influence physicians’ recommendations for cardiac catheterization, concludes a study supported by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (HS07315). In the study, the investigators found that blacks and women with chest pain had relative odds of referral for cardiac catheterization that were 60 percent of the odds for whites and men. This disparity in testing was greatest for black women...

The emergence of microphysiologic epithelial lung models using human cells in a physiologically relevant microenvironment has the potential to be a powerful tool for preclinical drug development and to improve predictive power regarding in vivo drug clearance. In this study, an in vitromodel of the airway comprising human primary lung epithelial cells cultured in a microfluidic platform was use...

The scaling function S(q/­) is constrained by the physics of the highand low-frequency limits. As q=­ ! `, S must approach i­/q in order for j to assume its superconducting form, equation (1). At low frequencies, S approaches a real constant S1(0) which characterizes the d.c. conductivity of the normal state. By comparing the measured complex conductivity to equation (2), we can extract both th...

Giriş: Obstrüktif uyku apne sendromu (OUAS) ve bronş hiperreaktivitesi (BHR) arasındaki ilişki iyi bilinmemektedir. Bu çalışmada, OUAS’lı hastalarda hastalığın şiddeti ve BHR arasındaki ilişkiyi araştırdık. Materyal ve Metod: Bu çalışmaya polisomnografileriyle OUAS tanısı alan 47 (37’si erkek, 10’u kadın) hasta alındı. Histamin provokasyon testi yapıldı ve beden kitle indeksi (BKİ, kg/m2) hesap...

background: two of the important radionuclides which are entered to environment and human diet are radium-226 (226ra) and cesium-137 (137cs). it is clear that the methods for preparation of foods such as peeling, washing, cooking or frying can affect the dose which is received by human due the to consumption of foodstuffs. an experiment has been performed at the environmental monitoring section...

1Department of Biochemistry, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow-226 003, India 2Department of Pediatric Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi221005, India 3Department of Orthopedic Surgery, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow-226 003, India 4Department of Transfusion Medicine, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow-226 003, India 5Department ...

BACKGROUND Six years of recent ongoing economic and structural crisis in Croatia have brought to a significant decrease of socioeconomic standard in our country, and had an important impact on the health care system. In this background we examined the prevalence of depression and burnout and their association with work stressors. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Cross sectional survey was conducted with ...