PURPOSE This study examined moderating effects of physician communication behaviors on relationships between patient requests for antidepressant medications and subsequent prescribing. METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of a randomized trial. Primary care physicians (N = 152) each had 1 or 2 unannounced visits from standardized patients portraying the role of major depression or adjust...

In this study, Centella asiatica and surface soils were collected from 12 sampling sites in Peninsular Malaysia, and the barium (Ba) concentrations were determined. The Ba concentration [μg/g dry weight (dw)] was 63.72 to 382.01 μg/g in soils while in C. asiatica, Ba concentrations ranged from 5.05 to 21.88 μg/g for roots, 3.31 to 11.22 μg/g for leaves and 2.37 to 6.14 μg/g for stems. In C. asi...

International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 200 and demonstrated adequate model fit (RMSEA=0.06, CFI=0.96, TLI=0.97). For the second-order factor of the wife’s autonomy items, the standardized factor loadings of each dimension ranged from 0.4 to 0.9 (p<.001), and the overall model fit was adequate (RMSEA=0.06, CFI=0.94, TLI=0.96). For the husband’s inequitable gender attitudes ...

This study was conducted to determine the effect of daily recombinant porcine somatotropin (rpST) injection (0 or 120 pg/kg BW) and dietary CP level of the feed (14 or 26% CP) on pancreatic characteristics of growing pigs. Daily injection of rpST did not affect pancreatic weight ( P = .885) but did decrease pancreatic amylase content ( P = .005). The ratios of amy1ase:protein and amy1ase:trypsi...

We studied whether serum basic proteins (BPs) produce abnormal changes in the mass of cellular lipids in fibroblasts from patients with hyperapobetalipoproteinemia (hyperapoB) and if inhibition or stimulation of protein kinase C affects these processes. In normal cells, BP I increased the mean mass of triglycerides about twofold, whereas there was significantly less stimulation in hyperapoB cel...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to investigate the relation of lipoprotein(a) and serum lipid parameters to restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and to assess the association of these same biochemical markers to coronary artery disease (CAD) in individuals with angiographically defined normal and diseased coronary arteries. METHODS AND RESULTS Sixty-t...

PURPOSE To determine whether optical coherence tomography (OCT) epithelial mapping can improve the detection of form fruste keratoconus. SETTING French National Eye Hospital, Paris 6 Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France. DESIGN Retrospective comparative study. METHODS Eyes with normal corneas, form fruste keratoconus, moderate keratoconus, or severe keratoconus were assessed usi...

BACKGROUND Hundreds of thousands of soldiers face exposure to combat during wars across the globe. The health effects of traumatic war experiences have not been adequately assessed across the lifetime of these veterans. OBJECTIVE To identify the role of traumatic war experiences in predicting postwar nervous and physical disease and mortality using archival data from military and medical reco...

HYPOTHESIS Younger patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and high preoperative platelet counts successfully respond to laparoscopic splenectomy (LS). DESIGN Case series. SETTING Private, tertiary care referral center. PATIENTS Sixty-seven consecutive patients undergoing LS for ITP between 1995 and 2001. INTERVENTIONS Laparoscopic splenectomy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES A succ...

This article seeks to analyze the foundations of idea ​​teaching autonomy today, in neoliberal context alienation, exploitation, worker accountability and how this concept has been used capitalist society from point view reorganizing teaching work. To end, bibliographical research was used, supported by discourse analysis Fairclough (2001), with emphasis on historical, political social ​​autono...