Thirteen healthy subjects were tested for parasympathetic reactivity during head-up tilt and reversal of the tilt. Head-up tilt (70 degrees) resulted in significant increase in baseline heart rate and diastolic blood pressure. Head-up tilt also led to increased parasympathetic reactivity as measured by Valsalva manoeuvre and hand grip test. Heart rate response to deep breathing test did not cha...

The time-course of the contamination of exogenous hydrogen from cigarette smoke on postprandial breath hydrogen concentration was evaluated in 10 subjects, six regular smokers and four occasional smokers. Breath hydrogen values were determined by gas chromatography 10 min, 5 min, and immediately prior to smoking a filter cigarette; during smoking from a sample of exhaled air containing smoke; a...

OBJECTIVES Analyze a set of data of hydrogen breath tests by use of data mining tools. Identify new patterns of H2 production. METHODS Hydrogen breath tests data sets as well as k-means clustering as the data mining technique to a dataset of 2571 patients. RESULTS Six different patterns have been extracted upon analysis of the hydrogen breath test data. We have also shown the relevance of e...

A stable isotope ([(13)C]) breath test is a promising method for assessing gastric emptying, but it has not been pervasive yet in Japan. We think that there are some barriers to its popularization, including the uncertainty concerning its theoretical backgrounds, the ambiguity of analyzing and interpreting the data, and the lack of standard protocols for breath sampling. The aim of the present ...

Erratum We acknowledge that in the published work [1], text in the Background and Discussion sections was duplicated from S Kreckler, et al., 2006 Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons [2] by mistake and we inadvertently failed to include this paper in the reference list. We would like to clarify that the case presented here is novel and has not been published before. We apologize...

Thirty patients with peptic ulcer (20 duodenal, 10 gastric) underwent glucose-hydrogen (H2) breath tests before and after 6 weeks treatment with cimetidine, 400 mg twice daily. For the group as a whole, basal breath H2 and integrated H2 output over a 2.5 hr test period was unchanged by cimetidine treatment. We conclude that there was no evidence of significant gastric bacterial colonization fol...

The effect of loperamide and naloxone on mouth-to-caecum transit time was evaluated by the lactulose hydrogen breath test in four men and four women. Each subject underwent tests during the administration of placebo, loperamide (12-16 mg po), naloxone (40 micrograms/kg/h by a three-hour intravenous infusion), and loperamide plus naloxone, carried out at intervals of one or two weeks. The transi...

The purpose of this study was to compare the VO2 kinetic and mechanical power responses of boys and men to all out 90 s sprint cycle exercise. Eight boys (14.6 ± 0.3 y) and eight men (33.8 ± 6.5 y) volunteered to participate and completed a ramp test (to determine VO2peak and ventilatory threshold, VT) and then on subsequent days, two 90 s all out cycle sprints on an isokinetic cycle ergometer....

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of Se restriction on the excretion of Se in men who had consumed high levels of this element during their entire lives. With the use of stable isotopes of Se as selenite, the excretion of methylated Se in urine was investigated in Chinese men (n 10) who had habitual chronic high intakes of this element. The relationship between eit...