We examined correlating clinical biomarkers for the physical aspect of frailty among community-dwelling older adults in Japan, using Japanese Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES). We used information from the JAGES participants (N = 3,128) who also participated in the community health screening in 2010. We grouped participants' response to the Study of Osteoporotic Fracture (SOF) Frailty Ind...

and commentary also appear in ACP Journal Club and EvidenceBased Nursing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For correspondence: Dr D D Sin, James Hogg iCAPTURE Center for Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [email protected] Sources of funding: Canadian Institutes of Hea...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Growing evidence supports the use of multilevel surgery to effectively address obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We sought to characterize changes in the patterns of surgical sleep care over time. STUDY DESIGN Repeated cross-sectional study. METHODS Discharge data from the US Nationwide Inpatient Sample for 232,470 patients who underwent nasal, palatal, or hypopharyngeal ...

The effect of dietary RRR-g-tocopherol supplementation on serum and tissue aand g-tocopherol concentrations was studied in vitamin-E-deficient rats fed diets containing adequate levels of RRR-a-tocopherol and graded levels of RRR-g-tocopherol over a 60 day period. Feeding rats with a RRR-a-tocopherol-supplemented diet induced in forebrain, sciatic endoneurium, skeletal muscle, heart and liver a...

Given an electrical circuit each edge e of which is an isotropic conductor with a monomial conductivity function y∗ e = y r e/μ s e. In this formula, ye is the potential difference and y∗ e current in e, while μe is the resistance of e; furthermore, r and s are two strictly positive real parameters common for all edges. In particular, the case r = s = 1 corresponds to the standard Ohm law. In 1...

We present a systematic investigation of conditions for heat treatment of Rh with the aim of increasing the residual resistivity ratio (RRR). The maximal value of RRR for a 25 μm thick foil was found to be 1050 and the optimal treatment conditions were high temperatures, above 1400◦C, and a low pressure of pure oxygen, around 1 μbar. Another batch of foils, containing less magnetic impurities, ...

OBJECTIVES We examined the use of low (<400 μg/day, including no use) and high folic acid supplement (FAS) dosages (≥1000 μg/day) among pregnant women in Spain, and explored factors associated with the use of these non-recommended dosages. DESIGN Population-based cohort study. SETTING Spain. PARTICIPANTS We analysed data from 2332 pregnant women of the INMA study, a prospective mother-chi...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QoL) is an important measure and outcome within chronic disease management and treatment, including substance use disorders (SUD). The aim of this paper was to investigate correlates of poorer QoL of individuals entering SUD treatment in Norway, in order to identify subgroups that may most benefit from different interventions. METHODS Twenty-one treatment facilitie...

Alveolar bone loss (RRR) is a continuous process following tooth extraction, more pronounced during the first few months after the tooth extraction than later. The RRR in the mandible is twice that of the maxilla during a 1-year period and the mandibular: maxillary resorption ratio increases further to 4:1. So far, the etiology of RRR has not been elucidated. It has been speculated that both sy...