The ankle-brachial index (ABI) is a noninvasive, low-cost, and useful test for detecting asymptomatic peripheral artery disease (PAD). An ABI 0.9 has a sensitivity of 95% and a specificity of 99% in identifying PAD when compared with arteriography (1). A low ABI predicts risk of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, PAD events, and stroke (2,3). Although an elevated prevalence of a low A...

PURPOSE To perform a feasibility study of dynamic sonography for the diagnosis of medial plica syndrome of the knee. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study design was approved by the university bioethics board, and all the participants gave informed consent. Inclusion criteria were a palpable medial band, history of painful aching, and giving way or locking, which limited the subject's activity for ...

Dichotic digit listening was made more difficult by interleaving one-, two-, three-, and four-pair digits within a test list in which the subjects did not know a priori the number of digit pairs presented on a given trial, thereby introducing listener uncertainty. Twenty right-handed (mean age = 26.8 years) and 20 left-handed adults (mean age = 24.0) with normal hearing and 40 right-handed adul...

OBJECTIVES Grip strength is an important prerequisite for good performance of the upper limb, hence it is important to evaluate it correctly. However, one of the main difficulties in evaluating the grip strength of elderly patients is the absence of valid norms. Therefore, the objective of this study was to develop normative data for maximum grip strength of persons aged 60 years and older. M...

The diagnosis of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is based on the evidence of anemia, hemolysis and the detection of red blood cell (RBCs) autoantibodies. The absence of detectable RBC autoantibodies does not always exclude autoimmune hemolysis. Conversely, the presence of RBC autoantibodies is not always associated with hemolytic anemia. Silent RBC autoantibodies have been detected in health...

Background: Alopecia areata (AA) is non-scarring telogenic alopecia of autoimmune etiology. Clinically, the disease characterized by appearance alopecic patches or plaques varying size and number on scalp with peak incidence 2% in general population, can involve any age group higher prevalence younger patients. Aim: The purpose this study to estimate serum zinc level patient comparing age, sex ...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) enables non-invasive quantification of cardiac output (CO) and thereby cardiac index (CI, CO indexed to body surface area). The aim of this study was to establish if CI decreases with age and compare the values to CI for athletes and for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). METHODS CI was measured in 144 healthy volunteers (39 ± 16 y...

A random population-based study using a structured telephone questionnaire was undertaken to determine the frequency, duration and prevalence of waking cervical spine pain and stiffness, headache, and aching between the scapulae or in the arm and their relationship to age and gender. Seventy-six per cent of households contacted completed the questionnaire, yielding a total of 812 questionnaires...

Abstract Background Aging, being a natural process, involves many functional and structural changes within the body. Identifying age-related postural will provide insight into role of aging on control during locomotion. The aim this study was to identify transitional task under different conditions. Methods Sixty healthy females divided three age groups: A (50-60 y/o), B (60-70 C (70-80 y/o). m...

BACKGROUND Left atrial (LA) size is related to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) provides high quality images of the left atrium with high temporal resolution steady state free precession (SSFP) cine sequences. We used SSFP cines to define normal ranges for LA volumes and dimensions relative to gender, age and body surface area (BSA), and examine th...