several religions recommend periods of fasting. one of the most frequently asked questions of ms patients before the holy month of ramadan is weather fasting might have an unfavorable effect on their disease course. this debate became more challenging after the publication of experimental studies suggesting that calorie restriction prior to disease induction attenuates disease severity. we cond...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether behaviors of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity among adolescents in Northern Finland reflect qualitatively distinct subtypes of ADHD, variants along a single continuum of severity, or of severity differences within subtypes. METHOD Latent class models, exploratory factor models, and factor mixture models were applied to questionnaire data of ADHD beh...

We read with great interest the recently published article performed by Y›lmaz et al.(1) regarding the relationship between B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and progression of cirrhosis. The use of BNP in the evaluation of cirrhosis may be a more useful and easy-to-use predictor of the disease in comparison to previously described models such as the Child-Turcotte-Pugh classification and the Mo...

Five investigators familiar with gastric ulcer disease in horses met to establish a scoring system that could be utilised in future studies. Slides of gastric lesions were viewed and discussed and a scoring system established that required the nonglandular and glandular portions of the stomach to be graded separately. Each portion of the stomach (glandular and nonglandular) received a score for...

OBJECTIVE To measure the impact of atopic dermatitis (AD) on the quality of life of pediatric patients and their families, establishing correlations with scores of disease severity. METHODS This was an observational study of the correlations between clinical indicators of severity and two questionnaires on quality of life: IDQOL and DFI. The study also included scoring of eczema severity EASI...

concomitant research and education are invaluable for patient care and medical practice in trauma. elucidation of a foundation for the integration of training and service that can be combined with research in trauma is crucial, and every trauma case should be studied for this purpose. in this study, we investigated the unique features of trauma research to formulate a generic comprehensive mode...

background and objectives: coronary artery disease (cad) is regarded as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality around the world. diabetes mellitus (dm) is associated with the development of cad and increased risk of morbidity and mortality. the goal of this study was to assess the association of tumor necrosis factorα (tnf-α) and high sensitivity c-reactive protein (hscrp) with cad severi...

Background Certain studies suggest that percutaneous absorption of topical steroids may cause suppression of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPAA) in atopic dermatitis (AD) patients. This study aimed to investigate the basal serum cortisol, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), and IgE levels in patients with AD and their correlation with the disease severity. Methods Levels of basal serum...

We investigated the plasma levels of follistatin-like protein 1 (FSTL1) in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) and whether it could predict short-term mortality. A prospective observational cohort study was conducted in patients with acute PE (n = 220). FSTL1 was measured in plasma samples using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Plasma FSTL1 levels were significantly increased in patie...