BACKGROUND Although pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has been reported to improve exercise capacity in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, it is unknown which exercise measurement is the most responsive for evaluation of PR efficacy. The purpose of this study was to compare the responsiveness of 5 exercise measurements by evaluating the efficacy of PR in subjects with idiopathic pulmonary...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of acute bronchitis, rhinitis, and sinusitis among children and adolescents and identify associated factors. METHODS This is a population-based, cross-sectional study. A household survey was conducted with 1,185 children and adolescents from the city of São Paulo (Southeastern Brazil), from 2008 to 2009. The participants were selected by means of probability...

In human parturition, progesterone withdrawal and estrogen activation are not mediated by changes in progesterone and estrogen levels. Instead, these events could be facilitated by changes in the responsiveness of the myometrium to progesterone and estrogens via changes in PR and ER expression. We hypothesized that functional progesterone withdrawal occurs by increased expression of the type A ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest single provider of care for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the United States. We analyzed the cost effectiveness of treatment with the HCV protease inhibitors boceprevir and telaprevir in a defined managed care population of 102,851 patients with untreated chronic genotype 1 infection. METHODS We used a decision-a...

Routine in vitro screening of a new synthetic series of 3,5-substituted 2-methylisoxazolidines revealed that three imidazole analogs (PR 967-248, PR 967-234, and PR 969-566) and, to a lesser extent, a triazole analog (PR 988-399) exerted rather potent antifungal activity against three systemic and four dermatophytic classes of fungi. When tested in vivo for ability to eradicate Candida vaginiti...

The performance of the adaptive projection receiver (PR), a recently proposed joint detector for CDMA with error control coding, is investigated. It is shown that the adaptive version of the PR performs better than the algebraic PR. A close approximation of the error probability for the adaptive PR is derived. The performance improvement of the adaptive PR, which is of the order of 1-2dB in Eb=...

BACKGROUND To assess the prognostic value of progesterone receptor (PR) expression in patients with hormone receptor-positive and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer subgroups. METHODS A retrospective review of breast cancer patients who underwent mastectomy or breast-conserving surgery between January 1998 and December 2007 was performed. The prognostic imp...