as a cardiovascular risk factor and antibodies are commonly analysed by the subjective microimmunofluorescence (MIF) test. We wanted to investigate the C. pneumoniae IgA- and IgG seroprevalence in young survivors of myocardial infarction and matched contro...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Halvorsen DS,Børvik T,Njølstad I,Gutteberg TJ,Vorland LH,Hansen JB

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00