BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Systemic inflammatory response syndrome is commonly observed in coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) with cardiopulmonary bypass (CB). The objective of this study was to evaluate the systemic and pulmonary levels of cytokines and their correlation with lung function in patients undergoing myocardial revascularization (MR) with CB. METHODS This study was approved by t...

BACKGROUND Arterial stiffness is a major contributor to cardiovascular diseases. Because current methods of measuring arterial stiffness are technically demanding, the purpose of this study was to develop a simple method of evaluating arterial stiffness using oscillometric blood pressure measurement. METHODS Blood pressure was conventionally measured in the left upper arm of 173 individuals u...

INTRODUCTION Health care managers and personnel should be aware and literate of health information system in order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness in their organization. Since accurate, appropriate, precise, timely, valid information and interpretation of information is required and is the basis for policy planning and decision making in various levels of the organization. This stu...

Different genetic polymorphisms influence cardiovascular disease. We recently discovered a relationship between the intima-media thickness of the muscular femoral artery, but not the elastic common carotid artery, and the combined ACE (ACE, I/D), alpha-adducin (Gly460Trp),and aldosterone synthase (AS, C-344T) gene polymorphisms. To investigate the relationship between these polymorphisms and fu...

Background: Radiation protection is very important for patient and personnel safety in radiology services. It has been given the college through classical lectures, including Radiodiagnostic Radiotherapy Department Poltekkes Kemenkes Semarang. The student’s knowledge routinely evaluated but their compliance clinical activities never specifically observed. This study aims to find out relationshi...

We explore the use of instrumental variables (IV) analysis with a multi-site randomized trial to estimate the effect of a mediating variable on an outcome in cases where it can be assumed that the observed mediator is the only mechanism linking treatment assignment to outcomes, as assumption known in the instrumental variables literature as the exclusion restriction. We use a random-coefficient...

What kind of phenomenon is it when ordinary people in the United Kingdom unexpectedly abide by government advice on social distancing response to COVID-19 pandemic, even anticipating constraints their activities? These happenings demand that we engage anthropologically with compliance – acts or activities conform, submit adapt rules demands others. At present, there no ‘anthropology compliance’...

An axisymmetric stationary problem of thermoelasticity for a multilayer foundation with imperfect thermal contact between the layers is solved by method compliance functions along Hankel transform. The recurrence relations are constructed auxiliary and neighboring foundation. We analyze influence coefficient resistance on distribution normal tangential stresses temperature at points bottom boun...

background : uncontrolled and irrational use of antibiotics increases the rate of antimicrobial resistance and treatment failure. compliance with antibiotics is an important indicator to show how patients use their prescribed drugs and it can explain the relationship between drug administration and treatment outcome that needs to be monitored and promoted. we decided to evaluate compliance to a...

background: to find out the knowledge, attitude and compliance with standard precautions among doctors working in a terti­ary care hospital. methods: the cross sectional study was conducted during october 2006 in the form of self reporting questionnaire. the question­naire included question about duration of clinical experience, hepatitis b virus vaccination and its antibody titer, knowl­edge a...