BACKGROUND Physical activity decreases the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), but its effects on risk factors require further exploration. METHODS AND RESULTS The study included 3331 adult Japanese men in whom health benefits, especially CHD risk factors, were compared among those who were sedentary and those who were engaged in continuous physical activity of 30 minutes or more per day fo...

A sublingual tablet formulation of buprenorphine combining 8 mg of buprenorphine with 2 mg of naloxone is being targeted for use in settings where less than daily dosing strategies and/or prescription-based dispensing will likely be employed. This study determined patient preferences for, and clinical outcomes during, daily and 3-day per week supervised dosing schedules using the combination ta...

Sir, Weiss et al. [1] have reported that once weekly erythropoietin b is as effective as more frequent dosing intervals in haemodialysis (HD) patients receiving treatment for the anaemia of end-stage renal failure. In view of their findings we switched all of our stable HD patients to once a week erythropoietin (EPO) providing that they were receiving less than 10 000 U subcutaneouslyuweek. A t...

objective: the study evaluated the efficacy of oral calcium carbonate supplement on leg pain in pregnancy and nursing period. materials and methods: a total number of 176 women at third trimester of pregnancy or nursing period till to one year after delivery with complaint of leg pain, low back pain (lbp), and posterior pelvic pain (ppp) were evaluated for distinct primary causes and were exclu...

PURPOSE To determine the effects of expiratory muscle strength training (EMST) frequency on maximum expiratory pressure (MEP). METHOD We assigned 12 healthy participants to 2 groups of training frequency (3 days per week and 5 days per week). They completed a 4-week training program on an EMST trainer (Aspire Products, LLC). MEP was the primary outcome measure used to determine the effect of ...

Objective. We sought to identify amount of physical activity and relationship of physical activity to glycemic control among adolescent females 11 to 19 years of age with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). We also sought to evaluate associations of age and ethnicity with physical activity levels. Research Design and Methods. Adolescent females ages 11-19 years (n = 203) were recruited during thei...

OBJECTIVES We investigated Black-White differences in the association between average alcohol drinking patterns and all-cause mortality. METHODS We pooled nationally representative samples of 152 180 adults in the National Health Interview Survey from 1997 to 2002 with mortality follow-up through 2006. Usual drinking days per week and level of alcohol consumed per day were based on self-repor...