Background: The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (Mets) in schizophrenic patients in a 6-month period of treatment with antipsychotic medication. Methods: In this study, 60 volunteer schizophrenic patients were included.  At the onset and 6 month after treated with antipsychotic medication, fasting blood sugar (FBS), serum triglyceride (TG), high de...

Linguistic experience affects phonetic perception. However, the critical period during which experience affects perception and the mechanism responsible for these effects are unknown. This study of 6-month-old infants from two countries, the United States and Sweden, shows that exposure to a specific language in the first half year of life alters infants' phonetic perception.

Two postmenopausal LS patients, resistant to conventional therapies, were treated with fractional CO2 laser. The patients became asymptomatic shortly after the third treatment, and the vulva, introitus and clitoral areas looked healthy throughout the 6-month post-treatment follow-up period. Histological assessments showed a trophic epithelium with acantotic areas, without superficial hyperkerat...

Time perspective is a psychological construct that reflects the way people view time. Two schools of thought exist theorize how this temporal mindset affects behavior—dominant and balanced. We applied dominant balanced time frameworks separately to two versions an online intervention aimed promote goal-setting accumulation essential retirement resources (health, physical, social, cognitive emot...

The clinical significance of serial changes in serum biomarkers in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) remains to be established. This retrospective study was conducted to clarify the associations of serial changes in serum Krebs von den Lungen-6 (KL-6) and surfactant protein-D (SP-D) with changes in physiological indices and overall mortality in IPF. The study subjects were 75 pa...

BACKGROUND The long-term effects of ganglionated plexi ablation on electrophysiological characteristics and neuron remodeling in target atrial tissues remain unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS Dogs in group 1 (control, n=8) were not subjected to ganglionated plexi ablation and observed for 1 month, and dogs in groups 2 to 4 (ablation groups, n=8 each) underwent ablation of the right-sided gangliona...

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of egg size, age of hen and storage period of eggs before incubation on fertility, hatchability, embryo mortality and chick malformations in Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica). The study was carried out in quail farm located at Tanah Merah, Kelantan. Totally 1441 eggs of quail were set into the incubator by applying 9 treatments groups...

OBJECTIVE To examine the clinical impact of a management protocol for external ventricular drains (EVD). PATIENTS AND METHODS All patients with EVDs over a six-month period were reviewed retrospectively. Data concerning the indications for EVD placement, antibiotics and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analyses were collected. A restrictive antibiotic protocol (e.g. intravenous cephalothin 1g 6-hour...

BACKGROUND On a regional level, our aims were to describe rehabilitation patterns for elderly patients with stroke and hip fracture and to investigate mortality risk during the 6-month post acute period. METHODS Data sources included administrative data relative to patients aged 65+ resident in Tuscany admitted in hospital for stroke or hip fracture between 2001 and 2003, traced up to 3 years...