In patients with inflammatory bowel disease, assessment of disease activity is important in order to monitor and adjust therapy. In individual patients, disease evaluation is largely based on subjective symptoms. However, for disease evaluation in clinical trials, an objective and reproducible disease activity index is needed. At present, a number of activity indices are available for Crohn's d...

BACKGROUND There is limited outcome measure support for chiropractic manipulative therapy in the management of ankylosing spondylitis. An improvement in specific indices for both function and disease activity during chiropractic therapy for ankylosing spondylitis has not previously been reported. OBJECTIVE To measure changes in function and disease activity in a patient with ankylosing spondy...

Objective(s): Iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) myocardial scintigraphy has been used to evaluate cardiac sympathetic denervation in Lewy body disease (LBD), including Parkinson’s disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). The heart-tomediastinum ratio (H/M) in PD and DLB is significantly lower than that in Parkinson’s plus syndromes and Alzheimer’s disease. Although this ra...

OBJECTIVE Disease Extent Index-Takayasu (DEI.Tak) is a new index developed for the follow-up of Takayasu's arteritis (TA), assessing only clinical findings without the requirement of imaging. We investigated the effectiveness of DEI.Tak in assessing disease activity and progression by comparing with physician's global assessment (PGA) and active disease criteria defined by Kerr et al. METHODS...

objectives: the authors of this paper hypothesized that vibration stimulation applied by a vibratory orthosis improves balance in patients with parkinson’s disease (pd). in this study we evaluate this hypothesis. methods & materials: fourteen pd patients (12 male and 2 female) with mean age of 59.9±9.1 (±sd) years were participated in this cross- sectional study. using biodex balance system, th...

background: periodontitis is common in adults and cardiovascular diseases (cvd) are the most common cause of adult death in the world. this study aimed to investigate the relationship between cvd and periodontitis. methods: sixty patients with myocardial infarction (mi) as case and 63 subjects with periodontitis without mi as control were studied. periodontitis was assessed according to ramfjor...

background: the prevalence of prediabetes in the world continues to increase. these patients have elevated the risk of atherosclerosis. the current study was designed to assess the prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (pad) and its related risk factors in prediabetes patients. methods: this was the case-control study in which 135 adults in three groups: diabetes, prediabetes, and normal we...

Various definitions of remission in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been proposed. The ACR (American College of Rheumatology--formerly ARA, American Rheumatism Association) remission criteria are strict and include nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue. More recently remission according to the Disease Activity Index (DAS) and DAS28 has been described. However, patients who meet the DAS28 remissio...

Introduction. Serial objective assessment of disease activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is imperative to achieve remission. The CDAI score appears more practical than DAS-28 in routine assessment of disease activity in RA patients. Objective. To evaluate correlation and agreement of the DAS-28 with CDAI in RA patients. Methods. A total of 200 patients of RA were evaluated by DAS-28 and CDAI ...