INTRODUCTION Beyond documentation of high prevalence rates, research has not examined the qualities and characteristics of musculoskeletal symptoms in cancer survivors, possibly because measures have not been validated specifically for the assessment of these symptoms in survivors. We report here on a new measure of muscle and joint symptoms for survivors of hematologic malignancies and hematop...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Little is known about actual dietary patterns and their associations with clinical outcomes in hemodialysis patients. We identified dietary patterns in hemodialysis patients in Japan and examined associations between dietary patterns and clinical outcomes. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, MEASUREMENTS We used data from 3,080 general-population participants in the Hisayam...

BACKGROUND The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) is widely used to measure the severity of depression in mood disorders. Total HDRS score correlates with brain metabolism as measured by fludeoxyglucose F 18 ([(18)F]-FDG) positron emission tomography. The HDRS comprises distinct symptom clusters that may be associated with different patterns of regional brain glucose metabolism. OBJECTIV...

background and aims. at present, cone beam computed tomography (cbct) has become a substitute for computed tomography (ct) in dental procedures. the metallic materials used in dentistry can produce artifacts due to the beam hardening phenomenon. these artifacts decrease the quality of images. in the present study, the number of artifacts as a result of beam hardening in the images of dental imp...

this study was conducted to compare the mandibular bone density between postmenopausal women with normal skeletal bone mass density (bmd) and those with low skeletal bmd using digital panoramic radiographs.one hundred fifteen postmenopausal women were divided into normal and osteoporotic/osteopenic groups. digital panoramic radiographs were prepared using digora pct sorodex equipment and promax...

objectives: the aim of this study was to assess the effect of tube current, kilovoltage peak (kvp), metal type, and the position of metal objects on metal artifacts in cone-beam computed tomography (cbct) images. materials and methods: titanium and cobalt-chromium rods were fabricated and placed in a dry human mandible. samples were scanned using a promax 3d cbct unit with different milli-amper...

conclusions although the cmr was originally designed for use in tc treatment, this study suggests that it is also applicable, with some modifications, in short-term residential camps. also, it is concluded that the persian translation of the cmr can be applied for studies among persian addicts. background treatment motivation has always been an important issue in substance abuse treatment. in r...

Objectives To examine whether multimorbidity aggregates in families Sweden. Design National explorative family study. Setting Swedish Multigeneration Register linked to the Patient Register, 1997-2015. Multimorbidity was assessed with a modified counting method of 45 chronic non-communicable diseases according ICD-10 (international classification diseases, 10th revision) diagnoses. Participants...

Objetivo: El Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) fue desarrollado originalmente en inglés por Schraw & Dennison 1994 para medir las habilidades metacognitivas. Desde su validación inicial, el MAI ha sido considerado como instrumento más utilizado mundo evaluar metacognitivas de autoinforme personas, razón la que traducido y empleado varios idiomas, demostrándose así, diferentes investig...