CONTEXT Dietary factors modifying type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) risk have been proposed, but little is known if they trigger the islet autoimmunity that precedes clinical disease. OBJECTIVE To determine whether breastfeeding duration, food supplementation, or age at introduction of gluten-containing foods influences the risk of developing islet autoantibodies. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective...

Background Idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM) is a group of heterogeneous autoimmune diseases, characterized by myositis-specific (MSA) or myositis-associated autoantibodies (MAA). Muscle biopsy the diagnostic gold standard, but correlations with elevated creatine level (CK) MSA/MAA are unclear. Objectives To evaluate association between specific histological findings and clinical and/or se...

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients can experience various comorbidities 1 . The incidence of diabetes mellitus (DM) is reported higher in with RA 2 and comorbid DM likely to affect treatment outcomes 3 then healthcare resource uses, however, no previous study has not focused on it. Objectives: To evaluate medical costs use starting for without using a large claims database Japan. Me...

Latinx/Hispanic patients treated for chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) have higher amputation rates after controlling presenting Wound, Ischemia, and foot Infection (WIfI) status. We hypothesize that a incidence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in may contribute to this disparity. The Vascular Quality Initiative peripheral vascular intervention dataset (2016-2022) was queried CLTI. Inclusion cr...

Concern about NO− 3 leaching and groundwater pollution from corn monoculture has prompted an investigation of alternative production systems that reduce leaching. It is hypothesized that both intercropping and water-table control could increase N uptake and reduce the quantity of N that might be lost due to leaching. This study compared corn (Zea mays L.) with annual Italian rye-grass (Lolium m...

All gravid women attending the antenatal clinic of the department of Gynaecology Unit-II, Civil Hospital Karachi and unbooked cases presenting in labour from October, 1986 to December, 1993, were included in the study. On the basis of risk factors for diabetes mellitus (DM), they were divided into 3 groups. Women in Group-I had family history of DM, bad obstetric history, congenitally malformed...

We report on block-coding techniques for partial-response II. PRELIMINARY channels with transfer function (1 F Dm), m = 1,2, . . We consider various constructions of block codes with prescribed min imum Euclidean Let u = (x1,... ,un) andv = (VI,..., un) be two n-tuples over distance. Upper and lower bounds to the size of a code with min imum @ = {-l,l}. Define the difference vector e = (el,...,...