Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a chronic disease that affects millions of people worldwide and yet remains underdiagnosed and undertreated. Early detection is important, because PAD is strongly associated with an increased risk of mortality and morbidity. In this study, we built a PAD surveillance system using natural language processing (NLP) for early detection of PAD from narrative cli...

Background—Lower-extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is associated with decreased functional status, diminished quality of life, amputation, myocardial infarction, stroke, and death. Nevertheless, public knowledge of PAD as a morbid and mortal disease has not been previously assessed. Methods and Results—We performed a cross-sectional, population-based telephone survey of a nationally r...

Oil-free microturbomachinery (MTM) are inevitably subjected to base or foundation excitations: passenger and commercial transportation vehicles experiencing intermittent excitation from road conditions, and (multiple) periodic load excitations from internal combustion (IC) engines in turbochargers, for example. Too large base excitations can produce severe damage, even failure, due to hard coll...

Abstract The mechanical efficiency of rotating machinery improves as drag power losses in bearings reduce; hence, an operation mode that reduces the supplied flow brings immediate benefits. paper presents measurements static and dynamic load performance conducted with a tilting pad journal bearing configured flooded evacuated, rates from 150% to ∼25% (or lesser) nominal magnitude, proportional ...

The expression of metalloproteinases, such as type IV collagenase/gelatinase, enables tumor cells to degrade type IV collagen present in the basement membrane and correlates with metastatic potential of several tumor types. We found that increased levels of rat serum type IV collagenolytic activity are associated with increased 13762NF mammary adenocarcinoma metastases in lungs and lymph nodes ...

the  main  clinical presentation  of  patients  with  primary antibody  deficiency (pad) incorporates upper respiratory tract infections comprising otitis media, sinusitis and pneumonia.  this  study  was  designed  to  investigate clinical and  paraclinical otological complications in major types of pad.  a cross sectional study was conducted on 55 pad patients with diagnosis of selective iga ...

New data on the epidemiology of peripheral artery disease (PAD) are available, and they should be integrated with previous data. We provide an updated, integrated overview of the epidemiology of PAD, a focused literature review was conducted on the epidemiology of PAD. The PAD results were grouped into symptoms, diagnosis, prevalence, and incidence both in the United States and globally, risk f...

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a manifestation of atherosclerosis below the bifurcation of the abdominal aorta. PAD increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and associated mortality. Little is known about the prevalence of PAD in middle-aged persons with intellectual disabilities (ID). We determined the prevalence of PAD among people with ID aged 40-59 years. Independent associations ...

Because patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) may be asymptomatic or may present with atypical symptoms or findings, the true population prevalence of PAD is essentially unknown. We used four highly reliable, sophisticated noninvasive tests (segmental blood pressure, flow velocity by Doppler ultrasound, postocclusive reactive hyperemia, and pulse reappearance half-time) to assess the ...

INTRODUCTION  Resistin is an inflammatory mediator and a potential biomarker in cardiovascular diseases. OBJECTIVES  We sought to examine its association with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). PATIENTS AND METHODS  We recruited 200 patients with PAD and 100 healthy controls. Patients were divided into 4 subgroups according to the Fontaine classification for PAD, that is, from Stage I to St...