Study ObjectiveTo assess if women with obesity have increased complication rates compared normal weight undergoing hysterectomy for benign reasons and the mode of affects outcomes.DesignCohort study.SettingProspectively collected data from 3 Swedish population-based registers.PatientsWomen a total indications in Sweden between January 1, 2015, December 31, 2017. The patients were grouped accord...

Memon, Riaz A., John Fuller, Arthur H. Moser, Kenneth R. Feingold, and Carl Grunfeld. In vivo regulation of plasma platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase during the acute phase response. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R94–R103, 1999.—Plasma plateletactivating factor acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH) hydrolyzes PAF and oxidized phospholipids and is associated with lip...

BACKGROUND Advanced puberty in girls is defined as the onset of puberty between the ages of 8 yr and 10 yr. The objective was to predict adult height (AH) at initial evaluation and to characterize patients with an actual AH below -2 SD (152 cm) and/or lower than their target height (TH) by > one SD (5.6 cm). METHODS Data analysis using multiple linear regression models was performed in 50 gir...

Electrophysiological studies have demonstrated gamma and beta frequency oscillations in response to auditory stimuli. The purpose of this study was to test whether auditory hallucinations (AH) in schizophrenia patients reflect abnormalities in gamma and beta frequency oscillations and to investigate source generators of these abnormalities. This theory was tested using quantitative electroencep...

BACKGROUND There is no standard way of describing the complexities of allied health (AH) care, or its quality. AH is an umbrella term which excludes medicine and nursing, and variably includes disciplines which provide therapy, diagnostic, or scientific services. This paper outlines a framework for a standard approach to evaluate the quality of AH therapy services. METHODS A realist synthesis...

Platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolases (PAF-AHs) are a group of enzymes that hydrolyze the sn-2 acetyl ester of PAF (phospholipase A(2) activity) but not phospholipids with two long fatty acyl groups. Our previous studies showed that membrane-bound human plasma PAF-AH (pPAF-AH) accesses its substrate only from the aqueous phase, which raises the possibility that this enzyme can hydrolyze a...