BACKGROUND Factors associated with liver stiffness (LS) are unknown and normal reference values for LS have not been established. Individuals at high risk for alcoholic (ALD) and non-alcoholic fatty (NAFLD) liver disease need to be non-invasively discriminated during routine health checks. Factors related to LS measured using a FibroScan and normal reference values for LS are presented in this ...

BACKGROUND To identify factors which determine high life satisfaction (LS) and to analyse the prognostic influence of LS on mortality. METHODS Data collection was conducted on 2,675 participants, age 25-74 years, as part of the MONICA Augsburg Project 1994-95. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to determine factors associated with high LS (measured with one item, 6-level Like...

Lipedematous scalp (LS) and Lipedematous Alopecia (LA) are uncommon disorders of unknown etiology, pathogenesis and treatment. They are characterized by thickening of the subcutaneous layer of the scalp and a boggy scalp on palpation. Also, hair loss or shortening of hair is seen in LA. In this report, we describe LS in a 42-year-old woman presented with a diffuse thickened and spongy scalp. To...

The aim of the study was to determine the mechanism of action of the 800 nm semiconductor laser on skin blackheads and coarse pores. A total of 24 healthy purebred short-haired male guinea pigs, weighing 350-400 g, were selected and smeared with 0.5 ml coal tar suspension evenly by injector once daily. Treatment was continued for 14 days to form an experimental area of 8×3 cm on the back of the...

a simple and rapid method for the determination of 137ba isotope abundances in water samples by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (icp-oes) coupled with least-squares support vector machine regression (ls-svm) is reported. by evaluation of emission lines of barium, it was found that the emission line at 493.408 nm provides the best results for the determination of 137ba a...

كان لسياسة النظام البعثي في ​​العراق أثر كبير ظهور وتوسع الأحزاب والحركات المعارضة للنظام ، خاصة بعد الغزو العراقي للكويت وقيام الانتفاضة الشعبانية والأساليب القمعية التي مارسها مع الشعب المعارض. كانت ضعيفة داخليا ولم تكن موحدة بل هناك اتجاهات مختلفة مما أضعف موقفها الداخل، وعلى الصعيد الدولي فضلا عن رفض لأي شكل من أشكال المعارضة، لذلك عامل الاحزاب بقسوة ووحشية، اضعفها بشكل كبير، ناهيك تدخل دور...

Ziel: Ziel dieser Studie war die Evaluation der diagnostischen Genauigkeit eines Ganzkörper-Linearröntgenscanners (LS) bei Polytraumapatienten im Vergleich zur 128-Zeilen-Mehrschicht-Computertomografie. Material und Methoden: 106 Polytraumapatienten (33 Frauen; 73 Männer) wurden retrospektiv in diese Studie eingeschlossen. Alle Patienten erhielten eine LS-Untersuchung des gesamten Körpers sowie...

An in vitro gas production technique was used to investigate the associative effects of untreated or biologically-treated linen straw with berseem hay (H). The linen straw (LS) was biologically treated with white rot fungi (TLS). Ground samples (200 mg DM) of H, LS, TLS and the mixtures (50% w/w) of H + LS and H + TLS were incubated in 100 ml glass syringes with buffered rumen fluid. Cumulative...

Different molecular weight fractions of lignosulfonates (LS), LS having different cations, and modified LS with different degree of sulfonation and intrinsic viscosity were prepared and used as dispersants for Dimethomorph water-dispersible granules (DWG). The suspending ratio of DWG was tested to evaluate the effectiveness of LS as a dispersant. Moreover, the stability of DWG suspensions was m...

PURPOSE The consumers' preferences are not considered in developing or implementing new medical technologies. Furthermore, little efforts are made to investigate their demands. Therefore, their preferred surgical method and the factors affecting that preference were investigated in pancreatic surgery. METHODS Six-hundred subjects including 100 medical personnel (MP) and 500 lay persons (LP) w...