BACKGROUND The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of liraglutide versus sitagliptin both in combination with metformin in patients with type 2 diabetes and provide reference basis for rational use of clinical drugs. METHODS Several databases were searched, including Web of science, PubMed, Cochrane library, CNKI, and Wanfang database. Only randomized control...

Background: Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a clinical disease which characterized by degeneration of the intervertebral discs and nearby spinal structures. The goal this study to compare laminoplasty (LP) versus laminectomy fusion (LF) for multilevel cervical in terms safety effectiveness. Methods: This meta-analysis from randomized non-randomized control study. database being used we...

To improve the management of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected children, we assessed the burden of disease, clinical outcome and antibiotic susceptibility of bacteria causing severe community-acquired LRTI in children. A prospective, descriptive study was performed in the pediatric wards at a secondary and tertiary care hospital in...

We report an important correction to recently reported 12C16O2 transition frequencies and derived spectroscopic constants. A total of 44 previously corresponding transitions in the (30012 ← 00001) (30013 band with uncertainties as low 200 Hz are modified by including effect photon-absorption-induced recoil shifts. This shifting mechanism decreases all approximately 1.7 kHz.

We analyzed data from 68 consecutive patients with congestive cardiomyopathy to evaluate the prognostic significance of quantitative morphologic findings in left ventricular myocardium as compared with the prognostic significance of left ventricular hemodynamics. Left ventricular endomyocardial biopsy specimens were obtained from all patients during diagnostic heart catheterization. Myocardial ...

quasicrystals are a group of materials with the quasi-periodic structure, and since their discovery in 1980 their specially interesting physical properties have attracted the attention of many researchers. the lack of translational periodicity makes the numerical calculations of their physical properties much more difficult than the crystalline solids. in this work we present a detailed numeric...

Thirty-four antinuclear antibody (ANA) positive systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) sera were tested for antibodies to double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) simultaneously using Farr, haemagglutination, Crithidia luciliae (CL) kinetoplast fluorescence and human metaphase chromosome fluorescence assays. Significant correlation (p less than 0 x 05) was found between the Farr and CL assays, with the two fluo...