AIM Study was designed to assess relationship between aortic compliance and homogeneity of heart electrical activity in dialysis patients. METHODS Study group was consisted of 120 dialyzed patients; 57 (age 50,7 ± 7,1) were on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and 73 (age 51,6 ± 7,6) were hemodialyzed (HD). Three-dimensional vectorocardiographic (VCG) monitoring was done to ass...

The purpose of this study was to induce experimental periodontitis in rats previously fed diets containing arginine silicate inositol (ASI) complex and examine the biochemical, immunological, and radiological effects. Fifty two 8-week-old female Sprague Dawley rats were equally divided into four groups. The control group included those fed a standard rat diet with no operation performed during ...

Addiction Severity Index (ASI) is a WHO and UNODC recognized clinical and research based measurement tool, which has been widely used for the purposes of assessing and evaluating problems experienced by people who use drugs (PWUD). The assessment and evaluation conducted by the ASI identifies the severity of substance use and its harm to the individual [1]. The ASI-5 that was developed in 1992 ...

BACKGROUND Arginine silicate inositol complex (ASI; arginine 49.5%, silicon 8.2%, and inositol 25%) is a novel material that is a bioavailable source of silicon and arginine. ASI offers potential benefits for vascular and bone health. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential effects of ASI complex on bone healing of critical-sized defects in rats. METHODS The rats were ...

BACKGROUND Vascular aging results in stiffer arteries and may have a role in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Arterial stiffness index (ASI), measured by finger photoplethysmography, and pulse pressure (PP) are 2 independent vascular aging indices. We investigated whether ASI or PP predict new-onset CVD and mortality in a large community-based population. METHODS AND RESULTS W...

OBJECTIVE Anxiety sensitivity has been defined as an excessive fear from senses and symptoms of anxiety. The aim of the present study is to investigate the validity and reliability of Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 (ASI-3) and adapting it into Turkish. METHOD The study group consisted of 150 healthy individuals without any psychiatric disorder and 300 patients with an anxiety disorder and/or maj...

BACKGROUND There are few research tools in Brazil to assess more broadly the alcohol and other drug related problems. OBJECTIVE To test the psychometric properties of ASI in its sixth version (ASI-6). METHODS A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted in four Brazilian state capitals. Four research centers interviewed 150 adult inpatients or outpatients, and one research center inter...

Obesity is a worldwide threat to public health in modern society, which may result from leptin resistance and disorder of thermogenesis. The present study investigated whether astragaloside IV (ASI) could prevent obesity in high-fat diet (HFD)-fed and db/db mice. In HFD-fed mice, ASI prevented body weight gain, lowered serum triglyceride and total cholesterol levels, mitigated liver lipid accum...

This paper aims to test the clinical and research utility of a Spanish version of the Teen-Addiction Severity Index (T-ASI) in adolescents with psychiatric disorders attending a treatment programme. Eighty adolescents, 12 to 17 years old (Mean=14.5; SD=1.48) were evaluated with a research battery including the T-ASI to obtain data on socio-demographics, psychopathology, drug use, family environ...

Aberrant salience is the unusual or incorrect assignment of salience, significance, or importance to otherwise innocuous stimuli and has been hypothesized to be important for psychosis and psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Despite the importance of this concept in psychosis research, no questionnaire measures are available to assess aberrant salience. The current research describes 4 s...