OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) among a group of epileptic patients attending the Epilepsy Clinics of two general hospitals in the city of Brasilia (DF), Brazil. METHOD Serum samples were collected from 255 epileptic patients (119 children, 136 adults) originating from Epilepsy Clinics, and from a control group composed by 4405 individuals (2034 children, 2371 adults...

Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data is organized in multiple levels (per-subject, per-day, etc.) and this particular structure should be taken into account in machine learning algorithms used in EMA like decision trees and its variants. We propose a new algorithm called BBT (standing for Bagged Boosted Trees) that is enhanced by a over/under sampling method and can provide better estimat...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to analyze the results of treatment on patients with metastatic gestational trophoblastic tumor (metastatic GTT). METHOD During 1996-2001, 38 cases with metastatic GTT were diagnosed and received treatment in Vali-e-Asr Hospital, Tehran, Iran. Data were gathered retrospectively and analyzed based on therapy and response rate. Sixteen patients initially labele...

Hematoxylin and eosin (H-E) stained liver sections of 47 autopsy cases of hepatic malignancies were examined. There were 43 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (subtypes of 30 trabecular, 7 solid, 5 pseudoglandular, and one scirrhous carcinoma), 3 of cholangiocellular carcinoma and one of mixed carcinoma. After immunohistochemical staining, benign hepatocytes reacted positively with anti-epitheli...

INTRODUCTION Despite efficacious pharmacological and behavioral treatments, most smokers attempt to quit without assistance and fail to quit. Mindfulness practice may be useful in smoking cessation. METHODS This ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study was a pilot parallel group randomized controlled trial of a brief mindfulness practice (Brief-MP) intervention on self-reported smoking beh...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of symptomatic CD in Switzerland is thought to be 1 in 1,000 inhabitants. As in other countries, oligo- and asymptomatic CD is being diagnosed with increasing frequency in all age groups. AIM To assess the prevalence of asymptomatic CD in adolescents in eastern Switzerland. METHOD Between September 1999 and July 2000 total serum IgA titres, anti-endomysium IgA (EMA...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of pain treatment on sleep in nursing home (NH) patients with dementia and depression. METHODS A multicenter, 2-armed, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial conducted between August 2014 and September 2016. One hundred six long-term patients from 47 NHs in Norway with dementia and depression according to the Mini-Mental State Examin...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact environmental innovation which product (PDI) and process (PCI) on firm’s financial performance (FFP). And also, mediating role environment management accounting (EMA) against FFP. Data were collected from 98 respondents, worked in positions Indonesia’s manufacturing sectors. uses PLS-SEM (partial least square based structural equation model...

BACKGROUND Mobile health technologies have been found to improve the self-management of chronic diseases. However, there is limited research regarding their feasibility in supporting recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs) in China. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the feasibility of a mobile phone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) app by testing the concord...