Objective: To study the blood pressure, lipid and glycemic effects and safety of Vaccinium arctostaphylos leaf in the hypertensive hyperlipidemic type 2 diabetic patients. Materials and Methods: The patients took 350 mg standardized plant leaf hydro-alcoholic extract capsule (n=50) or placebo capsule (n=50) three times daily alongside conventional drugs for 2 months. At the baseline and endpoin...

PURPOSE As brain death is a difficult concept for the lay public to understand, we hypothesized that allowing relatives of the patient to be present during brain death determination would improve their understanding of this condition and would eventually lead to an increased consent rate for organ donation. METHODS A prospective multicenter trial was conducted in five Dutch hospitals. Relativ...

We develop techniques to determine the mass scale of invisible particles pair-produced at hadron colliders. We employ the constrained mass variable m2C , which provides an event-by-event lower-bound to the mass scale given a mass difference. We complement this variable with a new variable m2C,UB which provides an additional upper bound to the mass scale, and demonstrate its utility with a reali...

INTRODUCTION Serum levels of CA125 are often high in advanced heart failure (AHF) patients. AIM To determine the predictive value of CA125 in forecasting the occurrence of death or cardiac transplantation in an AHF population. METHODS 88 AHF patients referred for heart transplantation were divided into 2 groups based on CA125 levels: normal (CA125<38 U/mL) and elevated (> or = 38 U/mL). Eve...

A bstract Following our earlier work we establish kinematic endpoint relations for baryon decays using the Wigner-Eckart theorem and apply them to $$ \frac{1}{2}\to \frac{1}{2} 1 2 → \frac{3}{2} 3 transitions. We provide angular distr...

the padmakar-ivan (pi) index is a first-generation topological index (ti) based on sums overall edges between numbers of edges closer to one endpoint and numbers of edges closer to theother endpoint. edges at equal distances from the two endpoints are ignored. an analogousdefinition is valid for the wiener index w, with the difference that sums are replaced byproducts. a few other tis are discu...