OBJECTIVE To simultaneously evaluate 14 biomarkers from distinct biological pathways for risk prediction of ischemic stroke, including biomarkers of hemostasis, inflammation, and endothelial activation as well as chemokines and adipocytokines. METHODS AND RESULTS The Prospective Epidemiological Study on Myocardial Infarction (PRIME) is a cohort of 9771 healthy men 50 to 59 years of age who we...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: the objective of this study was to investigate whether the sex hormone binding globulin (shbg) levels before conception are predictive of gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos). materials and methods: a total of 180 women with pcos were enrolled and followed up during pregnancy. diagnosis of ...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to derive and internally validate a prediction rule for short stay admissions (SSAs) in trauma patients admitted to a major trauma centre. METHODS A retrospective study of all trauma activation patients requiring inpatient admission at a single inner city major trauma centre in Australia between 2007 and 2011 was conducted. Logistic regression was used t...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Dementia and depression are different clinical conditions, but share common features, and can be indistinguishable in the initial disease stages. We aimed to establish whether the Peruvian version of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE-Peru) can distinguish between the cognitive profile in patients with incipient dementia and that in patients with depression. METHODS ...

We prove that every algebraic curve X/Q is birational over C to a Teichmüller curve. keywords: algebraic curve, mapping class group, Teichmüller curve, Veech group. MSC code: 32G15, 37D40.

OBJECTIVE to determine the accuracy of Doppler ultrasonography (USD) for hemodialysis arteriovenous fistula (AVF) maturity. METHODS we included patients with no prior AVF. Each patient underwent two USD examinations. After initiation of hemodialysis, we followed the patients during the first month of the access use and verified its adequacy to hemodialysis sessions. At statistical analysis we...

Artyku? ma na celu przybli?enie potencja?u kulturowego Spycimierza oraz wskazanie mo?liwo?ci jego wykorzystania dla rozwoju turystyki. Bior?c pod uwag? zasoby miejscowo?ci zwi?zane z dziedzictwem przyrodniczym, historycznym, zachowanymi i kultywowanymi tradycjami zaanga?owaniem wspólnoty mieszka?ców, autorzy podejmuj? prób? stworzenia produktu turystycznego „Spycimierz ? kwiatowa wie?”, uzupe?n...

A disk Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curve is a Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curve whose control points are disks in a plane. It can be viewed as a parametric curve with error tolerances. In this paper, we discuss the problem of degree reduction of disk Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curve, that is, bounding disk Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curves with lower degree disk Wa...