This study tested the effects of emotion on implicit time judgment. The participants did not receive any overt temporal instructions. They were simply trained to respond as quickly as possible after a response signal, which was separated from a warning signal by a reference temporal interval. In the testing phase, the inter-signal interval was shorter, equal or longer than the reference interva...

The aim of the present study was to establish a reference interval for homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in a Japanese population based on the C28-A3 document from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). We selected healthy subjects aged 20-79 years, with fasting plasma glucose < 100 mg/dL, body mass index < 25 kg/m(2) and alanine aminotransferase < 31...

glucose, calcium, chloride, and uric acid—as demonstrated by the kurtosis and skewness coefficients and by the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. The fetal reference intervals for sodium, potassium, urea nitrogen, creatinine, lactate dehydrogenase, uric acid, and magnesium are very close to those of infants. For glucose, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine amino-transferase, cholesterol, and triglyceride...

Background and Aims: The aim of the present study was to re-evaluate the upper limit of normal range (ULN) for adenosine deaminase (ADA) level in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of healthy subjects in Indian population. Materials and Methods: Posteriori strategy was used for reference population selection. Individuals whose CSF samples had come to the laboratory of Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai (India) ...

A 69-year-old man with diabetes mellitus type II, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and prior ischemic strokes presented to the emergency department with complaints of balance difficulties and inability to stand unassisted of 2 weeks’ duration. The patient’s home medication regimen included atenolol, lisinopril, amlodipine, metformin, and glipizide. He is a retired chef and a former smoker (20 pack-y...

BACKGROUND Reference values are usually defined based on blood samples from healthy men or nonpregnant women in the age range of 20-50 years. These values are not optimal for elderly patients, as many biological markers change over time and adequate reference values are important for correct clinical decisions. OBJECTIVE To validate NORIP (Nordic Reference Interval Project) reference values i...

SUmAMRY Systolic and diastolic time intervals were studied non-invasively in a group of untreated hypertensives (n = 19) and a reference group (n = 36), all derived from a random population sample of 50-year-old men, and in a myocardial infarct group (n = 67) representative ofmen aged 48 to 57 years surviving infarction. The results showed that only the electromechanical interval, pressure rise...

A 53-year-old woman presented to the orthopedic department with severe diffuse muscular and bone pain. An x-ray of her right upper extremity revealed a lytic destructive lesion in the right humerus. Computed tomography scans showed multiple lytic lesions in the spine and pelvis, and a biopsy confirmed the presence of 70% plasma cells, which were light chain restricted. The patient was referred ...

BACKGROUND The aims of this report were to examine how unequal subgroup prevalences in the source population may affect reference interval partitioning decisions and to develop generally applicable guidelines for partitioning gaussian-distributed data. METHODS We recently proposed a new model for partitioning reference intervals when the underlying data distribution is gaussian. This model is...